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Breitling announces Chronomat Watch

26 Mar

Breitling announced their new stop watch today, just for Baselworld 2009. With called Chronomat B01, I must say that this must be Breitling of the nicest glance that I saw up to now. It is a design of their popular model of Chronomat, and it has some very attractive devices.

The first thing which change is mounting, it was reorganized and comprises now numbers engraved with the place right of the lines. The face slightly different, looking at a little more is as well refined then the basic model of Chronomat. The greatest change however, is something which you will see only if you look by the mineral crystal back, and it is the new movement. Breitling decided to produce the movement for Chronomat B01 internally, and it shows. I will admit that I am a ventilator of the mechanical movements to being with, but this new Breitling is something to see. I hope that they continue this and make more and more their watches with this movement.

Available in the typical line of case of Breitling, colors, and choice of band, it has no word there on the price currently. Seek this with your retailer preferred in the near future.

 
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Breitling Navitimer Anniversaire Watch

26 Mar

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By celebrating its 125th birthday, Breitling reaffirms its passion for stop watches more powerful than ever, by the recall of the people the main role the mark played by developing this type of instrument.

But the history of Breitling is also narrowly interlaced with that of aviation, thanks to the instruments of cockpit and the pilot of the ’stop watches of S which made the company with with official supplier with the aviation of the world .Most famous of these instruments for professionals is undoubtedly the legendary stop watch of Navitimer, with its circular slide rule designed to calculate all airborne calculations of navigation.

Navitimer the 125e Anniversaire is a strongly distinctive version of this worship-object, particularly designed by Breitling to mark the company the ‘centuries quarters of S five.This limited edition of 2009 pieces is distinguished by an esthetics in particular minimized and dynamic.The case out of comprising steel alternating satin-swept surfaces and polised teamed with a new very original bracelet called Air Racer – a wristband perforated riged which pays homage to an icon of modern design of the Sixties.Navitimer the 125e Anniversaire is equipped with an exclusive movement, gauge 26 of Breitling.These 38 with automatic reassembly jewel the stop watch, stop watch-certified by the COSC, is distinguishedd by its tolalizer 60 minute, placed at the center of dial for optimal legibility.The watch is also available in a red gold version, in the same way is equipped with the bracelet of runner of air.

 
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IWC Deep Two Watch

24 Mar

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The watch deeply two of IWC Aquatimer is an advanced keyless watch of plungers which follows a way initially traced with the legendary IWC deeply one–a watch which incorporated a precise integral measurement of depth and also indicated the maximum depth reached during piqu.Realized by strongly has – the sensitive membrane which transmits the pressure of water to a mechanism of lever which orders hands of indicator, this remarkable device deeply allows the watch two of IWC–like its predecessor–to be used as complete system of safety supporting a computer of piqu.

The IWC Aquatimer deeply two observes devices a case of swept stainless steel 46mm.A continuous revolving mounting, knurled along its edge to optimize the safety of handle once functioned with gloves, shows the essential balance graduated required for lower periods of measurement; to exclude any chance that a movement neglect mounting could potentially have like consequence a miscalculation mortal, rotation can only be accomplished in the anti-clockwise direction.The black dial chechmate presents its information with the similar lack of ambiguity; the large markers and hands of hour with an application of Superluminova make legibility normal even in conditions light reduced that the plungers meet typically.

The measurement of depth described with the perimeter of the dial with the distinctive sound coloured the red and blue hands presents information for to some depth a plunger is currently (up to 50 meters), in addition to the maximum depth reached.This last indication will hold its whole until the button at the lower part of the case of the ‘left wing of S is supported on. A movement with automatic reassembly with a reservation of 40 hours power orders the functions of the movement, which includes an rapid-adjustable posting of date and second exchange-rises of field with a notching function.

The watch deeply two of IWC Aquatimer is equipped with an anti-glare treated flat sapphire crystal.A crown and a caseback screw-down of rolling up help the watch in the water pressure of resistance to a 120 meters depth.The new system of IWC ‘of bracelet of S uses a hook on the lower part of the hooks and facilitates the changes no-tool-required between the bracelet of stainless steel and a rubber belt of piqu of IWC.

 
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IWC Big Pilots Watch Edition Antoine de Saint Exupery

24 Mar

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Charm third time – or, perhaps its quarter, at least if you speak about IWC Schaffhausen and its watches of limited edition devoted to the French author and aviation Antoine pioneer about Saint Exupry.The pilot watch of IWC of large becomes finally the subject for one of these special editions of charm, and with my opinion, it is held like very better they.

