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Franck Muller Crazy Numbers Watch

2009-10-28T21:55:00.000-07:00

Franck Muller, a watchmaker from Switzerland, is known for designing complex timepieces. His brand of timepieces carries the slogan, "Master of Complications". Swiss-made replica watches are some of the most popular replica watches found on the internet today.

Hollywood icons use Franck Muller watches; among them are Robin Williams, Demi Moore, Elton John, 50 Cent and Jos‚ Mourinho.

Franck Muller timepieces are recognized for their fusion of "modern" style (highly inspired by American watches from the thirties, such as Elgin tonneau) and conventional Swiss watch manufacturing. The president of the company that holds its name is a watchmaker himself. As such, every watch receives a portion of his creative genius by creating the mechanism for each timepiece.
World Premieres

Another trademark of the Franck Muller name is "World Premiers." The phrase indeed speaks for itself: yearly, a new line of extraordinary and complex watches is launched. The first such world premiere was introduced in 1993. It had split seconds chronograph minute repeater and a perpetual calendar. It is also among the first few that has an indicator for internal temperature.

Several world premieres from Franck Muller are patented. The Franck Muller collection is also known for its mechanical nature - having either manual or self-winding movements. A few of their watches utilize movements based on standard ETA calibers. The new Franck Muller Crazy Numbers Replica Watch also has the self winding movement.

Notable watches include Revolution2, Revolution3, Crazy Hours and Colour Dreams. Others examples of Franck Muller's watches include the Endurance, which is a simple chronograph, the Master Banker, which is a tonneau-shaped watch capable of multiple time zone indication, and the Curvex Minute Repeater Tourbillon, whose production is limited to 25 items. If you are searching for a high quality Franck Muller Replica watch or any other high quality replica please log on to http://www.timetraditions.com.

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Revisiting the Life of Franck Muller Before the Franck Muller Replica Watch

2009-10-26T21:56:00.000-07:00

It was in 1958 that Franck Muller was born. He spent his childhood in La Chaux-de-Fonds with his Italian mother and Swiss-born father. At the age of 15, he enrolled in a watchmaking school.

He finished his studies from Ecole d'Horlogerie de GenŠve, a Swiss watch-making school in the early 1980's. Afterwards, he began fixing high quality pocket watches. Later on, Franck Muller handled watches from the collection of Patek Philippe.

A large percentage of the clients are museums and private individuals. While he was working with complicated watches, he became interested with their mechanisms and started to think of coming up with his own shop.

The Business

Then, in 1984, Franck Muller created his own tourbillon wristwatch. During that period, only very few names (such as Vacheron Constantine Patek Philippe) had the ability of making such complicated watches. This then marked the growth of his booming business - as well as the appearance of many a Franck Muller Casablanca replica watch - his private clientele continued to go to him for new timepieces.

The House of Franck Muller opened in 1991 and his super complex watches immediately became famous in Europe and the US. At present, his factory, which is also the headquarters of Franck Muller, manufactures a limited number of timepieces for private clients. In addition, the product line includes diverse watch designs in different price ranges.

Franck Muller thought of building his timepiece empire in a village just outside of Geneva, in the middle of Genthod. Set amidst a vineyard-covered hill and Lake Geneva, he is constantly inspired to create new original, complex and unique watches.

Franck Muller acknowledged that the first thing that the clients look for is the style. This is why he made a well-known Curvex Tonneau case, easily recognizable on any wrist. Currently, Franck Muller watches include the big names: Chronograph, Color Dreams, Tourbillon and Conquistador Cortez King. These are all identified as the Franck Muller replica watch.

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Bell& Ross A Dazeling Watch Brand

2009-10-14T16:24:00.000-07:00

History of Bell & Ross began in 1992 when some professionals from different fields of aerospace industry joined forces in order to create watches for professional pilots. As it usually happens in such cases the founders planned to create something absolutely new on the basis of old Swiss watch making traditions. They did succeed. The new watches were truly unique and very recognizable. Today the logotype of Bell & Ross can be seen on the wrists of astronauts, pilots, divers and engineer.

The first watches were created and produced in close collaboration with German corporation SINN that specializes on production of aviation chronometers and other instruments for air crafts. Some years later the young brand got its new manufacture.

Bell & Ross watches are the result of work and collaboration of constructors, artists, programmers, physicists and people of other professions for whom the brand was created. All the watches by Bell & Rose feature comfortable, ergonomic and elegant case, simple and easy readable dial, absolutely accurate movement and high water resistance.

All watches by Bell & Ross pass many tests: resistance to high pressure, ultraviolet emission, temperature difference, water and other unfavorable conditions.

In 1994 Bell & Ross issued watches that before had been used only by professionals. When creating the new collection Bell & Ross considered real consumer requirements and the three basic principles: readability, accuracy and water resistance.

In 1996 the company developed Type Demineur collection. Watches from this collection were very readable, reliable and accurate. They were up to all the demands of professional sappers.

Collection Vintage was created in 1997 specifically for pilots.The watches were greatly appreciated by professional aviators as well as by all those who like uniquely designed watches.

Some time later Bell & Ross developed Hydro Challenger model – the world’s most water resistant watch that proved its water resistance at the depth of 11. 100 meters.

In 1999 the brand presented the new lineup Space with revolutionary T-crown system that includes telescopic crown.

2001 is the year when the model Bell & Ross Function was created. In this model classic style is combined with multi-functionality. The dial of this watch is combination of analogous and digital watches. In the same year platinum Bell & Ross Function with chronograph was issued. This was a true masterpiece – the first watch with jumping hand and energy storage device.

In 2002 the company issued Hydromax model in which hidroil - fluoridated transparent oil was used. This oil guarantees perfect water resistance of the watch.

In 2009 Bell & Ross presented new model Bell & Ross Instrument BR01 Airborne that was created to the honor of heroes of World War II. The case of the model is shaped as the emblem of American troopers from US Airborne. The watches feature a skull on the dial. The model comes in limited edition of 500 pieces.

Today Bell & Ross has 4 collections: Professional, collection of quartz watches Function, collection of mechanical watches Classic and Vintage – collection that includes complicated jewelry models.

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2009-10-11T15:18:00.001-07:00

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Replica Watches: Common Misconceptions

2009-10-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

Lie 1: The foremost copy watches are made in Switzerland, followed closely by Italy.

- This lie is the biggest of all. All replica watches are made somewhere in asia, principally in China. Do not believe anyone announcing that replicas are made in Italy or Switzerland because this is a lie built to get more money out of the gullible.

Lie two: Replica watches are graded according to quality. The highest is Grade AAA+++, and Grade C is the lowest.

- Who decides what is "C" and what is "A"? Pure foolishness built to get more of your greenbacks.

Lie three: The movements in "Swiss made replica watches" are matching to the genuine watch movements. The best are those with 27-jewel movements.

- (Please go back to the 1st lie.) Nothing can be farther from the truth. Only a few duplicate watch movements come from anywhere except China and any watchman can right away tell it is not genuine. There are no twenty-seven jewels movements in replica watches; only twenty-five, twenty-one, or seventeen.

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IWC Sports Retro Look For Copy Watches

2009-09-30T17:22:00.000-07:00

A Look Back At Watch Creation

Throughout the years, watch dials have been made in a massive variety of formats, measuring time in creative and different ways. Depending on fashion, trends, or need, these configurations have flourished and become dormant cyclically. Thanks to dedicated connoisseurs, however, they have never fully disappeared. In the modern era, many have been rediscovered.

Among these, the regulator dial, is a sort of timekeeping that has its secure place in horological history, going back to a point when high precision clocks became necessary instruments at the start of the Age of Enlightenment.

Essentially, a central min hand, a subsidiary seconds hand, and a subsidiary hour hand makes up the regulator dial. Reading the mins is the dial's concentrations. The English long-case regulator clocks from which these dials came from were used as high-precision clocks in laboratories and observatories in the early 1700s, and watchmakers' used them to set the time for their new creations.

Although regulator style dials were barely utilized in pocket watches, there are some examples of pair-cased English pocket watches with regulator-style dials that date back to the 1760s. Unlike their regulator clock counterparts, these pocket watches often inverted the sub-dials with the seconds at six o'clock and the hours at 12 o'clock to better follow the motion mechanisms used by watches.

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U-Boat Collection

2009-09-22T20:00:00.001-07:00

Flightdeck is one of the best and one of the most popular watch collections from U-Boat, the young watch company whose history began long before the first U-Boat replica watches were presented to public.

History of U-Boat traces back to 1942 when Italian company “Officine Fontana” was poised to
develop a professional watch for officers of Germany’s U-Boat fleet. The timepieces Officine Fontana had to develop had to meet the German’s navy’s standards of high quality. The watches had to be very durable so that to withstand the severe conditions that in German submarines were daily life. Unfortunately the project was scrapped for unknown reasons. However, the original drawings as well as color samples and innovative materials were preserved for a very long time.
Sixty years passed and Italo Fontana, a cousin of the late founder of Officine Fontana launched that today’s inspired U-Boat brand and released the famous Flightdeck collection.

