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Akrivia AK-04 Tourbillon Regulateur Hands On Closer Look

Our Take

The watch industry’s wunderkind, Rexhep Rexhepi launched Akrivia in 2012 and we’ve been lucky enough to be a part of the brand’s journey, offering more than a handful of their timepieces over the years. Now, we’re back with another one of the maestro’s finest creations – the AK-04 Tourbillon Régulateur.

Looking back from 2024, the AK-04 follows Rexhep’s earlier playbook for success to a tee. Since the launch of the AK-01, the brand consistently found a way to imbue modern designs with high complications and fine finishing straight out of the glory days of traditional watchmaking. Where most independents lean heavily into one direction or the other, very modern or very traditional, Rexhep has always stood in an aesthetic middle ground, both somehow classic and cutting edge.

The AK-04 Tourbillon Régulateur features an exceptionally fine finished tourbillon at 6 o’clock, rotating once every minute. One of Akrivia’s signatures in recent years, this timepiece also features a hand-hammered, rhodium plated dial. A time-intensive finishing technique, it requires dexterity in the hand of the watchmaker to ensure that the amount of force applied to create each notch is constant and that the notches are distributed evenly throughout. Mirror polished, spear-shaped hands add the final touch to the exceptionally designed dial on the AK-04 Tourbillon Regulateur.

Through the caseback, the symmetrical movement displays the full range of Akrivia’s finishing capabilities – anglage, Côtes de Genève, circular graining, straight graining, polished screws and countersinks. It’s a feast for the eyes, matching the quality of the timepiece’s finishing on the dial.

This timepiece is a testament to the artistic courage and persistence needed to introduce a new design language, to work between the past and the future. Commissioned by EsperLuxe for a client with Akrivia, this AK-04 Tourbillon Regulateur was recently delivered.

The Details

Brand: Akrivia 

Model: AK-04 Tourbillon Regulateur

Movement: Mechanical Manual-Winding

Functions: Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Tourbillon

Dial: Rhodium treated grey and hand hammered.

Features: Display-back, Domed Chamfering, Hand-applied Côtes de Genève, Circular Graining, Straight Graining

Case: 42.5mm stainless-steel 

Power Reserve: 100 Hours Power Reserve 

Frequency: 21’600 vph and regulated by a 60 second tourbillon with swiss anchor escapement.

Crystal: Sapphire front and back

Strap: Calf-leather

Water Resistance: 5.00atm / 50.00m