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Brioni creates Crocodile Skin Watch Box for your unique watch collection
Italian luxury fashion house, Brioni has presented a very stylish crocodile skin watch box, as the perfect depository for your collection of Rolexes and Patek-Philippes.
Made of genuine alligator skin and lined with suede and glove-soft leather, this beautiful new watch box features gold-plated hardware and holds six watches in removable compartments, along with a separate slim portfolio to hold additional watch straps.
Priced at $5000, the box is available in classic brown, black and red.
Mont Blanc’s Personal Code Ink edition thwarts forgery attempts
Mont Blanc recently unveiled in Dubai, a personal code ink edition, unique to each user, to do away with forgery of signatures since only one person will own this ink – you.
What’s special about this ink is that it consists of components containing an invisible, inimitable botanical code, similar to the human DNA to prevent falsification of signatures.
This is how Mont Blanc have planned things ” when a document, letter or momento bearing the owner’s signature is presented, Mont Blanc will verify the authenticity of the Personal Code Ink.
The package for this edition includes an exquisite black lacquer wooden box and two exclusive Meisterstƒ¼ck writing instruments: the Meisterstƒ¼ck Signature Pen and the Meisterstƒ¼ck Solitaire Barley Rollerball with alligator cases and a supply of ink.
The personal code ink edition can be ordered exclusively from Montblanc stores.
The ‘Instrumento Novantatre’ timepiece: A True Jewel
The timepiece launched by Instrumento Novantatre in 2007 has been upgraded and made into a true jewel.
Specifications:
- 47.2 x 40 mm
- Self winding mechanical movement
- Three variations: baguette-cut‚ rubies (in pink stingray), blue sapphires (in blue stingray, and a (black alligator leather) diamond-set version
- Oversized 9 and 3 numerals set with baguette-cut black or white diamonds, blue sapphires and rubies
The most striking feature of this radiant timepiece is the detailed assembly of gems in such a way that there is a striking contrast with the gem-setting on the dial.
Girard-Perregaux Opera One marks an unparalleled horological intelligence
Swiss luxury watch manufacture Girard-Perregaux has marked a remarkably complex technical accomplishment in its first ever Å”Opera watch, which comes in three new variations – Opera One, Opera Two, and Opera Three.
This unique version of its Opera One model integrates a tourbillon and a minute repeater ” which are said to be the most complex and challenging functions of a timepiece.
Specifications:
- 18 ct white gold case (measuring 40mm)
- 40mm white gold case
- Semi-transparent tinted sapphire dial
- Sapphire case-back
- GP9899 manual winding mechanical movement (with 37 jewels)
- Westminster chime marks the hours using four hammers to play a melody of four different notes
- Frequency: 21,600 vibrations per hour
- Water resistant up to 30 meters
- Power‚ reserve: 75+ hours
- Alligator strap with an 18ct folding buckle
Big Bang Maradona timepiece honors Diego Maradona
Swiss watch maker has Humblot paid a tribute to legendary Argentine footballer Diego Maradona with the Big Bang Maradona timepiece. Also, the great footballer has signed a contract with Humblot to be their newest brand ambassador.
Specifications:
- HUBLOT HUB1146 chronograph movement with 55 jewels
- ‚ 42 hours power reserve
- 44.5 mm in diameter
- Black ceramic case
- Sapphire crystal covered a black dial face
- Argentine blue and white in luminescent on numerals
- Maradona’s jersey number, 10 in Mexcellent font inscribed on a sub-dial around the 3 o’clock position
- Etched version of his signature on the dial’s 6 o’clock position
- Black ceramic case back with another sapphire crystal adorned with an image of Diego Maradona’s arms up in victory
- Alligator band
Limited to only 250 units, the Big Bang Maradona is available at selected HUBLOT retailers.
Hermès Arceau Squelette Sellier unveiled!
The HermĬs Arceau Squelette Sellier which was unveiled at the Baselworld 2010 is truly an irreplaceable timepiece that speaks the language of craftsmanship in a handsome design for the courageous, self-assured man.
Specifications include:
- Mechanical self-winding Calibre H 1928
- Skeleton-worked movement
- Hand engraving on the movement bridges that represent the braiding and saddle stitching performed by leather artisans at HermĬs
- Hand-chamfered and polished bridges and mechanisms.
- 41 mm case
- Antiglare sapphire crystal glass on both the case back and bezel
- 950 platinum case
- White gold dial featuring blued white gold hands and cloisonnƒ enameled numerals.
- 28,800 vibrations per hour
- 55-hour power reserve
- 200 parts and 32 jewels
- Water-resistant to 50 metres
- Matt havana alligator strap
- Pin buckle
Chopard unveils the L.U.C Louis Ulysse pocket-to wrist-watch
The L.U.C Louis Ulysse pocket- to wrist-watch from Chopard celebrates the brand’s 150th anniversary and pays tribute to brand founder – Louis-Ulysse Chopard.
Offered in a limited number of 150 pieces, the L.U.C Louis Ulysse pocket- to wrist-watch can be magically transformed from a pocket-watch into a wristwatch in just one swift move, and then switched back to a pocket-watch.
- 18kt white gold in satin finish
- Watch face: 49.5mm in diameter
- Glare-resistant cambered sapphire crystal in the Ŕlacquered ceramic dial
- Number of jewels: 20
- 21,600 vibrations per hour
- 80-hour power reserve
- 30-meter water-resistance
- hand-sewn matte black alligator leather strap
- pin buckle that carries the Chopard logo
- Bridges adorned with Å”Cƒ´tes de Genƒ¨ve motif
- Chronometer-certified (COSC)
The innovative watch is actually a reinterpretation of an invention of Karl Scheufele I: the founder of Eszeha, the Scheufele family company, and the now president of Chopard.
Vacheron Constantin Quai de l The watch of your dreams
Vacheron Constantin, oldest and most experienced producer of fine timepieces in the world has introduced the Quai de l’le’ in two models: the Quai de l’Ile Date Self-winding and the Quai de l’Ile Day-Date and Power-Reserve Self-winding. The customer can choose from three metals, two dials and two different finishes on the movements.
Specifications include:
- Water resistant to a depth of 30 metres
- Shiny alligator leather
- Power reserve of approx 40 hours
- 3D modeling
- laser engraving
- The micro-metallization of printed words on sapphire crystal
The timepieces range from $29,000 to $53,550 and are available with either a day-date or an automatic date movement. This day-date model can be customized with different combinations of rose gold, titanium, and palladium for the watch’s modular case.
Glashƒ¼tte Original COSC certified Chronometer timepiece
Glashutte has unveiled another superb novelty at Baselworld 2009″the Senator Chronometer, GO’s first COSC certified Chronometer timepiece.
Specifications include:
- 42 mm white gold case
- Manual wind Caliber 58-01 movement
- A vintage style silver frosted dial with blued hands and black Roman markers
- Power reserve indicator
- A day/night indicator
- Special second zero reset function
- Water resistant to 50 meters
- Black Louisiana alligator strap with folding clasp
Available in rose gold ($26,900) or white gold ($28,000
Gerald Genta most complex Octo Grand Sonnerie Tourbillon Watch
Gerald Genta has created its most complex and first water resistant (upto 30 metres) Grande Sonnerie watch in the world, in a very limited edition (10 pieces), each taking about a year to make.
Priced at $9,00,000, the case is 46mm wide in titanium, steel, a bronze allow, a white gold allow, and Magsonic.
Other specifications:
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