Artisans de Geneve Grand Bleu Transforms Rolex Deepsea
Inspired by the classic 1980s Luc Besson film.
Artisans de Genève has dropped a modified Rolex Deepsea inspired by seminal 80s film, The Big Blue.
“Grand Bleu” is the result of a customer request to bring out the titular color in their favorite watch while maintaining its form. Artisans de Genève developed a specific shade, Majestic Blue, which is used across the watch’s movement, ceramic bezel ring and chapter ring.
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Each component of the donor Rolex’s 3135 movement has been skeletonised and reworked with a mixture of rhodium-plating, circular graining as well as hand polishing and beveling, while its skeletonised plate and tungsten winding rotor gives the watches a technical aesthetic.
The open-worked theme and sense of transparency throughout the movement is continued with a replacement sapphire crystal date disk. The entire transformation took Artisans de Genève “hundreds of hours.”
Head over to Artisans de Genève for more details on the project.
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