We always hear what the great new color is for every year. Last year, it was green. Before, blue was the new black. This year, ArtyA is turning this notion on its head.

For the first time ever, ArtyA brings Nano-Sapphire technology into the watch industry to change the color of the sapphire crystal case itself.

In natural light (even if it’s cloudy), the case has a deep blue color, but when exposed to artificial light (6500K or above), the case instantly and completely changes color to a translucent, mysterious green.

This new technology has never been used before and is exclusive to ArtyA, for the Purity Tourbillon Chameleon.

Following this incredible technical breakthrough, many other Nano-Sapphire color cases for the ArtyA Purity Chameleon will be presented in 2022 in unique 1-of-1 versions, changing, for example, from red to green, yellow to orange, purple to green, and more. The possibilities are as endless as the colors of the rainbow.

As an independent, self-funded watch company, ArtyA is very proud to be able to present this incredible breakthrough in the very competitive field of high watchmaking.

The new ArtyA Nano-Sapphire watch case is an optically transparent polycrystalline material that is formed by the crystallization of glass with a unique chemical composition, and the result greater physical and chemical properties than the original glass.

This material is one of many glass-ceramic materials, which have been around for more than 50 years and have a wide range of compositions and applications, using a multi-component high temperature composition on the base of two main oxides – SiO2 and Al2O3. These oxides are key components of most natural gemstones. A temperature of 1700 °C. (compared to 700°C for glass) is needed to synthesize this material, and only one company in the world has adapted this existing technology to create a material specifically optimized for watches and jewelry. And ArtyA is the first company to use it in a watch case.

This case material has incredible hardness, 7 on Mohs scale, which is much higher than glass (5 on the Mohs scale), which guarantees the durability of this incredible case material.

Beauty and Purity on your wrist

To those already acquainted with Yvan Arpa’s pioneering craftsmanship, it will come as no surprise to discover the amount of research, study, trial and error, and inventiveness that has gone into creating the ArtyA Purity Tourbillon Chameleon.

This new addition to ArtyA’s Complication Collection features a fully transparent case in order to maximize the magic and beauty of the exclusive Manufacture Flying Tourbillon movement.

Technical characteristics

As an expression of ArtyA’s horological capabilities, the Purity Tourbillon Chameleon displays a technical inventiveness that combines a maverick style with visual clarity. A beautifully balanced architectural ensemble, the manually wound caliber features an over-sized flying tourbillon with a diameter of 17mm, which is at least 50% larger than most tourbillons.

Since the ArtyA Purity Tourbillon Chameleon beats at a rate of 4 Hz, extraordinary accuracy and greater stability are achieved through a much higher frequency than many other high-end Swiss tourbillons (usually 2 or 3 Hz).

Do Equipped with a power-reserve of 70 hours, two barrels connected in parallel drive the movement that operates the central hour and minute functions while the indication of the seconds is elegantly displayed on the flying tourbillon that rotates 360 degrees in 60 seconds.

Mounting the barrels in parallel reduces the thickness of the spring for a more stable torque, and also improves the delta of the barrel spring curve, with an ideal ratio between power reserve, performance, and precision.

ArtyA has chosen to manufacture this timepiece with a free-sprung balance with variable inertia. This type of balance wheel represents the ultimate in innovation, guaranteeing greater reliability when subjected to shocks and during movement assembly or disassembly, achieving better chronometric results over time.

Fully transparent, the Nano-Sapphire case has nothing to hide and plenty to show. This quest for transparency takes to the extremes the skeletonizing of the movement and enhances the astonishing beauty of its intricate spirit. Each part of the movement is delicately beveled and polished by hand. In addition, the skeletonized bridges were subjected to intensive and complete validation tests to optimize their resistance capacities.

This incredible breakthrough using Nano-Sapphire color-changing technology is an innovation second to none in the history of the watch industry, while at the same time ArtyA continues to focus on refining traditional Swiss high watchmaking. The ArtyA Purity Chameleon combines the best of both worlds, future and modern, in a stunning, and color-changing way.

CHARACTERISTICS

- ArtyA Exclusive Flying Tourbillon
- Incredible skeleton design, skeletonized to the utmost: minimalist and pure
- Very high chronometric reliability due to the torque of the double barrels 4 Hz-- much higher than most of the existing tourbillons, providing stability
- The Tourbillon is 50% bigger than most of the other brands, with a diameter of 16.2 mm
- Movement already successfully tested
- Hour, Minutes, Seconds on flying tourbillon
- Power reserve: 70h
- Full transparent Nano-Sapphire color changing case
- Size: 46 mm
- Screwed down Nano-Sapphire back case
- Nano-Sapphire crown
- Water resistance 30 meters
- Swiss Manufactured
- Price: 150’000 CHF