Too much, and it knows it
By Marco Bellini, Zurich ·
I want to like Bovet more than I do. The engraving is real engraving, and the 17DM04-SKMP gets 240 hours out of a hand-wound movement, ten days, which is serious barrel design. The flying tourbillon and the moon phase are well made.
But 47.5 mm wide and 19 mm tall is not a size for a wrist. It is a size for a display case. Titanium keeps the weight down. It does nothing for your shirt cuff. At 430,000 to 480,000 USD you are paying for a skeleton that shows a great deal of everything, all at once.
Admire it from a metre away. Buy it only if you collect sculpture.