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Wenger Men's LED Compass Watch

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:41:00 +0000

Swing Wenger Men Black Dial - Compass Watch out ... strong enough for everyday life, beautiful enough for the dress! Prepared by the famous Swiss manufacturer of real knife! Hey Mr. outdoors ... Take a look at this. Not only do you get an accurate clock, is to get a swing-out compass direction in the forest. Order your at a reasonable price! This makes the work: Swiss quartz movement, water resistant to 330 feet (100 m) Swing-out case shows fluid rotating compass

Engraved elapsed minutes on bezel Date display, luminescent hands and markers, mineral glass, stainless steel bracelet made of durable leather accents oil. Your order today and prepare to be impressed! WARNING: This item can not be shipped to Canada. Please check your State, County and City laws for restrictions before ordering this product. Wenger Men Black Dial Watch with compass
look good! Compass that always in the car, I like the role of the coverage, but could catch some of these "difficult. Who Recommend a lover of nature with this disease. Clock group, and a compass are harder to find. This is my third Wenger Swiss watches. The first I for 10 years, the band had already been amended several times over the years. The second quarter, he wore a year but I won. The third is the best. I hope not to lose again. The Nomad is the secret of Wenger was analogous to digital is not seen. With the exception of the four keys, 2 on each side, never thought that the digital skills. 's face sun is black beautiful, elegant, easy to read hands. A-key and all red showed a talent for reading the digital display with all functions, time, day and date. The role of surprise is a digital compass that can not only look good, you enter the country's decline in what is also needed. Arriving just below the Clock is the rubber band. When a pulse of more than 7.5 cm a larger group will buy. Me, that would not cease, but that is very unique and compass sports watch. Of course, it is shown in Switzerland, and the quality.

Casio Men's G-Shock #GA100-1A4 Classic style

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:45:00 +0000

Casio Men's G-Shock X-Large Analog-Digital Black Dial Sports Watch #GA100-1A4

Product Features
* Shock resistant, module: 5081, 1/1000 second chronograph
* Auto LED light, world time (48 cities + UTC)
* Daily alarm with snooze, countdown timer, stopwatch
* Speed timer
* Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)

Time for the hard style. This Clock has an ultra-rugged G-Shock with a black resin strap and round case. Line Shock Analog-Digital Chronograph with three counters, two windows, digital, LED AUTO time in the world with daily alarm, countdown timer and speed. Analog-digital movement. up to 200 meters deep under water. One year limited warranty.

The G-Shock Story
G-Shock - Absolute Toughness

With the launch of its first quarter of 1974, Casio entered the watch market, both in the watch industry had just discovered digital technology. Armed with the technology developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered the field of confidence in the technology of clocks go forward to develop push. Casio G-Shock line was determined by the policy: a clock that does not break ever built. And in 1983, this product has been developed around the idea that a Clock a fragile treasure that must be handled with care, is destroyed. G-Shock is recognized as the most difficult to see the world and is surrounded by an extraordinary renaissance since the celebration of his 25th Birthday last year. It is the brand for the best performance of the industry to hold now and because of its hardness and durability, as well as avant-garde, is one of the best values of the normal time, not only, but for personal accessories. In addition to strength, resistance to 200 meters and the large cutting board and hip are also G-Shock technology, which is just as bad for the battery life of 20-30 years of solar energy (ideal for our planet) for a more precise atomic timekeeping available Time on Earth, as well as unique features such as moon phase and tides. G-Shock are sound in a variety of styles, including resin and rubber bands, stainless steel and titanium, also available. Since its launch the Casio G-Shock is constantly evolving and push boundaries. The non-stop, self-regulation (Solar, Atomic Timekeeping) G-Shock in the Amazon. com sector, the newest, the best example of this trend! Casio history, their own wristwatches Casio development began with the fundamental question: "What is a watch? Rather than just a digital version of a traditional mechanical clock, we believe that the watch Ideally, something that shows all facets of the time be uniform. On Casio has managed this basis, not to mention a Clock, exact time, including seconds, minutes, hours, days and months - shows create AM or PM, and the day of the week. It was the first in the world with a Clock digital automatic calendar function that the need to schedule because of the differences in the length of the month again removed. Instead of a conventional pointer and a digital liquid crystal display has taken on a better display all the information. This resulted in the introduction of CASIOTRON 1974 the first digital clock with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON has been hailed as an innovative product that provides a complete change in the traditional Clock. Casio has the concept of a clock - a clock with a simple information system for the wrist - has turned and begun planning products on this innovative idea. We have developed features not only time and world time zone clocks, but also other new features and radical use Casio technology, including calculator and dictionary functions, and cellular technology, memory function, and even after a thermometer with a sensor adapter. The role of the memory clock was our product database, while Casio watches developed in two rows of unique sensor products today: the Pathfinder series shows the altitude, air pressure and compass. In 1983, Casio launched the shock G-Shock. This product shattered the notion that a Clock a fragile piece of jewelry that must be handled with care, and is the result of Casio engineers are faced with the challenge of creating increasingly difficult to see the world. With a model with triple protection of the parties, and the shape of the case, the G-Shock offers a radically new type of clock that has been affected by shocks or jolts. His practice was immediately recognized and its unique look, which devotes its functionality, became very popular, leading to an explosion of sales in 1990. The G-SHOCK soon adopted various new sensors, remote control technology for solar energy systems (described below), and new materials for even better durability. Always with the latest technologies and continue on the conventional wisdom on the Clock has the Casio G-Shock is the flagship of the Clock. Today, Casio is focusing on radio controlled solar energy: solar cell eliminates the problem need to replace batteries and users of radio feature ever to change the tempo. In particular, the role provides the remote a revolution in timekeeping technology, a similar result as the effects, if mechanical watches with quartz technology have been replaced. With the development of the sensitivity of radio waves, miniaturization and improved energy efficiency, Casio is set to a wide range of RC models to produce ..

