Crazy Jungle Chameleon
WA010204
| Brand : | Boucheron |
| Collection : | Crazy Jungle |
| Model : | Crazy Jungle Chameleon |
| Reference : | WA010204 |
| Complement : | White Gold - Setted Dial |
| On sale : | 2009 |
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Brand : Boucheron Collection : Crazy Jungle Model : Crazy Jungle Chameleon Reference : WA010204 Complement : White Gold - Setted Dial On sale : 2009 List Price : On request Diameter : 42 mm Thickness : 11.10 mm Styles : Jewellery Atypical Types : Self-winding Calibre : Girard-Perregaux GP 4000 Calibre distinction : Additional "Crazy Seconds" module Cut-out oscillating weight in the shape of Boucheron’s historic hallmark Case material : White gold Case peculiarity : Open caseback Sapphire caseback "Clou de Paris" engraved case-middle Shape : Round Water-resistance : 50 meters Dial : Set with tsavorites White mother-of pearl Set with sapphires Set with rubies White gold Display : Hands Indexes : No Glass : Sapphire Antireflective coating Strap material : Karung Strap color : Pink Strap clasp : Pin buckle + More characteristics : Functions
Hours. minutes. seconds offset at 7 o’clock. with rotating function indicator simulating a swirling fly in the spiral formed by the animal’s tongue
Dial
Chameleon set with precious stones
(1.30 carats)
27 rubies (0.16 carat )
72 multicolored sapphires
(0.64 carat)
74 tsavorites (0.50 carat)
18-carat white gold case
Case back with an elliptical
sapphire glass
White gold pin buckle with specific 'pointes de diamant' pattern
Gold weight: 87.90g
DESCRIPTION
- Ronde
The Boucheron “Ronde” collection, which was launched in 2005, quickly became a classic – its assets are a perfect reflection of the House’s essential values. This year, in order to extend its selection of retro-chic watches, it is simultaneously introducing a chronograph and an automatic, two quintessentially timeless pieces designed to appeal to enlightened amateurs eager to find an expression of the House’s best in the classic yet intense lines of an ancient watch-making heritage.
In addition, Boucheron is further enriching its curiosity cabinet with the stunning Bestiaire Seconde Folle Ronde collection.
Bestiary Ronde Seconde Folle
Driven by dogged determination and irrepressible passion, the House of Boucheron is further enriching its cabinet of curiosities with this year’s Bestiaire Seconde Folle collection. Tongue in cheek and iconoclastic, the little beasts who live on the dial of these new self-winding mechanical watches once again strike a pose, this time with the particularity that each has an element that twirls in time. The purpose of this new production is to breathe life into animals, and a new dimension into time.
With boundless creativity, the House of Boucheron set upon a mission to make the best of watch-making complications and channel their potential by diverting them from their original function, but without ever letting them lose touch with their raison d’être – namely, to give the time, in one way or the other. With three of its favourite animals - the frog, the chameleon and the owl - Place Vendôme’s very first Jeweller (1893) and fine watchmaking “hobbyist” – has decided to give a humorous twist in the display of the little seconds hand. Rather than the austerity generally associated with this type of creation - requiring hundreds of working hours and the talent of several master watchmakers - Boucheron, in collaboration with the Girard-Perregaux manufacture, has developed a new self-winding mechanical movement based on the existing GP 4000 calibre.
This new heart, produced exclusively for Boucheron by the Girard-Perregaux manufacture, was named GP 4000 “Seconde Folle” (“Crazy Second”), because its basic mechanism, already well-known by fine horology connoisseurs, is complemented with a module allowing the seconds hand, initially central, to be offset at 7 o’clock on the dial. Moreover, the usual hand is replaced by a very fine and lightweight disk
which rotates fully in one minute. As one would suspect, this highly original development instantly triggered creative imagination among the Parisian House’s designers. They were given carte blanche to use the device with maximum fantasy, in order to develop audacious timepieces: the least you can say about them is that they seem to have made the mischievous little beasts on the dial come alive and take over the bezel.
This year in total, Boucheron will be offering, housed in an 18 ct grey gold case with a 42 mm diameter, a collection of 6 models inspired by three animal themes dear to the House’s heart. Among them, the chameleon, gripped by an irrepressible yearning to gobble up an elusive bug; the slightly haywire frog, with one of its globular eye spinning endlessly in its socket; and an owl, whose convergent squint turns into a divergent squint every minute, with a most comical effect.
Chameleon Ronde “Seconde Folle”
To write this new page in the Boucheron bestiary book, the House’s artists decided to follow the path of humour. Unfettered by classic conventions, they took the liberty to create a new creative space, the originality of which is expressed in several ways and on different levels of sensitivity.
One should not be led to believe that the pieces designed by the House of Boucheron are only intended to lay entrapped in a large 42 mm white gold case, its caseband adorned with a highly specific pointes de diamant pattern also known as clou de Paris. Incomparably wilder than other tamer beasts, the Boucheron chameleon, frog and owl take over all of the timekeeper’s free space to conquer their little world.
