Audemars Piguet: The Royal Oak Carbon Concept

Carbon fibre has been the preferred material for high-performance applications that demand sturdiness. Formula 1 race cars, America’s Cup yachts and, even aerospace vehicles, have fully leveraged the material’s technical properties: strength and lightness.
Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet is a pioneer according to the use of carbon fibre for function as well as form. The Royal Oak Carbon Concept is surprisingly light thanks to materials such as forged carbon, amorphous carbon coatings, ceramics, titanium, and anodized aluminium, which forms the watch’s green central bridge. The absence of a dial provides a full view of the hand-wound Caliber 2895 movement’s key components: the tourbillon carriage—comprising more than 70 parts yet weighing a mere 0.45 grams—and the column wheel, which is the chronograph’s nerve centre. Audemars presents a novel twist on the 30-minute chronograph with a linear minute counter consisting of two columnar scales, with tens of minutes on the left and single minutes on the right. Tiny windows that correspond to each numeral mark elapsed time by changing from white to black. The wearer shifts from winding to time-setting by adjusting the stem.




Technical data:

Movement
Calibre: 2895, hand-wound with tourbillon
Total diameter: 151/3 lignes (34.60 mm)
Casing-diameter: 33.80 mm
Thickness: 12.01 mm
34 jewels
384 parts
Power reserve: 237 hours
Cadence of the balance:
21,600 vibrations per hour
Finishing: hand-polished bevelling, sides hand-drawn with a file, matt surface, sapphire-blasted
Carbon mainplate, eloxed aluminium bridges

Case
Forged carbon
Ceramic bezel
Caseback ring in black PVD-coated titanium
Diameter: 44 mm
Total thickness: 15.85 mm
Sapphire crystal caseback
Water-resistance: 100 m

Display
Integrated onto the movement
Graduated dial ring with luminescent hour-markers and white minute markers
Openworked luminescent hour and minute hands

Strap
Hand-sewn alligator leather with large square scales,
AP folding clasp in titanium

Functions
Hours and minutes
Linear chronograph minute counter with central sweep seconds hand
Power-reserve indication
Selection indicator

Jaeger LeCoultre and Polo: the Reverso 78th Anniversary.

Polo is a team sport played on horseback; it was first played in Persia/Iran in 600 B.C. or much earlier. It was, at first, a training game for cavalry units, usually the king’s guard or other elite troops. It was often played with as many as 100 to a side, like a miniature battle.

It soon became an Iranian national sport played by the nobility and during the medieval times, it was the favourite sport of the Ayyubid and Mameluke dynasties of Egypt and the Levant. It later passed from Persia to other parts of Asia including the Indian subcontinent and China, were it became really popular during Tang Dynasty.

The game was played from Constantinople to Japan by the Middle Ages, it was known as the Game of the Kings. Its name, Polo, is said to have been derived from the Tibetan word “pulu”, meaning ball.

The modern game of polo, even though it was formalized and popularized by the British, it really derived from Manipur (India). It was then in 1834, where the first polo club was established in a little town in India called Silchar, in Assam.

According to Great Britain, the first polo club was established in 1862 by two soldiers who then spread the game to their peers in England. The British are credited with spreading polo worldwide in the late 19th century and the early 20th century.

Field polo requires two teams of 4 players. A full-size field is 300 yards long, and either 200 yards or 160 yards wide if there are side boards—these are generally 6" high. There are tall collapsable goalposts at each end of the field spread 8 yards apart. The object of the game is to score the most goals by hitting the ball through the goal. Ends are changed after a goal is scored. Polo found popularity in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Pakistan and the United States of America.




Jaeger LeCoultre has had a very closed relationship with equestrian polo sin 1931. Such closed relationship that the Reverso, by Jaeger LeCoultre, was designed speacially to withstand the rough and stumble, both characteristic of the sport.

In 2006 it was the Reverso 75th anniversary. In order to celebrate such event, the company sponsored numerous polo events like hosting the Maharaja Sir Pratap Singh Cup.

