Luxury Gadgets

Reuge at the Francastel time for Baselworld 2006

March 29th, 2006

To reposition Reuge like a mark of luxury, leader on the market of the top-of-the-range gift, carrying moreover emotional messages: such is the ambition of the only manufacture with the world able to perpetuate the delicate manufacture of the great movements with music and the movements with songbirds. Does the Musical box Francastel Crystal Out of glass, it let appear all the magic and the complexity of the mechanical musical movement? Magic, bus, starting from steel and of brass, the craftsmen of Reuge made a success of the exploit to reproduce splendid melodies. The movement with music profited from a nickelled completion which makes echo with that, polished, of the posts. To point out the spirit of the Francastel line. Extreme refinement a base out of enamelled black wooden develops the luminosity of the movement, while placing it on a pedestal.

Reuge and cellebrities
In 1997, a Reuge music box playing Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” was widely noted when it appeared in the hit film “Seven Years in Tibet” with Brad Pitt. In the film, the young Dalai Lama grows up with the sound of a music box.
In 1999, Donald Trump gave Céline Dion a Reuge music box worth $2,000 playing her rendition of “My Heart Will Go On” in “Titanic”.
At the beginning of 2002, Pope John-Paul II received a music box as a gift from an anonymous giver. It is a 15 tune curved box with interchangeable cylinders.

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