{"id":15672,"date":"2021-09-23T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T06:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchinsanity.it\/?p=15672"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:27:35","slug":"vicenzaoro-september-2021-oltre-alla-ripartenza-del-gioiello-si-conferma-come-il-grande-appuntamento-per-la-comunita-di-appassionati-di-orologi-in-italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchinsanity.it\/en\/vicenzaoro-september-2021-oltre-alla-ripartenza-del-gioiello-si-conferma-come-il-grande-appuntamento-per-la-comunita-di-appassionati-di-orologi-in-italia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicenzaoro September 2021: the rendez-vous marks a new beginning for jewelry, and is confirmed as the place to be for the Italian community of watch enthusiasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Vicenzaoro restarted with a bang with the “September 2021” edition: the landmark event in Europe for the gold and jewelry supply chain, and the first major international post-Covid event for the industry on the Old Continent recorded 80% of the visitors that attended the pre-pandemic 2019 autumn edition \u2013 with over 800 companies present on the fair grounds and a turnout of buyers and visitors from abroad that exceeded 30% of the total: 77% from Europe, led by Spain, Germany, France; 7% from the Middle East; and arrivals from the USA, Russia and North Africa as well; with visitors from 108 countries. There was also considerable interest in the two watch-related events: VO’Clock and VO Vintage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VINCENT CALABRESE\u2019S CALASYS: THE INVENTION SAYING GOODBYE TO THE SPIRAL <\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As part of VO’Clock \u2013 to dive right away into our passion for watchmaking \u2013 the September edition saw all the spotlights focused on master Vincent Calabrese, in his eagerly awaited world premiere conference entitled “Calasys, finally a real alternative to the spiral in watchmaking,”<\/strong> which aims to rewrite history! In fact, the “Calasys” \u2013 which stands for \u201cCalabrese System\u201d \u2013 wants to replace the spiral hairspring<\/strong>, a regulating body more or less identical in operation to the one created five centuries ago, in 1675 to be precise, by the Dutchman Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vincent Calabrese<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Vincent Calabrese, autodidact watchmaker born in Naples in 1944, apprentice watchmaker from the age of 13, then immigrant to Switzerland in 1961, master with an extraordinary career that led him to establish his famous brand of the same name \u2013 a brand of magnificent Carousel and Tourbillon watches with an 18-carat gold cages <\/strong>\u2013 and co-founder of the prestigious AHCI (Acad\u00e9mie Horlog\u00e8re des Cr\u00e9ateurs Ind\u00e9pendants)<\/strong>, demonstrated the functioning of his invention on an already existing movement \u2013 the well-known Eta 2892 \u2013 on which the spiral hairspring was simply replaced with the Calasys System connected to the escapement while keeping the rest of the mechanism totally untouched<\/strong>. For this reason, this invention has an industrial perspective of worldwide importance: because all it takes is to replace the balance spring with the Calasys System, and that’s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sistema Calasys<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Calasys, in practice, is a “rake” bound to a recall body that interacts with the balance pinion<\/strong>. As illustrated in the picture, its symmetrical architecture changes completely with respect to the spiral, with a recall body with twin, independent arms, which, according to Calabrese, guarantee less influence from the gravity force and greater running precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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