Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, comedian, writer, musician and playwright who writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. His script thematic centres mainly on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, European cinema and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.
Allen was born and raised in New York City, the son of Nettie (a bookkeeper) and Martin Konigsberg (a jewellery engraver and waiter). After high school, he went to New York University (NYU), where he studied communication and film. He was never committed as a student, so he failed a film course, and was eventually expelled.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
After finishing his third London film, Allen headed to Spain. He reached an agreement to film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in Barcelona and Oviedo, where shooting started on July 9, 2007. Starring international actors and actresses as Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Rebecca Hall and Penélope Cruz, the plot centres on two North American women, Vicky and Cristina, spending a summer in Barcelona. They both meet an artist who is attracted to both of them while still enamoured of his mentally and emotionally unstable ex-wife María Elena. Vicky Cristina Barcelona was more than well received, winning "Best Musical or Comedy" at the Golden Globe awards. Penélope Cruz received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film.
As in Scoop (2006), the wristwatch and jewellery company Chopard was the one in charge of the jewellery for the director’s jewels.
(Penélope Cruz)
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born April 28, 1974), better known as Penélope Cruz, is a Spanish actress. She worked in well known films such as Jamón, Jamón (Ham Ham), La Niña de tus ojos (The girl in your eyes), and Belle époque. She also starred in several American films such as Blow, Vanilla Sky, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona. She is well known for her work with Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, in Volver and Todo sobre mi madre (Everything about my mother). Cruz has been awarded three Goyas, two European Film Awards, and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2009, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a Goya, and a BAFTA for her role in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. She is Spain's first female Oscar winner.
(Javier Bardem)
Javier Bardem is the youngest member of a family of actors that has been making films since the early days of Spanish cinema. During his teenage years he acted in several TV series, played rugby for the Spanish National Team and toured the country with an independent theatrical group. Javier's early film role as a sexy stud in the black comedy Jamón, jamón (Ham Ham) propelled him to instant popularity. With over 25 movies and numerous awards under his belt, it is Javier's stirring, passionate performance that made him received five Best Actor awards and a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
(Scarlett Johansson)
Scarlett I. Johansson (born November 22, 1984) is an American actress and singer. Johansson rose to fame with her role in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her roles in Ghost World, Lost in Translation (for which she won a BAFTA), and Girl with a Pearl Earring, the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003.
Between the cheapest luxurious watches, there’s a wide range of styles and brands that, without paying a large amount of money can please us with the satisfaction of wearing a high quality and esteemed watch.
Each brand has its cheapest watch, not meaning it is not a qualified one, of course. So, according to the cheapest watches of the most important watchmakers, there are some models that must be re-introduced:
Rolex Datejust Mid-Size Ref. 178240 $4.140.00
Gender:Mid-Size
Movement: Automatic.
Dial: Blue with applied roman numeral hour markers and bar-shaped hands.
Case: Stainless Steel, Diameter: 31 mm; thickness: 11 mm. Smooth bezel. Screw-down back and screw-down crown. Water resistant to 100 meters or 300 feet.
Function: Hours, minutes, sweep seconds and quick set d
ate.
Band: Oyster Style Bracelet in Stainless Steel with Flip Lock clasp; 7.25 inches.
Movement: Quartz precision movement with rhodium plated finish. Caliber Omega: 1456
Dial: Black with applied Diamond
s hour markers and bar shaped hands.
Case: Stainless Steel and Diamond
s on Bezel, round shape. Diameter: 22 mm.
Thickness: 8 mm. Bezel engraved with roman numerals and diamonds. Scratch Resistant Sapphire Crystal with anti reflective treatment. Water resistant to 30 meters or 100 feet.
Function: Hours and minutes.
Band: Stainless Steel Bracelet with Folding Clasp; 6 inches.
Movement: Hand-wound mechanical, Panerai Luminor Marina (Officine Panerai Watches) OP XI calibre with swan's neck regulator, 16½ lignes, 17 jewels, Côtes de Genève decoration on the bridges. Glucydur® balance with Nivarox® I spring, 21,600 alternations/hour. Incab.
Dial: White with arabic numeral hour markers. Luminescent overlapped by tritium points and bar-shaped hands.
