REVOLUTION DIGITAL

DE BETHUNE x REVOLUTION BLUE STEEL LIMITED EDITION DB28

Denis Flageollet, the technical genius behind De Bethune, is a bona fide horological badass. Meaning that in his spare time, when he’s not busy overseeing the 25 in-house calibres and 30 world premieres that he’s created single-handedly, he busies himself crafting handmade knives and composing lengthy elaborate treatises on the nature of time and the history of watchmaking.

People forget that he actually cooked up the idea for a vibrating oscillator, years before TAG Heuer and Guy Semon made it a reality. And his original prototype for his Maxichrono ran at 10 Hz and featured a 30-second chronograph hand, until he realised the majority

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