Goldpfeil Centre Jumping Hour Display by Vincent Calabrese, One-of-a-kind Collection

This creation is bound to intrigue anyone acquainted with the principle of jumping hours. It had never yet been seen in this configuration, placed at the very centre of the dial. Quite obviously, the usual system could not be fitted into the space available. One naturally imagines several solutions, but the actual mechanism that would drive them remains a mystery. Vincent Calabrese is keeping it a closely-guarded secret, at least until his invention is duly protected by patent.

Representing a master-stroke from a born artist, the space that is freed around the hour aperture is wonderfully used to display the minutes, circled by the tip of the Goldpfeil arrow. Cut out from the black dial, it glides from one to fifty-nine against a gold background, in harmony with the surrounding aesthetics. At the passage to sixty, it cultivates elegance to the point of merging into black so as not to steal the show from the jumping hour.

The first ever centre jumping hour watch is clothed in a splendid black and gold garment, on which the baroque lugs counterbalance the purity of the main lines. Its self-winding movement, visible through the caseback, carries the double signature of the creator and the firm that commissioned the project.