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Bugatti Edition Belt Buckle By Roland Iten - R22 Mark I
It's common for boutique watchmakers and automakers to collaborate to build special edition timepieces for the owners of million dollar cars. But it's not just watchmakers who associate their products with luxury cars. Roland Iten for example.
This boutique manufacturer, based in Geneva, is known for crafting "mechanical luxury" and is particularly well known for their mechanical belt buckles. Their latest product is the Calibre R22 MK I Bugatti collection.
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We don't need to tell you that the value of a mundane thing such as a belt buckle can raise exponentially with its associating with a brand like Bugatti. Roland Iten's Bugatti Edition mechanical luxury belt buckles cost a cool $84,000 (Rs 51,98760).
This hand crafted mechanical belt buckle has been crafted by employing luxury mechanical watch making techniques and allows the wearer to obtain the absolute precise fit.
But more than the fit its brand Bugatti and the materials used that really make this article special. Smoked sapphire crystals, lightweight titanium, diamond encrusted pin are some of the materials used to craft the belt buckles' various components.
This mechanical item uses 100 components that form a five gear fine tuning calibration between 0mm to 22mm to get a precise fit.
Calibre R22 MK I Bugatti Edition mechanical belt buckle will be limited to 44 units in total, divided among three variant collection. The first, limited to 11, was made from white gold, the second collection made use of rose gold, while the third edition is yet to come.
In case you are interested in knowing how this mechanical belt buckle, worth more than some sports cars, functions a detailed manufacturer description, alogn with a video can be found in the next slide.
"In almost every wind up watch is an escapement which incorporates what is known as the "Breguet Tooth". The Breguet Tooth is actually a "cog" which has a 45 degree angle on one side and a 90 degree angle on the other. Gears made up of these cogs or "teeth" when operated in one direction will slide on the long (45 degree) side, then click when they reach the 90 degree side, slide again, then click, etc., but if wound in reverse, they will lock at the 90 degree angle, unless there is some other release mechanism such as a clutch. This is important so that the spring in the watch does not unravel. The R22 Mechanically Performing Belt Buckle incorporates an evolution of this concept. Instead of a "Breguet Tooth" cog, the mechanism incorporates patented "cog-wheels". The Cog Wheels reduce the friction to practically zero, therefore, when operated in either direction, instead of a "slide-click, slide-click" it creates an almost seamless "rolling click" which not only allows a micro-adjustment of the buckle in either direction with the minimum of force, but increases the longevity of the mechanism due to the substantial reduction in the friction. This feature is what Roland Iten refers to as the "click-free-click".
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