THE TIME ON YOUR MAURICE LACROIX
AIKON MERCURY MAY APPEAR normal at
first glance, but tilt your wrist and watch the
hands float aimlessly. Have they forgotten
their purpose? Not at all. Simply hold your
wrist upright in standard time-reading
position and watch as the hour and minute
hands return to their positions.
Maurice Lacroix has developed yet another
of its eccentric dials with this new watch,
following up on earlier odd-displays that
include the Masterpiece Roué Carrée (with
interlocking eccentric gears) and the
Masterpiece Mysterious Seconds.
Here, Maurice Lacroix adds its own module
to a Sellita automatic movement to hide a
double snail-cam mechanism beneath the
dial. One snail cam is associated with the
display of hours, making one complete
rotation every twelve hours, while the
second cam connects with the minute hand,
rotating once every sixty minutes. When the
wearer looks at the watch, gravity pulls two
weighted levers into contact with the snail
cams. As the cams rotate, the levers drive
the hour and minute hands to indicate the
correct time. When the wearer drops his
hand, the watch hands fall away, though
timekeeping continues, ready to reappear
when the wrist again rises.
Maurice Lacroix has thoughtfully filled
the hands with white SuperLuminova and
added counterweights that offer additional
visual interest whenever the hands cross. The
circle on the minute hand and the “M” on the
hour hand briefly align to form the Maurice
Lacroix logo when the hands are at rest.
This unusual time display is housed in
a contemporary 44mm steel case, offered
with both black alligator leather strap and a
five-rows metal bracelet. Price: $7,690.
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