A Jaeger LeCoultre Reverso watch is distinguished among thousand of watches. Icon of the high watchmaking, Jaeger Le-coultre Reverso is distinguished by its elegant case that slides along its base to rotate on itself. Its sober and strong lines are based on the Art Déco style: clear and sober aesthetic, passion for the hand made "savoir-faire", for the precious materials and the good life style. The rotation of its case is an invitation to play with the time. Exaltation of the spirit , Jaeger Le-coultre Reverso shows its duality having a second face. Only a rotation is needed for the watch to become into a jewel that can be personalized with an eternal seal. It makes the people sights to follow the tic tac of its trains o shows a second esphera. In more than 70 years, not only has Jaeger Le-coultre Reverso become a legend, but also a jewel into the watchmaking. This big classic of the Art Déco is the inspiration of the best watchmakers and inventors who only wish to imagine new interpretation for this line.













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NEW: CHANEL J12 Superleggera 2009

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In order to decrease the weight of the model, the ‘J12′ Superleggera collection is equipped with an automatic chronograph ETA2894-A2, which is a streamlined model of Caliber 7750.

Sporty, with a light weight and masculine, the Superleggera were inspired from the ultra light racing cars of the 1950s combining the ultra-light articulated black rubber bracelet with a ceramic case.






Specifications:

Materials: Matte black ceramic and aluminum.
Bracelet: Ultra light, black, articulated rubber with steel automatic double-folding buckle.
Case Back: With central disc in black sapphire revealing the words ‘CHANEL-Superleggera’.

Dial: Silver-plated satin finish with black numerals
Crown and Pushbuttons: Screw-in in ceramic and aluminum
Hands and Indexes: Phosphorescent SuperLuminova

Functions: Chronograph with two counters and tachometer scale to calculate speeds in km/hr or mph
Movement: Automatic. It is certified as a chronometer by the COSC (Contole Official Suisse des Chronometers).

Water Resistance: 200 meters
Model #h1624












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NEW: Porsche Design P'6612 PTC Watch Collection

(Porsche Design P'6612 PTC watch collection)

The P'6612 PTC is destined to join the Porsche Design watch collection. The timepiece features an innovative DLC finish. According to the Porsche Design Dashboard P'6612 PTC’s dial, it was inspired by Porsche sports car’s dashboards. Characterized by its clear structure, it features the distinctively typical honeycomb pattern. As for the colour, it was created in black or white and completed with white and red accents enhancing its sporting, dynamic look.

The tachymeter dial for measuring speed corresponds to the classical Porsche Design typography and its numerals and indices have acquired a light or dark rhodanized-diamond finish, provided with white Superluminova coating. Chronograph function was highlighted in red. The three totalizators feature light or dark rhodanized surrounds and the dial has a DLC-coated bezel.



The Porsche Design P'6612 PTC Dashboard was fitted with a special Porsche Design rotor that, produced from a coated heavy metal, is secured by polished screws on the high-strength titanium rotor blade. While the rotor was produced from light titanium, the outermost ring was produced from a heavy metal.

Unveiled at Baselworld 2008, the new Porsche Design Dashboard P'6612 PTC will be available in Porsche Design Stores and in specialist shops from autumn 2008.












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Ducati Binda Group New Wristwatch: Corse Line

The Binda Group, in one hand, established in 1906, is the Italian market leader located in Milan headed by the brothers Marcello and Simone Binda, grandsons of the founder.

With 8 subsidiaries (Binda Italia, Binda USA, Binda Brazil, Binda UK, Binda Deutschland, Binda España, Binda Portugal and Binda China), 50 distributors, serving over 12,000 retail stores worldwide and 47 Breil Milano monobrand boutiques and Group multibrand stores under the B-Hip! Name, the Binda Group has 3 main business units: watches, jewellery and leather. It produces and distributes its own brands, such as Breil Milano, Breil Tribe, Wyler Genève and Details and brands under license such as D&G Time and Jewels, Moschino CheapandChic Watches and Jewels, Ducati and Ducati Corse Watches.