The idea to create Flightdeck collection came to the mind of Italo Fontana when he was in the flight deck of a plane where he realized that control panel of an aircraft reminds of the control panel of a ship. The designer spend a week aboard a yacht developing the new Flightdeck model.

Like all U-Boat watches Flightdeck watches catch attention by their unusual look: beginning with big diameter of the dial (50 mm and more) and ending with conception developed by Italo Fontana. The main peculiar feature of U-Boat watches is high readability of the dial (even in dark) and crown that is placed on the left side of the watch.

Flightdeck collection includes many models. Flightdeck CAS/Cab is an ETA 7750 automatic chronograph with frequency of 28, 800 alterations per hour. The watch has power reserve of 44 hours and comes in steel case that can have diameter of 43, 50 and 55 mm. The watch features black hands and spheres that are available in white, orange or yellow color coated with superluminova.

Flightdeck Chrono features Valjoux 7750 chronograph caliber and a very manly case that is hand finished in Italy, in the original U-Boat signature style. The watch features a sapphire-crystal and a see-through back.

U-Boat’s Thousands of Feet Replica Watch is a chronograph that features a thick stainless steel case of either 43 mm or 50mm in diameter. The face of the watch is black with bright orange hands and numerals. The watch features a very comfortable alligator strap. Push buttons are placed unusually on the left side of the watch.

The latest in Flightdeck series is Eclipse that is dedicated to the concept of that great solar event. This is a black watch with cowl on the face at 6 and 7 o’clock. If you are looking for a replica U-boat watch or any other high quality replica please visit http://www.timetraditions.com.

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Does Rolex Make The Best Watches In The World?

2009-09-21T20:09:00.000-07:00

The preferred and the best brand of watches in the world is Rolex. The brand has a name of being a superior watch maker. They pioneered and invented several major watch ideas, such as the 1st "certified chronometer," the 1st effective "waterproof" and dust explanation watch surrounding, the first wrist-watch with an automatic changing date, and the techniques employed in mass-manufacturing of premium watches. Some of the finest replica watches on the web have also mastered these ideas.

It was in the 1980's that their reputation went from stellar to astronomic from being broadly publicized as the luxury wristwatch of choice of the supposed 'yuppie' movement of young, affluent people who enjoyed reckless consumption as a proof of their new found status. The name of Rolex became a household name, thanks to those that welcomed the yuppie image. In that time, Rolex watch prices took a stellar rise to match their popularity. A stainless steel DateJust model that sold new for around US $900 in 1981 rose to US $2350 by 1991, regardless of only nominal changes to the product. Existing owners started joking the newer models made in finer metals were made from "unobtanium" when the costs increased dramatically.

There are a few misconceptions about Rolex watches and Rolex replica watches that need to be dispelled:

* MYTH: Rolex watches are handmade individually. - Employing a number of methodologies patented and pioneered by Rolex and the most highly efficient factory machines, most Rolex watches are industrially produced. Annually, Rolex makes about 1,000,000 watches. They do have some extraordinarily high end models and special editions that are handcrafted. You may find high end and special addition ice out hologram men's reproduction watches.

* MYTH: Rolex watches are the best replica watches in the world. Absolutely untrue. A $25 Casio will tell time just as well if not better. Spending thousands of dollars on a watch buys you the extra jewelry features of the watch. It doesn't buy you a more correct timepiece just a nicer more prestigious watch.

* MYTH: A Rolex watch takes a year to create. Rolex has never explained any real foundation for this claim, although they do include this in their advertising. This is meaningless advertising fluff to give the romantic illusion that there's a craftsman laboring over your watch for a year to bring it to perfection. This is intended to obscure the undeniable fact that they're actually mass-produced.

* MYTH: Rolex watches have a high secondhand value, so they seem to be a good buy. While they do sell used at a higher share of their original retail price than plenty of other brands, that doesn't mean they are good investments or safer purchases than other watches. You may lose money on nearly any watch - Rolex or otherwise - you get new and later resell. For additional info on this, read the article in the purchaser's Guide section titled Watches with a good Resale value are a good investment?

So will you find the best watch in a Rolex? That depends completely on what you would like to get out of a fine watch and your wishes and perceptions. It's up to your taste and style. Rolex watches are immensely recognizable and popular, and they truly are good watches. But they don't seem to be clearly the best watch, best investment, or only fine choice you can make when purchasing an expensive wristwatch. You have quite a number of possible choices, from complicated hand made timepieces with staggering prices, to watches with comparable quality at less expensive costs.

The best watch purchase decision is one where you research all the important information, but in the final analysis make the choice primarily based on what you are feeling most happy with. In fact, there are millions of happy owners of other watch brands, as well as happy Rolex owners.

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Lange in Pink Gold

2009-09-21T16:27:00.000-07:00

Lange is introducing a new pink gold version of the 31, the first mechanical watch to achieve a power reserve of 31 days. The movement is powered by two stacked mainspring barrels, each with a spring that is slightly more than 6 feet long. A constant-force escapement between the twin mainspring barrels and the going train assures that the balance receives an identical amount of energy every ten seconds, regardless of the state of wind of the springs.

This much power takes up space, making the Lange 31 movement as large as some watches: 37.3 millimeters in diameter and 9.6 millimeters thick. This presented challenges to Lange’s designers. For example, on the dial alone, the designers considered more than 70 versions over 2 years. Tiny details, such as whether the hour markers should be a fraction of a millimeter longer or shorter, were considered. In the end, the designers achieved the classic, timeless Lange look.

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Maverick Mechanicals

2009-09-17T10:24:00.000-07:00

If a decade ago you were getting bored with the same old, predictable, ho-hum movements and displays, you've surely perked up by now. Mechanical-watch companies, especially those catering to the most jaded, and richest, connoisseurs, have in the last 10 years gone rogue. Never before have so many offbeat, experimental, even outlandish mechanical watches been offered up for watch fans' amazement and amusement.
These maverick mechanical watches were the most dramatic expression of the decade's biggest story: the frenzy of creativity and experimentation in the art and science of high-mechanical horology. We saw k in the products of established horological masters like Patek Philippe (the Star Moon Tourbillon of 2001) and Vacheron Constantin (whose Tour de l'lle watch, introduced in the firm's 250th anniversary year of 2005, had a record number of complications for a wrist-watch) as well as the products of numerous small high-mech replica watches like the Tag Heuer Monaco Replica Watch.
Certainly, watches with high complications and combinations of complications were one of the decade's major trends, a continuation of the mechanical counter-revolution that blossomed in the 1990s. What was most notable in this decade, however, was the impulse to push the envelope in terms of innovative movements and displays.
Many of the decade's no-limits models incorporate improvements in simple timekeeping, or purported improvements (of course, if you wanted true precision, you'd buy a quartz watch). Others provide special gee-whiz features a watch with hands driven by automotive-inspired drive belts, say, or a complicated calendar watch with three faces. Still others have unorthodox movement layouts (reminiscent of a car engine, for instance) and/or unconventional, sometimes out right weird, displays (like a power-reserve indicator filled with green fluid yes, green fluid!).
These over-the-top timers were so different from each other that they defy classification or general description. We've picked a handful to give you a taste of their variety and inventiveness (there are dozens of others also worthy of the spotlight). As a group, they may well represent the apogee of the mechanical counter-revolution, when the potential of non-electronic, wrist-wearable timepieces was tested as never before.
• TAG Heuer Monaco V4: Five years ago, TAG Heuer introduced an experimental prototype of this watch, which was inspired by a car engine. Now the company has come out with a series-production version. The watch has two strikingly odd features. And instead of having traditional pinions to drive the hands, the movement has teensy drive belts made of high-performance polymer. Instead of a round winding rotor, the V4 has a linear weight that moves up and down along a track built between the two pairs of barrels (the four barrels, mounted in a "V" shape, are the source of the name "V4"). TAG Heuer is making 150 pieces, priced at $80,000 each.
• EP. Journe Chronometre a Resonance:This watch, launched in 1999, was one of the first watches the now-renowned watchmaker Francois-Paul Journe launched under his own name. Its claim to fame was its twin movements whose balances helped correct each other by means of resonance: the vibrations of one balance influenced those of the other, so they were more precise than a single balance would have been. As Journe told WatchTime the year the watch came out, "When the two balances work together, they absorb the negative effects of outside forces (such as a sudden movement of the arm) by exerting equal and opposite influences on each other." The watch also had two dials that could be set to different times.
• Ulysse Nardin Freak: Unveiled amid great fanfare in 2001, this watch, designed by Ludwig Oechslin, Ulysse Nardin's chief design engineer, lived up to its name in several respects. For one, it had no hands. Instead, it indicated the time by means of the movement itself, which rotated constantly. As Rolf Schynder, CEO of Ulysse Nardin, explained to WatchTime, "A large mainspring is placed underneath the movement that provides enough energy to turn the entire movement... once every hour for a whole week. The lower bridge indicates the hours and the movement itself, including the escapement and balance-wheel assembly, shows the minutes." It also had no crown; you wound and set it by turning the caseback and bezel, respectively. Then there was the aforementioned, giant, eight-day mainspring and, finally, its Dual Direct Escapement.
• Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti 370:Like the Monaco V4, this watch, launched in 2002, was modeled on a car engine specifically, a Bugatti car engine. The movement, Caliber 370, with an elongated, horizontal shape, has five plates arranged vertically like slices in a bread loaf and held in place by rods secured by bolts. The time display is on the side of the case so the wearer can see it more easily when driving. The watch has a 10-day power reserve, made possible by its two barrels. The power reserve is displayed on top of the case by means of a rotating drum bearing the numerals "1" through "10." The owner winds and sets the watch by inserting a pen-shaped tool into two crowns on the bottom of the case.
• Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Grande Complication a Tryptique:Watches with two faces are rare; those with three were unheard of until this watch came along in 2006. Like the Reserso Jaeger LeCoultre Replica Watch, it had a case that pivoted so that either of its sides was face-up. Its third face was on the plate underneath the case. The two sides of the case displayed, in addition to the time, a plethora of astronomical in information: the position of the stars, the sun's position in the zodiac, the equation of time and sunset and sunrise times (the watch also had a tourbillon, incorporating a new type of escapement called an "isometer" escapement, visible through one of the faces). The third face displayed the perpetual calendar. This last was driven not by an invisible horological sprite, as it seemed, but by a rocking lever mechanism that once per day reached out of the case to nudge the calendar forward a notch.
• Concord CI QuantumGravity:The newly revamped Concord brand was expanded this year with this watch incorporating a tourbillon suspended vertically on the side of the case via Lilliputian suspension cables. It rotates on two axes. The watch's seconds display also sits outside the case proper, and consists of an aluminum wheel rotating vertically in a compartment at four o'clock. But believe it or not, neither of these is the watch's strangest feature. That honor belongs, at least in our opinion, to a tiny cylinder of green phosphorescent liquid that serves as a power-reserve display. When the watch is fully wound, the fluid rises to the numeral "3," indicating the movement, the work of BNB Concept, will run for three days.

