Maurice Lacroix - Pontos Décentrique GMT

Pontos Décentrique GMT represents a unique link between the traditional Swiss art of watchmaking with modern design and high-tech materials. A creative process gave birth to a watch which cannot be compared with any of its known predecessors!
As its name suggests, all the functions of the Pontos Décentrique GMT are arranged off-centre. Even the hours, minutes and seconds are not indicated from the centre in the usual way, but in a discreetly designed circle segment with wider index marks for the hours and narrower for the minutes. This segment is slightly shifted towards 10 oclock and tapers towards 6 oclock. The likewise round day and night indication for a second time zone is surprising. It is generously situated between the centre of the dial, 2 and 5 oclock. So that it is always clear whether day or night hours are indicated, the sun and moon turn around on the same disk. A special idea is the play with polished and unpolished parts of the sapphire crystal over the indication. These parts accentuate this indication additionally and enable the corresponding current heavenly body to appear or remain hidden.
The date indication also distinguishes itself clearly from the customary. Normally the current date appears on a revolving disk in a small window so that the date is well below the dial, making it more difficult to read. This is not the case with the Pontos Décentrique GMT! In order to bring the date indication up as high as possible on a level with the dial, a connection between the basic movement and the complication module was developed internally at Maurice Lacroix, and a patent is pending for it.

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• Maurice
• Lacroix
• Pontos
• Décentrique
• GMT
• Swiss
• Horology
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