The Breguet Type 20 is the most famous of classic watches

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:10:00 +0000

The Breguet Type 20 is the most famous and collectors, the most valuable of the French army chronograph. Montres Breguet was founded in 1775 by the great inventor and watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747-1823) and is based in Paris, until he moved to Switzerland in 1970.

The watchmaker Breguet has a long history of confrontation with the airline industry by Charles-Louis Breguet (1880-1955), who was a pioneer of aviation. Louis Breguet was the great-great-grandson of Abraham Louis Breguet. Louis Breguet developed his first aircraft in 1909 and during

the First World War, his company, which produces Society of Aviation Louis Breguet, 5,500 Breguet XIV (BR-14 aircraft) for the Allies. Designed by Louis Breguet in 1916, the innovative Breguet Br-14 biplane was a highly successful by the French, Belgian and American air. It was robust and versatile, and served reconnaissance, bombers, one, and an ambulance. The BR-14 has a wingspan of 14.36 meters and was powered by a Renault V12 engine has a top speed of 177 kmh at 2,000 meters and a ceiling of 5,800 m. After the war, made the historic Breguet XIX advanced long-distance flights across continents and oceans. Link to www.aerodrome.com

Breguet Br-14 Parallel to the achievements of aviation, Breguet Clock of aeronautical company developed instruments and chronographs aviation. His first clients were the American pilots stationed in France and quickly became Louis Breguet Aircraft Company and was followed by many others. Breguet Type 20 chronograph was produced in small amounts until it has received formal approval by the French in 1950. In 1954, Breguet was commissioned by the French government, the Type 20 Air Force offer, Naval Aviation, and the CEV. Breguet Type 20 used boxes and stainless steel screw. The standard model of the French Air Force had a 30-minute counter at 3 and used a Valjoux Cal. 22 movements with Flyback Date. (This movement may have been called Valjoux Cal. 222) Valjoux Cal. 22 was launched in 1914 and was one of the first chronograph movements designed for wristwatches. The movement is rhodium-plated 17-jewel, 14'''(31.6 mm, 1''' = 2.2558 mm) and used a spring balance and Breguet monometalic.

There were about 2000 such a model. The case was engraved "Breguet 205101/54 type and serial number and the year. The French Navy ordered a version with a record 15 minutes for his pilots. They were labeled" Marine Breguet Type 20 Naval Aviation One "and had a internal magnetic shield. The AEC ordered 500 watches with 2 registers and 50 watches with 3 entries that were engraved with "CEV" and the serial number. The CEV version had recorded 15 minutes bezel with engraved indices. Some drivers get personal copies Breguet Type 20 and some civilian models were sold. As has already been built for many years, there are many variations in style. (The at least one issue of non-military, with silver dial, fixed bezel vote, and the application - almost unrecognizable, but is sold at an auction type 20.) Some fake Breguet Type 20s were usually one of a kind 20 other manufacturers to restructure. Breguet is trying to win new orders from the Army in 1970, but the prices are too high. A model has occurred in the second generation of civilians in the 1970s and 1980s, and has a weight, polished steel case with square blocks.