We don't have enough space to describe in detail more of the decade's offbeat mechanicals. For a short, by no means inclusive, list of some notable others click here:

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A Torrent of Tourbillons

2009-09-14T15:50:00.000-07:00

An obscure mechanism found fame and fortune.

It only seems like a tale from Bizarro World. A device that serves no useful purpose, is high-maintenance, and adds scores of thousands of dollars to the price of a watch was one of the decade's biggest hits.
The tourbillon was already catching on as the decade began. At least eight new tourbillon-equipped watches came out at 1999's Basel watch fair, a fair number, given the tourbillon's renowned rarity and high cost. Also that year, two ex-Swatch Group executives founded a company in Bienne, Switzerland called Progress Watch that would make, among other movements, "affordable" tourbillons, to be sold in watches priced for a mere $30,000 or so. It was a sign of the rising fever.
The tourbillon's appeal, like with the Chanel J12 Replica Watch, lay in its symbolism. Exceptionally difficult to make, by some accounts trickier than any other watch mechanism, it represents the very pinnacle of high watch-making. A tourbillon consists of a tiny, lightweight cage that encloses the watch's escapement. Both cage and escapement rotate continuously; the constant change in position is meant to cancel out timing errors caused by gravity's effects on the balance.
The tourbillon, though, was designed for use in pocket watches, not wristwatches. The former remain fairly stationary, in a vertical position, for most of the time they're worn. Wrist-watches, of course, don't a fact that makes a tourbillon superfluous when it comes to improving a wristwatch's precision. In fact, because a tourbillon is so difficult to regulate, a watch equipped with one may actually be less precise than a comparable quality watch with standard escapement.
None of this stifled the tourbillon craze; not even a smidgeon. As the decade progressed, the number of new tourbillons launched each year rose steadily. In 2001 it was 17. That year in France, the Breguet brand, named for the tourbillon's inventor, Abraham-Louis Breguet, marked the device's 200th birthday with much fanfare (A.-L. Breguet patented the tourbillon in 1801). In 2004, the number of new tourbillons rose to more than 30 and the following year to more than 60. Tourbillons did especially well in booming watch markets such as Russia.
In the meantime, the tourbillon had morphed into something new: a glittery, glamorous fashion accessory. In 2005, Zenith introduced a diamond-studded chronograph tourbillon (price tag: $345,000) that it promoted more as a piece of mobile jewelry than as a timepiece. A slew of companies not normally associated with haute horlogerie, including Louis Vuitton, St. Honore, Chanel, Van Cleef & Arpels, and many more, introduced tourbillon models.
If the tourbillon had started the decade as a symbol of watchmaking virtuosity, it soon evolved, at least in some contexts, into a symbol of something else: the decade's wretched excess. By mid-decade, the tourbillon, in its glitzier renditions, had become the must-have adornment of billionaire oligarchs.
But it had also become a way for haute horlogerie companies to demonstrate their watchmaking prowess. Multi-tourbillon watches appeared, as did those whose tourbillons rotated on two axes. In 2003, Franck Muller introduced the Revolution 2, with a tourbillon that rotated vertically and horizontally. Tourbillon specialist Greubel Forsey launched its Double Tourbillon 30° the next year. It has two tourbillons, an inner one, set at a 30-degree angle, and an outer one. In 2005, a banner year for tourbillon introductions, Jaeger-LeCoultre came out with its Gyrotourbillon and Franck Muller its Evolution 3-1. Two years later, Bernhard Lederer launched what he dubbed his Blu Majesty Tourbillon MT3, which has three tourbillons rotating at different speeds. One displays the seconds, another the minutes, and another the hours. In 2008, Greubel Forsey launched a quadruple tourbillon, consisting of two double tourbillons; i.e., two escapements housed within two double cages, the inner ones rotating every 60 seconds and the outer ones every four minutes.
Tourbillons were combined with complications such as minute repeaters and chronographs. They were also incorporated into sports watches, even diving watches. Industry insiders speculated that the tourbillon would one day become as common as the chronograph.
That's unlikely, but the craze is far from over; even the economic crisis hasn't killed it. This year, Concord, Alpina, Jaeger-LeCoultre replica watch, Girard-Perregaux, Bovet, Audemars Piguet, Cartier (with four new models) and others all brought out yet more tourbillon watches. At least 120 brands now have tourbillons.
So, will success spoil the tourbillon? If it hasn't yet, it probably never will.

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A Round of Polo

2009-09-10T12:42:00.000-07:00

Thirty years ago, Piaget launched the Polo watch. It joined Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak (1972) and Patek Philippe's Nautilus (1976) to form a trio of what are now considered iconic sports watches of the '70s. These sport watches also include the Replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watch and the Nautilus Patek Philippe replica watch.
In January, Piaget unveiled a 30th-anniversary edition of the Polo watch, redesigned and reworked for a new generation, in three-hand and chronograph versions. The new Polo FortyFive, with a diameter of 45 millimeters, is a monster compared to the side of the injection-molded rubber elegantly continue the inlaid look of the case, and the first steel section also functions as the lug. The flexible connection between the strap and case prolongs the life of the strap. A view of the underside of the strap reveals that the steel elements are fastened to the rubber with screws, indicating that longevity was a high priority.
The ample dimensions of the watch are striking. Its generous dial opening presents the watch most favorably and contributes to the superior legibility, which is especially remarkable at night. As large as the opening is, the designers still managed to find room for a wide bezel. A slight curvature to the case hugs the wrist and prevents any sense of top-heaviness: yet another advantage of the titanium case opposite the three-section folding clasp. Titanium also keeps it light: despite the large case and clasp, the watch weighs just 110 grams.
The clasp mechanism itself is as well-designed as the case just like you would fine on the best replica watches found on the market today. Four small push-buttons on the sides of the clasp can be used to slightly lengthen or shorten the strap. Piaget calls these two options the "summer/winter" positions. Since the strap moves within the clasp, the mechanism appears unchanged, and this also makes it easy to accommodate slight changes in wrist size resulting from changing temperatures. However, during our wear test, the clasp mechanism opened without warning on occasion.
WE APPRECIATE THAT Piaget gave the 100-meter-water-resistant Polo a sapphire-crystal caseback offering a view of the beautiful manufacture caliber 800P. The circular cotes de Geneve pattern is a characteristic decoration on Piaget movements. In addition to hour, minutes and seconds, the watch shows the current date. The large cutout display, which shows three dates, fits well in the overall dial layout. A nice alternative to the more conventional two-digit date display, this style has become quite popular on watches these days, despite its inherent redundancy.
A double barrel construction ensures a power reserve of up to 72 hours, and the screw balance vibrates at 21,600 vph, though it remains virtually unseen beneath the bridge and regulator. The tempo is classic but the discernible jumping of the second hand detracts from the dynamic ap¬pearance of a sports watch. The 800P automatic movement from 2006 is the newest caliber type at Piaget and provides the base for a number of derivations. (A closely related move-ment, 8 8 OP, ticks in the Polo FortyFive chronograph at a quicker frequency of 28,800 vibrations per hour.)
Despite the beauty of the movement, it must be said that the rate results were not superior. With stable amplitudes the timing machine registered results between -2 and +10 seconds per day. On the wrist, the average rate was about +5 seconds per day.
In recent years, Piaget has gotten more recognition for ladies' watches than men's. But that is changing now that it has added a considerable number of new calibers and refocused on the men's category. Nevertheless, the price of $11,500 for the three-hand version of the Polo FortyFive may give pause to some potential buyers. Piaget has plenty of competition in the field of luxurious three-hand sports watches with an in-house movement. The Royal Oak and the Nautilus, the Fifty Fathoms from Blancpain and the Sport Evolution by Glashiitte Original are obvious examples. The Polo FortyFive's price falls in the mid-range among this group. Viewed objectively, this is a successfully designed watch with superb, high-quality finishing and an impressive movement. Someone who prefers an alternative to well-worn paths will feel fortunate to find this watch.

