Since Bucherer was founded in 1888, the family-owned jewellery and watch retailer has been unwavering in its quest to seek out new perspectives. First unveiling the Bucherer Blue series six years ago, the company began to collaborate with the world’s leading watchmakers, from Audemars Piguet to Ulysse Nardin, with the goal of releasing limited-edition pieces that brought elegance and self-expression to a new level. Through these collaborations, it has shown what can be brought to life when houses that share a deep-rooted understanding of the past, present, and indeed the future come together. And its latest piece, with the ever timeless Girard-Perregaux, proves just that.
Considered the world’s oldest watch movement still in production, the Tourbillon with Three Bridges is experiencing a renaissance via Bucherer Blue and Girard-Perregaux’s combined ability to appeal to today’s connoisseur by paying equal attention to tradition and innovation. A collaboration between two global masters of haute horlogerie, the imaginative interpretation of this watch is a long-awaited novelty for clients seeking an evolved and unique piece of history.
Over time, the arrow-ended bridges of the tourbillon’s perennial design have transmogrified to a “Neo” shape for today’s modern wearer: thus was born the Three Flying Bridges, whose architecture is rooted in levitation and aerial delicacy. With a satin-finished titanium case fitted between two sapphire crystal glass boxes, the inner workings of this timepiece are truly something to behold. Elegant white-gold hands with Super-LumiNova afterglow pigments tick softly around the lyre-shaped titanium tourbillon cages indicating small seconds, and bridges with blue atomic layer-polished lugs fly over the watch’s whirring barrels. And limited to only 18 pieces, the tourbillon is as marvellous as it is exclusive. The timepiece’s level of intricacy is a testament to the house’s understanding of a truly iconic watch movement and its ability to exist today following an inventive rebirth that pays homage to architectural precedent.
Along with its release of the Tourbillon with Three Flying Bridges, Bucherer Blue is cementing its mark on 2022 with two further novelties that also share a commitment to craftsmanship that is at once traditional and cutting-edge, and irrefutably original. With the launch of the H Moser & Cie Streamliner Tourbillon Bucherer Blue and L’Epée 1839 Time Fast Bucherer Blue, Bucherer expands its list of distinguished collaborators once again. Perhaps it is this very magic, this approach to partnership and alliance, that has seen collectors and lovers of timepieces come back to this leading watch and jewellery retailer for well over a century. While continuing to this day to thrive under the stewardship of a third generation of Bucherers in Lucerne, its roots have expanded across Europe and the US, with a new approach to possibility and physical proof of history that holds a natural and exquisite place in our future.
