Atelier Wen Perception V3 - Piāo 缥 (Ice Blue)

$ 5,141.00 USD

Our integrated steel sports watch, featuring a handmade guilloché dial by the first master of the craft in China.For Perception V3, this hand-turned dial is joined by a new French calibre - Pequignet's EPM03; highly customised, and visible through a full exhibition caseback. The bridges are shaped as the traditional Chinese representation of wind and filled with blue aventurine lacquer within a case of 904L steel.

01 Case

Ice Blue 缥 (Piāo)

  • 40mm diameter x 47mm lug-to-lug x 10.4mm thickness (incl. crystal)
  • 904L stainless steel case with brushed and mirror-polished surfaces
  • Full exhibition caseback with sapphire crystal window coated with 10 layers of internal anti-reflective coating
  • CNC-engraved, 3D lettering on caseback
  • 100m/10 ATM

02 Dial

  • Hand-turned écailles de poisson guilloché́ by the workshop of Cheng Yucai
  • Four-part dial construction, inspired by ancient Chinese architectural tenets of Sunmao (friction/imbrication through mortise and tenon joints)
  • Chinese huiwen-patterned chapter ring, printed in Super-LumiNova ®, X1 grade
  • Applied rhodium-plated indices

03 Hands

  • Voluminous, rhodium-plated, leaf-shaped hands with Super-LumiNova ®, X1 grade
  • Hand-bent minutes and seconds

04 Crystal

  • Double-domed box sapphire crystal with 10 layers of anti-reflective coating

05 Caseback

  • Double-domed sapphire crystal caseback window with 10 layers of anti-reflective coating

06 Movement

  • Customised, Pequignet calibre EPM03
  • Decorated in wavy côtes de Genève on the escapement bridge, 3D laser-etched inscription on the ratchet return wheel, black-polished screws, machine-made anglage, perlage, a snailed barrel, and a rotor with both snailing and frosting
  • Bridges shaped in the traditional Chinese representation of wind, and filled with mirror-polished blue aventurine lacquer
  • Bi-directional, automatic winding
  • 21 jewels
  • 28,800 bph
  • 65 hour power reserve
  • Chronometer-grade accuracy -4/+6 sec (avg. ±2 sec/day) per day
  • Adjusted in 6 positions and to three temperatures
  • Hacking seconds

07 Bracelet

  • 904L brushed stainless steel bracelet with individually chamfered links
  • Tapering from 22mm at the case to 18mm at the clasp, and thinning gradually from 3mm at the case to 2.6mm at the clasp
  • Quick-release spring bars (bracelet is interchangeable with Atelier Wen’s FKM rubber strap)

08 Clasp

  • Patent-pending on-the-fly micro adjustment system
  • Proprietary telescopic deployant blade system for enhanced comfort and wearability