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Millésime 2024
Perception 睦 (Mù)Limited edition
Millésime 2024
Perception
睦 (Mù)
Limited edition
Pre-order closes 21 October 2024
The inaugural iteration of our Millésime series comes in the familiar form of our integrated steel sports watch, Perception. Its vivid purple dial comes encased in grade 5 titanium that is executed to perfection in Perception’s broad array of finishes. Perception 睦 (Mù) is a limited edition that will only be available for pre-order until the 21st of October, after which it will be permanently discontinued from our collection.
- Free return
- Free shipping
- Five year warranty
Technical
Specifications
- Grade 5 titanium case with contrasting surfaces and exceptional attention to finish.
- 40mm (Diameter) X 47mm (LUG-TO-LUG), with a wearing experience closer to 38/39mm, suiting smaller and larger wrists alike.
- 9.4mm thickness.
- Screw-down crown.
- Water resistant to 100m/10ATM.
- Hand-crafted purple guilloché dial with intricate écaille de poisson pattern, turned by China’s sole guilloché master craftsman, Cheng Yucai.
- Four-layered dial construction, inspired by ancient Chinese architectural tenets of Sunmao (friction/imbrication through mortise and tenon joints).
- Chinese huiwen-patterned chapter ring, printed in Super-LumiNova ®, X1 grade.
- Applied rhodium-plated indices.
- Voluminous, rhodium-plated, leaf-shaped hands with Super-LumiNova ®, X1 grade.
- Hand-bent minutes and seconds.
- Double-domed sapphire crystal with 10 layers of anti-reflective coating.
- Customised 32 jewels extra-thin (3.4mm) Peacock SL1588A automatic movement.
- Decorated in circular côtes de genève with polished jewel and screw sinks, and heat-blued screws.
- Tungsten rotor with circular côtes de genève and purple rhodium plating.
- +/- 10s per day and further adjusted in 5 positions and for temperature fluctuations.
- Tested exhaustively by the horological research institute of light industry (hrili).
- 41 hour power reserve
- 28,800 bph (4hz)
- Grade 5 titanium bracelet with individually chamfered links and exceptional attention to finish.
- Tapering from 22mm at the case to 18mm at the clasp, and thinning gradually from 3mm at the case to 2.6mm at the clasp.
- Quick-release spring bars.
- Proprietary, patent-pending on-the-fly micro adjustment system.
- Telescopic deployant blade system for enhanced comfort and wearability.
A regal, absorbing purple
The vintage of 2024: Perception Millésime ‘睦’ (Mù)
Perception 睦 (Mù) debuts as the very first iteration of our new Millésime project, which will feature a more
boldly experimental, community-driven and yearly rendition of one of our ongoing lines. It features a regal
purple guilloché dial that is hand-turned by the atelier of Master Cheng Yucai, the very first master
guillocheur in Asia. The shade of purple on the dial took significant experimentation in plating, and varies
startlingly between a captivating ultraviolet and a rich, deep purple under different lighting conditions.
睦 (Mù) features a construction of grade 5 titanium throughout its case and bracelet, marking our brand’s
first use of the material outside of our limited collaborative pieces so far. It will also be the first time a
titanium edition of Perception will be given our full suite of version 2 upgrades — that you can read about
here.
Like our other variants in the series, it is powered by the SL1588A ultra-thin, high-end Chinese automatic
movement.
As a community-driven edition, it has been given the Chinese name 睦 (Mù), which captures the spirit of amity,
kinship and closeness, and represents our admiration and appreciation for the wonderful community that has
grown around Atelier Wen.
Purple and Tantalum
Purchasers of the purple Millésime will also be automatically included into a very special raffle in which
three lucky customers will open their watches to unveil something a little bit heavier than what they were
perhaps expecting.
Since April 2024, we have been teasing the debut of some extremely special watches made out of the rare and
precious metal that is tantalum. It is a metal that has almost exclusively been restricted to some of the most
prestigious brands, and one that is reputed to be the scarcest stable element in our solar system.
With a density approaching that of platinum and a hardness outstripping titanium, its unique combination of a
blue-tinted, gunmetal tone and uncommon heft has seen its stock rise significantly as a coveted material
amongst the highest tiers of independent watchmaking.
Tantalum is also extraordinarily difficult to work with, and for that reason, has never been incorporated into
a fully-braceleted watch (outside of three known ‘pièce unique’s and several short runs of multi-metal,
two/three-tone watches).
In many ways, this raffle is therefore a herald of what is to come. While they will be ordering a titanium
watch and paying a titanium price, these three lucky individuals will unbox their Perception to discover a
Wonka-esque “ticket” crafted out of solid tantalum.
Alongside this ticket, they will also recognise that the watch within will not be executed in titanium, but
instead be a fully-functional and specially-manufactured tantalum prototype — that is approximately three
times the weight they expected, and many more times greater in value.
