ROGER DUBUIS | Excalibur Biretrograde Calendar

Thirty years ago, the Maison opened its first chapter with a biretrograde display. The Excalibur Biretrograde Calendar picks up this same display design, featuring a pink gold and mother-of-pearl 40 mm case with the Poinçon de Genève. Two hands trace a semicircle, snap back to one and start again. Our first signature display, restated. Light crosses the dial and the biretrograde answers. Pink gold catches it, mother-of-pearl holds it and the skeletonised hands reveal it all. Seven layers of depth, fourteen finishes applied by hand. Drawn wide at the outer edge and tapered toward the center, the ecliptic counters follow the ellipse set in 1996.