One of 230
Inaugural Edition
Bourdon Blue
41 mm, grade 5 titanium
€29,000Excluding VAT
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The dark before the pour.
In the foundry the last moment before the bronze is poured is the darkest. The furnace is at full heat, the mould waits in the pit, and everything depends on what happens next.
Forge Black keeps that moment. It is the most reserved of the five dials, and the one against which the polished hands stand out most clearly.
Technical characteristics.
The calibre in detailMovement
- Calibre
- VBA01, Van Bergen manufacture
- Winding
- Automatic, recessed micro rotor
- Rotor
- Micro rotor
- Height
- 2.5 mm
- Frequency
- 5 Hz, 36,000 alternations per hour
- Complication
- Sonnerie au passage, striking twice each hour
- Striking
- The largest hammer ever set in a wristwatch
- Finishing
- Bevelled and polished by hand; Côtes de Genève, circular graining and perlage
Case
- Diameter
- 41 mm
- Material
- Grade 5 titanium
- Crystal
- Sapphire
- Case back
- Sapphire, showing the hammer and gong
- Water resistance
- 30 m, preserving the acoustic chamber
- Engraving
- Individual number on the case
Dial and bracelet
- Dial
- Forge Black
- Pattern
- The Van Bergen checkerboard
- Indications
- Hours and minutes; the half hour, by sound
- Bracelet
- Grade 5 titanium, with quick change mechanism
- Strap
- Leather and rubber straps, in tones chosen for the dial, available separately
Edition and delivery
- Edition
- Heero Inaugural Edition, 230 numbered pieces
- Presentation
- A Van Bergen bell, a bronze replica of a prize-winning bell of 1862
- Deliveries
- From the first quarter of 2027
- Acquisition
- By private appointment, with the maison or an authorised partner
Calibre VBA01.
Turn the watch over. Through the sapphire case back the hammer and gong are there to be seen, and twice each hour the hammer falls without being asked. It is the largest hammer ever set in a wristwatch, carried by a movement only 2.5 mm high.
- Height
- 2.5 mm
- Frequency
- 5 Hz
- Winding
- Recessed micro rotor
- Strike
- Twice each hour
The presentation
Presented in a Van Bergen bell.
Every Heero is entrusted in person, at a private appointment, and arrives in a Van Bergen bell: a precise bronze replica of a prize-winning bell the family cast in 1862.
The family of bellfoundersThe other models.
One of 230
Inaugural Edition
Clapper Silver
41 mm, grade 5 titanium
€29,000Excluding VAT
One of 230
Inaugural Edition
Viridian Green
41 mm, grade 5 titanium
€29,000Excluding VAT
One of 230
Inaugural Edition
Vesper Violet
41 mm, grade 5 titanium
€29,000Excluding VAT
One of 59
Monaco Special Edition
Monaco Special Edition
41 mm, grade 5 titanium or 18K white gold
€32,500 or €79,000Excluding VAT
One of 10
World Caviar Awards Edition
World Caviar Awards Edition
41 mm, grade 5 titanium and 18K rose gold
€49,000Excluding VAT
A Van Bergen is received, not purchased.
Every piece is entrusted in person, at a private appointment with the maison or an authorised partner. It is presented in a Van Bergen bell, a bronze replica of a prize-winning bell the family cast in 1862, and first deliveries begin in the first quarter of 2027.
