Once again, Ulysse Nardin has launched something completely unexpected – a new addition to its cabinet of curiosities, inspired by innovation and exploration, the seas and the skies. It is a triple-timed zone amalgam of the past, present and future. It’s a swinging mechanical depiction of the movement of the waves. This UFO might be a table or desk clock, but it is so many other things besides. To celebrate its 175th anniversary, Ulysse Nardin takes clockmaking into the realms of imagination by reinventing the chronometer. The hour rack and the inertia regulator start to turn the hammers, visible in an opening made at 12 o’clock, hit the gong whose shape has been subtly worked to bypass the cage of the flying tourbillon. By pressing the button located at 10 o’clock, the mechanism, driven by a specially dedicated barrel, is triggered. When the striker is on, the mechanical ballet that makes the watch’s sound is visible on the hour and half hour, but even its occasional activation is just as beautiful. The most complex phase of the Blast Hourstriker’s development involved redesigning the entire kinematics of this 330-component striking caliber to allow this highly sophisticated mechanism, which is usually hidden from view, to be seen dial side. Its contemporary lines have also been made sleeker and stamped with the now iconic X associated with the brand’s latest generation of timepieces. In order to guarantee optimal precision of Ulysse Nardin’s first inhouse automatic striking manufacture movement, it is powered by a flying tourbillon one that is equipped with a variable-inertia balance wheel, a silicon hairspring, anchor and escape wheel. To achieve these goals, Ulysse Nardin’s engineers and watchmakers developed the UN-621 caliber.
A challenge that was already started with the Classico Hourstriker Phantom watch.
Further improve the quality/power output ratio.Make the chiming mechanism visible on the dial side.In these conditions, the sound heard lacks power and its harmonics are partially muffled by the material of the timepiece.įor the Blast Hourstriker, Ulysse Nardin’s team of engineers decided to set themselves two challenges: The acoustic wave spreads into the middle of the mechanism and is partly absorbed by it. There is also a comprehensive glossary of relevant horological terms.īy following the links you will get a chance to have a look inside each of our horological guides to help you make up your mind if it's what you are after.Ordinarily, to generate the sound needed to mark the passing hours, the hammers strike a wire gong wrapped around the movement to which it is attached.
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