Ulysse Nardin Executive Skeleton Tourbillon Titanium — Ceramic Bezel | Ref. 1713-139BQ

The Executive collection positions Ulysse Nardin's most technically advanced complications within a case architecture designed for the corporate and creative environments where executive decision-makers wear watches as instruments of authority. The Skeleton Tourbillon in 45mm titanium with ceramic bezel deploys two of the most demanding mechanical achievements — full skeletonisation and a flying tourbillon — within a case material combination chosen for its combination of lightness and durability. At a price point that invites direct comparison with the finest houses in Swiss watchmaking, this Executive represents Ulysse Nardin's argument that technical excellence and avant-garde design can coexist within a single wearable object.

Caliber UN-171 is a manual-winding flying tourbillon movement with silicon technology embedded in its escapement — the direct application of Ulysse Nardin's InnoVision research programme to a grand complication movement. The silicon components provide anti-magnetic performance and eliminate the need for escapement lubrication, ensuring that the tourbillon's one-revolution-per-minute cycle remains consistent over extended service intervals without the lubricant degradation that affects conventional lever escapements. The 170-hour power reserve — exceptional for a flying tourbillon of this specification — reflects the efficiency of the movement architecture and the quality of the mainspring engineering. Silicon and the flying tourbillon: two technologies that reinforce each other.

The ceramic bezel provides both visual contrast with the titanium case and practical scratch resistance that ceramic's extreme hardness guarantees across decades of active wear. The skeletonised dial, open to the movement's full mechanical depth, presents the tourbillon cage as the visual centrepiece of a watch that offers the collector a window into the most complex single complication that a mechanical movement can carry. The leather strap with folding buckle provides the wrist security appropriate to a 45mm executive statement. Water resistance to 30 metres is consistent with the collection's professional register. For the collector who demands that a boardroom watch be also a mechanical masterwork, the Executive Skeleton Tourbillon delivers without equivocation.