Bovet
Récital 18 Shooting Star
Presented in 2016 as a limited edition of 50 pieces. The release frames the piece as a change of viewing distance: the whole Earth drawn onto a single hemisphere by a specially commissioned cartographer, with the moon treated the same way.
Specification
Case
- Type
- DIMIER
- Size
- 46 mm
- Thickness With Glasses
- 18.15 mm
- Thickness Without Glasses
- 7.00-13.90 mm
- Material
- 18K white gold (this execution; the release also lists red gold)
- Gold Weight
- 74.57 g (white gold)
- Water Resistance
- 30 m
- Crystal
- domed sapphire with a pronounced curve; watch middle inclined along the 12-6 axis
- Notable
- hours-disk corrector positioned at 12 o'clock
Movement
- Calibre
- 17DM01-HU
- Type
- hand-wound
- Diameter
- 17''' (lignes)
- Frequency
- 21,600 vph
- Power Reserve
- 5 days
- Barrels
- 2
- Notable
- one-minute tourbillon with triple seconds-hand read under the carriage against a graduation printed inside the crystal; DIMIER escapement; hairspring manufactured in-house; three blued masses on the golden serge of the balance, after 19th-century Bovet pocket-watch balances; hand-engraved star constellation and twin hemispheres across the movement, with a moon phase represented on the back (hand engraving is sourced for the constellation, the hemispheres and the bridges only); the spec sheet lists two patents (0208-DI-CH, display mechanism with radial guidance; 0212-DI-CH, control mechanism), which the body text describes as filed
Details
- Dial
- white polished lacquer or aventurine (the release does not map dials to references, and no per-execution mapping is claimed); jumping hours on a sapphire disc read against a lacquered plate at 12 with the power reserve curved at its centre and retrograde minutes above; hemispheric universal time at 3 with a 24-hour ring and two concentric black-rhodium city rollers (white lacquered engraving); hemispheric moon phase at 9 with two circular apertures for the northern and southern hemispheres, accurate to one day in 122 years; hemispheres machined in one piece, oceans in luminescent blue, lunar craters in white luminous material, carried on three adjustable ruby runners (patented mechanism per the release)
- Straps
- full-skin alligator; 18K red or white gold ardillon buckle (the release lists both and maps neither)
Price
- Retail
- CHF 295,000 (GPHG entry price for the 2016 model, excl. VAT; checked Aug 2026)