“Ulysse Nardin highlights the skills of Metier D’artwork within the 12 months of the Dragon Explosion”

Patrick Pruniaux, CEO of Ulysse Nardin, states that the corporate’s best asset is the Freak, however the Blast is a second helpful platform watch, significantly the Blast Tourbillon launched in 2020, which might flip its face to any event.

Take Chinese language New 12 months, for instance, a chance for Swiss watchmakers to indicate off their third largest export market.

To mark the beginning of China’s 12 months of the Dragon, which begins on February 10, Ulysse Nardin highlights the abilities of its Metier d’Artwork staff with the creation of a dragon that roams throughout the skeletal X-structure of the dial.

The dragon is hand sculpted and painted in rose gold.

It has 5 claws, a form that in line with Ulysse-Nardin (and confirmed by a Google truth test) might solely be utilized by the emperor and the royal household, whereas the remainder of the inhabitants had to make use of depictions of a quadrupedal creature.

The dragon’s head touches the Blast’s tourbillon at 6 o’clock.

It turns the Ulysse-Nardin UN-172 computerized motion with a three-day energy reserve, which contains a platinum micro-rotor seen at 12 o’clock on the skeletonized dial or from the underside through a big exhibition again.

The watch contains a 45mm case with a mixture of rose gold bezel and black DLC-treated titanium.

It’s bought with a black alligator leather-based strap and a sportier interchangeable black rubber different.

Solely 88 examples will probably be made and are on the market right here for CHF 95,400.