The Masterpiece Cinq & Cinq is a watch with five central hands, a relatively delicate complication given that the five hands must be finely tuned to avoid too much or too little play. The benefit of the five-hand watch is the instant readability of useful information and is simplified by controlling all the functions with a single crown at 3 o’clock. This watch has
two broad hands with luminous tips for the hours and minutes, a smaller hand with a moon crescent at the tip to indicate the date, a red sweep hand for the seconds and a long white hand with a red tip which moves anti-clockwise for the days of the week which are spectacularly indicated on the outer are of the dial in seven different colours. The second Cinq of the Cinq & Cinq refers to the 5-day power reserve (120 hours).


Full article in print copy of Europa Star BaselWorld magazine issue 2/2006
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