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This Richard Mille homage watch comes with an iconic skeleton dial, but at just a fraction of the price

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After making waves with its Archer series just last year, Japanese watchmaker Zerootime is back with its iconic, gorgeous skeleton timepieces. This time, the company isn’t just expanding on its Archer collection but is also simultaneously launching a Richard Mille homage watch called the Auriga, a Tonneau-shaped timepiece with a skeletal body and a mechanical heart. The watch pays a humble tribute to RM’s classic style while ensuring that people can buy well-crafted high-end timepieces without needing to mortgage their houses or break their 401K!

Designer: SYUU / Chief designer of ZEROOTIME

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The Auriga in Damascus steel.

The Auriga in 316L stainless steel case.

The Auriga M1 marks Zerootime’s second skeletal timepiece collection. While the Archer was more tourbillon-focused (some of them even had double tourbillons), Auriga delivers more on the promise of a great, slim, mechanical-driven skeleton timepiece. The name Auriga comes from its eponymous constellation. Also known as the charioteer, the constellation is made up of 6 stars oriented in a closed loop. The Auriga watch comes with screws strategically placed on the watch that line up with the constellation. This fun detail helped inform the watch’s captivating design!

Priced at just $344 USD (exclusively for YD readers), the Auriga M1 is your classic Richard Mille homage. The Tonneau shape really does its trick, and the M1’s ridiculously slim 3mm-thick movement (which sits between the M1’s front and back sapphire crystal panels) gives the watch an overall sleek design that’s difficult to take your eyes away from… even more so when you opt for the slightly more expensive M1D which comes with an exquisite damascus steel body, featuring a wavy texture that’s unique to each watch. Whether you choose the M1 or the M1D, the watches come in either black or blue, with interchangeable rubber and calf-leather straps. If, however, you want the added luxury of a timepiece with a spinning tourbillon, that’s where the Archer series comes in…

Zerootime began its Archer project back in mid-2021, designed around the principle of delivering high-end tourbillon-driven watches at affordable prices. The company realized this would only be possible if it did 2 things – build these incredibly intricate movements on their own, and entirely cut retail and third-party expenses by selling directly to patrons online. The Archer T5 is testament that this strategy paid off, given that this is their fifth model. Named after the bow-and-arrow symbol that’s integrated into the watch’s skeleton (the arrow is at the 3 o’clock position), the T5 comes with a beautiful flying tourbillon that hovers right in the negative space of the bow’s arc.

The T5 sports a domed sapphire crystal on its top that also curves around the edges to create an immersive transparent timetelling experience, making the T5 truly the cream of the crop. Each T5 is paired with a calf-leather strap, and comes in a choice of 3 rather striking watch body color combinations. You can opt for an all-black look, or spice things up with a black + rose gold inner frame. If you’re looking for something more captivating, the T5’s Silver and White dial combination really hits the spot., the entire watch’s most admirable feature is its price. Unlike a Richard Mille or a Breguet tourbillon that can cost over half a million of your fine American dollars, Zerootime’s Archer T5 timepiece with its flying tourbillon retails at $2370 and comes with a 2-year warranty.

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These Japanese watchmakers are designing stunning full skeleton Tourbillon watches that rival any Richard Mille

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You won’t have to dissolve your 401k to flaunt this skeleton tourbillon wristwatch. A good skeleton tourbillon watch (think Richard Mille) can cost you more than a house… ZEROOTIME’s watches, on the other hand, look just as luxurious, but at 1/100th the price.

Designer: SYUU / Chief designer of ZEROOTIME

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The word Tourbillon’s usually synonymous with luxury… and there’s a pretty interesting story behind it. Invented more than 200 years ago by Abraham-Louis Breguet, a Parisian watchmaker, the tourbillon’s purpose was to fight off the pesky effects of gravity on a pocket watch’s intricate movement. To circumvent this, Breguet devised a small cage in which to mount the most important components – the escapement and balance wheel – and had it constantly rotate so as to negate positional errors. He called it a “tourbillon”, meaning “whirlwind” in French, and earned a patent for it in 1801. While watches today don’t really rely on a tourbillon to accurately depict the time, the tourbillon’s incredibly intricate design is considered a work of true art and craftsmanship, and luxury brands charge a premium to decorate their timepieces with this preciously assembled ‘mechanical jewel’.

