Technical specifications
Functions
- Jumping Hours
- Minutes
- Retrograde hours
- Chronograph
Movement
- Self Winding/Automatic
- Manufactured
- Swiss Made
Case
- Oval
- Pink Gold
- Polished
Glass
- Sapphire
Water resistance
- 3.00atm / 30.00m / 100.00ft
Buckle
- Deployment Buckle
- Pink Gold
Strap
- Louisiana Alligator
Year
- 2011
Official description
A resolutely original approach to short-time measurement lends the Papillon Chronograph a truly distinctive face. The exceptional arrangement of the various items of information on the dial, as well as their actual read-off, endows it with an exclusive style bearing no relation to customary chronographs.
The dial centre of this exceptional creation features the minutes read off via an ingenious mechanical device positioned on a bearing disc. The latter performs a complete 360° rotation in two hours and carries two independent pivoting lozenge-shaped hands that in turn glide across a 180° segment with a graduated scale running from 00 to 60 minutes.
A highly original double hand-fitting
While one of them, which we will call hand A, is positioned on the semi-circular segment with its tip pointing to the minutes, hand B remains retracted almost throughout the disc rotation. When the former reaches the 55th minute on the display segment, the latter extends through a gradual quarter-turn to take up its position parallel to hand A on the 00 minute indication. And as soon as the minutes restart from zero, hand A progressively retracts and remains so for the following 55 minutes.
Column-wheel and vertical coupling-clutch
The entire set of functions is powered by the entirely manufacture-made DR Calibre 2319, an integrated Frédéric Piguet mechanical self-winding chronograph movement with column-wheel and vertical coupling clutch, along with an exclusive Daniel Roth complication module. It is endowed with a 38-hour power reserve and beats at a frequency of 21,600 vibrations per hour (3Hz).
This sophisticated movement is treated to excellent finishing including circular graining on the mainplate and chronograph bridge, as well as Côtes de Genève adorning the bridge of the self-winding mechanism. All the bridges are chamfered and polished, as are the screw heads. The visible steel movement parts are satin-brushed, chamfered and polished.
The calibre is housed within a slightly cambered and extremely comfortable double-ellipse case in rose gold that is water-resistant to 30 metres. A domed glareproofed sapphire crystal protects the split-level dial graced with alternating white-lacquered and black gold satin-brushed surfaces – the exclusive and appealing signature feature of the Bulgari Collection driven by Daniel Roth calibres.
The Papillon Chronograph model is fitted with an alligator leather strap equipped with a triple-blade rose gold folding clasp.