Geneva Watch Group, on the other hand, established in 1974 and is today one of the leading US-based company in the design, production and distribution of watches in New York, Michigan, Hong Kong and China.

The company has two business units - Status and Advance. Status produces and distributes licensed brands (Kenneth Cole New York, Kenneth Cole Reaction, Tommy Bahama, Betsey Johnson, BCBG Maxazria, Ted Baker London, Mexx and Speedo) and its own brand Freestyle.

Ducati, the leading high-performance motorbike company is now offering a wristwatch line, made by Binda Group, dedicated to true motorbike racing fans, with its tough and competitive spirit and strong personality.

The Ducati Corse features a Swiss-made quarts movement in a 44 mm black case accompanied with a stainless steel bezel, with red or black dial. The Ducati Course costs $955.

Ducati’s movements are exclusively Swiss Made. Case waterproofing is guaranteed up to a pressure of 10 atmospheres.

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Breitling for Bentley – Bentley Perpetual

As Bentley blends tradition and technology in each of its models, the Bentley Perpeutal Chonograph was manufactured following the same principles. Its mechanism features 500 pieces. This Chronograph with Perpetual Calendar indicates day, date, week, month, season, moon phases and it is also prepared to count the variations according to leap years. This watch, its mechanism, its machine, its engine and the way it works and the accurate is results is certificated by Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC).

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Eric Clapton's Rolex "Albino" Daytona was sold for $505.000 during Sotheby’s Important Watches Auction

In 2008, during Sotheby’s Important Watches Auction a very rare Rolex model called the “Albino” Rolex Daytona produced in 1971. This watch was formerly owned by musician Eric Clapton.




Eric Clapton was born in 30th March, 1945. Eric is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Yardbirds, then Cream and also as a solo performer. He was often considered to be by critics and fans as one of a kind musician, one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Clapton was ranked fourth in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #53 on their list of the Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

Even though this wristwatch was supposed to reach a price between $100.000 - $150.000, according to estimations made by watch experts. It was sold for $505.000.
Nicknamed “Albino” because of the monochrome silver colour of its back round and subsidiary dial, it wasn’t quite popular between the Daytona models.












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NEW Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 Jackpot Tourbillon

Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 Jackpot Tourbillon combines a Tourbillon and a slot machine equipped with a striking mechanism incorporated in the elegant Art Deco Vintage 1945 case, now proposed in white gold Bridge and a slot machine.

The integrated movement comprises 502. It features a separate barrel; the lever can be pulled an unlimited number of times without affecting the four-day power-reserve of the watch. This exceptional timepiece is hollowed out and delicately lacquered making of this a very unique piece.




Description:
White gold case
Dimensions: 43.00 x 43.95 mm
Height: 17.30 mm
Crystal: antireflective sapphire
Case-back: sapphire crystal secured by four screws
Water resistance: 30 meters
Movement: GPFAY08, manual
Caliber: 38.60 x 32.60 mm
Frequency: 21,600 vib/h (3 Hz)
Jewels: 38
Power reserve: min. 96 hours
Functions: tourbillon, hour, minute, slot machine with chime mechanism, small second on the tourbillon
Alligator strap with folding buckle















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Breitling news: NEW Raven Edition

Breitling has launched a very special collection: the redesign of the Airwold and the Skyracer Chronographs, two instruments easy to identify as they feature a rubber-molded push pieces and bezel.


The “Raven” timepieces, its coded name, feature a resolutely high-tech black and steel look. Both models, the electronic and the mechanical one, boast peerless functionality. The Airwolf features an exclusive SuperQuartz™ movement giving to this ultra-accurate instrument the full range of functions required by professional pilots: 1/100th of a second chronograph, alarm, countdown, 2nd timezone, UTC. It also has an NVG-compatible display backlighting system that enables night-time read-off, while a turbine-shaped construction on the caseback serves as a resonance chamber for the alarm and other audible indications.


