In a few days from now the doors will open on the World’s most exclusive luxury watch show: Baseworld 2010. And Raymond Weil will be unveiling their new addition to the Nabucco collection.
As with most of the Raymond Weil watches, the new Nabucco Va Pensiero draws its inspiration from the the famous Verdi chorus, and reflects reflects Raymond Weil’s legendary love for classical music, the opera and the arts.
The Nabucco new addition retains all of the collection’s powerful architecture, but in this instance with a 46 mm diameter titanium case, with bezel and tachometric scale. There are three subdials: 30 minutes at 3 o’clock, 12 hours at 6 o’clock, and small seconds at 9 o’clock); along with a date-window at 4:30. Each of these are set on a grey dial. The indexes are made of luminiscent anthracite.
The audacious design of this masculine chronograph is matched by its mechanical prowess, the timepiece contains an ETA 7753 tri-compax movement, with automatic winding and 28 800 vibrations per hour. The watch has screwed-down push-pieces, crown and case-back, and is waterproof to a depth of 660ft (20 bars/atm).
The timepiece’s elegance is finsished with a saddle-stitched crocodylus niloticus leather strap that is fitted with a double push-piece security clasp.
