HERBELIN has designed an automatic stopwatch, the Newport Carbon Titanium, to handle even the most extreme conditions – released as a limited edition of 500.
Brand Ambassador, Aurélien Ducroz, twice freeride ski world champion and recent Class40 world champion, is setting out to sea on 6th November for a new challenge: the 2022 Route du Rhum. The limited edition chronograph, features a regatta countdown and promises to be a trustworthy partner in pushing performance boundaries and encouraging you to accomplish your boldest dreams.
The HERBELIN sports watch is constructed with high-tech materials. It combines carbon and titanium, making it both lightweight and resistant. With a carbon forging method used in aeronautics, the case is made of forged carbon with its full 46.5-mm diameter. It is mounted on a DLC-coated titanium middle case and is guaranteed to be fully waterproof for up to 300 metres. The set is secured with five screws visible on the carbon bezel.
The engraved dial background, which is also made of forged carbon, shows a map of the ocean currents of Saint-Malo, the 2022 Route du Rhum departure city. This design is in harmony with the stylised hour and minute hands, black plated facetted hour markers coated with white luminescent material with a timer sequenced by groups of five minutes highlighted with a yellow border. Highly precise and perfectly visible, it also features a day/date double aperture within a fine yellow rectangle at 3 o’clock.
The Newport Carbon has an automatic mechanical movement exclusive to HERBELIN. It is manufactured in Switzerland (Sellita 13 . SW501 BV a), oscillating at 28,800 alternations per hour, with 25 rubies and an appreciable power reserve of 62 hours. Its smoky transparent back displays a HERBELIN-engraved oscillating mass. Designed and hand-assembled, set and tested in the HERBELIN workshops in the Jura massif in Franche-Comté, it showcases a traditional French watchmaker’s skills passed down from one generation to the next since 1947. It also includes a Wolf winder case (below).
Technical Specifications:
Case:
• Forged carbon and DLC-coated titanium
• Bezel in solid carbon
• Anti-reflective, smoked transparent sapphire crystal exhibition case back
• DLC-coated titanium screw-down crown, engraved with a marine wheel
• DLC-coated titanium pushers
• Diameter: 46.5 mm – thickness: 16.30 mm
• Waterproof up to 300 metres
• Limited edition of 500 numbered copies engraved X/500
Dial:
• Black forged carbon with a back engraved with the Saint-Malo sea currents
• Black plated index with white luminescent coating
• Black plated hour and minute hands with white luminescent coating
• Yellow central second-hand tipped with a white luminescent coating
• Regatta 15-minute timer at 12 o’clock, azure with hatched “Start” engraving
• 12- hour timer at 6 o’clock with hatched black, 60-second chronometer at the centre
• Day/date aperture at 3 o’clock
Functions:
• Hours, minutes, seconds, day, date, chronograph, countdown timer
Strap:
• Yellow in high-performance FKM elastomer
• Deployant clasp with safety buckle in DLC-coated titanium
Movement:
• Swiss automatic, exclusive to Michel Herbelin (Sellita 13 . SW501 BV a)
• 25 rubies, 28,800 a/h
• Oscillating mass engraved HERBELIN in rounded finish
• 62-hour power reserve
Price:
• SRP £ 3,149.00
For more information please visit HERBELIN