Paternita'?...chi vede delle affinita'?Secondo me ci siamo....Il Vacheron e' 3.1mm...
A quanto pare, il movimento è proprio farina del sacco della Genta, mi è stato confermato che già nei prima anni '80 il marchio iniziò a tirar fuori nuovi movimenti e pare che fossero proprio dei gran bei calibri.
Though the watch looks identifiably modern, the movement has a lengthy history. In 1981 Gerald Genta – then the world’s leading, high-end independent watchmaker – unveiled the thinnest minute repeating wristwatch ever, standing 2.72 mm high in its entirety, case and all. One of the most distinctive features of the movement was the button to activate the repeater, located at nine o’clock on the case band. The downside of that amazing example of horological engineering was its delicacy; the movement was prone to breaking.
So the movement was reengineered extensively, gaining a little bit of thickness but tremendous extra reliability and robustness. Subsequently it was inherited by Bulgari when the jeweller acquired Gerald Genta and its sister company Daniel Roth in 1999.
Now named the BVL calibre 362, the calibre is the slimmest minute repeating movement, just 3.12 mm high. That’s a good deal thinner than the 3.9 mm of the runner up, the calibre 1731 of Vacheron Constantin. And that is also likely the technical limit of a reliable minute repeater movement with a traditional construction, meaning it is not likely to be topped by anything else, unless a radical new construction is devised. While it took a long time to get here, the BVL calibre 362 is likely to retain its throne.
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