Just as the situation with watches of Exupery of saint of edition of IWC of limited edition of 2006-2008, the model of Edition Antoine of Saint Exupry of the pilot watch of IWC of large has a certain number of special commemorative details, especially the tobacco-coloured dial of attraction of sun ray with the stylized Arab markers of hour and a caseback particularly engraved with a similarity of Saint-Exupery.

The limited edition of 1.900 pieces pays homage to the year it where the Exupery saint had been born. Of this small number there will be 1.149 out of stainless steel, 500 out of pink gold, 250 in white gold and a simple watch in platinum.This last single example will be sold via a special bidding of IWC, way of the preceding models of Exupery of platinum saint.

In the field of the strongly desired watches of luxury of sport, the pilot watch of IWC of large is true except contest cuts impressive and the classically male character are certainly part of this, but there is also the superb internal movement IWC, with its system of rolling up of Pellaton and seven days reservation of power.With me, the large pilot is the aeronautical final IWC observe-and there can be no finer choice for an special edition of IWC devoted to a man impassioned about the vol. Beyond the harmony symbolic system, the watch Edition Antoine of pilot Saint Exupry of IWC of large is also the most exclusive interpretation and most beautiful of this model to be appeared.

 
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Marilyn Monroe Give President John F. Kennedy A Gold Rolex

24 Mar

In October of 2005, a Day-Date of gold Rolex, generally known under the name of president of Rolex, sold at the house of the sales with-bidding of Alexandre in Greenwich, Connecticut for $120.000 dollars, breaking the disc of house. An astounding watch indeed, it was the historical ambiguity of origins of the watch which led to the top of the selling price.

Supposedly, the president of gold Rolex was given to John F. Kennedy by iconic Marilyn Monroe the evening where the actress serenaded celebrates it, singing a choking interpretation of happy birthdayon May 19, 1962, in the Madison Square Garden of New York. Registered with the words, Jack, with love as always of Marilyn, May 29, 1962, the watch was sold with an authorized poetry: A sincere complaint on your birthday,introduced with the keyboard the black on a paper disc placed at the body floor gold containing the gift. The date on the inscription corresponds to the birthday of Kennedy. However, even after collecting a price exorbitant with the bidding, much experts always doubt that the watch is a true piece of history or a refined fake.

According to the history, Marilyn Monroe gave the watch to Kenneth O’donnell, the assistance of Kennedy, the night of the celebration. Largely allowed to have a business, the watch was a gift of Monroe to President Kennedy. When Kenneth O’donnell passed the watch above to J.F.K., Kennedy said to him that you of him dbarassez,according to a note which was sold with the watch.

One expected that Rolex was put upwards for the bidding in 2005 and is sold for between $40.000 and $60.000, a underestimate gross considering the final selling price of $120.000. Bill Panagopulos, founder of the house of the sales with-bidding, explained the enormous anomaly: It is the hardest thing which I never had to estimate, the historical relics, particularly when there is a council of joined scandal, defy any attempt by an appraiser to estimate their selling price.

The greatest question, by considering the evaluation of the watch, is if it is really authentic. Rather than being sold by the family of O’donnell, Panagopulos indicated that th

e president of Rolex had been brought to him by an English citizen, which describes its family as being the pawnbrokers ahead for the aristocratic classes.Acc

ording to Panagopulos, the serial number and the engraving of the watch are adapted during time, and the history of the watch was confirmed by a family member of the old assistance of Kennedy.

A design flowered on the higher lid of the round gold case containing Rolex shows two doves embracing.At the bottom of the case, there is a piece of paper round printed with the poetry of Marilyn to its in love pled. Heading a sincere complaint on your birthday,poetry reads, leave in love ones breathes their soupirs/et the pinks flower and the noise of musique/a left the burn of passion on lips and yeux/et the pleasures that the merry world tournent/a left the sun but to flood the sky and let me like or let me die!

In a general way, Rolex and its notes of accompaniment represent a dramatic course of events which will be always wrapped in the speculation. The death of Marilyn Monroe, by a mysterious overdose in August 1962, and the assassination of President Kennedy in November 1963, means that the truth can be never known. The assistance, Kenneth O’donnell, which was given the watch in the history, disappeared in 1977, and its family refuses to present her observations on gold Rolex and her historical validity. It seems that if the tale is true, the anonymous purchaser of this president of Rolex will never regret the timeless sophistication of this watch and the intrigue of his origins.

