Manufacture d'horlogerie — Genève · MCMXLVII
Meridian Obsidienne M·72 — gold mechanical watch with black guilloché dial

OBSIDIENNE

Réf. M·72 — Manual wind
18k gold · 38.5 mm · 72 pieces
Scroll to disassemble
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Most watches are admired for their face. Ours asks to be opened.

The Obsidienne M·72 — a manual-wind calibre of 231 parts, finished by hand over four months, sealed beneath a dial of hand-guilloché obsidian. Scroll, and we will take it apart for you.

Exploded view
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Domed sapphire crystal
Black guilloché dial with gold markers
Openworked gilt calibre M·72
Empty 18k gold case with crown
01 — Crystal

SAPPHIRE

Box-domed, double anti-reflective. Invisible until it catches the light.

02 — Dial

OBSIDIAN

Hand-guilloché at 0.05 mm. Eleven hours on a rose engine from 1904.

03 — Calibre

M·72

Manual wind. 231 components, mirror-finished by a single watchmaker.

04 — Case

18K GOLD

38.5 mm, hand-polished and brushed. Fluted crown, forty-eight teeth.

Réf. M·72

ASSEMBLED

Keep scrolling — the watch will open itself.

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SAPPHIRE CRYSTAL

Box-domed, double anti-reflective coating.

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OBSIDIAN DIAL

Hand-guilloché at 0.05 mm depth.

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CALIBRE M·72

231 components. One pair of hands.

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18K GOLD CASE

38.5 mm. Polished and brushed by hand.

231 components — assembled by one watchmaker, over four months
Macro of the M·72 balance wheel on black
— II — The heart

It beats eight times a second, for three days straight.

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Macro of the engine-turned obsidian dial
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The dial is cut on a rose engine from 1904.

One slip of the hand ruins eleven hours of engine-turning. There are no slips. There is no second dial.

Macro of the fluted gold crown and case flank
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A crown that winds like a bank-vault door.

Forty-eight flutes, cut then polished by hand. Resistance calibrated to the gram — scaled to a fingertip.

— V — Presence

Worn beneath a cuff, it disappears. It was never for them.

38.5 mm × 8.9 mm — a presence felt, not shown.
Black alligator, gold pin buckle.
The dial faces the one who wound it.

The Obsidienne worn on the wrist, under a black suit cuff

SPECIFICATIONS

Réf. M·72 — Obsidienne
ReferenceM·72 «Obsidienne»
MovementManufacture calibre M·72, manual wind
Power reserve72 hours
Frequency4 Hz — 28,800 vph
Components231 — 33 jewels
Case18k yellow gold, polished & brushed
Dimensions38.5 mm × 8.9 mm
DialObsidian, hand-guilloché, gold indices
CrystalBox-domed sapphire, double AR
Water resistance30 m — rain, never the sea
StrapBlack alligator, 18k gold pin buckle
Limitation72 pieces per year
— VI — Reserve

Seventy-two pieces a year. One conversation each.

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