LOUIS RICHARD Skeleton LUXURY Watch NEW Montfort SS

Louis Richard Gents Montfort Automatic Skeleton Dial

It's a beauty – and a beast. A timepiece that's as big on size as it is on style. A rugged and hardy case with a screw-down crown and genuine leather strap make up the amazing exterior. But it's the interior which will blow your mind away. Decorated bridges of the skeleton dial play host to luminous hands and markers. Look further and you'll see the layers of gears and wheels moving to the seconds ticking by. Turn it over and you'll find the exhibition back is as interesting in the front with its decorated rotor spinning to your every move. Style and commanding presence - all in one watch.

-Case-
44mm x 50mm x 13mm 4 piece, 316 series black IP stainless steel case
Skeleton design w/ decorated bridges & rotor

-Movement-
Automatic TY-2807 movement w/ 21 jewels
Accuracy +-35 sec/day

-Dial-
Luminous hands
Flat hardened mineral top crystal

-Water Resistant-
Water resistant up to 5 ATM

-Band-
185mm x 19mm stainless steel bracelet

-Warranty-
One year limited manufacturer's warranty

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Louis Jean Richard-dit-Bressel, born in Le Locle on 22nd October 1812, died there on 10th January 1875. His father was the great-grandson of Daniel Jean Richard, the founder of the watchmaking industry in the Neuchâtel Mountains. As a young man, and without any formal training, Daniel produced the first watch in the region, which, over three hundred years later, boasts the highest concentration of watchmaking companies in Switzerland.

A distinguished watchmaker-manufacturer, Louis Jean Richard's fine precision pieces were greatly admired at the Universal Exhibition in London and especially at the exhibition in Paris in 1855, and contributed to highlight the qualities of fine watchmaking in Le Locle. An official delegate at the latter exhibition, he submitted to it a much read report, in which, in particular, he was one of the first to announce the need for creating a cantonal observatory for checking precision timepieces. While waiting, he had set up his own observatory by fixing a meridian circle, which he had procured in Paris, to the window of his study and used it to observe the passage of the stars, to correct the time of his astronomical clock. This clock, entirely built by his own hand, is a pure masterpiece. It is of remarkable precision and finish. Its constant force escapement is his own design. This clock is currently the property of Mr. Numa Robert-Waelti, watchmaker and deputy of La Chaux-de-Fonds.

In 1856 Louis Jean Richard was named a corresponding member of the Society of Arts in Geneva, the oldest cultural society of Geneva devoted to the arts, agriculture, and industry, including horology.

In keeping with the watchmaking tradition started by his family in Switzerland and Louis Jean Richard's own pursuit of precision and excellence, we are pleased to bring to America the new line of Louis Richard timepieces for a new generation. Avant-garde looks with mechanical and automatic functions suitable for the most discriminating gentleman: this is Louis Richard.