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Pre-Baselworld 2010: Corum Admiral's Cup Repeater Tourbillon 45 Watch
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Dec 18, 2009 comments 2 comments
Pre-Baselworld 2010: Corum Admiral's Cup Repeater Tourbillon 45 Watch
In 2010, Swiss luxury watch brand Corum will unveil a timepiece which promises to take the sporty Admiral's Cup collection to a new pinnacle of complexity and prestige. The setting is Baselworld 2010, the watch is the Admiral's Cup Minute Repeater Tourbillon 45, and the occasion is the 50th birthday of the Admiral Cup collection. To be produced in a series of just ten pieces, this model premieres an exclusive new haute horlogerie movement--the manually-wound CO 010. The CO 010 caliber's main claim to fame is the impressive combination of a one-minute tourbillon regulator with a minute repeater designed from the ground up to offer a particularly effective and sonorous chime sequence, but the movement also showcases an escapement and pallet lever in silicon.

The complex case of the Corum Admirals Cup Repeater Tourbillon 45 watch is manufactured from brushed and polished 5N 18-karat red gold. In terms of design, the case presents the most famous features of the modern Admiral's Cup line, including a twelve-sided bezel, distinctly angled tall crown guards, and a sharply sloping rehaut which shows off the signature nautical flags that are key elements of regatta competitions. Below the red gold hands with their broad Superluminova applications and through the transparent smoky grey sapphire dial appear some of the most fascinating structures of the labyrinthine mechanism. The tourbillon is prominently oriented at 4:30, where its intricate cage continually revolving upon a V-shaped bridge of polished steel makes for a mesmerizing display. At least as compelling is the structure of racks for the minute repeater that reveal all of their precise interactions during the chiming sequence. This sequence, incidentally, is not actuated via a button or slide piece, but through the Admiral's Cup distinctive bezel: a precise 27-degree clockwise twist with thumb and forefinger tensions the mainspring and puts into motion the complex interaction of tiny parts culminating in a series of strikes that signal hours, quarter hours, and minutes.

According to Corum, the CO 010 caliber ticking inside the Admiral's Cup Repeater Tourbillon 45 watch has been designed to perform with particularly impressive aural capabilities. Power (volume in decibels), precision of pitch, richness of sound, and reverberation have all been optimized through a careful balance between component design and material formulation. For example, the minute rack has been engineered to permit a greatest possible duration between strikes, and specially formulated gongs have been tuned to chime the Major 3rd note combination of A and C# for a cheerful musical sound. Overall height of the Corum CO 010 movement is just 5.35 millimeters--an impressive feat indeed, considering the complexity. Fully wound, the movement has a 72-hour power reserve.

Although this is not the sort of timepiece which will likely be subjected to water immersion by the lucky few individuals who own it, Corum has designed the Admiral's Cup Repeater Tourbillon 45 to safely resist pressures equivalent to a depth of 30 meters. The luxurious alligator leather strap fitted to the lugs is completed by a red gold prong buckle displaying the Corum signature and the brand's famous key logo.

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