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Here Are The 10 Quick Tips About How To Avoid Possible Scams

2009-08-21T11:45:00.000-07:00

Duplicate watches vary in quality, and they vary a lot. You can learn how to avoid Internet cons by employing the quick tips noted on the current page. You should take the following tips to heart is you decide to go with reproduction watches.

Some websites will sell watches for under $100, saying that they're reproduction Swiss made replica watches, where the reality is that those watches use nothing else but Japanese movement that should cost far less.

1. Make sure that watches on the pictures provided do not show 10:10. All authentic pictures (from Rolex, Omega, Tag Heuer, Breitling, and so on) show this time. 10:10 will always show on an ad. The retailer you are buying from should use footage of the actual watches they are selling, not the ad of authentic brands.

2. E-mail the seller to discover if the watch looks exactly like the one on the picture. Tell them that if the watch you receive doesn't look precisely like the picture, you may cancel the purchase and report them to your credit card company. Also observe on how pro they're in responding to your e-mails. Avoid the site if they don't answer within a few days.

three. credit card which has a hundred percent crime protection. You can never be certain that you will not get ripped off because many of these outlets go under all of the time. However, do not forget one thing.

4. Avoid making payments by Western Union, bank wire or money order. credit card. Or at least receive something, even though it might not be the watch of the same quality that you expected. If you wire money or use Western Union, chances of getting your cash back are very slim.

5. Make sure that a money-back guarantee is offered by the internet site you are purchasing from. That way you can get money back from your credit card company if you get tricked. You may only get your money back on this guarantee, however, if you employ a credit card so take care you use one.

Six. Never buy really expensive copy watch. They're not worth it.

7. Just because a website looks truly fancy it doesn't suggest the con artist isn't behind it. As a matter of fact, the best looking sites I have seen in this business are those of the con artists.

eight. because a website has a 1- 800 phone number does not mean much. However, make the use of this, call them and ask questions. However, keep in mind that this does not mean anything, as the telephone number can get disconnected over the night. Lots of the scam websites will list their telephone numbers all over the front page so you slipped more safe. Telephone number, though a good addition, doesn't assure you anything.

9. New and unestablished websites need to be steered clear of. A good indication that an internet site can't be trusted is a PR of 0 on Google. Most scam websites disappear after sticking around long enough to scam a number of shoppers. These shoppers complain to the hosting corporations to shut these scam websites. Though a high Google PR is not a guarantee that a site isn't a con, it's less possible that it is. Also, avoid internet sites hosted for free on Geocities, Tripod, and other free servers.

ten. Know which scam websites should be avoided. Visit http://www.timetraditions.com if you're on the lookout for top quality replica watches at reasonable prices.

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How Do Swiss Watches Work?

2009-08-19T09:22:00.000-07:00

At the present time the Swiss watch industry is applying 2 parallel technologies: electronic technology, with the analog quartz watch and the more conventional technology of the mechanical watch which origin goes back in the 14th century. You can find this same technology on some of the finest replica watches on the internet today.

Almost ninety percent of the industry's production, in terms of volume, is currently made of electronic, battery-operated watches, especially of the analog type. The other 10% are mechanical products with vital export values as these represent over 52% of the exports of Swiss watches.

In an analog quartz watch, the heart of the watch is the integrated circuit, made of a big number of electronic components grouped together on a base of only a few square millimeters.

A small battery is the source of energy, and it can last for several years. The time is divided by a quartz oscillator which is formed to vibrate by the energy supplied by the battery. Quartz watches are extremely accurate with a yearly variation of only a minute each year (less than a 2nd a day), thanks to the high frequency of their vibrations (32 kHz). In this field there are 2 main kinds of products:

1) watches with an analog display (hands),
2) watches with digital display; this is fitted with liquid crystals which receive, straight from the integrated circuit, the impulses needed to display the time. Mechanical transmission is non-existent.

An electronic (quartz) watch's functioning principle

one) Battery, providing the power
2) Integrated circuit, controlling the quartz and the stepping motor
three) Time is divided by the oscillating quartz
four) The frequency is controlled by the trimmer
five) electric impulses are modified into mechanical power by the stepping motor
6) Gear train, activating the hours, minutes, seconds hands
7) Analog display.

To create a double display, which is helpful for measuring short time intervals, these 2 product types are combined in the same finished watch.

The normal mechanical watch is made of about 130 parts assembled in the three main parts which are the source of energy, the regulating parts and the display. The quantity of part parts is far higher in supposed complex watches (date, phases of moon, fly-back hand, etc.). The "bauche" (about 60 parts) fitted with the controlling and certain other parts, forms the movement, to paraphrase the internal mechanism of the watch, which makes it feasible to maintain a constant stress in the spring once it's been wound mechanically or manually (by movements of the wrist) and to regulate the display by means of the hands (hours, minutes, seconds). When the movement has been fitted with a hands, dial, and case, a watch is alleged to be finished.

Working elements of a mechanical watch

1) Barrel/mainspring providing the power
two) Gear train, transmitting the power
3) The impulses are distributed by the escapement
four) Balance wheel & hairspring, oscillating, making the division of time
5a) Winding stem, for manual winding and setting
5b) Oscillating Weight, for automatic winding
six) The hours, seconds, and minutes hands are turned on by the dial train

The combination of these two technologies latterly brought on a new sort of watch movement running like a traditional quartz movement but getting its energy the same way as in a self-winding mechanical movement (Self-winding watch with the quartz precision).

Its working principle is straightforward and however revolutionary: an oscillating weight streches the mainspring which release starts a micro-generator converting the mechanical energy into electrical power. A capacitor is where this power is accumulated in. The integrated circuit then supplies the impulses to the stepping motor and controls the power supply of a conventional quartz watch.

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Frank Muller Crazy Numbers Watch

2009-08-17T11:45:00.000-07:00

Franck Muller is a noted Swiss watchmaker known for creating complicated timepieces. His brand of watches carries the slogan, "Master of Complications". Swiss made replica watches are some of the most popular replica watches found on the web today.

Franck Muller watches are worn by various celebrities, among them: Demi Moore, Robin Williams, Elton John, 50 Cent and José Mourinho just to name a few.

Franck Muller timepieces are famous for their fusion of "modern" style (mostly inspired by American watches from the thirties, like Elgin tonneau) and traditional Swiss watch manufacturing. The president of the company that holds its name is a watchmaker himself. He claims to design the mechanism of every watch by himself.

Biography of Franck

Franck Muller was born in 1958. He spent his childhood in La Chaux-de-Fonds with his Italian mother and Swiss-born father. When 15, he enrolled in a watchmaking school.

In the early 1980s, he graduated from the Swiss school of watchmaking (French: Ecole d'Horlogerie de Genève). Afterwards he began repairing top-quality pocket watches. Close to an independent watchmaker by the name of Svend Andersen, Franck Muller became responsible for handling watches from the collection of Patek Philippe.

Most of the clientele were private individuals and museums. While he was working with complicated timepieces, he became passionate about their mechanisms and began to think of building his own workshop.

