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Blancpain Saint-Valentin Chronograph 2012
Blancpain has once more come up with an exclusive creation for Valentine’s Day, the Saint-Valentin Chronograph 2012.
The collection consists of 14 watches with each of them encrusted with 14 precious stones offering a fresh take on the refined aesthetics of the Blancpain Women collection. With its diamond-set bezel and lugs, caseband set with four diamonds and a heart-shaped ruby, crown adorned with a diamond and push pieces covered with cabochon-cut rubies, the white gold case sparkles with dazzling splendor.
The heart-shaped counterweight of the central sweep seconds hand is delicately hand-painted with a feather. The sapphire crystal back of the 36 mm case reveals the complexity of the movement with its 308 parts and 37 jewels, along with the oscillating weight clothed in pink mother-of-pearl.
The Saint-Valentin Chronograph 2012 houses the self-winding Calibre F185 that drove the very first ladies’ flyback chronograph model. It features central hour and minute hands, seconds shown on a subdial at 6 o’clock and the date appearing through an oval aperture at 12 o’clock.
The chronograph function is displayed by a central sweep seconds hand, while the elapsed minutes and hours are counted off on total at 3 and 9 o’clock. Two pushpieces serve to control the measurements: the first at 2 o’clock starts and stops the chronograph, while the other at 4 o’clock handles the flyback function.
This delightful model, fitted with a white alligator leather strap and presented in a precious wooden box delicately lined with white nappa leather, is available exclusively from Blancpain boutiques.
12 most anticipated luxury watches of SIHH 2012
This New Year the Salon International De La Horlogerie (SIHH) is taking place on January 16 – 20 to showcase many of the many top luxury watch brand’s upcoming timepieces. Along with BaselWorld, SIHH is one of the two most important annual events in haute horology. So here is a view of 12 of the most anticipated luxury watches for SIHH 2012.
Greubel Forsey GMT
It was unveiled a name only in 2004, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have already made a huge impression on the luxury watch industry with their double tourbillon and quadruple tourbillon watches. The Gruebel Forsey GMT is their first piece to feature complications other than their specialty tourbillions. It includes a 2nd time zone display, 24 hour world time display, day-night indicator, power reserve indicator and their signature 24-second tourbillon.
Jaeger-LeColtre Duometre A Quantieme Lunaire 40.5
This is a gorgeous new edition of a popular Jaeger-LeColtre piece released in 2010. This one is a bit smaller with a 40.5mm diameter, but truly stands out with its satin-brushed pink gold details and case, contrasting against the textured matte-finished face. The big center hand counts the seconds, with the bottom sub-dial counting 1/6th of a second. To keep this watch accurate for seconds and 1/6th of a second, it uses two separate power supplies. While this piece is guaranteed to be a hit in 2012, we will have to wait and see what new watches Jaeger-LeColtre surprises us with this year.
Audemars Piguet 40th Anniversary Open-worked Extra-thin Royal Oak
With a view to rejoice the 40th birthday of their iconic Royal Oak watch, Audemars Piguet is releasing a limited edition Royal Oak to celebrate. This look is a throwback to their original 1972 Royal Oak, but with modern advancements. This piece features an open-worked face, showcasing their movement in an extra-thin 39mm platinum case.
Parmigiani Fleurier Tonda Annual Calendar
The watch features a brand new movement by Parmigiani Fleurier. It’s their first with an annual calendar with a retrograde display, which they show-off with an interesting arrangement on its face. The new annual calendar and retrograde display allows it to count each month accurate to 30 or 31, using the red-tipped center hand. The left sub-dial shows the day of the week and the right sub-dial shows the month. The bottom sub-dial shows the moon phase for both hemispheres. (more…)
Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin Mad Men watch
Mad Men star Bryan Batt was lately being connected with Playboy Enterprise in order to dole out a limited edition Hef loveseat. This time Jaeger-LeCoultre has launched a limited edition of its legendary Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin timepiece dedicated to the TV series. The highlight of the product here is the case back which has couple of engravings like Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce and the initials of advertising agency partners.
The timepiece here will ship in a walnut gift box complete with advertising poster of Jaeger-LeCoultre, a copy of Roger Sterling letter, a copy of Roger Sterling’s book ‘Sterling’s Gold’ and the photography of the Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin Mad Men watch. Only 25 such watches will go on sale in February 2012, right before the start of the fifth season and each one of them will be separately numbered.
Hublot King Power Unico GMT watch
Hublot is in all moods to come up with the King Power Unico GMT watch in January 2012, with a new in-house movement for the Unico series. A sneak peek at the first watch of the series, and it is quite impressive. The watch sports 24 timezones on the dial that can get confusing for the wearer. The watch comes with a 48mm dial nested in a gold or black ceramic case, automatic mechanical Hublot Caliber 1220.
