Skeleton X

• Case: satin-finished rose gold with blue titanium bezel
• Size: 42mm
• Movement: hand-wound manufacture caliber UN-371
• Power Reserve: approximately four days
• Water Resistance: 50m
• Dial: skeleton with gold and blue accents
• Caseback: sapphire crystal
• Hands: luminous hands and markers
• Strap/Bracelet: alligator leather
• Factory Warranty: two years

More than a means, exploring has become Ulysse Nardin’s motivation. The X-factor is the answer: X like an adventure, X like our deepest desires, X for the unknown, X for what’s forbidden, bold and exciting. Skeleton X is the perfect showcase of this new X-ray vision of watchmaking. Blurring the frontiers between our inner and the outer worlds, X-rays allow us to connect with the invisible, with the hidden. To see through things, to explore the in-betweens of the reality, to transgress the rules of the material world. The new Skeleton X plays off the transparency of its powerful movement by intricately cutting away as much material as possible, without jeopardizing tolerances or shock resistance, to reveal the stunning beauty of the three-dimensional heart beating inside.

The Skeleton X case, reshaped and very small, a mere 42mm, is perfectly on-trend: more angular, more masculine, less round. Its shape-within-shape-within-shape geometry – an X formed by four of the indexes is framed in a rectangle, in turn inside a circle – delights the eye.

Inside and clearly visible beats one of the star innovations of the watch’s antecedent, the Freak Vision: a super-light balance wheel in silicium, extra-wide, with nickel flyweights and stabilizing micro-blades. The new manufacture movement, the UN-371 caliber, is based on the UN-171 movement, but completely redesigned. The 96-hour power reserve can be read through the back by means of windows, like those in the barrel. The Skeleton X exists in four different satin-finish versions: satin-finish titanium blue, satin-finish titanium black, satin-finish rose gold or matte-finish Carbonium Gold.

This skeletonized watch par excellence is priced very competitively. Painstakingly cut and exposed, elaborately finished, hand-polished to a shimmering gleam, it be-speaks the artisan’s touch, and watchmaker’s experience and savoir-faire. Nothing can hide, inside becomes outside, the boundaries blur, as the invisible processes of time are marvelously revealed to the naked eye.