5249R-001

HOURS AND MINUTES ON DEMAND. AUTOMATON.

A horological fable

The Manufacture presents the first automaton wristwatch in its contemporary history, inspired by a pocket watch designed by Louis Cottier in 1958 that displays the hours and minutes on demand. Based on Jean de La Fontaine's fable The Crow and the Fox, the fascinating animation of time plays out on on the surface of a rose gold Officer’s-style case and a brown “Matara” dial.

Complications

5249R-001

9514000

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Technical characteristics

dial

Opaline matara brown.
Applied “fox” and “crow”, hand-engraved foliage decorations in gold.

case

Rose gold
Diameter: 43 mm
Thickness: 11.55 mm
Water-resistant to 30m
Sapphire crystal case back protected by a dust cover with invisible hinges

movement

31-260 PS HMD AU
Self-winding
On-demand retrograde hours and minutes
Automaton
Decorative small seconds

Diameter: 33.8 mm
Thickness: 4.00 mm
Number of parts: 267
Number of jewels: 28
Power reserve: min. 38 hours – max. 48 hours
Winding rotor: platinum off-center minirotor
Balance: Gyromax®
Frequency: 28,800 semi-oscillations/hour (4 Hz)
Balance spring: Spiromax®
Distinctive sign: Patek Philippe Seal