Aquarius Planetarium a watch
The Dutch watchmaker is all set to unveil Christiaan van der Klaauw has done just that with the Aquarius Planetarium. The smallest planetarium in the world sports a Sun with six planets orbiting around it. The watch sports Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn orbiting the Sun. It may be the case that rescission hits the planets too as Neptune, Uranus, PIuto and the moons are conspicuously missing.
You will have to shell $100,000 you need to act fast as there will be only one perfect watch, as the watches are limited to 12 units, one for each zodiac sign.
Hublot’s Big Bang Boa Bang
If you have a fascination of animal imprinted watches there are some options available to you at present. But instead if you have a fascination for snakes then Hublot is just a perfect option for you. Hublot is out with its latest collection with a Big Bang Boa Bang in steel and gold versions. Nestled inside an 18K Red Gold Satin-finished 41mm dial with Sapphire crystal Anti-reflective treatment and Gold Brown and Green 18K Red Gold Satin-finished with Sapphire caseback. The watch powered by a HUB4300 Self-winding Chronograph Movement. Sporting Gold Brown and Green18K Crown and Pushers with Red Gold with Black Rubber Inserts and Titanium screws, the watch offers 10-meters water resistance and a 42-hour power reserve.
The bezel is in 18K White Gold set with 48 Fine Precious Baguette of Andalusite, Dark Smoked and Transparent Quartz for the Steel Brown and Green version and sports 8K Red Gold set with 48 Fine Precious Baguette of Light-green Tsavorit, Tourmaline and Light-green Sapphire for the Gold Brown and Green version. The Steel Brown and Green watch sports a Boa Bang Color Dial with Rhodium Plated Appliques and 8 Diamonds for 0.14ct Polished Rhodium Plated Hands, while the Gold variant features Plated Hands instead.
Cartier Rotonde Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon
The first minute repeater is live by Cartier. The minute repeater is on display at New York, it is called as the Cartier Rotonde Minute Repeater Flying Tourbillon. This is a Limited Edition collection with 50 pieces crafted in rose gold and 50 pieces in titanium. Entirely developed in-house, the Rotonde has a case measuring 45mm and sapphire crystals to adorn the beauty. For practicality sake Cartier has even designed this watch to be water resistant upto 30 meters. Now that is seriously cool. It is approximately priced at $288,200 in titanium and $295000 in pink gold. And we think the price is quite reasonable for the kind of superior mechanism used by Cartier.
The Rotonde features an incredible caliber 9402 MC that uses 447 pieces to produce a minute repeater with a sound level of an incredible 68 decibels in titanium and 63 when composed of rose gold. The movement is the Swiss manual-wind Cartier in-house caliber 9402MC with 47 jewels. 20 of these watches can be produced per year by Cartier. It comes to no surprise now that Cartier took 4 years to roll out the Rotonde, their first minute repeater and it doesn’t disappoint one bit.
Rolex Milgauss I Love You edition
In order to make this valentine extra special, Bamford has launched a special edition I love you’ Rolex Milgauss custom watch. These love-pieces $15,500 and you might be able to get one of the 10 limited watches. This unique 40mm Milgauss collection has been crafted keeping the original 1956 Milgauss in mind, like the unique lightening second hand. However, for features like Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) and the new scarlet colour modification, one has to get in touch with the Bamford Watch Department. PVD, unlike PDA is a technical term. It is an advanced military coating resulting in an almost diamond hard’ finish.
Cabestan Trapezium watch
Cabestan Trapezium is the name of a watch which is not in trapezium shape. It’s actually a vertical trapezium, instead of a horizontal one. Thanks to its unique design, Winch Tourbillon Vertical movement can be viewed from all angles. You need to pull out the two crowns placed on either on either side of the case that can help you in winding the watch, and set time. Visually stunning, the pricing is expected to be around $255,765.
Hublot’s Magic Gold can be scratched only with a diamond
Recently, Metallurgy department of the Hublot Manufacture in Nyon, in collaboration with EPFL has come out with a brand new range alloys that can revolutionize the characteristics of precious materials and may also pave the way for new alloys to be used in the high-tech industry.
The focus was on a genuine “fusion” of 24-carat gold and the very latest in high-tech materials expertise. The alloy which took three years of collaborative research has resulted in a new kind of 18 carat noble gold, with patents pending.
This new 18-carat Hublot gold comes with 1000 Vickers hardness rating which means that it can only really be “scratched” by diamond. Crafted using a complex process, the alloy uses boron carbide powder formed by cold isostatic that are pressed closed moulds that can create watch cases, bracelets, bezels, etc.
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