With Mr Race, Ladoire continues to explore a register rife with danger and seduction. The essence of fine watchmaking is distilled into just 12 pieces that taunt the onlooker to possess them. Arachnoid codes are set against a chili red ground.
A hot new addition to the Black Widow saga collection, Mr Race adds a splash of red to the theme of the ensnaring web, adding a competitive, challenging dimension. The suspense is sustained, faced with the threat of a nameless, potential danger, as fascinating as the risk is compelling. It is for those who want to play with fire, who stalk performance and rise to the bait, not for delicate wrists...
The Black Widow collection takes its cue from the symbolism of the compelling seductress, the highly venomous Lacrodaectus Mactans, aka The Black Widow, due to the spider's natural tendency to exercise the right of life or death over her fellow male. Amid acts of passion and ritual celebration designed to perpetuate her race, the Black Widow can either show mercy and turn away, or kill outright in an uncontrollable outburst of lust or ultimate gesture of possession.
Who will dare to approach?
Mr Race, undoubtedly. |
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Technical data and materials
LADOIRE Manufacture-made movement: Calvet/o2
•
Calibre with automatic winding via
micro-rotor
• Jewelling: 38 rubies
• Thickness: 10.95 mm
• Black Widow W-shaped bridge structure
• Gear-train with specific, optimised toothing
profile
• Screw balance, black PVD (A-DLC)
• Frequency: 18,000 v/h (2.5 Hz)
• Power reserve: 52 h
Functions
• Offset regulator complication -
HMS planetary ® - duly patented.
• Fixed Hours, Minutes and Seconds display
via 3 silicium discs mounted on ceramic micro
ball-bearings.
• Ceramic micro ball bearings (ZrO2)
Ø 0.397 mm, thickness 0.99mm, without
lubricant, for maximum output, stability and
reliability.
• The hour, minutes and seconds indications
are displayed by cages mounted on 127 and 7
micro ball bearings, respectively.
• 12-hour GMT complication with quickset
corrector at 2 o'clock
Case
• Asymmetric 2-part case: 9 o'clock–3 o'clock:
50.84mm / 12 o'clock – 6 o'clock: 41.77mm
• Titanium bezel, middle case and case-back
• Finished in black A-DLC type PVD coating
• Black titanium crown with A-DLC type PVD
coating, ergonomically positioned at 8 o'clock
• Black titanium GMT quickset corrector with A-
DLC type PVD coating
• Cambered, glareproofed sapphire crystal
• Flat glareproofed sapphire crystal
• Water-resistant to 50 metres
• Asymmetric titanium single-lug attachment
system
Leather strap
• Full-grain smooth leather strap, double hand-
stitched
• Black pin buckle A-DLC type PVD coating
• Ergonomic strap secured by a single
asymmetrical lug. |
