The Swiss-based watchmaking house is about to start selling their new take on the elegant fake Eberhad & Co. 8 Jours manually-wound watch that offers whole 8 days of power reserve.
The watch is powered by the reworked ETA Peseux 7001 hand-wound movement, which is quite popular among both German (Limes, Nomos) as well as the Swiss (Baume & Mercier, Blancpain (usually modified to higher specs to justify the premium price tag that the brand puts on its pieces,) Chronoswiss, Maurice Lacroix, Omega (also seriously modified,) Tissot) watch making companies.
Thanks to its extreme flatness (the caliber is only 2.5 mm thick,) the watchmakers are able to create really thin watches with top to bottom height sometimes measuring just about 5-6 millimeters.
Although preserving the same basic dial layout with seconds sub-dial at 6 o’clock and the power reserve indicator at 9 o’clock, the yellow gold Eberhad & Co. copy watch grew slightly bigger in order to match today’s standards and now sports more modern appearance with more prominent lugs and cleaner design.
The Eberhard 8 Jours Grande Taille, on the other hand, comes packed in an elegant 41 mm case, which is made either of 18-carat rose gold or surgical-grade stainless steel and features a cut-out on its solid case back cover to provide a view of its nicely decorated mainspring barrel with a figure 8-shaped bridge.
Sporting rather short lugs and a very compact setting / winding crown the time measuring device will probably feel very comfortable on a normally-sized wrist.
The extra millimeters are added in order to squeeze in an add-on module that adds a power reserve functionality and provide some living space for the second spring barrel that houses a spring 125 centimeters (almost 50 inches!) in length.
The extra spring barrel is responsible for the Grande Taille’s impressive 8 days of power reserve, while the original Peseux 7001 is not able to run longer than standard 42 hours. In this respect, the timekeeper looks like a serious competitor to the gorgeous IWC Portofino 8 Days that, while being powered by a true in-house hand-wound caliber 59210, is also significantly more expensive and larger in diameter making it less ideal choice to those interesting in a more discreet design.
The timepiece will be delivered in two versions of dial layout, the first featuring Arabic numerals and the second, which is just a trifle dressier, coming with Roman numerals.
The Eberhard & Co. 8 Jours Grande Taille watch replica , however, is much thicker, measuring impressive 11.25 mm in height.