On the other hand, the Skyracer was designed to be the most efficient self-winding chronograph in its category. Breitling has equipped the Skyracer with a Caliber 27, an exclusive mechanism that enables dual visualization of measured times. The 60-minute counter, with a central hand, guarantees peerless readability of any measurement under one hour. For longer durations, a single two-hand counter shows both, the hours and also the minutes. The rack-and-pinion mounted slide rule underscores the aviation-oriented vocation of both the Airwolf Raven and Skyracer Raven models.












[Source: Breitling press release]

NEW TAGHeuer MONACO Cal 11 1969 LIMITED Re-Edition

(Tag Heuer Monaco 1969 Re Edition 2009)

Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer has announced a special, limited edition Monaco Chronograph. The NEW Monaco1969 Original Re-Edition will count with just 1,000 pieces. It is launched in order to celebrate TAG Heuer Monaco’s 40 years of precision, immortalized by actor Steve McQueen in the film "Le Mans". The blue-dial Monaco Re-Edition comes with an exclusive case back signed by Jack Heuer and engraved in honor of its mythical ambassador Steve McQueen. Each of the 1,000 TAG Heuer Monaco 1969 Original Re-Edition Chronographs features a perforated leather strap with a steel buckle. The blue dial features sporty red accents on its hands, its distinctive horizontal diamond-tipped hour indices and also a hand-applied date window in polished steel. The signature of TAG Heuer honorary chairman Jack Heuer graces the stainless steel caseback. The Tag Heuer Monaco 1969 Original Re-Edition is limited to 1,000 pieces and in contrast to the new re-engineered Monaco Calibre 12 still features the Calibre 11 movement.












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Joe Biden's Watch: Quartz Omega Seamaster

(Joe Biden Wearing A Quartz Omega Seamaster Watch)

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. was born in November 20, 1942. Joseph Biden is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States. He was first a United States Senator from Delaware, until his resignation on January 2009, when he was elected to the Vice Presidency. Biden became an attorney in 1969 and was elected to a county council in 1970. Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 and became the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history. He was re-elected to the Senate six times and was the fourth most senior senator at the time of his resignation.

(Seamaster 300 M Quartz)

Description:

Steel on steel
Reference: 2221.80.00

MOVEMENT
Caliber: Omega 1538
Quartz precision movement with rhodium-plated finish. End of battery life indicator
Power Reserve: 27 / 36 months

CRYSTAL
Domed anti-reflective, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal

CASE & DIAL
Stainless steel case
Blue dial

WATER RESISTANCE
Down to: 300 meters
1000 feet

Size:
Case Diameter: 41 mm

Kobe Bryant: Nubeo's Black Mamba's new Ambassador.

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Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bean Bryant was born in August 23^rd, 1978(1978-08-23). He is an American All-Star shooting guard who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Bryant and then team-mate Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002. After O'Neal's departure following the 2003–04 seasons, Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers franchise, leading the NBA in scoring during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. In 2006, Bryant scored a career high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second highest number of points scored in a single game in NBA history.

Kobe Bryant

Bryant was awarded during the regular seasons with the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in the 2007–08 NBA. In 2008, he won a gold medal as a member of the 2008 Summer Olympics U.S. Men's Basketball Team, occasionally referred to as "The Redeem Team," a play on the name of the first Olympic team that featured NBA players, the Dream Team.

Kobe Bryant will be ambassador for Nubeo’s new Black Mamba wristwatch, a 48 mm ceramic and titanium cased chronograph. It is said to be a timepiece inspired in Kobe Bryant, “The Black Mamba”.

Black Mamba represents, as a symbol, the association of values between Kobe Bryant and Nubeo. Sacrifice, perseverance, adaptation, strength, speed, inspiration and creativity were the values chosen when creating and designing this unique timepiece.

Black Mamba Wristwatch

Nubeo features a black ceramic outside case with the shape of the snake across the case. The watch is made of thirty-five pieces, including a bezel with the twenty four marker numbers. All of them, all the parts composing this timepiece, come together in a titanium

case and six screws that undergo carbon like diamond treatment (CLD). The Black Mamba features a rubber bracelet attached to the case. According to its hands, it is said to resemble the bionic snake scales, covered with a white SuperLuminova.