As a bonus for our cherished community, existing owners of our watches will also earn an additional entry into
this tantalum draw for each Atelier Wen timepiece in your collection.
The Millésime Editions
The French word “Millésime” is most frequently employed in winemaking nomenclature and denotes a particular
year or “vintage”. The Millésime edition will therefore be a yearly, limited and community-driven timepiece
that allows us the freedom of a blank canvas on which we can try out our boldest, most experimental and
requested-for configurations of existing collections.
Most of our limited editions are launched with collaborating parties and necessarily capped at a fixed number
of watches. Because of this, many members of our community consequently miss out on these special editions.
Owing much of our growth to this global Atelier Wen family, the Millésime project enables us to pay you back
by offering a still-exclusive, yet obtainable edition that you can get your hands on.
These will release in the form of a limited launch window that, once gone, will never be available again —
thereby reflecting and upholding the idea of a yearly vintage. The editions will also carry the hallmark of a
small engraving of our logo on the caseback, and for the 2024 purple Millésime, this logo will be filled with
traditional Chinese lacquer in purple.
As we expand our catalogue to various lines of watches, the Millésime project will also encompass these, and
will not be limited to the form of Perception.
About perception
Our integrated sports watch offering, the Perception, draws upon traditional cues in Chinese architecture,
reinterpreting them in sleek, contemporary form. Its case and bracelet subtly reference the sloping rooftops
and hexagonal windows of Chinese palaces and pagodas, and its dial structure harks back to the ancient Chinese
methodology of building construction, 榫卯 (sǔn mǎo), which relies on friction and imbrication to join beams
together without wood or glue.
These architectural cues are complemented by tastefully incorporated traditional motifs in the beautiful 回纹
(huí wén) pattern — that doubles as Perception’s chapter ring, and the stylised face of a stone lion on the
caseback — that extends the architectural concept further with the motif’s traditional service in guardian
statues that stand watch outside important buildings and monuments.
Then there is the star of the show: a guilloché dial from the atelier of Master Cheng Yucai —Asia’s first
master of the craft. Carved in a pattern known as écailles de poisson for its likeness to fish scales, its
hypnotic interplay between straight and curved lines is meticulously hand-turned on a rose engine of Master
Cheng's own patented design in Xinmi, Henan. With approximately 30 known masters of the craft left in the
world, it has become increasingly rare in its traditional European strongholds — though Cheng hopes to bring
about a renaissance of the craft through the legacy of his workshop and the disciples have begun to turn
within them.
Movement: A heart of reliable refinement
Perception's case houses a high-beat, original calibre designated the SL1588A. Supplied by the Liaoning
Peacock Watch Company's new state-of-the-art manufacture, the movement has been heavily customised for us.
These modifications include an extended power reserve of approximately 41 hours; a marked increase from its
base movement’s 38 hours, as well as the removal of the default date-complication.
The movements leave the factory at +/- 10s/d after being drop-tested and observed in hot, cold and ambient
temperatures, as well as measured across 48 hours of continuous running.
They are then further regulated in 5 positions by us, and sent in to China's top national research lab, the
Horological Research Institute of Light Industry (HRILI) for further testing following assembly.
The movement also boasts extensive decoration, with circular côtes de Genève on its bridges that are
contiguous with its black — purple, in the case of 睦 (Mù) — rhodium-plated tungsten rotor. Special care has
also been taken with the smaller componentry, with the inclusion of polished jewel and screw sinks rarely seen
at this pricepoint, and flame-blued screws.
More than mere unboxing
Perception 睦 (Mù) arrives to you in the latest rendition of our wooden presentation box with a matte, purple
lacquer that resists the collection of fingerprint marks and scratches.
This box unfolds completely to form an elegant table-top organiser for your desk or mantlepiece.
Alongside the watch, it contains a warranty and instructions booklet, a high-quality microfibre polishing cloth,
a travel pouch in purple suede, and a screwdriver for a fuss-free experience in sizing your bracelet.
Warranty
Perception comes with a 5-year warranty, valid from the date of delivery. While this warranty was previously
valid for 2 years, we have now extended it by an additional 3.
We are unequivocally confident in our product, and this has been put in place to reflect the comprehensive
testing that we put the watches through, the assuredness of our brand’s longevity, and the reliability of our
suppliers and manufacturing partners. We have also made sufficient provisions in replacement parts to ensure
that your watch is well cared-for throughout its lifetime.
We are entirely committed to ensuring a seamless and assured ownership experience. We will facilitate any
aftersales-related support at your total and seamless convenience, with doorstep-to-doorstep coverage both to
and from our global after-sales partners (currently situated in Singapore, Hong Kong and France).
This extended warranty now applies to all of our watches and will, additionally, apply retroactively to any
watches that have been previously purchased directly from us or our collaborators.
