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As an iconic part of watchmaking art, the Tirion TriRetrograde has were able to reinvent itself over time. Today, Milus is providing the same timepiece in a 42-mm case, with two knobs expressing very individual styles.

Launched in 08, the Tirion TriRetrograde has all the characteristics needed to become an horological classic. One look suffices to name it. Its style: all its. Its character: assertive. The mechanism is original, with a double retrograde seconds display shared by three twenty-second sections. The automatic mechanical movement was made by expert engineers. The whole piece is manufactured with great awareness of quality, details, and finishing.

The Tirion Retrograde is a perfect example of the "playful spirit of time", and its unique look has recently appeared in many different interpretations. Always the same – and yet it seems different. In the fully openworked Skeleton models, its character is daring and lovely. It has shown brilliance in versions allying black steel and gold. When graced with tinted flanges – red, blue, brown, or silver – it became modern, computer animated and dynamic.

Today, Milus is enriching its flagship collection with a 42- millimetre version, a pure delight for every arm to accompany the 45- and 47-millimetre models. The innovative aspect is not just only the size. The Tirion 44 is in fact a new model in and by itself, and it comes with two very distinct knobs.

The "Clous de Paris" version is in classic contemporary style. The hub of the white switch features a delicate guilloché decor worthy of the great Switzerland watchmaking tradition. Showing the passage of the hours, minutes and seconds are blued openworked hands layered with luminescent paint. Blued Roman numerals and applique indices alternate on the silvery flange.

The skeleton model, for its part, exudes an awareness of avant-garde and openness. A smokey barbecue grilling flange frames the image of the double retrograde mechanism on a remote dull history. The technical feel is reinforced by small blued screws that support the silvery links, by the openworked hour and minute hands enhanced with a luminescent coating, and by the red second hands.

The two models have a domed sapphire very and a transparent case back allowing a deep research the high-precision Switzerland movement.

A Milus exclusive, the 3838 TriRetrograde mechanism displays the seconds on three separate arcs at 6, 9 and 3 o'clock. The three hands travel twenty seconds successively, each "passing the torch" to another location one and returning at super speed to its point of starting. This great computer animated ballet, which keeps repeating itself tirelessly, makes the passage of time a playful and fascinating spectacle.