Black Mamba’s watch

The are two models of Black Mamba’s watch: The black Mamba described one and The Black Mamba Ultimate, with a forty-eight baguette-trapeze cut black sapphires and the 30 minutes together with the 12 hours counters, are both framed with 38 black sapphire.

Black Mamba Ultimate

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Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo - 1st leg at Adria: A flying start and a podium for the President of Blancpain!

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The first race in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo got off to a flying start in Italy on Saturday May 16th, organised within the FIA GT championship on the famous Adria racing track. As title sponsor of a championship that is truly unique in the world, Blancpain is proud to be participating in this international sports event. Its President and CEO Marc A. Hayek took the wheel of a gleaming Gallardo LP560-4 decked out in the livery of the Manufacture Blancpain.

Competing alongside famous driver Peter Kox from the Netherlands, Marc A. Hayek placed third after the second round. This first leg of an exceptional automobile championship symbolises a fascinating alliance between two legends: Blancpain, the world’s oldest watch brand, and Lamborghini, one of the most iconic car manufacturers.

Featuring six events in the 2009 racing calendar, the Super Trofeo provides an opportunity to see the brand-new Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 cars (delivering 570 horsepower and 540 N/m – 398 lb/ft torque enabling them to reach top speeds of over 300 km/h) in exciting action on racing tracks around Europe. Marc A. Hayek, President and CEO of Blancpain, is driving the speed machine bearing the brand colours. This powerful pairing embodies the dream of many devotees of exceptional mechanisms, and celebrates the pioneering spirit and the mechanical expertise of the Manufacture Blancpain.

Setting the crowning touch to this partnership, Blancpain has created a new horological gem: the Super Trofeo Chronograph. Like the ultra-powerful Gallardo, this timepiece equipped with a flyback function displays sophisticated character and cutting-edge technological features. Sporty by nature right through to the last component, the Super Trofeo Chronograph is issued in a limited edition of 300*. The next five European legs of the season are scheduled to take place between June and October of this year, as follows:

• Norisring (Germany), June 26-28

• Spa Francorchamps (Belgium), July 23-25

• Silverstone (UK), August 15-16

• Catalunya (Spain), September 18-20

• Paul Ricard (France), October 2-4

* For further details of this exceptional model are provided at Blancpain's web site.

Source: Blancpain web site.

Watches in Movies: Click, Bridget Jones’s Diary , Crank and Hollywood Homicied.

Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) wears a Hamilton Khaki in Click (2006).
Michael Newman is a workaholic married guy who doesn’t have much time to spend with his wife and children as he wants to earn a promotion. He meets Morty (Christopher Walken), a sales clerk that gives to him a magical remote that allows him to bypass life as it begins to programme on its own.

(Adam Sandler wearing a Hamilton Khaki Watch in Click)

Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) wears a Panerai in Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001).
Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though scandalous boss (Hugh Grant) takes an interest in the peculiar Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance that Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive.

(Hugh Grant wearing a Panerai Watch in Bridget Jones’s Diary)

Chev (Jason Statham) wears a TAG Heuer Carrera in Crank (2006).
Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) is a professional assassin working for the West Coast crime syndicate. Chev's girlfriend Eve doesn't know what Chev does and Chev is planning to quit the crime syndicate so he can spend more time with her. But for Chev, things about to get very bad, when he learns he has been injected with a poison called "The Beijing Cocktail" by his rival Verona, which will kill him if his heart rate drops. Trying to stay alive and seeking help from friends, Kaylo and Doc Miles try to keep his heart pumping. Chev sets out to find answers as well as protecting Eve, and get his revenge on those who have betrayed him before the poison kills him.

(Jason Statham wearing a TAG Heuer Carrera Watch in Crank)

Det. K.C. Calden (Josh Hartnett) wears a Panerai in Hollywood Homicied (2003).
Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett are LAPD’s (Los Angeles Police Department) detectives on the case of a rap group assassination while attempting to juggle their moonlighting gigs as real estate broker and willing to be actor (respectively) with a more-miss-than-hit attempt in the laughs department.

