Innovations
In placing Innovation at the center of their creative process, the team at Artime chooses to be independent, to give free rein to their imagination. To innovate. To combine parameters which, taken individually, represent the pinnacle of the art of watchmaking and which, taken together, constitute Artime. Their first creative gesture finds its expression in ART01.
Patented concept case
ARTIME’s patented concept of a case middle that is half-metal, half-sapphire allows for a spectacular view of the ART01’s architectural movement. Connecting the caseback to the minimalist bezel, we have an elaborate system of tubes and pillars.
The metal part of the case middle also serves as a frame for the movement. All these innovations give the whole a lightness of architecture rarely reached in watchmaking.
The function selector.
The function selector is a device that is particularly dear to our hearts. It radically modernizes the ergonomics of the watch. The innovation here resides in a column wheel that controls two vertical clutches by means of rockers.
A mechanism, fully in the spirit of the ART01's architecture, that is at once robust and quite spectacular!
A robust and spectacular mechanism at the service of the ART01's architecture!
The tourbillon cage.
The tourbillon, too, has been rethought from the ground up, in that same architectural spirit. Just as the project was developed in complete freedom, the ART01’s rotating regulating organ was imagined without constraints. Held between a top and bottom bridge, its cage is of an entirely new shape, without the pillars that usually connect the upper and lower parts, thus freeing up the space necessary for the regulating organ. Here, the cage forms a three-dimensional unit whose visual signature, a fundamental differentiator for any watchmaker, is a three-armed design, each arm flaring out like a stylized flower.
The double balance-spring.
As the name implies, it consists of two balance springs. They operate in opposition to each other, so that any balance faults generated by the pulsation of one balance spring are compensated by the other, and vice versa. It is a radical alternative to the Breguet curve, aiming at a perfect balance of the regulating organ and thus at optimal chronometry. At this level, we work in close concert with Neuhausen, Switzerland-based Precision Engineering, a recognized specialist in this domain.
