As part of our ongoing partnership, for the second year running we have unveiled a limited edition in collaboration with British watchmaker Peter Speake. This exceptional piece, destined for demanding collectors, features a sophisticated complication: the perpetual calendar.
The perpetual calendar is one of the most prestigious complications in Fine Watchmaking, allowing all calendar information to be read off in a single glance. It also takes into account the various changes during and between years; no adjustment is required between months with 30 or 31 days, or for February in leap years.
Only 135 have been made of this Limited Timepiece that comes in a stainless steel case, with a black strap and openwork dial, all the better to highlight the inner workings of the FC-775 manufacture movement. Featuring satin-polished components, blued screws and a sapphire crystal caseback, fine Geneva workmanship accompanies British audacity here in a watch that’s as rare as it’s contemporary – the very essence of High Watchmaking.
Manufacture
Perpetual Calendar Manufacture
Additional Information
- Movement FC-775
- Movement Technology Automatic
- Country Switzerland
- Limited Edition 135 pieces
- Movement FC-775
- Movement Technology Automatic
- Movement Description Powered by the release of a wound spring, mechanical movements never require a battery. Automatic mechanical movements have an oscillating weight that winds the spring with the motion of the wearer’s arm.
- Functions Hours, minutes, date, day, month, leap year and moonphase
- Country Switzerland
- Case Color Silver-Tone
- Case Shape Round
- Case Material Stainless Steel
- Case Length 42
- Case Thickness 12.05
- Lug Width (mm) 21
- Water Resistance WR [Splash Resistant]
- Dial Color Gray
- Dial Material Brass
- Crystal Anti-Reflective Sapphire Crystal
- Crystal Description Impact and shatter resistant - anti-reflective coating deflects light
- Band Type Strap
- Band Material Nylon
- Strap Black
- Clasp Type Buckle
MANUFACTURE
In a continuation of their close relationship, British watchmaker Peter Speake and Geneva-based manufacture Frederique Constant proudly unveil an exceptional timepiece for 2024. Housed in a 42-millimetre steel case, this Perpetual Calendar joins the Manufacture collection, where it offers a subtle balance between style and technical prowess. Thanks to judicious use of openwork, the design yields centre stage to the inner workings of the Manufacture Perpetual Calendar – precise and precious. This contemporary creation is limited to just 135 pieces.
If there’s one word that sums up the Slimline Perpetual Calendar Manufacture Designed by Peter Speake, it’s ‘openwork’. The British watchmaker has brought an ethereal, contemporary touch to Frederique Constant. Solid surfaces have been cut away to reveal the innermost workings of the Manufacture movement. All of the displays have been skeletonised, as have the hands (to which a luminous coating has been applied), revealing the mechanical ballet of the FC-775 calibre in all its glory; the seconds hand has been done away with altogether to preserve the assertively functional ethos.