Left: T3 The Leo. Right: T4 The Archer

However, the watchmakers at Japan-based ZEROOTIME are challenging that notion with their affordable Skeleton Tourbillon Watches. By relying on crowdfunding (where you circumvent barriers like retail costs, brand markups, showroom fees, expensive exhibitions) and delivering to-order watches directly to passionate consumers, ZEROOTIME’s been able to make and sell watches at their ‘true cost’. ZEROOTIME debuted their 2021 collection with the T1 and T2 in August, and are now unveiling the next timepieces in the series – the T3 and T4, both of which come with a skeleton tourbillon encased in a design that reveals exactly how brilliantly complex the watches are.

T3 The Leo in Silver Case, Silver Dial.

​Named LEO (after the constellation), the T3 is a stunning watch to look at. Armed with a self-winding mechanism that sits within the T3’s absolutely skeletal body, the T3 LEO comes with a 316L stainless steel case, capped with sapphire crystals on both the front and the back, revealing different facets of the watch’s bare-bones design. The front presents the watch’s crown jewel – its skeleton tourbillon – and lets you see not one but two mainsprings that power the watch’s mechanism, giving it a 72-hour power reserve. The watch even comes with SuperLuminova coatings, ​designed to look like the fangs of a lion. All in all, the T3 LEO is haute horlogerie at its finest and most affordable… but it’s no match for ZEROOTIME’s T4 ARCHER.

*For Indiegogo edition, the corner texts (i.e. The Archer, Tourbillon T4, Full Skeleton and Limited Edition) will be removed.

Christened ARCHER for the way the tourbillon sits within the watch’s bow-shaped armature, the T4 ARCHER is a Tonneau-shaped full skeleton timepiece that truly rivals your quarter-million-dollar Richard Mille, while costing a fraction of the amount. The T4 shares its name with its predecessors, the T1 and T2, both of which also sported the bow-shaped skeletal framework… and just like its predecessors, the T4 takes the term skeletal all too seriously.

In the pursuit of creating a watch that’s as skeletal as possible, the T4 ARCHER comes with transparent sapphire crystal on the front and back, but pushes boundaries by having a transparent rim running along the side of the watch too. The watch’s case, with its sparingly minimal design, comes made from 316L Stainless Steel, and offers a look into the watch’s inner workings from 4 different sides, letting you observe the tourbillon’s choreographed dance. The tourbillon on the T4 is classified as a full-skeleton, since it gives you a glimpse of the tourbillon from all sides without any obstruction. Alongside the tourbillon that sits at the 9 o’clock position, the T4 also lets you see the watch’s double mainsprings that allow the watch’s automatic movement to have up to 70 hours of reserved power.

Both the T3 and T4 come in a variety of colors. The T3 LEO comes with a stainless steel strap in an all-silver or an all-black design with the option of a blue skeletal dial. The T4 ARCHER, however, explores as many as 12 color variants, brought about by the fact that the watch is accompanied by a rubber strap that gives the ARCHER a pop of color while also blending in with the case’s Tonneau shape. The ARCHER’s crown sports a rubber accent too, creating just the right balance between the materials to make a timepiece that has a strong character, even though it sports a skeletal design. Both watches are nominally water-resistant (the T3 is resistant up to 5ATM and the T4 up to 3ATM) and come with a 2-year warranty. At $2,800 and $3,000 respectively, the T3 LEO and T4 ARCHER are perhaps the most cost-effective skeleton tourbillons you’ll ever find on the market. Their design comes with careful consideration, supply-chain planning, and Japanese watchmaking mastery, without those pesky brand markups that you find with upper-echelon brands like Tag Heuer, Breguet, and Richard Mille. The watches also ship in an incredibly alluring transparent vanity case (the kind you’ll definitely keep on your dressing table for years to come), and begin deliveries in April 2022.