This model uses a gold plated 17 Jewel Movement 14'''. Breguet Type 20 (Antiquorum 11Kb) Breguet Type 20 (Antiquorum, 10KB) Breguet Type 20 (Antiquorum, 11Kb) Breguet (type Clock, 59KB) Breguet Type 20 (L'Orologio, 65KB) Breguet Type 20 (The Clock, 63KB) are examples of the Breguet Type 20th Notice the different frameworks, crown and hands. Some of these documents for a total of 15 minutes minutes, for a total of about 30 minutes, and some enlarged for better readability. The clock in the lower right corner is a second generation of Breguet Type 20 from 1970. Breguet Type 20 (Lhote and Lassaussois, 34Kb) The Clock on the left side is on display one of the few 3D models, registration CEV. Another example of 3 log Breguet 1950, Gordon Bethune in the collection, shown on page 26 of the February / March 1999 InSync. The third generation of the Breguet Type 20 chronograph was launched in 1995 and has a serrated middle Lemania automatic movement ..
Source: Classic watch.com

Vixta Classic watches' 1954

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:51:00 +0000

20 Type Vixa was built in 1954 with the custody and movement of Hanhart. The company "Vixa" was the name of a former president of Timex Watches France. (Timex a factory in Besançon until 1960). Vixa Type 20 4000-5000 Some chronographs were supplied.

Adolf Hanhart was founded in 1882 and is the Clock and the products of the moment. The factory was established in Diessenhofen, Switzerland, and later moved to Schwenningen, Germany. In 1924, production was moved to Gütenbach, Germany.

After the war, Black Forest, part of the French occupation zone, Hanhart chronographs was Vixa product under the name of the French army. The deliveries were part of the payment of German reparations to France. Watches (Walter Storz [Stowe], when the clocks of the French army.) Since 1960, the timer and Stopwatch Hanhart focused, but have recently expanded their line of products including a replica of his famous Flieger Chronograph reintroduced.

Vixa 20 Type (Antiquorum, 11Kb) Vixa 20 Type (von Halem, 64KB) Vixa 20 Type (L'Orologio, 51kb) are three examples of the type 20 Vixa 1950th They comb and a telescope are marked "magnetic" on the dial. The cases are made of stainless steel with a screwed back, and 39 mm, slightly more than 20 other species. The clocks of the French Air Force was assigned the number "5100 54" and serial numbers. 20 Hanhart chronographs chronographs Vixa type were similar to the Federal Republic of Germany after the First World War Air Force. The movement is a movement broad enough Hanhart 16'''17 jewel, like a patch described. 4054 (anti-quorum), Cal. 40 (von Halem), or a lemon. 15 (Knirim). The movement has been with "Germany" (not "Hanhart" or "Vixa). Vixa The 20/21 the only one to use a German sentence ..

Source: Classic watch.com

Great Men's watch Classic,.Invicta Chronograph Watch

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:21:00 +0000

This Invicta stainless steel men's chronograph watch wonderfully blends classic timepiece design with a contemporary edge.This watch the textured off-white dial face features angular minute indexes in black mixed with Arabic numerals, as well as two black-outlined chronograph subdials in the center of the dial. The large, round silver stainless steel watch case measures 52mm (2.05 inches) wide with the oversized, grooved crown.
This watch also has Tritnite luminous black-outlined hands (with seconds hand) and a unique date window at three o'clock that displays a range of three dates. Other features include a supple black leather strap with white contrast stitching, scratch-resistant mineral crystal with anti-reflective coating and water resistance to 200 meters (660 feet)--suitable for scuba diving.

Corduba Collection

Invitca’s Corduba will guide you through the hours and days with absolute ease and style. Taking inspiration from classic military looks while catering to ladies and gents alike, the ever-growing collection watch of Corduba timepieces offer such features as large dials, exhibition case backs, day and date displays, 200 meter water resistance, and special crown protection caps. Slip in and out of time knowing Invicta’s Corduba will be following your moments even when you’re not.

Product Features

Quality Japanese-Quartz movement

316L Solid Stainless Steel Case; Mineral crystal

52MM Case, 59MM with Crown, 15MM Thick

Genuine Leather Strap in black (26mm band x 9" Length)

Water-resistant to 660 feet (200 M)

Watch manufacturing process

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:13:00 +0000

We will watch over the house to wash one you know that the clock is a former manufacturing step detail. Much to carefully from the creative imagination from the abstract design. They draw out a full picture of all the design elements of whether a line clock face, body with a beautiful design and the beauty together to meet the production and operation of various mechanisms to achieve is. Work that has the potential to work to tell time precisely accurate, coupled with the exquisite beauty of the work clock. Internal mechanisms consist of small pieces of gear. Different functions it requires a full harmony with expertise crafts. Can use different equipment in the production of watches to the clock have been developed with advanced technology to develop the next generation, mod ongoing, by bringing up the machine in the house turning the screw penetration of wind to help in production

Although the clock movement will produce a step ahead to how the role of the clockmaker, but it does not dwindle to just change that Jacobsen used the mobile operators as they change, using visual controls in production and basic techniques. Then let the computer systems to monitor quality control,using sensors to check with the smallest ratio since the installation Emedmaim. Check mechanical components within the measurement on the body clock. The weather is as a surface pattern that all processes will be built within a controlled laboratory temperature to stabilize. To ensure the accurate measurement of all forces to work and then a page full of personal items contrary Author home.
Using sandpaper and polishing machines installed frieze remove all scratches from the body scrub technician will act out the conflict until a complete building standards that require long hours since the completion of this process. Will come in the components of the mechanism that this step requires expertise and finely delicate. Technicians must have deep knowledge about the working mechanism of the small pieces to be effective on the clock we speak of working examples of internal clock mechanisms.

