High-tech safe for watches and Bugatti keys
Bugatti presents an extraordinary watch winder safe for several watches – the manufacturer is a small special company from Germany.
Buben&Zörweg (B&Z) is located in Ölbronn-Dürrn, approximately ten kilometers northeast of Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg. The manufactory specializes in high-quality watch winders, luxury safes and the combination of both. For Bugatti, the designers and engineers at Buben&Zörweg have now developed the Grande Illusion Chiron 300+, an exceptional watch safe that carries a watch itself.
At the top of the watchwinder safe is a manufactory automatic watch model B&Z Flying Minute Tourbillon Clock.
No safe to hide
The Grande Illusion Chiron 300+ is a design object – not a safe that its owner hides in a cellar cupboard. The cylindrical safe opens via a biometric fingerprint sensor or transponder chip: a column then moves upwards, carrying eight watch winders. Beneath the watch winders are four swing-out drawers for jewelry and other valuables – including a special radio-shielded drawer for the Bugatti key. At the top of the safe and visible both when open and closed, is a large automatic manufacture watch, model B&Z Flying Minute Tourbillon Clock. It has a dial diameter of 150 millimeters (155 millimeters including the light-colored outer ring of the minute hand).
The Bugatti Grande Illusion Chiron 300+ weighing 215 kilograms when closed.
Chiron design elements
When designing the Grande Illusion Chiron 300+, Buben&Zörweg incorporated many elements of the Bugatti Chiron. Black carbon fibers and of course the horseshoe shape of the front grill have made it into the design of the safe.
The manufacturer has dedicated the 215 kilogram safe to the Chiron Super Sport 300+. This car was the world’s first road-legal production vehicle to drive faster than 300 miles per hour (over 304 mph, exactly 490.484 km/h) in early 2019.
Price: 84,980 Euro
Buben&Zörweg is publishing a total of 90 copies of the Bugatti Grande Illusion Chiron 300+ – 30 each in three different material and color combinations. The version with attached tourbillon watch costs 84,980 Euro. The Bugatti Performance Design version costs 54,980 Euro and for the Bugatti Cockpit Design Buben&Zörweg charges 69,980 Euro.
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Conclusion
The Grande Illusion Chiron 300+ is an exceptional technical object that fits perfectly with the Bugatti Chiron. Its design has nothing in common with the classic safe, nor does its keyless opening mechanism. The fact that it simultaneously functions as a watch winder for up to eight automatic watches and is itself crowned by a chic manufacture watch makes it even more interesting.
And apparently you don’t have to be a Bugatti owner to buy the Grande Illusion Chiron 300+ from Buben&Zörweg – only your wallet should be full enough. However, 84,980 Euros for the Grande Illusion Chiron 300+ is considerably less than the minimum 3.15 million Euros that a basic Chiron costs.