The Business Side of Life

Very soon, in 1984, Franck Muller designed his own tourbillon wristwatch. In the 1980s, few watchmakers were capable of creating such complicated timepieces, among them Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin. The private clients of Franck Muller continued to come for new timepieces and thus his business started growing.

The House of Franck Muller opened in 1991 and his ultra complicated timepieces instantly became famous in Europe and the United States. Today his factory, which is also the headquarters of Franck Muller, produces a limited number of watches for private clientele. Today, Franck Muller's collections include a variety of designs and price ranges.

He thought of building a factory in the heart of Genthod, a village situated outside of Geneva. Surrounded by a vineyard-covered hill and Lake Geneva, he is continuously inspired to create new original, complicated and exclusive watches.

He knows that the first thing that catches the eye of the client is the design of a watch. This is why he created a well-known Curvex Tonneau case, easily recognizable on any wrist. Today, collections of watches from Franck Muller include: Chronograph, Color Dreams, Tourbillon and Conquistador Cortez King. All which are very popular as designer inspired replica watches.

World Premieres

Franck Muller is also known for its "World Premiers". Each year, the manufacturer launches at least one new line of timepieces featuring something special and exclusive, that has never seen before in the watchmaking industry. The first such world premiere was launched in 1993. It had split seconds chronograph minute repeater as well as a perpetual calendar. In addition, it included an indicator showing the internal temperature.

Many of the world premieres from Franck Muller are patented. All Franck Muller watches are mechanical, having either a manual or self-winding movements. Some of their watches use movements based on standard ETA calibers. The new Franck Muller Crazy Numbers Replica Watch also has the self winding movement.

Notable timepieces include Revolution2, Revolution3, Crazy Hours and Colour Dreams. Further examples of Franck Muller's watches include the Endurance, which is a simple chronograph, the Master Banker, which is a tonneau-shaped watch capable of multiple time zone indication, and the Curvex Minute Repeater Tourbillon, whose production is limited to 25 pieces. If you are looking for a high quality Franck Muller Replica watch or any other high quality replica please visit http://www.timetraditions.com.

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Piaget Celebrates Man on the Moon

2009-08-13T13:59:00.000-07:00

One of the top watches of 2009, Piaget has a unique example of their Emperor Cousin Large Moon. This model, introduced this year, houses Caliber 860P, a self-winding movement designed, developed and produced by Piaget. Within the 46.5mm 18k pink gold (5N) case, the oversize 12mm diameter moon phase display immediately attracts your eye, and if you look closely at this Only Watch, you’ll see what makes it so great. Just like the Piaget replica watches it is a delight to wear and own a Piaget.

This piece incorporates a delightfully understated tribute: the moon’s surface bears a recreation of Neil Armstrong’s famous footprint, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of man’s first steps on the moon. The case back is also specially engraved “Only Watch 2009″.

Only Watch is held every two years during the Monaco Yacht Show. The auction will be conducted by Patrizzi & Co. on September 24. The auction enjoys the high patronage of HSH Prince Albert II, and all proceeds of the sale go to support research into Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a childhood illness.

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Zenith and Jaeger LeCoultre Comparisons

2009-08-04T13:53:00.000-07:00

Zenith and Jaeger LeCoultre both offer simple, gold-cased watches with manufacture movements and no date display. How does each fare in a head-to-head comparison?

Legance, one might say, is the art of leaving out the non essentials. Consider these two mechanical watches from Jaeger-LeCoultre and Zenith, and the reasons why their designers opted, in both cases, to leave out a date display. While it is an eminently practical function in a watch, a date window, no matter how unobtrusive, would have jeopardized the gracefulness of these dial's' overall appearance.

That's particularly true classically arranged dial with a sub-dial for the seconds the look Jaeger-LeCoultre chose for its Master Grande Ultra Thin. It would be nearly impossible, to insert a date display here even a hand-type display without making aesthetic compromises. The classical look of the Jaeger-LeCoultre replica watch is the main reason why it is so popular on the web.
Zenith's Grande Class Elite has a different look than the Jaeger-LeCoultre watch, not only because of its center-mounted seconds hand but also because it uses Arabic numerals rather than in dices. It is also significantly larger (44 mm in diameter) than the 40-mm Ultra Thin. Zenith's watch is also available in a 37-mm model, which is powered by the same movement as the larger one, an automatic Elite 679. Translated into the world of automobiles, that would be comparable to using the same motor in a Maybach and a Smart. While the practice works better in watches than in cars, it does mean that the movement in the larger watch appears much smaller when viewed through the exhibition caseback.

The movement in the Grande Ultra Thin, automatic Caliber 896, is only slightly larger. Extra-thin watches are a traditional specialty for Jaeger-LeCoultre. They trace their ancestry to the French watchmaker Edmond Jaeger, who developed a slender movement that Jacques David LeCoultre built for him in 1907. Caliber 145 was just 1.38 millimeters thick and still remains the slimmest in its class. The slender pocket watches of that era eventually gave A way to similarly slim Jaeger-LeCoultre wrist-watches. The hand-wound Caliber 849, which ticks inside the small Ultra Thin, was developed in 1994 and is a mere 1.85 mm thick. The total height of this wristwatch is just 4.2 mm, and its diameter is a rather small 35 mm.
Jaeger-LeCoultre introduced an entire collection based on the Ultra Thin at last year's SIHH watch salon in Geneva. Alongside a hand-wound version in a 38-mm case, it also launched a 40-mm concept watch containing automatic Caliber 896, based on Caliber 899, which is 3.98 mm tall significantly thicker than the hand-wound movement. Its extra height of 0.68 mm results not from the addition of a date display but from shifting the seconds hand out of the center and onto an off-center subdial. Hence, one can no longer describe this caliber as ultra-slim, especially because it's thicker than standard movements like the ETA 2892.

The Master Grande Ultra Thin appears slimmer than it actually is thanks to its cleverly constructed case, which is actually slightly thicker than the case of JLC's Master Control with date display. The movement is significantly smaller than the case, so the back can rise steeply toward the flanks. On the wrist, the rim of the watch shows only its narrow aspect. The back is smaller than the dial, so the movement and the dial must be inserted from the front, which means the bezel must be affixed with screws inserted from the back.
The overall appearance is further enhanced by the petite lugs and crown. The beige dial is appealingly unpretentious, with its gold-plated, wedge-shaped indices and gold-plated dauphine hands. The faceting here is accentuated by the addition of a matte finish to one side and a high-gloss polish to the other.

ZENITH IS BEST KNOWN for El Primero, the self-winding chronograph (what is a chronograph) caliber that it developed in 1969, but the brand has also had an automatic caliber without a chronograph function in its portfolio since 1994. The company has produced numerous elegant watches in the course of its long history, which began in 1865, although in recent years it has distinguished itself primarily as a maker of more extravagantly styled timepieces.

The Grande Class Elite Automatique
Seconde Centrale, introduced last year, uses two elements traditionally associated with classical Zenith watches of yesteryear, namely the distinctive typeface of the numerals and the faceted sword-shaped hands. But the watch's enormous size totally changes its character. It tends to trumpet its owner's prosperity rather than hide modestly under a shirt cuff. Whether this is a positive or a negative is a matter of taste. Worn on a slender wrist, the large size can seem a bit ostentatious.
The Zenith's case is more conventionally shaped than that of the Jaeger-LeCoultre model. Its lugs are alternately satin-finished and polished. Just as it makes no attempt to conceal its large size, neither does it downplay its towering 10-mm height. The nonreflective and only slightly domed sapphire crystal combines with the case's straight flanks to make the watch look planar and two-dimensional. The guilloche embellishment on the inner portion of the dial does little to change this impression. The Zenith's flat numerals with rounded polishing are not as elegant looking as the triply faceted indices on the Jaeger-LeCoultre. Even the Reverso Jaeger LeCoultre replica watch is one of the most beautiful watches, the harsh contrast between the silver bezel and black crocodile-skin strap is harmonious.
However, the sharper contrast and larger size also make the Grande Class Elite a bit easier to read than the Master Grande Ultra Thin. Neither of the watches has luminous material on its dial. Doing without it was a wise decision, since its presence wouldn't have harmonized with the watches' narrow, golden hands.
Both watches are extremely simple to operate. Their crowns are easy to extract and turn, and a stop-seconds function halts each watch's seconds hand, facilitating to-the-second setting. Neither has any additional complications to master.
Significant differences again become apparent when the watches are strapped onto the wrist. The wearer scarcely feels the Jaeger-LeCoultre, despite the weight of its gold case. Zenith's model, on the other hand, is not as comfortable. Its
enormous dimensions and substantial weight nearly twice as heavy as the Jaeger-LeCoultre can cause it to slide back and forth on a narrow wrist. The strap of the Master Grande Ultra Thin is thinner and more flexible than that of the Grande Class Elite, and Zenith's doubly folding clasp is thicker than Jaeger-LeCoultre's pronged buckle.
Zenith's folding clasp is especially attractive: shaped like the rear end of a classic roadster, it's adorned with the applied Zenith star emblem and an engraved "ZENITH" logo. The clasp is meticulously crafted and every bit as hefty as the case. Jaeger-LeCoultre doesn't go to quite the same lengths with its beautiful but simple pronged buckle, which boasts a milled prong. Both closures suit their respective watches: Jaeger's is understated while Zenith's is showier. Both watches also deserve praise for their cut crocodile-skin straps with lacquered flanks. Zenith even goes to the added luxury of saddle stitching its strap by hand. Jaeger-LeCoultre uses a curved crosspiece and a corresponding arc in the strap to shrink the gap between strap and case.
ATTENTION TO aesthetics is also evident on the backs of both watches. While the Zenith's viewing window is smaller, both movements look very pretty behind their panes of sapphire crystal: Zenith's caliber has guilloche embellishing on its 22k-gold rotor, circular patterns brushed onto its bridges and circular graining on its plate; Jaeger-LeCoultre also puts circular graining on the plate, plus circular brushing on the bridges and on the 22k-gold rotor. Jaeger-LeCoultre also uses blued screws with polished heads.

