Youthful Haute Horlogerie: DeWitt's Academia Quantieme Perpetuel Sport Watch

Although a young company, Montres DeWitt has distinguished itself firmly within the horological elite, with company founder Jerome DeWitt firmly devoted to creating timepieces that embody exquisite craftsmanship with unusual and prestigious complications, in extremely small numbers. One of the most striking offerings within DeWitt's impressive range of ultra luxury timepieces is the Academia Quantieme Perpetuel Sport watch.

The DeWitt Academia Quantieme Perpetuel Sport watch utilizes a daring melding of classical design elements with stunning combinations of sporty and noble materials to offer a unique presentation for the traditional and prestigious perpetual calendar complication. The unique "Imperial Columns" case of this DeWitt timepiece exemplifies the unique style cultivated by this brand. Taking cues from Greco-Roman architecture, this exceptionally intricate case design is further distinguished in this model by unusual combinations of materials: 18K white or rose gold are flawlessly merged with titanium and rubber elements to offer a unique vision of luxury which is beautiful and opulent, yet not excessively formal. The equally captivating dials are crafted from carbon fiber or carbon fiber and kevlar, whose complex textures highlight the elegant perpetual calendar indications. The rubber strap displays the same meticulous attention to manufacturing detail, its design echoing the Imperial Columns theme of the case.

The remarkable perpetual calendar mechanism of the DeWitt Academia Quantieme Perpetuel Sport watch indicates the day of the week, date, month, and leap year, and automatically self-corrects to account for the varying lengths of months, including the tricky month of February. Other technical elements that distinguish this watch are the dual retrograde displays for both the day of the week and the date: symmetrically positioned on both sides of the dial, these visually striking displays end their travel at the end of the week, or the last day of a month by springing instantaneously back to their starting position. A beautiful moon phase indicator keeps track of the changing position of Earth's closest neighbor.

DeWitt has given the Academia Quantieme Perpetuel Sport watch a movement worthy of its elite stature. Based upon a superb Chopard mechanism, the Dewitt DW7002 is hand-built from start to finish by a single DeWitt master watchmaker assigned to the watch - a proud characteristic shared by all DeWitt timepieces. The DW 7002 caliber is equipped with a massive gold bi-directionally winding micro-rotor, and develops enough energy in its stacked twin mainspring barrels for 52 hours of power reserve. Traditional decorative elements such as perlage on the plate, and Cotes de Geneve and anglage applied to the bridges present a visual delicacy through the sapphire caseback. Thanks to this painstaking attention to traditional craftsmanship, this movement has earned the prestigious Geneva Quality Hallmark, also called the Geneva Seal.