Andersen x BCHH Celestial Voyager Sunset over Cappadocia Mannequin 2

Longtime Singaporean collector Benjamin Chee had a dream of constructing beautiful, high-end watches. To manifest his imaginative and prescient, he created the BCHH (Benjamin Chee Haute Horlogerie) mannequin and reached out to know watchmaker Svend Andersen of Andersen Genève to create the Celestial Voyager, a cultured world timer with a handcrafted enamel dial. Following the sold-out success of the 2022 “Sunset over Cappadocia” model, the model new BCHH Celestial Voyager flies in with a cloisonné enamel dial with a model new two-tone platinum and rose gold case.

Svend Andersen honed his experience at Patek Philippe throughout the prestigious Atelier des Grandes Issues by means of the Nineteen Seventies, the place he specialised in world timers, working with the complication developed by Louis Cottier throughout the Thirties. Branching out to create his private mannequin throughout the Eighties, Andersen has become the go-to watchmaker for world-time issues.

The first collaboration was the Celestial Voyager of 2021, adopted by the sold-out Sunset over Cappadocia, the next Arctic Daybreak and Aurora and the Supersonic.

Marking the first Celestial Voyager to look in a two-tone platinum and rose gold case, the compact dimensions – 37.7mm diameter x 10.1mm thickness – assure a really perfect match. The gracefully scalloped handmade lugs, often called eagle’s wings, are soldered to the case and polished by hand. This mixture of a brushed platinum case heart and a warmth, polished rose gold bezel presents the dial a warmer physique. Following the twin-crown construction current in Cottier’s complication, the crown at 9 o’clock with the BCHH seal is to manage city ring, and the one at 3 o’clock, with the Andersen emblem, is used to set the time.

The dial depicts scorching air balloons drifting over the Cappadocian panorama at sunset. Although the colour scheme is rather like the first mannequin, the environment is barely completely completely different, as is the place of the 4 balloons.

Handcrafted in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the dial is dropped at life with the art work of cloisonné enamel. Using flat gold strips soldered to the underside to create the outline of the image, the enameller then fills the miniature cells with vitreous enamel colours which is perhaps fired dozens of events throughout the kiln and polished to comprehend a simple, uniform texture.

Glowing blue aventurine is used for the peripheral metropolis ring, with Cappadocia highlighted in rose gold powder. The 24-hour ring surrounding the dial moreover choices rose gold representations of the Photo voltaic and Moon. The elegant leaf-shaped fingers are openworked to allow the easiest view doable of the environment on the dial.

The rose gold ring on the caseback opens onto a mother-of-pearl flange and a 21k ‘BlueGold’ rotor adorned with hand-guilloché wave patterns. The BCHH Celestial Voyager is supplied with a traditional movement and fitted with a proprietary world time module. Lovingly restored and hand-decorated by Andersen Genève with haute horlogerie finishings, the underside movement is a calibre AS 1876 sourced from A. Schild S.A. The automated movement runs at 3Hz and delivers a 40-hour vitality present.

Solely 20 gadgets of the Celestial Voyager Sunset over Cappadocia Mannequin 2 will in all probability be produced. The watch is open to customisation requests and retails for GBP 54,500 (excl. tax).

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