For the chameleon, in its eternal hunt for a swirling insect, its tail curled up around a twig of intricately worked foliage and set with precious pink, blue or yellow sapphires, rubies and tsavorites to evoke nature and make its jewellery aspect less evident, escapes from the circle of hours and gains in volume and liveliness.
- Ronde
The Boucheron “Ronde” collection, which was launched in 2005, quickly became a classic – its assets are a perfect reflection of the House’s essential values. This year, in order to extend its selection of retro-chic watches, it is simultaneously introducing a chronograph and an automatic, two quintessentially timeless pieces designed to appeal to enlightened amateurs eager to find an expression of the House’s best in the classic yet intense lines of an ancient watch-making heritage.
In addition, Boucheron is further enriching its curiosity cabinet with the stunning Bestiaire Seconde Folle Ronde collection.
Bestiary Ronde Seconde Folle
Driven by dogged determination and irrepressible passion, the House of Boucheron is further enriching its cabinet of curiosities with this year’s Bestiaire Seconde Folle collection. Tongue in cheek and iconoclastic, the little beasts who live on the dial of these new self-winding mechanical watches once again strike a pose, this time with the particularity that each has an element that twirls in time. The purpose of this new production is to breathe life into animals, and a new dimension into time.
With boundless creativity, the House of Boucheron set upon a mission to make the best of watch-making complications and channel their potential by diverting them from their original function, but without ever letting them lose touch with their raison d’être – namely, to give the time, in one way or the other. With three of its favourite animals - the frog, the chameleon and the owl - Place Vendôme’s very first Jeweller (1893) and fine watchmaking “hobbyist” – has decided to give a humorous twist in the display of the little seconds hand. Rather than the austerity generally associated with this type of creation - requiring hundreds of working hours and the talent of several master watchmakers - Boucheron, in collaboration with the Girard-Perregaux manufacture, has developed a new self-winding mechanical movement based on the existing GP 4000 calibre.
This new heart, produced exclusively for Boucheron by the Girard-Perregaux manufacture, was named GP 4000 “Seconde Folle” (“Crazy Second”), because its basic mechanism, already well-known by fine horology connoisseurs, is complemented with a module allowing the seconds hand, initially central, to be offset at 7 o’clock on the dial. Moreover, the usual hand is replaced by a very fine and lightweight disk
which rotates fully in one minute. As one would suspect, this highly original development instantly triggered creative imagination among the Parisian House’s designers. They were given carte blanche to use the device with maximum fantasy, in order to develop audacious timepieces: the least you can say about them is that they seem to have made the mischievous little beasts on the dial come alive and take over the bezel.
This year in total, Boucheron will be offering, housed in an 18 ct grey gold case with a 42 mm diameter, a collection of 6 models inspired by three animal themes dear to the House’s heart. Among them, the chameleon, gripped by an irrepressible yearning to gobble up an elusive bug; the slightly haywire frog, with one of its globular eye spinning endlessly in its socket; and an owl, whose convergent squint turns into a divergent squint every minute, with a most comical effect.
Chameleon Ronde “Seconde Folle”
To write this new page in the Boucheron bestiary book, the House’s artists decided to follow the path of humour. Unfettered by classic conventions, they took the liberty to create a new creative space, the originality of which is expressed in several ways and on different levels of sensitivity.
One should not be led to believe that the pieces designed by the House of Boucheron are only intended to lay entrapped in a large 42 mm white gold case, its caseband adorned with a highly specific pointes de diamant pattern also known as clou de Paris. Incomparably wilder than other tamer beasts, the Boucheron chameleon, frog and owl take over all of the timekeeper’s free space to conquer their little world.
For the chameleon, in its eternal hunt for a swirling insect, its tail curled up around a twig of intricately worked foliage and set with precious pink, blue or yellow sapphires, rubies and tsavorites to evoke nature and make its jewellery aspect less evident, escapes from the circle of hours and gains in volume and liveliness.
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Brand : Boucheron Collection : Crazy Jungle Model : Crazy Jungle Chameleon Reference : WA010204 Complement : White Gold - Setted Dial On sale : 2009 List Price : On request Diameter : 42 mm Thickness : 11.10 mm Styles : Jewellery Atypical Types : Self-winding Calibre : Girard-Perregaux GP 4000 Calibre distinction : Additional "Crazy Seconds" module Cut-out oscillating weight in the shape of Boucheron’s historic hallmark Case material : White gold Case peculiarity : Open caseback Sapphire caseback "Clou de Paris" engraved case-middle Shape : Round Water-resistance : 50 meters Dial : Set with tsavorites White mother-of pearl Set with sapphires Set with rubies White gold Display : Hands Indexes : No Glass : Sapphire Antireflective coating Strap material : Karung Strap color : Pink Strap clasp : Pin buckle More characteristics : Functions
Hours. minutes. seconds offset at 7 o’clock. with rotating function indicator simulating a swirling fly in the spiral formed by the animal’s tongue
Dial
Chameleon set with precious stones
(1.30 carats)
27 rubies (0.16 carat )
72 multicolored sapphires
(0.64 carat)
74 tsavorites (0.50 carat)
18-carat white gold case
Case back with an elliptical
sapphire glass
White gold pin buckle with specific 'pointes de diamant' pattern
Gold weight: 87.90g