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Press release: Presenting the Vulcain Cricket X-treme Automatic

Press release:

Vulcain Cricket X-treme Automatic

A challenge for explorers

Vulcain is once again launching a challenge to explorers by unveiling the CRICKET X-TREME AUTOMATIC model. Firmly rooted within a sporting universe into which the brand is making noteworthy inroads, this versatile measuring instrument designed for adventurers is unveiling a new, even more virile and functional design this year, powered by the new Cricket V-21 self-winding movement. It represents an additional step for Vulcain and its models, which have already accompanied the most famous explorers from mountain peaks to ocean depths.

The legend lives on. A new chapter in the history of Vulcain, partly founded on the production of high-performance exploration instruments, is being written this year with a new model featuring a blend of virile sportiness and technological breakthroughs. The major new feature in the X-TREME AUTOMATIC lies in the self-winding Cricket V-21 alarm calibre driving it. Developed on the tried and tested basis of the legendary Cricket Calibre V-10 stemming from over 60 years of fine-tuning and improvement, the new self-winding alarm calibre is a 12-lignes (12''') movement equipped with two barrels: one to supply the energy required for the hour, minute and seconds functions, and the other to power the alarm function which sounds for a full 20 seconds. It beats at a cadence of 18,000 vibrations per hour and is endowed with a 42-hour power reserve. This 257-part movement features unidirectional winding via the bimetallic oscillating weight fitted with a ceramic ball-bearing mechanism. A worthy heir to the famous Cricket alarm calibre that has forged the Vulcain legend since 1947, the Cricket V-21 drives the central hour, minute and seconds hands, a date display, as well as a 60-minute graduated counter activated by a unidirectional rotating bezel – and of course the signature alarm function characteristic of Vulcain watches.

This concentrated blend of information now appears in a particularly sporty and sophisticated aesthetic design. The generous size of the 44 mm case available in titanium and steel or black titanium and steel versions is further accentuated by the asymmetrical arrangement of the fast date-correction pusher at 10 o'clock and the alarm corrector placed between 2 and 3 o'clock and visually extended by the winding-crown between 3 and 4 o'clock. The sapphire crystal case-back ensures ideal sound diffusion both in water or in the open air, since the titanium case enhances the acoustic quality of the watch in any circumstances on the paths of adventure and exploration – from the loftiest heights to abyssal depths.

Two black-coated steel and titanium versions are available in limited numbered editions of 300 each: a black/blue self-winding CRICKET X-TREME model and a black/white self-winding CRICKET X-TREME variation.

In addition to its decidedly masculine style, this new evolved model is also distinguished by the new fluted rotating outer bezel serving as a 60-minute counter, as well as by the new Superluminova-coated hour-markers which, along with the hands also featuring a luminescent substance, make the CRICKET X-TREME AUTOMATIC the ultimate watch for explorers – and other connoisseurs of fine watchmaking.

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