This is a clean timepiece. Clean in that way that makes your draws drop. If you know Romain Jerome, you are already aware of the boundaries of design that cease to exist with this watchmaker. With this timepiece, “Rock The Rock”, RJ is definitely unleashing the creativity.
Starting with the dial, this timepiece is literally fabricated with fragments of Monaco’s ecological heritage. It’s made from a piece of limestone that was extracted from the western cliff of the Rock of Monaco, in the Saint-Martin Gardens. The dial is framed by a matte black, ceramic bezel. The central hour and minute hands mark off time in their own way, while the seconds set the cadence for a disc at 9 o’clock, also carved in stone.
There’s also a symbolic, mineral plate rotating on the surface of the dial that evokes the earth’s crust and humankind’s difficulty in mastering its movements. Two red lines cross through the watch; one passing under the bezel and continuing along the strap in alcantara. Each time the seconds disc moves to 0, 15, 30 and 45, these lines symbolise for a fleeting movement the latitude and longitude coordinates of Monaco, the very place where the stone was taken from the Rock.
This timepiece is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity guaranteeing the origin of the materials used.
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• caliber C22RJ51, mechanical self-winding movement
• 42 hour power reserve
• water resistance 30 meters
• central hours and minutes, small seconds disc at 9 o’clock
• 46mm case diameter
• black, matte ceramic dial with sides fabricated from black satin-finished PVD-coated steel
• black PVD-coated steel crown with black rubber
• dial composed of Monaco rock (west cliff) extracted on February 10th 2011
by Philippe Mondielli, geologist and scientific director of the Prince Albert II of Foundation
• black, rolled-edge alcantara strap with red seam indicating the continuity of the longitude of the Principality of Monaco
• folding clasp in black PVD-coated steel
