Characterizing this watch means defining a slew of advanced technical innovations. Always seeking sensations, El Primero observes time measured to the 1/10 second with an integrated automatic chronograph with a columned wheel that happens to be the fastest in the world, and a size that’s the stuff dreams are made of, just 6.5 mm thick. The new Lightweight version earns its name by beating a new record, this time for lightness: just 46.95 grams instead of 75 with traditional materials like steel and brass.
Indeed, besides its technical feats, the famous brand is now taking on the design aspects of its pieces to bring a more current vision of technology to the table that is precise to a science. Requiring nine months of production, the limits are pushed back with the use of aluminum for the base frame and the casing’s structure. The titanium movement is a veritable technical wonder, while carbon fiber is used for the rest of the casing, the buttons, and the bezel, allowing for an exceptional resistance to any abrasion. In this more athletic and avant-garde version, with a skeleton profile that allows the secret of its machinery to be revealed, this new caliber imposes performance and creative audacity for a series limited to only 100 copies.
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