De Bethune DB25 Digitale
De Bethune has revived its "Digitale" concept with the new DB25 Digitale, an evolution of its jumping hours wristwatch. This third iteration features an elaborate dial combining wavy guilloche and star-studded blued titanium, alongside a spherical moon phase, all housed in the brand's signature DB25 case.
- Price: CHF106,000 before taxes
- 42 mm case
- 11.9 mm thickness
- Titanium case
- DB2144V3 manual-wind movement
- 30 m water resistance
- Five-day power reserve
- Not a limited edition
The dial is decorated with De Bethune's hallmark wavy guilloche and star-studded heat-blued titanium, evoking the sea and night sky, separated by a band of barleycorn guilloche.
The spherical moon phase is composed of palladium and blued steel halves.
The polished titanium case adopts the DB25 design with open-worked lugs, differing from the spring-loaded lugs of the preceding model.
The DB2144V3 movement features a polished titanium delta barrel bridge with a blued titanium insert and a 5 Hz blued titanium balance wheel with white gold regulating weights.
The movement incorporates De Bethune's proprietary "triple para-chute" shock absorber, inspired by Abraham-Louis Breguet.
The DB25 Digitale is presented as more current than its predecessor, which had an Art Deco pocket watch aesthetic.
The price represents about a 20% increase over its predecessor launched over a decade ago, considered a modest rate of inflation in high-end independent watchmaking.