The manufacturing process general mechanism to begin bringing Jamaican gold plate or brass lead into a grinder and hammer drill rig engine plain width is between the times of 1000 mm, or microns. Then get into the process of conflict and create a pattern on the body these are all from mental Na and inspiration of the technicians who design and integrate expertise. Refinement operators and technicians of the most important steps in the production of watches, each house would not escape out of the assembly.
To adjustment mechanism, small parts, many of which have required a very skilled technician who missed even just a little because if these mechanisms are unable to work because it forces every other dependence on this process is completed., part of the assembly building, whether a dial clockwise. Positions on a clock face, when completed, one would also need to send home to check the quality rate of walking, water and testing the functionality of the precise mechanism as a final step of manufacturing watches. This is just the production process generally only watch next time we will talk to the clock built into the special and beautiful. The uniqueness and value of watches them up.

Time to be time as time to be person

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:46:00 +0000

Watch is one of the most important accessory for man. It has a natural benefit of its own. It has its own beauty, it can speak of the status and personality of its owner.
The components used to assemble a watch needs and expert’s choice and skills (not to mention the machine system used to make it) to create a masterpiece. Do we have the same thoughts?

I have the passion for elegant watch. During my free time, I normally go to the plaza and never missed new arrivals of watches displayed. I’ll check on the price and the design. If I happen to like a particular one, I’ll make sure to have it but after saving money to buy it. Wow!.....that would surely take sometime.
But I think for some, designs and prices or brand aint really that important. Anyway any kind would still give you the same time.
“Any watch tell time alike the time tell person worth also”
I think everybody, no matter what status you have in life owns a watch
While writing this, it makes me wonder and much eager to know what’s inside a watch and how it really works. Well, maybe that’s what I’m gonna do, search on it and tell you when I get back to my next post.

Most demanding wristwatches

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:57:00 +0000

Let continue post Top 10 watches besides have One of the world's most demanding wristwatches.So Honorable mentions

IWC Grande Complication Ref. IW927016
Price: $230,000 (165,000 EUR)

IWC Grande Complication IW927016IWC Grande Complication Ref. IW927016 consists of total of 659 mechanical parts, 71 of them jewels, twelve patents and 21 functions and displays, including a perpetual calendar for the next 500 years, together with perpetual moon phase display made of polished goldstone representing a star-stubbed night sky. Working inside the case are a chronograph and a highly complex minute repeater activated through an all-or-nothing piece slide.

This wonderful invention chimes out the time in crystal-clear tones, which are activated by the slide on the left-hand side of the case. Two tiny, precision-made hammers are released and chime the time in hours, quarters and minutes on two gongs. The striking mechanism is a technical tour de force. Initially, the chimes were inaudible outside the solid platinum case, so the glass was freely suspended on a platinum membrane to enable it to amplify the vibrations produced by the gongs via the sound transmission pin.

The case, too, finished in solid platinum with a fineness of 95 percent or 18 ct. rose gold, is first-class. Despite the complex design of the case, the Grande Complication is unaffected by superficial water splashes. Production limited to 20 watches per year.

A. Lange & Söhne Datograph Perpetual
A unique timepiece for the moment and for eternity
Price: $152,000 (110,000 EUR)

A unique timepiece for the moment and for eternity
Price: $152,000 (110,000 EUR)
A. Lange & Sohne Datograph PerpetualIn the Datograph Perpetual, Lange combines two classic complications - the chronograph (for short time measurements) and the perpetual calendar - in one landmark watch that is also enriched with many of the manufactory's acclaimed new-era attributes.

This masterpiece by Lange is the first wristwatch that incorporates a chronograph and a perpetual calendar. It no doubt represents the most classic combination of complications, capturing the moment, the present, and eternity. Additionally, it is endowed with all of the features that make Lange timepieces so distinctive. It owes its harmonious personality to the subtly offset symmetry of the solid-silver dial.

The Datograph Perpetual can stop times of up to 30 minutes with an accuracy of one-fifth of a second.

The movement is the automatic Caliber L952.1. The platinum case measures 41mm. When fully wound, the spring barrel of the Datograph Perpetual has a power reserve of 36 hours. The accuracy of the watch originates from a glucydur balance with eccentric poising weights, a Lange balance spring, and with a frequency of 18,000 semi-oscillations per hour. The watch consists of 556 individaul parts that must be assembled and adjusted to interact flawlessly in a time-consuming process.