(Josh Hartnett wearing a Panerai Watch in Hollywood Homicied)












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Steve McQueen's former Tag Heuer Monaco, his Scott super Squirrel Bike and a Rolex Submariner will be auctioned during next New York Auction

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(Steve McQueen)

Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen was born on March 24, 1930 in Beech Grove, Indiana (Marion County). Steve was an American movie actor nicknamed “The King of Cool”.

McQueen is known as the highest paid movie star of the sixties and seventies. He is also known as one of the best actors in film history and his films are considered classics. Even though he participated in 26 movies, some of his greatest films are The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles (Academy award nomination), Bullitt (exciting car chase), The Getaway, Papillion or Le Mans.

(Steve McQueen Rolex Explorer II (1965))
[Available at Interwatches.com]

The real Steve McQueen, not the one in the movies, wore a Rolex. He wore a Rolex known as the "steve McQueen Rolex", the Rolex Explorer II, model 1955, with an orange 24hour hand.

(Steve McQueen)

He was an enthusiastic racer of both motorcycles and cars. While he studied acting, he supported himself partly by competing in weekend motorcycle races and bought his first motorcycle with his winnings. He is recognized for performing many of his own aerial tricks, especially the mainstream of the stunt driving during the high-speed chase scene in Bullitt. In addition, McQueen also designed and patented a bucket seat for race cars.

(Steve McQueen riding his Scott super Squirrel Bike )

He found out he had lung cancer, and with only two months to live he and his wife went to Mexico for treatment. At the Mexican clinic, he underwent an agonizing three-month regimen of animal cell injections and was taking over 100 vitamins a day. Still, his body continued to weaken. He had surgery to remove an abdominal tumor and soon after that it was all over for the celebrated actor.

(Patek Philippe Geneve Ref. 1463 - 18K Pink Gold)

McQueen died on November 7, 1980 at age 50, in Juarez, Mexico. An open Bible lay across his chest and Steve McQueen lay in death with a smile on his face. It is said that his body remains in ashes, as he was cremated and scattered over the Pacific Ocean.

(Steve McQueen's Rolex Submariner Ref 5512 )

Steve McQueen’s TAG Heuer Monaco, his Scott super Squirrel Bike (1929) the historically one he shared with Von Dutch and, last but not least, a Rolex Submariner (Ref 5512) will all be available to buy during next New York Aintiquorum’s Auction.

(Steve McQueens historical Scott Super Squirrel Bike)

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The Omega Co-Axial Ploprof 1200M. Omega's 2009 launching timepieces.

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(Omega Co-Axial Ploprof 1200M)

In 1970 Omega launched a watch created and specially designed for withstanding the crushing pressures endured by divers working deep below the ocean’s surface. The Seamaster 600, also-called ‘Ploprof’ (the acronym formed from the first letters of plongeurs professionnels) was one of the roughest, robust and seaworthy divers’ wristwatches ever manufactured.
In 2009, Omega is introducing an updated version of the classic and instantly recognizable Omega Seamaster 600 wristwatch. Equipped with a Co-Axial calibre 8500, the new Ploprof 1200M is, as the name suggests, is surprisingly water-resistant to 1200 metres (4000 feet). It also deviously combines its ancestor’s famous features with the brand’s state-of-the-industry Co-Axial technology for its movement.

Source: Europa Star Magazine Issue

PANERAI Luminor Chrono Daylight 44 mm Titanium Ref. PAM00327

( PANERAI Luminor Chrono Daylight 44 mm Titanium Ref. PAM00327 )

Panerai Luminor Chrono "Daylight" Watch features a solid, brushed stainless steel case with a polished stainless steel bezel. It comes with a black alligator leather strap with stainless steel Panerai buckle, ivory dial with ivory subdials, chronograph with three registers, self-winding mechanical movement, fully protected crown-lock mechanism and an anti-glare sapphire crystal. It is also water resistant to 100m.

