Description

Artime’s inaugural ART01 is a watch that embodies all the principles that define the brand. It touches the most discerning lovers of horology at the core, in all openness, with a choreography of materials, spatial volumes, innovative concepts and finishes that are all at the highest level. Inside this timepiece, an aerial caliber in white gold, a tourbillon with a double balance spring and an ergonomic function selector. The latter is intimately integrated into a case that merges titanium with transparent sapphire. In the clearest of voices, in tune with its time, this first limited series of twenty ART01 in titanium lays out the tenets of contemporary fine watchmaking by Artime.

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.

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 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!

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.