Showing at WatchTime New York 2019: Cyrus Klepcys Vertical Skeleton Tourbillon

The Swiss micro-manufacture Cyrus is named for Cyrus the Great, a king of ancient Babylon, and its watches are distinguished by replicas, imprinted on the casebacks, of a 2,500-year old Babylonian coin, one of the world's first currencies Designed by Swiss watchmaker Jean-François Mojon - who masterminded the Harry Winston Opus X and collaborated with Kari Voutilainen on the MB&F LM1 movement - Cyrus's lineup of high-complication, limited-edition timepieces includes chronographs, moon-phases, mechanical alarms, and, most recently, the innovative Klepcys Vertical Skeleton Tourbillon, unveiled at Baselworld 2019 and set to wow U.S watch aficionados at the upcoming WatchTime New York collectors event on October 25-26.

The Cyrus Klepcys Vertical Skeleton Tourbillon follows up the groundbreaking original Vertical Tourbillon, introduced last year, which placed the tourbillon cage in the middle of the watch's dial, on a vertical axis and inclined at a 90ª angle - according to Cyrus's technical researchers, the angle at which the tourbillon is almost always in a vertical position on the wrist In the new openworked version of the movement, the wearer is afforded a clear view into the heart of the watch, including the rhythmic rotations of the tourbillon, while reading the time off of two retrograde hands The timepiece's symmetrical 3D architecture is built around an arched vertical bridge - inspired, Cyrus says, by the designs of Leonardo Da Vinci, and decorated in the "Microbillage" technique - that frames the tourbillon cage and divides the dial into two equal parts, each with a numbered scale on its border.

The Cyrus Klepcys Vertical Skeleton Tourbillon is available in three versions, each strictly limited to five pieces: one in titanium with black DLC, a second in 4N rose gold, and a third combining rose gold with black DLC The DLC and two-tone models come on black alligator straps with titanium clasps, the rose gold model on a brown alligator strap with matching rose gold clasp If you're interested in checking out this timepiece for yourself, along with those of 36 other exhibiting watch brands, don't delay: order your tickets now for WatchTime New York 2019!. Source