(PANERAI Luminor Chrono Titanium)

Luminor Chrono Daylight 44 mm Titanium

Movement Automatic mechanical, exclusive Panerai OP XII calibre, 131/4 lines, 27 jewels. Côtes de Genève decoration on the bridges. PANERAI personalized oscillating weight. Monometallic Glucydur® balance, 28,800 alternations/hour. Incabloc® anti-shock device. Power reserve 46 hours. Chronometer Certificate (C.O.S.C.).
Functions Hours, minutes, date, small seconds. Chronograph with three counters, tachymeter scale.
Case Diameter 44 mm, brushed titanium. Brushed titanium push pieces for the chronograph functions at 2 and 4 o’clock. Date corrector at 10 o’clock.
Bezel Brushed titanium with polished edges and engraved tachymeter scale.
Back Screw, brushed titanium.
Device protecting the crown (protected as a Trademark) Brushed titanium.
Dial Blue with luminous Arabic numerals and hour markers. Minute counter at 3 o’clock, small seconds at 9 o’ clock, hour counter at 6 o’ clock, central chronograph hand. Date at 4.30.
Crystal Sapphire, formed of corundum, 2.5 mm thick. Anti-reflective coating.
Water-resistance 10 bar (100 metres).
Strap Panerai personalized titanium bracelet with vertical brushed finishing and polished surface between the links. Supplied with a tool to change the bracelet and a steel screwdriver.
Reference PAM00327 .












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Breitling Emergency: The Watch that would have saved the Lost Oceanic Flight 815 passengers.

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(Breitling Emergency - White 18K gold)

If only Jack and the lost crew had had the possibility of keeping in touch or connecting to radars when the plane crashed onto that particular island, if only one of the passengers of the Oceanic Flight 815 had had the Breitling Emergency watch that features emergency frequency, the story would have been much different and the whole crew would have probably survived.

Lost is an American serial drama television series that follows the lives of the survivors that could make it from the plane crash on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the South Pacific.

According to the Breitling Emergency, the wristwatch was designed for pilots and aircrews featuring a built-in microtransmitter broadcasting on the 121.5 Mhz aircraft emergency frequency. If something not regular during a flight occurred, the Emergency will send a signal through which the aircraft could be found. This Emergency’s transmitter is activated by unscrewing a protective cap and pulling the antenna out fully starting the broadcast for the next 48 hours.

(Breitling Emergency - Yellow 18K gold)

This Breitling Emergency watch is available nor with a titanium case (with black dial and a titanium bracelet), 18K yellow gold case (with black dial and a 18K gold Professional bracelet) or in 18K white gold case (with black dial and an 18K white gold Professional bracelet).

The Breitling Emergency features a Breitling 76 Caliber. According to its movement, it is a SuperQuartzTM, thermocompensated quartz electronic, analog and 12/24hr LCD digital display; EOL indicator. It is a Chronograph watch that features: 1/100th second, max 23hrs59min, 59.99 sec. It also features a calendar, a digital one, with day and date programmed for 4 years. Water resistant to 3 bars, incl. With transmitter in operation. Bidirectional bezel with compass scale.

(Breitling Emergency - Titanium)

Lost characters weren't chosen for being Breitling's ambassador but, Evangeline Lilly (Kate), was chosen by Baume & Mercier for representing the watch compa

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Baume & Mercier & Me, the slogan adopted by the Swiss watch brand Baume & Mercier, is embodied this year by two new personalities: Evangeline Lilly & David Duchovny

Evangeline Lilly, the Canadian actress playing Kate’s role on the ABC television series Lost, is associated with the fourth edition of the BAume & Mercier & Me campaign as ambassador of the Geneve – based brand as a charity project supporter. All royalties for the celebrity are donated to charities, selected in cooperation with Evangeline Lilly, including cancer research, child education, helping underprivileged woman and the struggle against poverty.

(Michael Nieto, Baume & Mercier's CEO and Evangeline Lilly)

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Pictures from: Baume & Mercier and Breitling