Top 10 most expensive watch' 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:56:00 +0000

Woww!!! Top 10 the most expensive watches in the world 2009

You are the one cannot decline. The one accessory that is popular with people long time ago.
It’s purposes is just to tell time. But for some people a watch is much more.
Some watches have high Technology combine. It symbolizes one's social and financial status.
It’s be assets. And some watches are expensive then car or even a house.
Yes the watches can be very expensive, so read on to know more about the most expensive
Watches of 2009 We will series start at

10. Girard-Perregaux Opera Three
Ultra-miniaturized music box
Price: $316,000 (226,000 EUR)

Girard-Perregaux Opera ThreeGirard-Perregaux is one of the few authentic Swiss watch manufactures. For over two centuries now, Girard-Perregaux has been renown for its many remarkable creations, among them the emblematic Tourbillon with Three Gold Bridges. From the research and development stage right through to the final adjustments made by master watchmakers, Girard-Perregaux continues to enrich its heritage through its Haute Horlogerie collection.
Opera Three model was launched way back in 2003 and it is a device that actually incorporates an ultra-miniaturized music box.

This Girard-Perregaux Haute Horlogerie Opera Three watch in platinum features a 43 mm case with an elegant silver dial shown here on a black alligator strap. The Girard-Perregaux Haute Horlogerie Opera Three also features a mechanical manual wound movement with an hourstriker complication and the ability to play two separate melodies, a power reserve indicator and sub seconds.

It's important to mention that the device works at a frequency of 28.800 vibrations per hour (4 Hz), and provides a power reserve of minimum 50 hours.

The Opera Three watch is able to sound the passing hours with a melody. The movement’s miniature carillon is composed of a keyboard with 20 blades and a drum whose surface has around 150 hand-mounted pins. A selector allows a choice between two different tunes. A lever can disconnect the sound or allow it to play upon demand.

The music played can be personalized to taste. The Opera Three watch from Girard-Perregaux is yet another one of those ultra-expensive timepieces that almost break the half-a-million barrier.

Welcome to look at next series...

9. Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Westminster
The watch with a musical movement
Price: $334,000 (239,000 EUR)

Parmigiani Fleurier Toric WestminsterLess known Swiss watch manufacturer Parmigiani Fleurier has created a fairly large number of high-end, hand-made timepieces over the years. One of the extraordinary models Parmigiani has launched recently is the Toric Westminster model, designed to reproduce on a much smaller scale the movement and chime of the famous Westminster Abbey clock.
Parmigiani Fleurier Toric Westminster watch is equipped with a minute repeater that strikes the hours, quarters and minutes on four gongs to the tune of the Westminster chimes.

Furthermore, Toric Westminster features the GMT function with rapid correction by push-button indicates a 24-hour second time zone and the prestigious tourbillon that smoothes out position errors of the escapement.

It's also quite interesting to note the fact that the design of the bridges and the finishing carried out conveys the beauty of the movement. Although the design and functions are the first to draw the customer's attention, the interior of the Toric Westminster is equally important.

Toric Westminster mechanism, codenamed PF255.01, features no less than 42 jewels, has a diameter of 27 mm, works at a frequency of 21.600 vibrations per hour and offers users an overall power reserve of min 75 hours.

8. Ulysse Nardin Genghis Khan
World's first wristwatch featuring a Westminster chime
Price: $490,000 (351,000 EUR)

Ulysse Nardin Genghis KhanIn 2002 Ulysse Nardin proudly presented a watch beyond all considerations of practicability, a piece of art more than a mere timepiece; the Genghis Khan, world's first wristwatch featuring a Westminster chime with minute repeater, automatons and tourbillon.

A dial made of massive onyx features four figures, meticulously chased from gold. The figures show Mongolian warriors, thus explaining the watch's strange name, which remembers the founder of the largest empire in humankind's history, Genghis Khan (born 1155, or 1162, or 1167; died 1227). Each time the Westminster chimes or the repeater is engaged, the figures are fighting with their characteristically curved swords or trying to catch a small ring with a spear, while riding a impressively crafted horse.

The visible one minute Tourbillon is integrated into the aventurine dial. Opaque or translucent, containing crystals that were engendered by fire in molten glass, aventurine scintillates, subtyl flecked with all possible shades of red, yellow and grey. Forged by human hands, often compared to the philoshopher's stone, aventurine contains the secrets of the master jeweler's aclhemy.

All this is encased in 18k gold of 42 mm diameter, and in spite of its repeater activation slider it is watertight down to 30 meters.

7. Audemars Piguet Grande Complication
Audemars Piguet most expensive timepiece
Price: $526,000 (395,000 EUR)

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Grande ComplicationAudemars Piguet is another manufacturer of expensive Swiss watches. Tradition, excellence, daring: it is based on these three fundamental values that Manufacture Audemars Piguet perpetuates the art of Haute Horlogerie. At each stage of its history, it has proved capable of adopting the latest avant-garde technologies and of placing them in the service of hand craftsmanship, thereby creating exceptional timepieces.

