Launched in 2015, the Virtuoso V was the first timepiece powered by the Virtuoso II calibre to feature additional complications. In this case, a jumping hour combined with retrograde minutes. Three years later, the Maison's watchmakers and quadrantists joined forces to give it a new face. The dial occupies the entire surface of the movement, giving the timepiece a new identity. While the watchmakers were responsible for arranging all the indications on the same level, the quadrantists designed a completely new guilloché motif. The original layered arrangement gave way to greater classicism, which emphasised the artistic work and exquisite finishing of all the components. The company's watchmakers, after decorating the metal base with a guilloché pattern, applied a dozen layers of translucent blue lacquer and finally polished it to make the surface perfectly smooth. The effect of depth and the enchanting reflections thus obtained give the timepiece its magic. In addition to the technical and artistic density emanating from the timepiece, its lines are now purer and its legibility even greater. Technically, the Virtuoso V brings together two complications that are difficult to combine: jumping hours and retrograde minutes. The jumping of the hour disc must be perfectly synchronised with that of the minute hand. This timepiece belongs to the Fleurier complication collection and features a patented Amadeo convertible case, allowing it to be transformed into a reversible wristwatch, table clock or pocket watch, without using any tools. Thus, the hour and minute indications can be displayed on both sides of the movement. A power reserve indicator completes the information by showing the high autonomy of five days, guaranteed by the use of a single barrel. Finally, to enhance the functionality of the timepiece, the watchmakers developed an independent hour disc corrector, capable of indicating a different time zone on each face of the timepiece. With this new interpretation of an already prestigious timepiece, the owner of the Maison Bovet, Pascal Raffy, and his craftsmen propose models that will certainly satisfy collectors attentive to technical characteristics and sensitive to the noblest expression of the decorative arts.
