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Reservoir introduces the Reservoir x LabelNoir x Popeye watch, the latest in the Franco-Swiss watchmaker’s lively series of partnership watches and the second with a cartoon character theme.

The Reservoir x LabelNoir Popeye watch.

In keeping with Reservoir’s specialized jump-hour displays, Popeye’s powerful right arm doubles as the watch’s minute hand, sweeping from “00” to “60” and then snapping back again at the start of each hour. The dial displays the hour digitally at the 6 o’clock position.

As the name implies, Reservoir teamed with Swiss-based watch customizer LabelNoir to created the limited-edition 41.5mm titanium watch. With its slightly curved lugs and knurled crown, the watch echoes Reservoir’s existing models, but here displays a new satin-finished grey DLC case courtesy of LabelNoir.

Reservoir’s dial features a 240° retrograde configuration, with the minutes displayed around three-fourths of the face. Reservoir artists create Popeye’s image with bright coloring on a grey background, accented by comic-style indices and a prominent hour window, all of which make for a fun, easy-to-read dial.

Reservoir fits the watch with Caliber RSV-240, the watchmaker’s latest update of its signature jump-hour movement. Introduced last year, the caliber is made in association with the Swiss manufacture TELOS.

The automatic caliber makes use of a La Joux-Perret LJP-G100 base with a proprietary 113-piece module. 

Reservoir signs the rotor and finishes it with Geneva stripes and radial style brushing. All this is visible through the sapphire caseback additionally adorned with a winking Popeye. Reservoir then protects the movement with fifty meters of water resistance.

The new Reservoir x LabelNoir x Popeye watch is available in a limited series of 200 pieces.

Each numbered model is presented in a decorated white wooden box and a special embroidery in honor of Popeye. A certificate of authenticity accompanies the box. 

Price: $4,450.

Reservoir darkens its Sonomaster to create the Sonomaster Chronograph Black Thunder, a rock-n-roll-inspired black PVD edition of the Paris-based watchmaker’s unusual bi-retrograde design.

 

The new Reservoir Sonomaster Chronograph Black Thunder.

Like the existing Sonomaster models, the new Chronograph Black Thunder takes its dial design cues from the retro look of VU meters on analog stereo amplifiers. Rather than showing volume levels, Reservoir displays seconds (left side) and the date (right side) on the dial.

With its all-black dress, the new watch is meant to echo the prevailing color of rock concerts, where the needle on a VU meter might just reach 11. Reservoir extends the high-volume inspiration with the design of the watch’s pushers and crown, which are made to look like the treble and bass buttons on rock amplifiers.

The bi-retrograde dial retains the Sonomaster’s existing 120° date and seconds displays, which also shows chronograph timing via central second, the 30-minute counter at 12 o’clock position and the hour counter at 6 o’clock.

Reservoir teams with Swiss custom movement maker La Joux-Perret to create the 43mm steel watch’s movement, automatic caliber RSV-Bi120, a manufacture bi-retrograde chronograph with column wheel.

Well-known for its dashboard-inspired jump-hour watches, Reservoir earlier this year introduced the Sonomaster Chronograph. In addition to the debuting the unusual bi-retrograde display, the watch was the brand’s first with a traditional two-hand hour and minutes display. 

Price: $6,350.

Specifications: Reservoir Sonomaster Chronograph Black Thunder

(Ref. RSV04.SN/136.BT)

Case: 43mm PVD black stainless steel with brushed finish, tachymeter bezel. Water-resistant to 50-meters, open back with domed sapphire crystal. 

Dial: Hands with Superluminova, chronograph (central second, 30-minute counter at 12, hour counter at 6), bi-retrograde date and seconds, at 120°, hour, minute.

Movement: Caliber RSV-Bi120, a manufacture bi-retrograde chronograph movement, automatic mechanical winding and column wheel (LJP-LC01 base), 60-hour power reserve, 28,800 alt./h.

Strap: Black leather with black stitching, steel butterfly folding clasp.

Price: $6,350. 

Reservoir adds a new proprietary movement and a new silver-colored dial to its retro-styled Kanister jumping hour collection. The new movement, RSV-240, is made in association with long-time partner Telos, a Swiss motor manufacturer specializing in the tailor-made manufacture of high-end mechanical movements.

The new Reservoir Kanister Silver

The new RSV-240 is a patented proprietary module of three complications (retrograde minute, jumping hour, 56-hour power reserve) with a manufacture automatic movement using a La Joux-Perret P-G100 base.

The new caliber updates the use of the Telos-made module (built on an ETA base) that Reservoir has long used to power its jumping hour watches. Reservoir introduces the new caliber in this Kanister Silver model and plans to add the movement to all its watches in the future.

You can see new Caliber RSV-240 through the sapphire case back of the Reservoir Kanister Silver

With a dial designed to echo the RPM display of a 356 Speedster from the 1950s, the 41.5mm Reservoir Kanister Silver features silver-colored dial and indicators that display retrograde minutes teamed with a jumping hour aperture at 6 o’clock. Along the lower section of the dial you’ll see the automotive-themed power reserve display.

Price: $4,400.

Specifications: Reservoir Kanister Silver

(Ref. RSV01.KN/433.SI)

Movement: 
Caliber RSV-240 mechanical with automatic winding 
composed of a proprietary patented module of 124 parts
 on a manufacture movement (LJP-G100 base)
. Power Reserve is 56 hours. Frequency: 28,800 vph.

Case: 41.5 mm polished titanium, anti-reflective sapphire crystal, screw-down crown, water-resistant to 50 meters, sapphire caseback,

Dial: Silver colored, indicators showing retrograde minute, jumping hour, power reserve.

Bracelet: Black leather strap, black stitching, additional taupe leather strap with quick-release spring bars.

Price: $4,400