Vacheron Constantin replica Astronomical Grand Complication“Ode to Music”:A desirable astronomical watch
Recently launched during Watches&Wonders 2020,
the Les Cabinotiers Astronomical Grand Complication“Ode to Music”is the latest repeater watch created by the highly specialized division of Ateliers Cabinotiers.
This is a distinctive division of the Vacheron Constantin brand tasked with creating unique timepieces that showcase the brand’s superb craftsmanship and master craftsmanship.
The new multi-part model is similar to the Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600–Vacheron Constantin’s most complicated wristwatch to appear in 2017.
This model is a wristwatch with a complicated astronomical function.
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The newly released Ode to Music model retains its astronomical nature,
but the tourbillon cage has been replaced with a repeater function and a power indicator and tide indicator.
Complex feature rendering
Ode to Music still has a module that shows the astronomical function,
but in fact has a different base engine than the Celestia movement.
While the Celestia has a base movement with a tourbillon cage and six mainspring barrels,
the Ode to Music uses a cal.
1731 has a repeater function.
The movement is larger in diameter but is super slim,
only 3.9mm thick.
Cal.
1731M820 has a total of 600 components and is a hand-wound movement with an operating frequency of 3Hz and a power reserve of 60 hours thanks to a mainspring box.
Owning a thinner base movement,
the Ode to Music is only 12.45mm thick in the end,
compared to 13.6mm of Celestia.
Since the astronomical function in both models is similar,
the diameter of the new watch is still 45mm.
The rose gold case combined with the dark blue dial,
seems to fit the astronomical theme very well.
The Ode to Music watch offers three time measurements:common time,
solar time,
and sidereal time.
All three are coordinated by a single balance wheel,
but each is coordinated by a gear,
in addition to the gear dedicated to the repeater function.
The solar time indicator is arranged on the front and the sidereal time indicator is located on the bottom of the watch.
Regular time is displayed by Breguet hands,
while solar time has a stylized hand with a sunburst tip,
all three located at the needle bearing at the center of the dial.
Solar time is essentially a function of complex calculated equations of time.
Unlike conventional chronometry,
which is controlled by sensors and cams,
the equation of time requires a different set of wheels to create the movements of a sun-shaped hand with two sources of action.
The first is a wheel chain that operates the common time,
and the other source is a gear chain coordinated with a cam wheel for the equation of time function.
As a result,
solar time is represented in the hour hand of the actual time(regular time)and through the second minute hand,
marked with a stylized sunburst.
Solar time shows the current time according to the Earth’s movement around the sun,
which can vary from 24 hours/day to-16 minutes short to+14 minutes excess depending on the cycle of each year.
In other words,
solar time is viewable right on the watch dial instead of having a scale that shows the difference between solar time and regular time like most watches with other equation of time functions.
“Ode to Music”is a dream astronomical clock
Away from the central hand,
the dial also shows astronomical functions including day/night indicator,
moon phase,
perpetual calendar,
zodiac,
and extremely complicated sunrise/set time..
Placed between 12 and 3 o’clock is a perpetual calendar display with day,
month through the window,
leap year indicator and date indicator through the display circle.
The small arc at 4 o’clock indicates three features:the zodiac,
the seasons,
the time of the summer solstice,
the winter solstice,
the spring and autumn equinoxes.
Next is the time of sunset and sunrise,
which is shown at a full 6 o’clock angle on the dial.
In current watchmaking,
very few brands currently put this mechanism on their watches because it depends on the latitude and longitude of a particular time zone,
mainly the location of the wearer.
Where is the clock now?In the“Ode to Music”model,
the Vacheron Constantin replica and rolex replica brand is established according to the wearer’s own city.
Sunrise and sunset times are displays with arcs,
symmetrically located on the bottom half of the dial,
while a full vertical axis shows daylight hours,
which change with the seasons.
On the back of the Ode to Music”,
the star chart is shown from two sapphire discs.
The movable underlying disk is printed with astronomical time measured in terms of the Earth’s rotation with fixed stars,
rather than revolving around the sun.
The blue ellipse shows the horizon line showing the positions of the planets.
The fixed upper disc will include the same star chart and a yellow ellipse.
This is the projection of the Earth’s equator onto the celestial sphere.
The yellow ellipse is the path that the sun takes in the sky.
Surrounded by the month circle,
the bottom-angle astronomical disk provided a breakthrough,
a day of only 23 hours,
56 minutes and 4 seconds,
this calculation is based on the motions of the stars,
not motion of the sun.