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Grande Complication is a selfwinding watch that features perpetual calendar indicationg the day, the week, the moon phases, the month and the leap years.

It also features minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph and small seconds at 9 o'clock. 18-carat white gold case and bracelet, transparent sapphire caseback. Water-resistant to 20 metres. Limited production.

Reference No: 25865BC.0.1105BC.01

6. Breguet pocket watch 1907BA/12
The most expensive pocket watch
Price: $734,000 (540,000 EUR)

Breguet 1907BA/12Breguet is one of the oldest and most respected names in the watchmaking industry, the company being around for more than 225 years and being credited for the invention of one of the most famous watch complication, the tourbillon.

Although it's now a part of the Swatch group of companies, the Swiss watchmaker keeps coming up with all sorts of extremely special timepieces, some of them instantly becoming a collector's item, due both to their high (sometimes enormous) price tags, as well as their one-of-a-kind features.

Breguet Classique "Grande Complication" pocket-watch in 18-carat yellow gold features grand strike and tourbillon, hand-engraved and hand-wound movement with 2-way rotating crown, off-centred chapter ring, centre minute hand, silvered gold dial, hand-engraved on a rose-engine and sapphire caseback.

Breguet's Grand Complications pay tribute to the two-century-old equivalence between Breguet watchmaking and advanced mechanical science. Building a grand complication confronts watchmakers with a maze of technical difficulties that challenge not only their skills but also their powers of invention. Thinking and working in four dimensions, generations of Breguet watchmakers have demonstrated the summit of their art in repeaters, perpetual calendars and tourbillon watches. Breguet protects its latest developments in perpetual calendars with two patents.

5. Blancpain 1735, Grande Complication
Six masterpieces merged in a single construction
Price: $800,000 (582,000 EUR)

Blancpain Grande Complication 1735Blancpain's expert watchmakers devised a daunting challenge: merging their six earlier masterpieces into a single construction. For no other reason than the secret pleasure of outdoing themselves. Despite countless doubts and dead ends, talent and preservance ultimately got them there. After six years, against all odds, fulfillment was at finally hand. In homage to the year of foundation of the House of Blancpain, they called the new watch 1735. Almost magical in its intricacy, its movement's original design comprises an impressive 740 parts and components.

A truly inspired achievement, the Blancpain 1735's horological wizardry provides a rare and altogether convincing demonstration that, at least for the best watchmakers, impossibility is only relative.

The 1735 is the fruit of a year of loving labor by a single watchmaker. With its 740 individual hand-finished components, the 1735 remains the world's most complicated automatic winding wristwatch produced in a series. The platinum case measures 42 mm, the strap is croco leather. Movement is the automatic Caliber 1735, with 950 platinum rotor and a power reserve of 80 hours.

4. Louis Moinet Magistralis
One of a kind watch with real pieces of the Moon
Price: $868,000 (631,000 EUR)

Louis Moinet MagistralisSwiss watchmaker Louis Moinet has recently presented a watch with real pieces of the Moon! These pieces are from a lunar meteorite that was ejected from the Moon 2,000 years ago. The meteorite has been authenticated by the University of California. Moonstone is an extremely rare material that is even more expensive than gold and platinum combined.

The movement of Magistralis was created a hundred years ago. Designed in the Vallee de Joux, it was made in Geneva and bears the Poinçon de Geneve quality hallmark. It beats at 18,000 vibrations per hour and features a (double-bladed) self-compensating balance and a flame-blued Breguet balance spring.

The case is made of 5N and 3N 18-carat rose gold. Its brand-signature design stands out especially for its crown guard (patent pending) and its chronograph button guard at 12 o’clock. The perpetual calendar function displays the day, date and month over four years.

Magistralis is an extraordinary watch representing the expert craftsmanship of the time-honoured art of Haute Horlogerie. It is one of a kind, unlike any other, and will never be repeated.

3. Hublot One Million $ Black Caviar Bang
The quintessence of "invisible visibility" in a uniform range of
black tones
Price: $1 million (727,000 EUR)

Hublot One Million $ Black Caviar BangSwiss manufacturer of luxury watches Hublot has recently introduced one million dollar watch Black Caviar Bang. This watch's setting is very complex. The difficulty resides in the unusual lines of the Big Bang case – round but with sharp angles. The white gold, one-piece construction of the case does not reveal one grain of gold, and the diamonds, cut in mysterious ways, seem to hold together as if by magic. The only visible feature is the black and deep tones of the diamonds, shining in their harmonious alignment.

This unique piece, which houses a Tourbillon, symbolises the fusion between watchmaking and jewellery, tradition and technology, glittering and invisibility. The vibration which emanates from it gives rise to an emotion tinged with fascination.

Creating this exceptional watch demanded over 2000 hours of meticulous work, from design to final adjustment, without forgetting the research and development, programming of the machines, choice of tools, diamond cutting, optical checking of each part, and setting and casing.