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These Japanese watchmakers are challenging the luxury watch industry with affordable Skeleton Tourbillon watches

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A good skeleton tourbillon watch can cost as much as a small yacht… ZEROOTIME’s watches, on the other hand, look just as luxurious, but at 1/100th the price.

The Tourbillon has a pretty interesting history. Invented more than 200 years ago by Abraham-Louis Breguet, a Parisian watchmaker, the tourbillon’s purpose was to fight off the pesky effects of gravity on a pocket watch’s intricate movement. Given that pocket watches were often in one of two positions (vertical in a pocket or horizontal on a surface), their delicate inner mechanisms would suffer from unilateral drag caused by the earth’s pull. To circumvent this, Breguet devised a small cage in which to mount the most important components – the escapement and balance wheel – and had it constantly rotate so as to negate positional errors. He called it a “tourbillon”, meaning “whirlwind” in French, and earned a patent for it in 1801.

Designer: SYUU

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Today, however, the term Tourbillon is relegated to the most luxurious of brands. Given its incredibly ornamental nature (and its immensely intricate construction), luxury brands often charge a ‘premium’ for adding tourbillons to their timepieces; often hundreds of times more than what the timepiece should actually cost. The watchmakers at Japan-based ZEROOTIME are challenging that notion with their affordable Skeleton Tourbillon Watches. By relying on crowdfunding (where you circumvent barriers like retail costs, brand markups, showroom fees, expensive exhibitions) and delivering to-order watches directly to passionate consumers, ZEROOTIME’s been able to make and sell watches at their ‘true cost’. Their 2020 series, titled The Archer, comes in two styles, the T1 Alpha with its circular body, and the T2 Square, sporting a square body. Both watches boast of an elegantly bare skeleton-design that lets you see the artistry underneath the dial. The watches showcase the tourbillons at the 9 o’clock position (which is rather rare, given most watches prefer to put it at the 6 o’clock position) and have double-springs located at 1 o’clock and 5 o’clock positions, giving the watch a power reserve of 72 hours.

ZEROOTIME T1 Alpha Archer Watch

ZEROOTIME T2 Square Archer Watch

In the pursuit of creating a watch that’s as skeletal as possible, the Archer series boasts a transparent rim around the watches too. The case, with its sparingly minimal design, comes made from 316L Stainless Steel, and is capped on the top and bottom with Sapphire Crystal displays that let you observe the tourbillon’s choreographed dance. The rim of the watch sports a crystal glass ring too, letting you see the movement from the side too, giving you an unusual view of the tourbillon that’s rare to come by in watches. Each watch comes with a Nightglow Lumionva coating on the hand as well as the markings around the incredibly slim rim, and when the hand reaches the 3 o’clock position, the skeletal frame and hand look almost like a bow and arrow… leading to the series being fittingly named ‘Archer’.

The two watches within the Archer series are limited to just 500 units each. This helps the watchmakers at Zerootime plan their supply chain like clockwork (for the lack of a better term!) and allows them to narrow the cost of each watch down to the exact dollar needed to keep the company in the green while allowing patrons to receive high-quality Japanese-built timepieces. The circular and square-shaped watches come in two styles – a silver skeleton-body matched with a blue handmade leather strap, and a golden skeleton body complemented by a black handmade leather strap. With a $2,000 price tag, the Archer series are probably the most reasonably (or rather, fairly) priced Skeleton Tourbillon watches. Each watch even comes with a 2-year warranty and sits upon a leather cushion inside its premium wooden case (with beautiful Rolls-Royce-inspired doors) that also doubles as the warranty certificate.

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