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AMVOX2 DBS: the Key to Aston Martin
September 5, 2008

At the motor show in Paris, France, the company Aston Martin will present a unique chronograph AMVOX2 DBS Transponder, which was specially designed by craftsmen of Jaeger LeCoultre for the owners of DBS super cars.

The main peculiarity of the watch is a built-in transponder-key with whose help the owner can lock and unlock the doors of his car by a slight press on the glass in a certain sector at the dial. To unlock the car just touch the sector between figures “8″ and “9″, to lock it just touch the sector between figures “3″ and “4″.

After this the driver can sit in his car, press the starter button and start up the engine. But then, as a matter of fact, the car’s owner will have to go to the dealer centre, where his new watch will be synchronized with the Aston Martin’s electronic security system.

AMVOX2 DBS Transponder is designed to match the style of the interior decoration of the Aston Martin DBS: matt metal, insertions that look like carbon and movement parts that resemble break supports of the car. It took 18 months to design and assemble the watch. The idea of a built-in electronic key the watchmakers “borrowed” from the James Bond movies. By the way, in the latest film Agent 007 was driving just the very Aston Martin DBS, larded with different technological gismos.

The case and dial of the AMVOX2 DBS Transponder are highly detailed, featuring a suspended metallic grey DBS symbol, a discrete Aston Martin emblem on the movement operating indicator and ruthenium grey bridges, satin finish and a black dial that all evoke the DBS’s instrument panel. The outer dial ring also has an opening that reveals the internal mechanisms of the chronograph and transponder functions, an allusion to the exposed brake callipers visible behind the sporting wheel rims of the DBS car.

A mechanical watch acts like a Faraday’s cage that protects the movements from the influences of electrical fields that may adversely affect the rating precision. Therefore, in order to endow the timepiece with the proverbial reliability of Jaeger LeCoultre movements and to enable the transponder to operate despite the neighbouring metal oscillating weight, an innovative antenna had to be created. The solution lay in placing the antenna as far as possible from the watch mechanism and the case, and lengthy research resulted in using the sapphire crystal as a medium. Measuring exactly 128 mm in length so as to guarantee an optimal range, the antenna is metallised on the inside of the sapphire crystal in a shape following the curve of the inner bezel ring and the hour-markers between 4 and 6 o’clock, and is connected at these strategic points to the locking control contact rectangles (OPEN and CLOSE).

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Filed under: Jaeger-LeCoultre Watches, New Styles, Watch Reviews — Ann @ 8:07 am

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