If you love your new watch announcements to be lofty, portentous, and at the same time just that little bit pretentious, you’ll love this new description from newly resurrected A. Favre & Fils, formerly one of the most established of Swiss watchmakers:

‘Quantième à Grand Affichage Rotatif is a quest of mechanical purity, liberated from any unnecessary artifice and keeping only the essential. At the crossroads of high technology and fine watchmaking tradition, it was designed using the principles of the sacred geometry discovered in the Antiquity by Pythagoras.

The Phoenix Watch Collection

The case of the Phoenix collection combines modern and classical design in an obvious yet deceitful simplicity. Its angular shapes give it a very contemporary and aggressive design, playing with contrasts and perspectives. It is a complex assembly with lugs mechanically fitted in its middle-part to give it a unique finish.

Lofty descriptions aside, this new timepiece is both aesthetically and technically appealing. Aesthetically, the movement is intricately finished using numerous techniques including: chamfering, drawing, circular graining, sinks entirely by hand, and a “Rayons de la Gloire” (Rays of Glory) machine finish on bridges (also called sun ray).

The Golden Ration

Technically it has been designed using the principles of the Golden Ratio and the Golden Number. As you will no doubt remember from your days in the classroom, these principles came from the Pythagorean School: since antiquity, thinkers, artists and architects have used the Golden Ratio in their quest for harmony. For Pythagoras, the number seven represents the law of evolution. The movement beats at 28,800 variations per hour. Its parallel twin barrels with direct depth offer up to 84 hours of power reserve. A power reserve indicator is visible through the sapphire case-back. The watch measures 41mm x 10.15mm.