Moritz Grossmann BENU Power Reserve Salmon: A Fusion of Contemporary Elegance and Time-Honored Watchmaking Craftsmanship

Moritz Grossmann BENU Power Reserve Salmon: A Fusion of Contemporary Elegance and Time-Honored Watchmaking Craftsmanship

The Moritz Grossmann Glashütte I/SA watch brand introduced a linear power reserve indicator to the Benu model line a decade ago. Now, the limited edition BENU POWER RESERVE Salmon reimagines this model with a captivating blend of modern aesthetics and traditional watchmaking artistry.

A Blend of Haute Horlogerie and Fine Aesthetics Moritz Grossmann combines haute horlogerie and fine aesthetics in this timepiece, showcasing the brand’s versatile skills. The watchmakers create not only elaborately decorated movements but also exquisite decorative elements, such as the delicately tapered rhombus-shaped hands, handcrafted and tempered in blue.

A Splash of Fresh Colour The BENU POWER RESERVE Salmon, limited to 50 pieces, features a dial in the modern and refreshing colour of salmon. This warm and harmonious blend of pink and orange is known for its relaxing and positive effect. The salmon dial is complemented by blue Arabic numerals with clear typography and a dark gray minute track, offering enhanced readability.

The linear power reserve indicator on the upper half of the dial is designed as a bar-shaped display element in white and blue, indicating the movement’s power reserve. When fully wound, the display appears entirely white, gradually revealing the blue portion as the power reserve decreases, thanks to a clever differential gear.

Perfect Mechanics with Innovative Extras While the watch boasts a sporty and elegant appearance, it houses a traditional mechanical hand-wound movement, the calibre movement 100.2. The movement’s fine finishing is visible through the glass back, showcasing the characteristic Glashütte stripe finish and the hand-engraved balance cock holding the shock-resistant Grossmann balance. Other notable features include white sapphires as jewels set in gold chatons and held by brown-violet screws.

The movement features an innovative hand-setting mechanism regulated by an additional pusher below the crown, preventing foreign particles from entering the case during time adjustment. This mechanism, invented by Moritz Grossmann, changes the crown’s function with a short pull to set the hands and simultaneously stop the movement. Pushing the crown back restarts the movement.

Limited Edition of 50 Pieces in Stainless Steel The BENU POWER RESERVE Salmon is limited to 50 pieces, featuring a slim three-piece stainless steel case with a delicate bezel. It is paired with a hand-stitched navy blue alligator leather strap.

Technical Specifications

Movement:

• Manufactory calibre 100.2, manual winding, regulated in five positions
• No. of parts: 227
• 26 jewels, with 3 in screwed gold chatons
• Lever escapement
• Shock-absorbed Grossmann balance with 4 inertia screws and 2 poising screws
• Nivarox 1 balance spring with No. 80 Breguet terminal curve
• Gustav Gerstenberger geometry
• Balance diameter: 14.2 mm, frequency: 18,000 semi-oscillations per hour
• Power reserve: 42 hours when fully wound

Functions:

• Hours and minutes
• Subsidiary seconds with stop second
• Grossmann manual winder with pusher
• Power reserve indicator

Operating Elements:

• Crowns in stainless steel to wind the watch and set the time
• Pusher in stainless steel to start the watch

Case Dimensions:

• Diameter: 41.0 mm
• Height: 11.65 mm

Movement Dimensions:

• Diameter: 36.4 mm
• Height: 5.4 mm

Case:

• Three-part, stainless steel

Dial:

• Solid silver, salmon with blue Arabic numerals

Hands:

• Manually crafted, steel, annealed in blue

Crystal/Display Back:

• Sapphire crystal with antireflective coating on one side

Strap:

• Hand-stitched alligator leather with solid prong buckle in stainless steel

Special Features:

• Grossmann balance
• Hand setting override and start of movement with lateral pusher
• Bar-shaped power reserve indicator with two-coloured display segment driven by a differential wheel train
• Space-saving modified Glashütte stopwork with backlash
• Adjustment with Grossmann micrometer screw on cantilevered balance cock
• Pillar movement with 2/3 plate and pillars made of untreated German silver
• 2/3 plate, balance cock, and escape-wheel cock hand-engraved
• Broad horizontal Glashütte ribbing
• 3-band snailing on the ratchet wheel
• Raised gold chatons with pan-head screws
• Separately removable clutch winder
• Stop seconds for hand setting

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