Steel device protecting the crown: registered Trade Mark. Scratch resitant sapphire crystal (formed of c
orundum, 3.5 mm thick). Anti-reflective coating. Water resistant to 300 meters or 990 feet.
Function: Hour, minutes and subsidiary seconds.
Band: Brown Leather Strap with PANERAI personalised buckle. Supplied with a steel screwdriver and a second interchangeable Strap.
Reference Number: PAM00113
Indications: Subsidiary seconds at 9.
Tag Heuer Formula 1 Quartz Ref. WAH1111.BT0714 $560.00
Movement:Quartz movement.
Dial: White with luminescent applied stick hour markers and bar shaped hands. Arrow head on second hands.
Case: Stainless Steel, round shaped. Diameter: 41 mm. Scratch-resistant titanium carbide coated unidirectional turning bezel with 60-minute scale. Scratch Resistant Sapphire crystal. Screw-in crown. Water resistant to 200 meters or 660 fee
t. Case back with special "checker flag" decoration.
Function: Hours, minutes, sweep seconds and quick set date.
Band: Black Rubber Strap with steel tang buckle; 7 inches.
Reference Number: WAH1111.BT0714
Indications Date aperture at 3.
Signatures: Dial, Case and Band.
Longines DolceVita Quartz Date Ref. L5.503.4.98.6 $960.00
Movement:Quartz movement. Caliber L2
51.
Dial: Blue with applied Arabic numerals and stick hour markers. Daunphin shaped hands.
Case: Stainless Steel, rectangular shape. Case Measures: 34 mm. x 25mm. Double-curved scratch resistant sapphire crystal. Water resistant to 30 meters or 100 feet.
Function: Hours, minutes and date.
Band: Stainless Steel Bracelet with triple folding clasp.
Reference Number: L5.503.4.98.6
Indications: Date aperture between 4 and 5.
IWC Aquatimer Mens Automatic Ref. IW354807 $3.140.00
Gender:Mens
Movement: Mechanical with automatic winding; Caliber 30110; 23 jewels; 28,800 v.p.h.; Power Reserve: 42 hours.
Dial: Black with luminescent applied stick hour markers and bar shaped hands.
Case: Stainless Steel, round shape. Diameter: 42 mm.
Thickness: 12,8 mm. Uni-directional rotating inner bezel. Anti-reflective convex sapphire crystal. Push-button release safety clasp. Water resistant to 1000 meters or 3000 feet.
Function: Hours, minutes, central seconds with stop function and date.
Band: Black Rubber Strap with tang buckle.
Reference Number: IW354807
Indications: Date aperture at 3.
Chopard Mille Miglia Mens GMT Chronometer Automatic Ref. 16/8992$3.740.00
d luminescent sword-shaped hands, red arrow-tip second hand. Luminescent GMT hand.
Case: Stainless Steel, round shaped. Diameter: 42.5 mm. Bezel engraved with 24 hour indication. Glare proofed Sapphire crystal. Transparent case-back. Water resistant to 50 meters or 165 feet.
Function: Hours, minutes, sweep seconds, subsidiary seconds, date, 3 chrono registers, GMT and Tachometer from 240 to 60 km/h.
Band: Black Perforated Leather Strap with Steel deployment clasp, 8 inches (adjustable).
Reference Number: 16/8992
Indications: Magnified date displays at 3. 12 hours chrono register at 6, subsidiary seconds at 9 and 30 seconds chrono register at 12.Tachometer's scale on inner bezel.
Even though collecting watches is one of the most expensive hobbies worldwide, it can also take us to many antique timepieces and also to modern innovations giving to the activity or to the search of unique models one of the most satisfying rewarding. The are a wide range of prices when speaking about watches. The top 10 most expensive watchmakers companies around the world are: Vacheron Constantin, Blancpain, Audemars Piguet, Girard-Perregaux, ChronoSwiss, Chopard, Jaeger-LeCoultre, International Watch Company (IWC), Omega and Breguet. As for a top ten of the most expensive watches, from the most expensive one to the tenth most expensive (but not the most):
- Chopard’s 25 Million Dollars Watch This unique timepiece is ornamented with three local point heart-shaped diamonds (a fifteen carat pink diamond, a twelve carat blue diamond and an eleven carat white diamond) in addition to the 163 carats of white and yellow diamonds, brings a total of 201 carats.
