Maurice Lacroix - Memorie 1

Truly one of the greatest watches ever built! The Memorie 1 by Maurice Lacroix is one of the most complicated watches ever built it also possess great style. It is one of the favorites here are Sophisticated Time.

Movement: Maurice Lacroix manufacture movement, mechanical movement ML 128 with automatic, bi-directional winding system, hand decorated with vertical or circular satinized sections and PVD surface refinement in tantalum colour; wheels gold-plated or with black PVD surface refinement; 48 jewels (25 transparent, 23 ruby-coloured); Maurice Lacroix precision adjustment with "vis sans fin" (endless screw) system; transparent Maurice Lacroix balance with white gold ring; KIF shock protection; Nivaflex M mainspring(exclusive to Maurice Lacroix)

Functions: Chronograph with mechanical memory function, real time(Time Mode) and measured time interval (Chrono mode) use the same indication (disc and hands); indication of hours with disc, indication of minutes and seconds with central hands; date indication with disk at 12 o'clock; mode indication with hand at 3 o'clock

Case: White gold 210 0/00 palladium; sapphire crystals with anti-reflective coating on inside; screwed caseback with sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating (8 screws); water resistant to 50m (5 ATM); diameter 49mm

This Watch has only two hands - one for the minutes and one for the seconds - along with a disc to indicate the hours. And yet the Memorie 1 is one of the most complicated watches ever developed! The new memory function of the ML128 Manufacture movement - completely designed and developed in the "Atelier de Maurice Lacroix" - makes an innovative connection between the time and the chronograph indications possible.

By pressing the button integrated into the crown, the mode indicated at 3 o'clock changes from "Time" to "Chrono". The hands and the hours disc immediately change their positions. If their previous function was telling the current time, they are now available for the precise measurement of time intervals. When the button is pressed once again they all return to their positions telling time. Even when the chronograph is running, it is still possible to shift back and forth between the two modes without losing he information provided by one or the other functions.