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The Lyrique Etude N°1.
A watch funded by a group of experienced collectors, utilizing some of the best manufacturers in the world.
The movement for example (calibre AGH06801) is made by Agenhor,
A completely unique calibre especially made for them, with a special "AgenPit" regulator and the so-called "AgenEse" geartrain.
The AgenEse geartrain prevents slippage, which apparently can happen quite regularly on movements with eccentric seconds.
The AgenPit regulator allows for extremely easy and accurate regulation without the use of collets or a regulation lever.
The cases are made by Voutilainen & Cattin SA, a company by co-owned Kari Voutilainen, they make cases for several indepents.
The dials are made by Metalem SA, who is famous for making the dials for Chopard L.U.C. and Dufour.
Bill Sanders (the founder of the project) has been very transparent and democratic during the whole design period.
He runs a youtube channel (WatchArtSci) where he did weekly livestreams discussing possible movement, dial and case options. He even publically disclosed the individual prices for every part.
For Bill this wasnt about making money, this was about getting the best possible watch for your money!
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This is just begging for no second hand. I would love it as a 2 hander. To me, small seconds should not cut off numerals but if they do they shouldn't leave part of the digit and if they do leave part of the digit it should not be as ugly as the piece of eight remaining on this watch. Just my opinion.
This is just begging for no second hand. I would love it as a 2 hander. To me, small seconds should not cut off numerals but if they do they shouldn't leave part of the digit and if they do leave part of the digit it should not be as ugly as the piece of eight remaining on this watch. Just my opinion.
Just a preference kinda thing. I personally dont mind it at all, but do understand what you mean.
Cool dial. I appreciate all the other horological elements, but they're not as important to me.
I have to say the movement and finishing do look stunning but I agree with the comment about the truncated/missing numerals and think it would have been more amazing as a two hander. But when you read about the impressive engineering, some of it is necessary because it has a second hand so I can see the conundrum. The stub of the 8 looks really odd.
Beautiful!
Beautiful caseback and movement. To me, reminiscent of Lange.
Do they have the second iteration yet? I enjoy bill channel and his transparency to put this effort forward 🙂 feel like ming but with less futuristic design. Maybe second version will have some guilloche dial from metalem, prob will be higher cost for the low volume but will bump the watch quality feel.
For that same price though my preference would be kudoke. (More than laine, satory, maybe habring in the 10k bracket of smaller independents)
I'm an experienced collector and I was not consulted....
I'm an experienced collector and I was not consulted....
You can email them yourself and still apply for one i think. The initial group of 52 collectors were all regular viewers of his, or members of his facebook group. (The High Horology Lounge)
Do they have the second iteration yet? I enjoy bill channel and his transparency to put this effort forward 🙂 feel like ming but with less futuristic design. Maybe second version will have some guilloche dial from metalem, prob will be higher cost for the low volume but will bump the watch quality feel.
For that same price though my preference would be kudoke. (More than laine, satory, maybe habring in the 10k bracket of smaller independents)
Im not sure if they are working on a second watch yet. I havent been in the loop for a while.
I remember Bill saying it would cost almost 800 usd per watch more if they went with engine turned guilloche dials instead.
Very nice initiative.
Very nice timepiece.
Well played.
Bill had some great advice on what a group can do to avoid a watch that looks like it was made by a committee process. I thought Bill's take on the group dynamic was valuable for any group doing a collab because the end result is gorgeous rather than hohum.
Wow, what a cool approach! Love those numwrals
Cool approach. How much was the watch in the end? I gotta check this guy's YouTube out, thanks for sharing.
Cool approach. How much was the watch in the end? I gotta check this guy's YouTube out, thanks for sharing.
Ive learned a ton from Bill's youtube channel. In the end they costed just over 10.5k USD, 9.5K swiss. One is listed at 30k usd on the secondary market right now...
Wow only 10k. While the style isn't for me, the movement looks beautiful. I would've loved a guilloché dial. I am keen to join. Do you know where his FB page, "pure Horology" is? He told a YouTube commenter to check this out for future release in Sep/oct. Tried to Google for this, but couldn't find it.
That's pretty sh*t that someone is flipping it. They need to find a way to stop this or it's going to become a sh*tshow.
Ill send you a DM with a link to both of Bill's facebook groups. You can also contact Lyrique directly via their site.
Im sure Bill already knowns who is flipping... there are only 70 of them..