Neither caliber has beveled and polished edges, so there is still room for improvement. Jaeger-LeCoultre does, however, include a distinctive feature of haute horlogerie: a screwed balance for fine adjustment. Jaeger makes its balance from Glucydur, while Zenith uses brass. And Jaeger-LeCoultre opts for lubricant-free ceramic spherules rather than steel ball bearings.
There are also major differences in the number of movement components: Zenith's Elite caliber has 126 parts. Jaeger's Caliber 896 has nearly twice as many 242, to be precise. That's 23 more components than in Caliber 899, with date display and central seconds hand. More parts, however, don't necessarily mean a more accurate watch. It takes a timing machine to determine which one is more precise.
When we tested them on ours, the results were very nearly a tie. The greatest deviation among the several positions was excellent: four seconds for both time pieces. Zenith slipped slightly into the minus column when the average deviation was measured: its watch lost 0.7 seconds per day, while Jaeger-LeCoultre's model gained 4.3 seconds per day. With almost equally good timekeep-
ing performance, the only remaining factor is the price. The Master Grande Ultra Thin is appropriately priced at $12,100, where as the Grande Class Elite sells for $14,200. The latter's case is larger and thus contains more gold, its folding clasp is more massive and more elaborately crafted, and it has a hand-sewn strap, but we found this price difference to be excessive. Jaeger's watch in this case represents the better cost-benefit ratio. Zenith's 37mm version of the watch, which costs only $9,800, may represent a better bargain. And for those even more price conscious, you can find the replica version for around $200 on the web. If you are looking for the Jaeger LeCoultre replica watches please visit http://www.timetraditions.com.

Vacheron Constantin Malte Moon Phase and Power Reserve

2009-07-28T11:10:00.000-07:00

Vacheron Constantin announces a new model: the Malte Moon Phase and Power-Reserve. The barrel-shaped case measures a generous 39 x 49mm. The dial is adorned with five different finishes. The inner zone features a silvered, finely hand-guilloché “Clous de Paris” or hobnail motif. The outer zone is decorated with a vertical satin-brushed finish, also silvered. The minute circle, the power-reserve display as well as the inscriptions Vacheron Constantin Genève and Swiss Made are all transferred, while the seconds subdial at 6 o’clock is circular satin-brushed. And finally, the minute circle and power-reserve zones are screen-printed in white. The Vacheron Constantin replica watches are of almost equal quality and much more affordable for collectors to own.

The moon-phase display is composed of a disc with a galvanized base and a moon face in 18k white gold or pink gold, depending on the model. The wide dial includes nine hour-markers, two Roman numerals and a Maltese cross, all in 18k white or pink gold, depending on which one you purchase. Power is provided by a manual-winding 1410 manufacture caliber bearing the Hallmark of Geneva. The main plate is finished with circular graining on both sides and the plate and bridges are beveled. The movement runs in 22 jewels at 28,800 vph with a 40 hour power reserve.

The Malte Moon Phase and Power-Reserve is available with a case in 18k white gold or 5N pink gold. The satin-brushed case-back is secured by screws. The dial is protected by a glare proofed cambered sapphire crystal. Water resistance is guaranteed to 30 meters.

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Technical Data

References Malte moon phase and power-reserve 83080/000G-9408 et 83080/000R-9407

Movement1410, developed and produced Vacheron Constantin, stamped with the Hallmark of Geneva

Energy Mechanical, manual-winding

Height of movement 4.2 mm

Diameter of movement 26.00 mm

Jewels 22 rubies

Frequency 28′800 vibrations/hours

Indications Hours, minutes
Small seconds at 6 o’clock
Precision moon phase
Power-reserve

Power-reserve Approximately 40 hours

Case 18 K white or 5N pink gold
39 mm x 49 mm tonneau shape

Water-resistance 3 bar, equivalent to 30 meters

Dial 18 K white or 5N pink gold
Silvered, « Clou de Paris » hand-guilloché interior zone
Vertical satin finished exterior zone
Applied Maltese cross in 18K white gold or 5N pink gold

Strap Black or brown hand-stitched, saddle-finish, square-scaled alligator leather

Clasp 18K white or 5N pink gold folding clasp, polished half Maltese cross

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Rolex Updates the Classic Datejust

2009-07-24T17:40:00.000-07:00

The Rolex Datejust is perhaps the quintessential wear-it-anywhere-suit-or-jeans watch. That is why I believe it is one of Rolex's most popular models. The Rolex Date Just Replica watch is heavy and keeps perfect time. On the 60th anniversary of the original launch, Rolex presents the Oyster Perpetual Datejust II Rolesor. The new model updates the classic Datejust design with a 41mm case. Available in steel and either white or yellow gold with a fluted bezel, the Datejust II is waterproof to 100 meters. The COSC-certified movement is designed and manufactured in house and it features a Parachrom hairspring and Para flex shock absorbers. The steel and gold Oyster bracelet is fitted with an Easylink extension link for added wearing comfort. If you are looking for a replica Rolex please visit http://www.timetraditions.com.

World Watch Report 2009 Reveals Online Trends

2009-07-22T13:48:00.000-07:00

Digital marketing specialist IC-Agency has released the 5th World Watch Report market study. Its conclusions are based on a sample of more than 300 million global online searches relating to 25 watch brands in 7 export markets: China, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany. The study found that the 3 most-searched watch models are the Omega Seamaster and Speedmaster, and the Rolex Daytona, in that order. As far as the replica watch market is concerned the fake Omega watches, Rolex replica, and the Breitling replica watches are the top 3 most searched.

In terms of global demand distribution for luxury watches, Europe leads the way with a 44.2% market share. Within Europe, the UK is tops (14.6%), followed by Germany (12.1%), Italy (9.6%) and France (7.7%). The USA remains the most important single market at 42.8%. Asia is still weak, with 13.2% market share, but China (7.4%) overtakes Japan (5.8%). This is important because China’s level of Internet usage is only 22%, compared with 74% in Japan. The Chinese are mainly interested in brands (77%), and are less interested in models (less than 10%, compared with an average of about 18%).

Social media networks are gaining in importance. IC-Agency says “Social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube are becoming crucial meeting places for luxury watch brands and designer inspired replica watches.” On Facebook with 180 million members, Cartier dominates with 30,000 fans, followed by TAG Heuer (18,500), Rolex (17,500), Bulgari (14,300) and Breitling (13,600).

Looking at luxury watch ambassadors, Omega — the highest ranked brand (17%) — uses the “Michael Phelps effect”: an American swimmer who beat the Gold Medal record in a single Olympics (8 medals), in the Beijing Olympic Games. Six of TAG Heuer’s ambassadors are ranked in the top 20. At the top of the line is golfer Tiger Woods, who garners 15% of searches, followed by Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan (7%), Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton (4%), actor Leonardo DiCaprio (3%), tennis star Maria Sharapova (3%) and deceased actor and racing driver Steve McQueen (2%).

The 25 watch brands covered by the survey are divided into 4 categories:

Luxury: Audemars Piguet, Blancpain, Breguet, Girard-Perregaux, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Franck Muller, Zenith, and IWC.

Women’s Jewelry: Bulgari, Cartier, Chopard, and Piaget. The replica Cartier Ballon Bleu watch is one of the top models searched for on the web today.

Prestige: Breitling, Hublot, Omega, Rolex, and Tag Heuer.The Breitling replica watches are one of the top replica models searched for on the web today.

High Range: Baume & Mercier, Ebel, Longines, Montblanc, Raymond Weil, and Rado.

