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Inspired by timing demands for sporting competitions, KLEPCYS DICE (an acronym for Double Independent Chronograph Evolution) is an innovative DOUBLE INDEPENDENT MONOPUSHER CHRONOGRAPH. First introduced in 2021 by CYRUS Genève and its in-house Manufacture in Le Locle (Switzerland), the Klepcys DICE is now sporting a new look to mark Geneva’s prestigious international watch fair, Watches and Wonders 2022. “Klepcys DICE Lime” is born.

The functions of the new Klepcys DICE Lime make it a one-off in the vast landscape of contemporary watchmaking. Like its predecessor, it is equipped with two independent monopusher chronographs for measuring two short intervals of time independently or in synchrony, all housed in a single self-winding mechanical movement. Jean-François Mojon is one of the twenty-first century’s greatest watchmakers, and the creative mastermind behind CYRUS Genève collections since the brand was first founded in 2010. This unprecedented, complex calibre is his brainchild, and it is ushering in a new generation of chronographs.

The first reports of a double independent chronograph date back to 1873, when American watchmaker Arnold Frankfeld registered a similar mechanism at New York’s patent office. Designed for a pocket watch, the architecture of the movement was, however, altogether different to the calibre which powers the Klepcys DICE.

Right from the very outset, CYRUS Genève watches have seamlessly combined bold architecture with innovative, unconventional mechanics. The result is a unique, exclusive style that is instantly associated with the brand.

The Details

Brand: Cyrus

Model: Cyrus Klepcys DICE (Klepcys Double Independent Chronograph Evolution) LIME

Movement: • Manufacture self-winding movement, calibre CYR718 • Dimensions: 36.00 mm Ø x 11.65 mm thickness • Components: 443 total - 218 correspond to the chronograph
module • Number of Jewels: 51 total - 17 correspond to the chronograph module • Annular balance wheel • Frequency : 4 Hz • Vibrations per hour: 28,800 • Swiss lever escapement • Rhodium-plated barrel with snailed ratchet wheel, Cyrus logo and inscription filled with black lacquer • Power reserve: 60 hours • Two microbeaded black PVD mainplates • Bridges: grey anthracite NAC galvanic treatment, decorated with embossed sunray pattern with satin and microbeaded finishing • New open-worked monobloc rotor with a sunray pattern, engraved with "The Conquest of Innovation", open-worked central medallion with Cyrus helix logo in 18K 4N gold

Functions: • Central hours and minutes • Small seconds at 9 o'clock • 30-minute counter of the double independent chronograph at 3 o'clock, double hands in red and blue • Two central chronograph hands; red hand resets-to-zero at 12 o'clock, blue hand resets at 6 o'clock

Case: • Cushion-shaped case made of 26 parts • Diameter: 42 mm excluding the crowns • Thickness: 16.5 mm • Available in the following materials:

• Polished Grade 5 titanium, or
• Grade 5 titanium with black DLC treatment • Crown at 3 o'clock: position 1 to wind the movement; position 2 to adjust time + pusher for activation of chronograph No. 1 (start-stop-reset) • Crown at 9 o'clock: pusher to activate chronograph No. 2 (start-stop-reset) • 30-minute counter of the double independent chronograph at 3 o'clock, double hands in green and yellow. Two central chronograph hands; green hand resets-to-zero at 12 o'clock, yellow hand resets at 6 o'clock. • Sapphire crystal on dial side: anti-reflective treatment on both sides • Case back: sapphire crystal, sealed with customised screws with Cyrus logo • Water-resistance: 10 ATM (100 m – 330 ft)

Dial: • 3D open-worked dial • Sapphire crystal hour ring with anti-reflective treatment on both sides, bevelled and polished edges, Arabic numerals with white Super-LumiNova with blue light emissions • Small seconds counter at 9 o'clock: smoked anti-reflective sapphire crystal, white lacquered Arabic numerals at 15-second intervals surmounted by a microblasted rhodium-plated ring, helix small seconds hand with luminescent tip (white Super-LumiNova with blue glow) • 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock: smoked anti-reflective sapphire glass, luminescent markers at 5-minute intervals, two hands in red and blue with double indications at 15/30 minutes in same colour corresponding to the two independent chronographs • Lacquered column wheels: red at 12 o'clock and blue at 6 o'clock

Strap: • Green Cordura fabric strap with folding clasp matching the case material, customised with Cyrus logo • Additional black rubber strap

Limited Edition of 10 pieces per case material.