- Patek Phillipe’s Supercomplication: 11 Million Dollar Watch The Supercomplication watch it is said to have been produced by James Ward Packard in order to commission a watch containing the most complications worldwide. Even though Henry Graves Jr, the banker for whom the watch was produced in 1932, won the contest, the watch wasn’t beaten till fifty years later when Patek Phillipe came up with the 33 complications watch, the 18 carat gold Caliber 89. The price of this timepiece is 6 million dollars.
- Patek Phillipe’s Platinum World Time: estimated over 4 Million Dollars This Patek Phillipe’s Platinum World Time is believed to be an only one time creation and when produced, the most expensive watch at the moment.
- Vacheron Constantin’s Tour de I’lle: 1.5 Million Dollars Watch After over 10.000 hours of research in order to create the Tour de I’lle Vacheron Constantine’s watch, the brand came up with the world’s most complicated wristwatch. This wristwatch was produced in a limited edition of seven only one of its kind watches that combine horological complications with astronomical indications .
- Hublot Black Caviar Bang, 1 Million Dollar Watch Topped with some extremely rare black diamonds, 531 widely distributed black diamonds. Most of them are square cut not less than 322 stones on the case, 179 on the bezel and 30 at the end of the strap, on the clasp. Not just the diamonds make of this watch a very exclusive one, but also, the complications and the design.
- Big Bang Chronograph Hublot’s Wristwatch: 1 Million Dollar Watch Hublot together with a diamond-setting workshop (Bunter SA) designed and developed an inimitable watch called Big Bang. It features an invisible setting were the only things that can be seen are the diamonds.
- Classical Billionaire Tourbillion Corum’s Wristwatch: 998,000 Dollars The sparkling wristwatch features 850 diamonds and also has a stunning carcass dial with hour and minute hands. The watch has a 90-hour power reserve and a Caliber CO-372 by Corum and La Joux-Perret. Only 10 pieces are in production.
- Tecnica Skeleton Chronograph: an 850,000 Dollars Parmigiani Fleurier’s Wristwatch. It features: platinum case, minute repeater, tourbillon and chronograph, as well as a cathedral chime, between many other attractions like the diamonds it features and its amazing design.
- Grande Complication Blancpain’s 785.000 Dollars Wristwatch. This wristwatch features a minute repeater, split-seconds chronograph, tourbillon, perpetual calendar, moon phase, an automatic winding mechanism, a sleek crocodile wristband. It is said to take the maker from 8 to 10 months to put together all the 740 components and that only 18 of that brilliant limited edition run of 30 watches have been assembled till now.
What moves Chopard is Passion and their belief is that it is all about Luxury but not for a mass but for each individual customer. This Chopard Classique Homme watch in white gold features a white dial black leather strap. The Chopard Classique Homme also features a a manual movement.
The dial on these watches feature circles/hearts inside bigger circles/hearts and a spinning diamond in the center. The movement is quartz and there's a big diversity of dial color and strap combination. This gives customers the possibility to fulfill their personal taste and requirements. This Chopard Happy Spirit watch in white gold features a 32mm diamond case, pink mother-of-pearl dial, diamond bezel with a single floating diamond, and a pink leather bracelet. The Chopard Happy Spirit also features a quartz movement and is water resistant to 30 meters.
This collection watches are exclusive, as well as the the work done to set each diamond in its own cup. This is why this collection has become a real asset for Chopard. During a walk in the Black Forest in the 1970s, Ronald Kurowski, a Chopard designer, was so thrilled by the sight of a thousands of drops of water reflecting the daylight and sparkling with all the colours of the rainbow escaping from the waterfall that, this vision, sparked a brilliant idea: that diamonds should shine their brightest, they had to be freed from the claws that held them and allowed to spin freely. It was this way that the Happy Diamonds concept was born. “Diamonds are happiest when they are free". "It was in these words that Karin Scheufele, head of Chopard, welcomed the first creation with mobile diamonds. This expression caught on and the watch was named “Happy Diamonds”.
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