 
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Rolex Green v. Blue

23 Mar

Mike is a president on RolexForums.com and it took this projectile shining of its ceramics GMT beside his DEEP-SEA to compare Lume.

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IWC Big Ingenieur Chronograph watch

23 Mar

The large news Engineer shows stop watch of IWC presented the first time this January to SIHH-2009, currently supplements my list of the most desired watches of IWC taking place in the second place only in the Date-Month recently indicated of Digitals of everlasting calendar of IWC Da Vinci.

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The family of IWC Ingenieur of the watches was introduced there is more than fifty years. Being the watch with automatic reassembly of IWC first with an antimagnetic shield, because the three consecutive generations it was an icon of a clean and simple watch designed to serve the daily needs for the men with trades.

The things radically changed in the mid-70s, when the IWC engaged the former employee Gerald Genta d’ Audemars Piguet to make an answer to the strongly popular royal watch of sports of oak. The watch gained much additional weight, became larger and more BOLD, and. more chechmate. Although the sale of the IWC continues to call the enormous Engineer a traditional model, actually it was a disaster. The watch right was not sold. Nevertheless, all the consecutive engineers comprise the same gargantuesques proportions of the first elephant. Fortunately, the last models rather look at bodybuilders in a great form rather than of the fighters of sumo in one of high season.

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Just like the majority of the modern engineers, the watch comprises a pair of hour stick-formed ahead and hands meticulous, a black dial with an interior part decorated in has brick-like the model and Engineer and logos applied of IWC Shaffhausen, and a pair of dials of stop watch on the 6 and 12 hours. The indices of hour hand-are also applied and filled with a certain fluorescent agent. Its mounting comprises a balance of tachymeter which achieves a purely decorative goal. Generally, it resembles the next iteration of the model of the stop watch automatic 3725-01 of Engineer, but more elegant and subtle.

Inside its great case (it is 45.5mm of diameter and 14.5mm thick) made tic TAC a gauge with automatic reassembly of IWC 89360 interns with a reservation of 68 hours power. Initially indicated two years ago and in the beginning conceived by Stefan Ihnen for the family of Da Vinci of the watches, the gauge is Porsche 911 in the world of clock industry where the omnipresent movement of Valjoux 7750 is right a practice and VW produces in series play golf.

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Altogether, the watch leaves an impression of a very male watch, incentive your human being metrosexual average to feel uncomfortable with its weight and cuts and mojo. Like all the engineers, this model comprises a strongly readable dial, a pair of easy to use pushpieces and a reasonably large crown. Well, these tiny hands on the dials of stop watch could have been a larger trifle as well as occasion and the window of date, but total it is a beautiful watch.

The company remains the mom about the price of the watch, but I guesstimate which they will charge around .6,000 for the model with stainless steel and more nearly .10,000 for the large Engineer stop watch of pink gold IWC. The potential evaluation for the platinum version gives me the shivers.

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IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Chronograph watch

23 Mar

With the famous Engineer, the line of Da Vinci of the IWC of the watches was not simply a groundbreaker. Almost 25 years ago, when the world was almost conquered by the watches dirt-cheap and strongly precise of quartz, the clock and watch maker principal Kurt Klaus of the IWC arrived in way or other to create an automatic movement with a complication of everlasting calendar which gave to whole industry one second chance.

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The new iteration of the model, the stop watch of everlasting calendar of IWC Da Vinci was presented to SIHH 2009. I strongly doubt of this will become a material change for industry but it is nevertheless one of the most interesting watches indicated in the last years. Actuated by a gauge interns 89800 built of 474 shares, the sophisticated everlasting calendar of the devices strongly has of watch -. Once correctly regulated, the watch will need its first and, theoretically, the last adjustment close one day on March 1, 2100.

What is most interesting about the calendar is that it shows the date and the month in the numerical format. Instead of usual JULY, FEB.and OCT.abbreviations it will show it. 07, it. 02 it. and 10 in its right window located between the 2 hours and the 3 hours in perfect symmetry with the window of date placed of the left wing of the dial. Like Mr. Ariel Adams of the notifications of aBlogtoRead.com in its article runs to Luxist.com, posting will be really convenient for us, Europens since the dated May 4, 2009 one is shown in usual at this time pond 4/05/09 format of. The Americans will have to be accustomed to him or to buy a watch with a more usual format of presentation of data. Such as for example the everlasting calendar of 30me birthday of Jules Audemars by Audemars Piguet or watch of a more recent original pilot of everlasting calendar of the senator Navigator de Glashtte.