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Super-LumiNova

2009-06-30T18:39:00.000-07:00

Scientists began researching the luminescence of natural and artificial substances intensively in the 19th century. They paid particular attention to the phosphorescent properties of zinc sulfide. After exposure to light, this material emits its store of energy gradually and can continue to glow for hours after the exposure has ended. But this occurs only if foreign atoms such as copper or cobalt are included in the crystal lattice of the zinc sulfide; the phosphorescence of pure zinc sulfide is actually quite weak.
Zinc sulfide can also be made to be auto-luminescent, that is, capable of glowing without any exposure to light at all. To do so requires the addition of tiny amounts of a radioactive substance. Auto-luminescent zinc sulfide will continue to emit clearly visible light for many years.
The first industrialists to capitalize on this idea were the owners of the Lip watch factory, in Besancon, France. In 1902, after Marie and Pierre Curie's much publicized discovery of radium, Lip owners Ernest and Camille Lipmann wondered whether radium, with its mysterious glow, could be used to make the dials of clocks and watches legible at night. They commissioned the Curies to develop auto-luminescent coatings for dials and hands. The Curies came up with zinc sulfide that had been activated with traces of radium so that it glowed continually.
Auto-luminescent watches and alarm clocks were a huge hit with the public. Tragically, no one yet knew about the dangers of radioactivity. Although the people who wore auto-luminescent watches weren't at risk, many of the factory workers (mostly young women) who painted the radium-containing substance onto the watch dials and hands developed cancer and died. Most of the cancers were caused by the workers licking the tips of their paintbrushes to sharpen their points, thus exposing their mouths to the highly radioactive radium.
After World War II, radium was replaced by tritium, the "extra heavy" and very mildly radioactive form of hydrogen. Rather than emitting dangerous gamma rays when it decays
into helium, tritium gives off only low-energy electrons. For many years, watch companies favored a mixture of zinc sulfide powder and tritium containing polystyrole lacquer, a substance that posed no hazard to watch wearers. But the public's wariness of radioactivity in general led to many countries banning tritium from all nonmilitary applications.
By contrast, nearly all nations permit time pieces equipped with tritium gas light sources, i.e., fused glass tubules containing a small amount of tritium. The inner surface of these tubules is coated with zinc sulfide that has been enriched with either cobalt or copper. The light they emit is 100 times brighter than the glow of conventional luminous materials without activated tritium. The danger of breakage, which would release the tritium inside the tubule, is extremely small. Even if a tubule were to break, the gaseous and only mildly radioactive tritium would immediately disperse into the surrounding air. Tritium gas light sources are thus very safe and are currently enjoying a modest renaissance in the watchmaking sector.
Nonetheless, today the vast majority of watches with luminous markings use a non-radioactive luminous material: Super-LumiNova, which was first synthesized in the 1960s (the name came decades later). Scientists investigated its potential for use in fluorescent tubes, energy-saving lamps and cathode ray tubes. They were already familiar with the luminescent features of strontium aluminate enriched with traces of the rare earth metal europium.
When they further enriched this material with dysprosium (another rare earth metal) and exposed it to sunlight for a few minutes, they discovered that the compound remained noctilucent for many hours because the sunlight had "charged" the doubly enriched strontium aluminate. Markings made from this material glow all night long, although their luminosity declines overtime. China, Japan and Russia all claim the honor of having discovered the unique properties of strontium aluminate enriched with europium and dysprosium.
Luminous pigments containing strontium aluminate were originally manufactured under the name "SuperLite" by the Swiss firm of RC Tritec AG in Teufen in Canton Appenzell. They were first used successfully in watches by the Swatch brand in 1993. Swiss made replica watches are some of the top sought after watches in the world today. The Japanese firm Nemoto was granted a patent on strontium aluminate enriched with europium and dysprosium, i.e., the same substance that Tritec had already commercialized. This patent enabled Nemoto to prevent the import of Swatch watches painted with the material into Japan and the United States. Nemoto scored another watch-industry victory that year when Seiko launched watches with LumiBrite luminous markings made from the material.
Nemoto is a traditional family-owned business. It began manufacturing radium-activated zinc sulfide luminous material long before World War II, importing the radium from Canada or the Belgian Congo. When the war began, Nemoto's luminous materials proved vital for use on instruments aboard aircraft, ships, tanks and other vehicles, but Nemoto could no longer import radium from its traditional sources. It turned instead to its ally Germany, which shipped radium to the Far East aboard U-boats sailing top-secret missions.
After the war, tritium offered an alternative to radium. It was never widely accepted in Japan, perhaps because of the unintentional but fatal irradiation of Japanese fishermen caused by the United States' explosion of a hydrogen bomb on the Bikini Atoll in 1954. The crew of the fishing boat spoke no English and had therefore not understood the written and radioed warning messages. Hence they had unwittingly sailed directly into the severely radioactive zone. Tritium is used as the detonator in hydrogen bombs; its association with the irradiation of the fisherman could well have hurt its popularity with the Japanese public.
In any case, it became common in Japan to use luminous materials containing the radioactive isotope promethium 147. Promethium occurs in nature only as a trace metal. Its half-life is 2.6 years, which means that 50 percent of the existing promethium atoms in a given specimen decay within this period of time. Promethium was obtained by isolating it from the products of fission in Russian nuclear reactors, but the last such reactor was shut down in the 1990s. After that, the Japanese watch industry got along without promethium. Non-radioactive luminous materials were strongly in demand, and Nemoto quickly moved in to fill the niche.

RC Tritec and Nemoto reached an agreement about strontium aluminate enriched with europium and dysprosium in 1998, when they founded the joint venture LumiNova AG Switzerland. The new company ordered its raw material from Nemoto and processed it in Teufen, giving it its correct particle size and coloring it in accord with customers' specifications. (The coloration is important because some watch manufacturers want to set themselves apart from their com¬petitors by using distinctively colored luminescent materials.) The company named the substance Super-LumiNova. Since then, this material has undergone many improvements. One of the most important was doubling the intensity of the radiated light. Today's Super-LumiNova can acquire a sufficient "charge" through exposure to artificial light for just a few minutes. Natural daylight is no longer necessary.
Sunlight-activated Super-LumiNova initially glows much more brightly than tritium. After an hour or two, its luminosity declines to the same intensity as tritium. For the next six hours, its brightness continues to wane until it reaches a value of 7 nCd/mm^, i.e., seven nanocandela per square millimeter. The dimmest glow discernible by a dark-adapted human eye is 3.2 nCd/mm2. The initial luminosity of Super-LumiNova that has been activated by artificial light is 1/10 as bright as sunlight-activated Super-LumiNova; after eight hours its glow reaches the threshold of visibility for the unaided eye.
The ISO standards require that a luminous dial with 11 numerals glow with an intensity of 36 nCd and that its hands must be at least 10 nCd bright. On many wristwatches, the surfaces coated with luminous material are too small or the coating isn't thick enough to keep the dial glowing visibly through the night. But if the surfaces are big enough and have been coated with enough Super-LumiNova, the markers and hands will remain legible up to 12 hours.
Although Super-LumiNova was made in Switzerland, some Swiss watch manufacturers were troubled by the fact that the manufacturer was a Japanese-Swiss joint venture and the production took place under a Japanese patent with raw materials imported from Japan. Nemoto therefore agreed to grant Lu-miNova a license to fabricate Super-LumiNova entirely in Switzerland. This all-Swiss material is called Super-LumiNova 2007.
A production line for Super-LumiNova 2007 went into service in Teufen in early May. It performs every step of the manufacturing process, from the synthesis of strontium aluminate enriched with europium and dysprosium to the final coating of dials with the luminous substance. LumiNova was thus able to optimize every parameter in each phase of production. The new generation of Super-LumiNova is clearly superior to the earlier product.
Furthermore, LumiNova can now satisfy even the most unusual requests from its customers, including those for different colors of emitted light, which can now be greenish, bluish or greenish-blue. The color is deter mined when the strontium aluminate is enriched with the two rare earth metals. When the material is viewed in daylight, the spectrum of colors is almost limitless, including white, black, and almost all colors of the rainbow. The colors are achieved by dying the crystals of the luminous material with a variety of coloring agents, most of which are organic, but which can also be fluorescent or non-fading colorants. If you are looking for the top brand designer inspired replica watches please visit http://www.timetraditions.com.