The case, in 18kt white gold, is covered with 322 black diamonds (25 carats). The crystal is an AR-coated sapphire, as is the display back. The bezel, done in 18kt white gold, is covered with 179 black diamonds (6 carats). Movement is the Hublot caliber HUB Solo T, a 1 minute Tourbillon Volant, manual-wind with special black finishing. The watch has 24 jewels, beats at 21,600 bph and has a power reserve of 120 hours. The bracelet is rubber with an 18kt white gold closure covered with 30 black diamonds (3.5 carats). The watch is manufactured in limited edition of just one piece.

2. Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile
World's most complex watch ever made
Price: $1.4 million (994,000 EUR)

Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'IleOf all the wristwatches imagined and produced by Vacheron Constantin to celebrate its 250th anniversary, the Tour de l'Ile is a study in superlatives. Calling this a "Grande Complication" model is a dramatic understatement: it is, in fact, the world’s most complex watch ever made, with its original combination of 16 complications that can be read off on a double-face display. Its design-engineers have developed a calibre smoothly integrating a series of grand horological complications and astronomical indications in order to make it a genuine wristwatch that is perfectly suited to and comfortable on the wrist.

It took the Vacheron Constantin design-engineers and the watchmakers over 10,000 hours of research and development to create this sheer masterpiece of horological technique, named in reference to one of the historical sites of the venerable firm, located next to the current Maison Vacheron Constantin on the Quai de l’Ile. An additional statistic provides an instant glimpse of the density of this exceptional calibre: no less than 834 parts are housed within a case measuring 47 mm in diameter.
The gold case with its hand-soldered lugs, which maintains beautiful and harmonious proportions despite its substantial content, is now distinguished by a symmetrical double protuberance on either side of the bezel. This miniature horological marvel, which will go down in the history of the wristwatch and of watchmaking in general, is produced in a strictly limited edition of just 7.

1.Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 P
Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 PA (platinum Patek)
Price : $1.49 Million (1.06 Million ERU)

Patek Philippe Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 PA platinum Patek
Philippe tourbillon watch became the most expensive modern wristwatch to be sold at auction when it fetched HK$11.75 million ($1.49 million) in Hong Kong on April 10, 2008.

The "Ref. 5002 P Sky Moon Tourbillon" wristwatch with a double dial is considered the most complicated wristwatch ever produced by the renowned Swiss watchmaker. Only two such watches are made every year, one in platinum and one in rose gold. The watch, made in 2003, was bought by an Asian private buyer at the Sotheby's auction.

The previous auction record for a modern wristwatch was a Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile, ranked 2nd on this list, which was sold by the auction house Antiquorum for $1.4 million in Geneva in 2005.

The Sky Moon Tourbillon Ref. 5002 is the most complicated wristwatch ever produced by Patek Philippe and also the workshop's first double-face wristwatch. Its movement consists of 686 parts, some of which are microscopically small. This rare and exceptional timepiece features mechanical movement that must be manually wound, a minute repeater with tourbillon escapement, chime with two "cathedral" gongs activated by a slide piece in the case, perpetual calendar with retrograde date hand, hours and minutes of mean solar time, day, month, leap year by hands and moon age. The platinum case measures 42.8 mm.

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History of Watches

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:51:00 +0000

1485 : Leonardo da Vinci sketches a fusee for a clock
1500 : Germany : Peter Henlein creates the first pocket watch.
Early 1600s : Form watches becoming popular. Cases are shaped like animals and objects. Religious themes are popular.
1635 : Around this time that the fusee was adapted from clocks to watches.
1659 -1675 : Christian Huygens invents the "Remontoire".
1687 : Daniel Quare patents the repeating mechanism that uses bells to sound quarter hours and the hours.
1704 : Peter and Jacob Debaufre, Nicolas Facio, are the first to use rubies in watch movements.
1735: Blancpain started making watches and produces fewer than 10,000 a year
1750 : Watch makers began using enamel on watch dials.
1759 : Thomas Mudge invents the English lever escapement.
1775 : Abraham Louis Breguet sets up his own watch making shop in Paris, France.
1780 : Abraham Louis Perrelet invents the self winding movement.
1786 : Breguet is the first to use guilloche on watch dials.
1791 : J.F. Bautte founded the watch company that would eventually become Girard-Perregaux.
1807 : Thomas Young invents the recording chronograph.
1809 : Luther Goddard of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts is the first watch manufacturer in America.
1820 : Thomas Prest registers a patent for the self winding watch.
1832: Longines founded
1830: Baume & Mercier was started in by two brothers with one mantra
1833 : Antoine LeCoultre starts his own watchmaking business which later become Jaeger-LeCoultre.
1837 : The French fashion house of Hermes was established by Thierry Hermes
1839: Antoine Norbert de Patek (Salesman) and François Czapek (Watchmaker) joined forces to found « Patek,