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Although I would not be a large ventilator of the barrel-formed watches, this one looks at absolutely splendid though its case of 44 X 52.8 X 16.3 millimetres takes practically all the real estate on a normal wrist.

The will is available soon in a platinum and gold version with this last limited to only 500 units and approximately to $70.000 have the price probably indicated.

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New IWC ‘Father and Son’ Collection

20 Mar

The IWC just announced that one of the next whole of watches which are due for the release to the S.H.H.H. is the collection of father and wire as an element of the celebrations for the birthday of IWC 140th.

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They have the same taste in toys of the traditional men. And when the pairs go side by side against wind and tide, you can rest undoubtedly that they are a strong team – father and wire, indeed. It is a kind of secret society like any other.

With the watches of its pilot for the father and the son, the IWC makes a true proposal association-based for reports/ratios of father-and-wire: large watch controls in platinum for the father, and his stainless steel counterparts slightly smaller for the son. Almost each father has great plans for his son, and our identification with our father starts from an impression above a whole life. That which consciously stimulates this valid and the intimate bond sends a clear signal with this pair of watches. The watches of the pilot for the father and the son are like a guide of masculinity and represent a unit of perfect family. It is also true in technical terms, because the two watches belong to one of the most distinctive families of watch of IWC Schaffhausen – and they are tested – and – watches of pilot examined through and through.

In this particular case, however, they are a little more than that – for them many resemblances show. Like the father and the son. Both have the dial rhodium-plate and of clear color the same ones of the watches of the pilot, the same onion-formed crown easy to use pilot first of the watches of the IWC, and the same leather brown steel rivets of belt of crocodile and characteristics. Carry and hold it outside you of crowd. Individually and even together. The only difference between the two watches is their size – as the father and the son. This ideal combination, which was specifically conceived for this purpose – and this purpose only – is the watches not only also of the pilot available for the father and the son, but also that the watches of the pilot for the father and wire in the framework of an large family to make sure that the equitability reigns and the domestic harmony is maintained.

For those with a technical interest, hidden behind the model for the father in his platinum case of 46.2 X 15.8 millimetres is the ref. 5004, of large the watch controls with gauge 51111, the famous long mechanical movement with an automatic system of rolling up of Pellaton, the date and the seven days reservation of power which is indicated on the dial. Sapphire glass antireflective is particularly fixed against displacement by a sudden fall in the atmospheric pressure. And it watch is resistant to water with bar 6.

The smaller edition for the son corresponds mainly in technical terms to mark XVI of the watch of the pilot to his stainless steel case of 39 X 11.5 millimetres and to the automatic movement 30110calibre. It also has a crown onion-formed by screw-in, sapphire glass antireflective fixed against displacement by a sudden fall in the atmospheric pressure, the watches of the pilot for mark XVI of the watch of the large pilot of father and wire and of the watch of the pilot central occasion and a posting of date. This watch rests also comfortably on the wrist on brown, belt out of crocodile skin and is protected from the loss by staples strong from folding. It, also, is resistant to water with bar 6.

Small but remarkable detail eliminates the undesirable mix-rises, in particular in the case of a crew with several wire: the intimate circle on the back of the watch is reserved for a engraved name, which does not leave the doubt as for which is ready for takeoff.

 
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Laureus IWC watch will be a Da Vinci

20 Mar

As in previous years, all the produced benefit of the watch enter to the sport of Laureus for the charity of good which is run in the conjuction with IWC and Daimler Chrysler. Supports of charity more than 50 projects around the sphere which approach some of the more big challenges of our time, including poverty, racism, the war, the phenomenon of the homeless people, drug-addiction and HIV/Aids. In the whole world, the advantage of approximately 150.00 children annually of the base of the ‘activities of S and this increase daily.

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Show stop watch of IWC Da Vinci

This year the watch of Laureus will be the astounding stop watch of IWC Da Vinci. The watch is an limited edition of 1000 world pieces out of stainless steel and is only provided by retailers of IWC Da Vinci whose David Mr. Robinson is one. The price with the detail of current detail is 8,400 and we provide that the first watches will be available in the end of summer.

 
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