The ninth British Classic Yacht Club(BCYC) Cowes Regatta (Isle of Wight, UK) will join the prestigious Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge Circuit (PCYC) from 2010 as part of a three-year sponsorship deal signed this month.
The BCYC Cowes Regatta whichwill take place from Sunday 18th to Saturday 24th July 2010 will be the first UK event to join the Panerai Circuit. 2010 will be the sixth edition of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge and marks the largest and most renowned classic yacht race in the world. Each year the Challenge draws yachting enthusiasts from around the globe and the most highly regarded Classic Yachts sailing today, in 2009 over 350 yachts and 1,500 crews competed overall in the Circuit.
The event will now be known as The British Classic Yacht Club Panerai Cowes Regatta - The BCYC Panerai Cowes Regatta is held in the tidal waters of the Solent, a stretch of sea separating the Isle of Wight from the mainland of England. The highlight of the week’s racing is the Classic Round the Island Race, starting on the Royal Yacht Squadron line before racing the 60 mile course either East or West around the Isle of Wight. The 2010 Round the Island race will be held on Tuesday 20th July.
The BCYC and Officine Panerai envisage that the 2010 event will be the largest Classic Yacht Regatta in the UK since the Americas Cup Jubilee Regatta in 2001, and are predicting that over 65 yachts will compete.
Panerai celebrated on 2009 being for the fifth time the sponsor of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge, an event that not only includes regattas in the Mediterranean, but also in the Caribbean and the Atlantic ocean in which, ninety percent of the vessels are wooden boats. 2009 season saw 350 classic yachts in all, requiring 1.500 crewmembers.
Not another brand would be as appropriate as Panerai as the brand stands on class and savoir pillars, as the luxurious watchmaking brad it is.
In order to commemorate de sponsorship of the Classic Yacht Challenge, Panerai each year crafts a limited edition of mechanical timepieces. In 2009, Luminor 1950 Regatta Rattrapante 44 mm in DLC steel, a C.OS.C. rated chronometer was the star of the sponsorship.
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Jackson Curtis -John Cusack- wears a IWC Mark XVI Wristwatch
88 Minutes (2007)
Seattle. Jack Gramm, a successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor, is in evidence since being responsible for the condemnation of a serial killer -Jon Forster- being able of influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call…
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After the Sunset (2004)
Two master thieves are finally retiring after one last successful mission. Residing in their own tropical paradise, their old nemesis, FBI Agent Stan P. Lloyd shows up to make sure they really are retired. Docked in the port is an ocean liner called the "Diamond Cruise" and Stan is convinced that they're not really retired at all, and that this is the next setup. While Lola is busy settling into their new life and trying to find ways to keep busy, Max is contemplating whether or not to steal the diamond. Will he?
Max Burdett -Pierce Brosnan- wears a Panerai Wristwatch
America’s Next Top Model (known as well as Top Model or ANTM) is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America’s Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modelling industry.
Nigel Barker – Rolex DateJust – America’s Next Top Model.
J. Alexander - Rolex - America’s Next Top Model.
CSI: Miami
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine (David Caruso) – Ritmo Mundo Ponce.
CSI: New York
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Dr. Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper) – Kobold – CSI: NY.
House
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Hamilton Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) – Hamilton Khaki King
Heroes
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The quality of the equipment while diving turns to be more than an important issue before descending into deep ocean. Diver’s watches are specially designed for deep depths and equipped with its special case, as protecting the case is the main goal. In order to be considered a diving one, a watch must be qualified as suitable for up to 150 metres / 450 feet, even though most of the watches considered to be suitable for diving are appropriate for more than 200 meters. The “O” rings, usually made of nylon, are a very important part of submersible watches as it works as a protection sealing for the case and also for the crown. In order to avoid case deformations caused by the pressured of depth, most of the cases are produced with extra thick walls. Even though, because of the potential risks, divers do not usually reach such deep profundities, watches show such depth capabilities because of the way their hermetecism is tested. This procedure is done in a static way and pressure in real life is much more, as the watch is being moved attached to a diver’s arm. As a direct consequence of this fact, a watch that is just used to swim must be at least submersible up to 50 meters at least. The unidirectional bezel is what gives divers’ watches their most popular characteristic, as each immersion has a limit of elapsed time. That’s why it is more than important to have precise elements as divers life is in constant risk. Just by rotating the bezel till the minute hand at the moment in which the immersion starts, the diver will perfectly know for how long he has remain in depth. The reason of featuring a unidirectional rotating bezel is that if by accident it moves on its own, it would only short time remaining instead of extending it, keeping the diver’s life safe. Another important part of the watch related to keeping diver’s life safe is the seconds hand which when ascending it marks how fast the diver is ascending as one feet per second is recommended. Some of the well-known diver’s watches are:
Omega the first wristwatch brand to produce a diver’s watch, the Marine. (1932)
Officine Panerai (1938)
From LIP and Blancpain, the Fifty Fathoms (1953)
Rolex Submariner (1956)revolution.
Rolex Dweller (1967)
Omega Seamaster Professional 600m, known as Omega PloProf between the circle of collectors.
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.
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