![]() Through the display back of the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Skeleton Automatic But…automatic?īut the most interesting aspect of this movement, beside the incredible shapes afforded by the ground-up design, is the inclusion of a skeletonized micro-rotor for automatic winding. The extra surfaces and edges must be treated in some way after being cut, and in a movement that meets the Poinçon de Genève standards this means a large amount of extra work for each component. ![]() This further complicates the construction process as a simple wheel now takes another half-dozen steps to complete outside of the basic process for creating a wheel. On the Excalibur Automatic Skeleton they point to the 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 11 o’clock markers, which are simple square gold inserts on a track around the periphery of the dial.The shapes of the bridges are not where the only awesomeness of this movement comes from it also comes from the complete skeletonization of every wheel and gear save about six in an effort for perfect nothingness. And the rays of the stars (in this piece there are two different sizes), along with other strategic bridge lines, point to different hour markers. Since Roger Dubuis was able to direct the shape of the open-working, the brand’s engineers also created a star theme that would echo throughout the entire line of Excalibur Skeleton pieces. Okay, maybe they are a little more common than that, but most open-worked movements take the shape of the numerous circles and arcs they were designed around. The architecture is very clear evidence, as numerous straight lines in a traditionally skeletonized movement are about as common as a three-legged unicorn wearing a bowler cap and smoking a corn cob pipe. The Excalibur Skeleton watches are designed as such from the beginning, and the effect is quite easily seen in the finished pieces. This could be said to be similar to what a skeleton watch is the complete removal of the superfluous leaving only the remaining essential metal in a perfectly realized state.Įxploded view of the Roger Dubuis Excalibur Automatic Skeleton movement Skeletonized from birth Nothingness allows the appreciation of what is there without the addition of what is not required. ![]() So emptiness or nothingness is really the ultimate state of being, with everything superfluous removed. No longer would the weight of the universe rest on your shoulders, instead you would stand beside it and view it for what it really is and not what you had hoped it could be. You could live in the current moment, the moment that is perfection because it is what it is. Imagine how much your life could change for the better if you harbored no fear of the future or resentments of the past. ![]() If you do not want reality to be something different, you cannot be disappointed. This nothingness that fills the enlightened mind isn’t necessarily great knowledge about the meaning of everything, but instead a calmness that comes with the loss of attachments and rejections. While this might sound like a boring existence to the very busy modern person, it is actually the realization that the world is at its perfect state right now, and it can only ever be perfect. It is the moment when there is nothing more to gain, nothing more to lose, nothing to desire, and nothing to do. There exists a state of mind that is, by definition, the experience of complete nothingness. ![]()
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