Basel 2005 : when celebrating 120 years of family heritage and tradition and 20 years from the foundation of the brand, Thierry Frésard, President of Saint Honoré Paris, will pay a significant tribute to Victorin Frésard, his ancestor and the family pioneer in high quality watchmaking tradition.
This double anniversary will be marked by the presentation of an exceptional piece : the Tourbillon Saint Honoré – 1885, “pour femme”: dedicated to ladies, a high-end watchmaking technical achievement by a brand that always positions itself very close to the heart of a woman.




The Headquarters and Thierry Frésard - President of Saint Honoré


A new trend is rising, women are more and more into loving and appreciating technical skills and their expressions. At first they fell for fashion watches, today they have developed a more specifically sophisticated sense and enjoy dreaming, choosing, selecting high-end watches based on the beauty, complication and sophistication of their movements.
A Tourbillon, until now conceived and targeted to mostly passionate male customers and collectors, addresses today a demanding, knowing female customer base, aiming at “haute couture” in watches.
Women are more and more into watchmaking secrets and fascination, and therefore into high complication watches: there, Tourbillon stands for know-how and precision excellence.
Saint Honoré Paris has always had in mind contemporary women when developing new products, building its product strategy around the “affordable luxury” concept, as the diamond studded collections clearly show today.
In line with this choice, being able to offer its international clientele a Tourbillon is a major step and a wonderful adventure for Saint Honoré Paris.
7 Tourbillon 1885 styles will be presented for the first time at Basel 2005 : 5 targeted specifically to ladies and 2 for men.




Tourbillon “volant” manuel Squelette

 Caliber: 13. Ð réf 13.75

 Movement with Tourbillon cage bridge.

 Exclusive design of the Tourbillon bridge, with logo “SH”

 Indications : hours and minutes centered, seconds at 6 h on Tourbillon cage

 Crown has 2 positions :
o hand winding position
o time setting position

 Autonomy and power reserve: 110 hours

 Frequency : 4 Hz / 28.800A/h

 Number of barrels : 2

 Jewels : 25 rubis

 Watch case thickness: 11mm

 Decoration “Côtes de Genève” on bridges

 Number of components : 180
(including stones and screws)
The Tourbillon Saint Honoré 1885 is engraved on bridges with:
Saint Honoré-Tourbillon 1885
Watch case : steel and pink gold
Crystal : sapphire shaped curved (top),
round flat (bottom)
Water resistance : 50 m

5 styles for ladies :
2 steel cases – white or pink mother of pearl dial
2 steel cases with diamonds - white or pink mother of pearl dial
1 pink gold case with diamonds - white or anthracite mother of pearl dial

2 styles for men :
1 steel case – black or silver dial
1 pink gold case – black dial
Product environment :
Tourbillon 1885 will be presented in its exclusive, precious box.
The collection will be completed with a series of straps in the season’s colours of reference : grey, pink, green and beige.


A Tourbillon is always an undeniable, unique masterpiece in precision and refinement, thus a rare and expensive piece.

The Tourbillon 1885 by Saint Honoré Paris perfectly fits the new brand strategy, and it will be naturally available in the Paris boutique and mono-brand flagship stores around the world.


SAINT HONORE PARIS - Watchmakers since 1885


BaselWorld: Hall 1.1 - Stand D11


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