Cabestan

Cabestan watch company continues to amaze by introducing the world's first mechanical clock, use solar energy. The revolutionary solar-powered nothing new: in the early 90's wildly popular electronic clock used by Citizen and numerous Chinese counterparts. And now, you can occasionally find electronics enthusiasts. But Sol Invictus is chronometer another level. And the principle of the use of batteries is also very different. Hours inherently are mechanically mechanism borrowed from Winch Tourbillon Vertical, but it complemented the electronic part. Solar panels in the Sol Invictus feed motor of two microscopic. A winding mechanism, the other is used to set the time. It turns out the combination of microelectronics and mechanics. Look clock created by Jean-François Ruchonnet with Marc Alfieri, based on design, invented by scientists of the XIX century by Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. Sol Invictus made individually for each client, taking into account their wishes. The cost of the avant-garde timepiece is 595 000 Swiss francs (about 410 thousand. Euros).