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1843: Adrien Philippe develops a watch with winding and setting through the crown.
1844 : The start, stop, and reset chronograph is invented by Adolphe Nicole.
1844 : Antoine LeCoultre invents the millionometre.
1847 : Cartier was founded in Paris by Louis-François
1848 : Louis Brandt opens his own workshop in La Chaux-de-Fonds which eventually became the Omega Watch Company
1851 : Mr. Philippe became officially associated the company was rebaptised « Patek Philippe & Cie
1853 : Tissot makes the first dual time zone watch.
1858 : Minerva was founded.
1860 : Chopard Watches was founded
Officine Panerai was founded in Florence, Italy
Heuer was founded.
1865 : Zenith founded by a young Georges Favre-Jacot
1868 : IWC Founded by Florentine Jones, a 27-year old American master watchmaker from Boston
1875 : Audemars Piguet was originally established by two young men; Mr. Audemars designed the movements for the luxury timepieces and Mr. Piguet was in charge of the financial and commercial aspect
1881 : Movado was founded.
1884 : Greenwich, England is officially named the zero meridian and used as the world wide recognized basis of time zones.
1884: The story of Breitling watches began in when Leon Breitling opened a watchmaking workshop in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland
1886 : Geneva Seal established.
1892: The Hamilton Watch Company was founded in Lancaster Company was founded in Lancaster
1894 : Universal Geneve established.
1904 : The Oris watch company was founded and has become well-known for only producing mechanical watches
1905 : Hans Wilsdorf starts the Rolex Watch Company.
1906: Guccio Gucci, son of an Italian trader founded the House of Gucci in Florence
1908 : Concord was founded in Switzerland
1911 : Ebel was founded in Switzerland by life and business partners, Eugene Blum and Alice Levy. Ebel, an acronym of their initials, stands for “Architects of Time”.
1914 : Eterna introduces the first wristwatch with an alarm.
1918: Japan : Shakosha Watch Company opened. This would become Citizen in1931.
1921: From its inception by Guccio Gucci, the name Gucci has become internationally equated with absolute luxury.
1923 : John Harwood is the first to mass produce a self winding wristwatch.
1924 : Tokyo : Seiko brand name is launched by Kinttaro Hattori.
1926 : Rolex introduces the first waterproof case called the "Oyster".
1929 : First anti magnetic watch created by Tissot.
1931 : Shakosha became Citizen.
1933 : Ingersoll introduces the "Mickey Mouse" watch.
1956 : Rolex introduces their first model that displays the day and date.
1957 : Hamilton introduces the world's first battery driven watch.
1962 : Rado produces the world's first scratch proof watch called the "Diastar 1".
1962 : ETA of Switzerland develops the first quartz battery operated watch.
1970 : Hamilton releases the "Pulsar", the first electronic digital watch.
1972 : Longines and Seiko introduce the LCD, (Liquid Crystal Display).
1976 : Founded by Raymond Weil, his watches are based on the ideal of combining classic styling
1980 : Hublot It was established by Carlo Crocco.
1983 : SMH of Switzerland launches the Swatch brand.
Philippe Charriol, the founder of the company that bears his name, was President of Cartier before launching his own line of watches
1985 : Swiss Heuer Company merges with TAG to form TAG Heuer.
1986 : Audemars Piguet introduces the first self winding tourbillon.
1991 : Franck Muller founded.
1999 : Casio innovates with the first wristwatch with a built-in Global Positioning System (GPS).

Watch out the Time

noreply@blogger.com (Run) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:30:00 +0000

Time
The world revolve around us and so is time. People learn from sunlight,
water and other natural phenomenon. They create tools to tell time. We call it the clock. Its origin occurred on the planet over 3500-years ago. They say that time is based on the sun. And this is when man invented the sundial. But then dial modifications were brought about to calculate the time among the ancient Greek inhabitants where precision is more accurate. The Greeks invented a water clock called “Clepsydra” (literally means water thief). It was a device for drawing liquids from vats too large to pour which utilized the principles of air pressure to transport the liquid from one container to another. But there were some restrictions to this, since in winter the water will freeze and will never be available. So water watch died a natural death long before it became popular.

In 1929 Warren Morrison had invented a clock that is more specific. Quartz watch was a very accurate clock. Since the clock has developed steadily from the relentless wind forces. This was in 1980, a period in which people started to use computer technology. Invention using a clock chip was an additional component in the mechanism of this clock. In addition to telling time it can also store information needed. And can be used by the electronic calculator. Until now, clock continues to evolve in the digital age coupled with computer technology.

Time is most valuable to man. All men are born with equal inheritance each day.
We were all given 24 hours a day. It is up to us to grab and utilize it overtime.

Be punctual with your values because when it’s over, there’s no way you can get it back. Only memories remain.