Gerald Genta Arena Complications Watch

The Gerald Genta Arena Complications collection personifies the unique design style of this brand. Gerald Genta has long been known for his cutting edge designs ever since he designed the legendary Royal Oak collection for Audemars Piguet in the 1970’s. This years Complications collection includes the Grande Sonnerie, the Perpetual GMT and the Tourbillon QP Moon Phase.

The Grande Sonnerie is a testament to the design genius of Gerald Genta. Set in a 41 mm round platinum case this watch is complicated timepiece that will delight its owner for years. The Grande Sonnerie combines two of the most difficult complications in the watch making world a Minute Repeater and a Tourbillon.

A Minute Repeater is considered the jewel of all timepiece complications. A Minute Repeater is an acoustic representation of the hours, quarters hours and minutes through the striking of hammers and miniature gongs inside the watch. It requires extreme skill to create and set this complication in such a small space. The Tourbillon is a 200 year old invention of Abraham Louis Breguet designed to counter the affects of gravity on the inner workings of a timepiece movement. To the naked eye the Tourbillon looks like a gyroscope, spinning inside its housing. Only the finest watchmakers in the world are capable of combining these two complications into a single timepiece.

Gerald Genta’s Arena Complications Perpetual GMT is another example of how this designer combines an edgy style with complications. This timepiece measures the date, day, leap year, month and year in perpetuity once it is properly set. The designer uses four sub dials with separate sub dials. It requires some concentration to read the dial on this watch, and that is part of the appeal of owning this timepiece. Genta offers this watch in either platinum or titanium. This watch is large, measuring 45 mm in diameter and 13.9 mm in thickness.

The third timepiece in the Arena Complications collection is the Tourbillon Quantieme Perpetual Moon Phase. It shares a dial configuration similar to Genta’s Perpetual Calendar GMT with four wheel shaped subdials. The upper sub dial set at 12 o’clock measures the power reserve. The sub dial at 3 o’clock measures the month. The lower sub dial set at 6 o’clock measures the day of the month and the leap year. Genta measures the day of the week with a separate sub dial at 9 o’clock.