Up To Date Precision

2009-06-16T21:45:00.000-07:00

Throughout the years, watch dials have been made in a vast variety of formats, measuring time in creative and alternative ways. These configurations have cyclically flourished and become dormant over time, depending on need, fashion or trends. Thanks to dedicated connoisseurs, however, they have never fully disappeared. Many have been rediscovered in the modern era.
One of these, the regulator dial, is a form of timekeeping that has its secure place in horological history, dating back to a time when high precision clocks became necessary instruments at the dawn of the Age of Enlightenment.
In its most essential format, the regulator dial has a subsidiary hour hand, a subsidiary seconds hand and a central minutes hand. The emphasis on the dial is in reading the minutes. These dials originated with the English long-case regulator clocks that were first used in the early 1700s as high-precision clocks in observatories and laboratories, and became important instruments in clock and watchmakers' work-shops, to which they could set the time of their new creations.
Although regulator style dials were rarely used in pocket watches, there are some examples of pair-cased English pocket watches with regulator-style dials that date back to the 1760s. Unlike their regulator clock counterparts, these pocket watches usually inverted the sub-dials with the seconds at 6 o'clock and the hours at 12 o'clock to better follow the motion mechanisms used by watches.

Newest version
IWC revives the tradition of these high-precision timepieces with the Portuguese Regulateur Tourbilion, which combines two horological feats into one elegant timepiece. The time and effort required to make these watches allows IWC to make 100 of each in platinum, white or rose gold. The Caliber 98245 pocket watch movement, which has been in continuous development for the past seventy years, is housed in the refined case measuring 43 mm. A slim, central minute hand dominates the three separate time displays for a more accurate reading. The hours and seconds sub-dials sit at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock, respectively, representing the essential form of the regulator clock.
IWC takes its historical reference a step further by adding a tourbilion, another horological feature that complements the regulator dial. Developed over 200 years ago, the tourbilion was designed to counteract the gravitational pull of the earth on a pocket watch, which was always worn in the same position.
Although the function of a tourbilion is no longer necessary now that watches are worn on a wrist, this does not deter collectors from delighting in this complicated feature, which still can only be delivered by masterful watch-makers. Of particular note in the
tourbillon in this timepiece is the "floating" mechanism IWC developed, where it is mounted with bearings on one side, allowing the wearer an unobstructed view of the escapement. The escapement was redesigned for this watch and adapted to the dimension of the two sub-dials, making it smaller than the tourbillon found in the Portuguese Mystere. The tourbillon occupies the position at 9 o'clock,complementing the sub-dials, giving the regulator dial an asymmetrical, modern design.
The dial comes in three color variations: the white gold case features a slate-gray ardoise while the rose gold and platinum versions carry a silver-plated dial. This manually wound watch has a power reserve of 52 hours and the balance frequency has been increased from 18,000 to 28,800 beats per hour (4 Hz.) The balance oscillates eight times per second in its rotating cage, making it the fastest running pocket watch movement in IWC's history.
The wearer can also take pleasure in seeing the nickel-plated movement through the sapphire caseback. The large sweeping tourbillon bridge carries a small gold medallion with the IWC Replica Watch seal, "Probus Scafusia," the company's motto, meaning "good, solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen."
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Celestial Precision

2009-06-15T21:27:00.000-07:00

Bill Clinton was finishing his final months at the White House whenAudemars Piguet and Audemars Piguet Replica Watches debuted its first Jules Audemars Equation of Time wristwatch. This was in 2000, and Audemars Piguet garnered accolades far and wide for its elegant solution to placing four very complex astronomical functions into a case smaller than the firm's 1928 pocket watch, which boasted similar displays.
The former President had already established his Clinton Foundation, an organization he founded in 1997 with the goal of "strengthening the capacity of people throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence." Essentially, the Foundation works with partners that can best reach out to solve pressing global issues many of which echo the purpose of the Audemars Piguet Foundation, which jasmine Audemars (daughter of Jacques Louis Audemars) initiated in 1992.
These two forward thinking foundations joined forces last year in New York City when Audemars Piguet CEO Georges Henri Meylan announced that 126 lucky collectors now have the opportunity to purchase an equation of time watch specially designed by Audemars Piguet for the benefit of The Clinton Foundation.
The watch, which will boast an inscription on the caseback that reads "William J. Clinton 42nd President of the United States," will be set to show solar time and equation of time graduations adjusted to the White House. The firm will make forty two models in each of three metals: platinum, rose gold and white gold.
Shared beliefs "We believe that the Clinton Foundation and Audemars Piguet share common values of innovation and excellence," explains Meylan. "Audemars Piguet is very proud of helping the Clinton Foundation to achieve the ambitious goals it has set for the coming years. We share the same philosophy, and our new partnership will allow us to launch a unique timepiece and donate $3 million to the Clinton Foundation."
He noted that His own linn focuses its Foundation tin environmental protection and awareness among youth.
"The relationship with the Clinton foundation helps bring awareness to our foundation," adds Francois Henry Rennahmias, President and CEO of Audemars Piguel North America. From preserving the pilgrimage pathways of the Huichol Indians in Mexico, to renewing the oak forests of Switzerland, his firm's Foundation is currently active in six different countries through projects featuring a strong involvement of local populations to defend their natural heritage.
Previous projects have included: Erasing the devastation of forest fires in France and Portugal; fighting desertification in Namibia and Brazil, and associating villagers in the cause of forest conservation, as in the Congo or Thailand. During the past fifteen years, the AP Foundation has funded projects in twenty-six countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America.
The watch The new model that Audemars Piguet otters to collectors to benefit the Clinton Foundation recalls three pocket watches from the firm's vast archive. Prior to 1900, Audemars Piguet offered an equation of time function on a pocket watch. Then, in 1925, the company offered a pocket watch . that was the first model to place a perpetual calendar lined up along the 12 o'clock to 6 o'clock axis. In 1928, the firm launched a perpetual calendar with a running hand equation of time display. Each of these watches informs the design of the current watch.
At its base is Caliber 2120, which the firm debuted in 1967 to great acclaim. According to Audemars Piguet, the 2120 remains the thinnest mechanical self winding movement with a central rotor.
Its 2.45 mm profile allowed it to become an integral base for a thin Replica Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watch with date (1972) and the world's thinnest perpetual calendar (1978).
In the Equation of Time, the firm places Caliber 2808 onto the 2120, resulting in a 5.35 mm movement that, considering the complexity of the functions built into the piece, sits only moderately high on the wrist.
Equation of time
Very few watchmakers place the equation of time function into their watches. For those interested in celestial harmony (as well as highly technical watchmaking) however, this function is necessary as it completes a full reading on actual time in a very specific location. On this watch, that location is the White House in Washington, DC.
Essentially, a true solar day is the lapse of time between two consecutive passages ot the sun through the meridian in a given place. This length of time differs every day of the year except four. There exists a difference between the actual "solar time" and what we who live in real lite on earth abide by, namely local time. Clockmakers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries calculated this annual time curve and began placing equation ot time indications into long case clocks. But, despite the centuries of watchmaking since that period, very few timepieces have been made with this function.
Most pocket watches and wristwatches that have added this function have done so with a sub-dial that shows a hand in-dicating how many minutes and seconds one must add to or subtract from the local time to obtain solar time. But, Audemars Piguet has chosen its own path, a so-called "running" equation of time system that utilizes two hands. One, tipped with the very visible golden sun, shows the wearer the precise solar time, thanks to a calculating (and precisely cut) kidney-shaped cam inside the movement. Therefore, the owner need only glance at the two minute hands for the equation of time differential.
There's another feature built in to Audemars Piguet's unique When the hour hand corresponds to the time indicated on the graduated ring (inside the bezel) and the two minute hands are superimposed, the sun is at its peak: solar high noon. Only this watch offers such ease of indication, which the firm calls, paradoxically, a "sundial on the wrist."
Sunrise,, sunset Prominent along the horizontal center of the dial are two sub-dials that display sunset and sunrise times. As you may know, the farther away from the equator you travel, the more one experiences seasonal variations in sunset and sunrise times. When this watch is set for a specific city, these sub-dials indicate the accurate times of each event. The hands on these two subdials are controlled by two cams that are each machined to the nearest thousandth of a millimeter, which is required to maintain such accuracy. What does the watchmaker need to know to make these cams? Three pieces of data: the date, the longitude and the latitude of the wearer.
Perpetual Calendar The first perpetual calendars appeared during the seventeenth century with date displays made with retrograde pointer type mechanisms. Louis Benjamin Breguet first placed a perpetual day indicator into a circular sub-dial in 1811. These early perpetuals were a tribute to watchmaking prowess, which Audemars Piguet demonstrated in its very first year in business, in 1875, when it introduced its premier perpetual model.
To replicate the days and years on a watch mechanically is a difficult task, especially if the goal is to eliminate the need to frequently reset the device. Therefore watchmakers have calculated how to insert wheels and gears that essentially do nothing but click once a year, or in certain cases, once every four years. These take into account the months of 28, 30 or 31 days, and, respectively, February's troublesome 29th day during leap years. Therefore the Equation of Time need only be manually corrected on March 1, 2100.
On this watch, this is critical because the perpetual calendar in fact drives all the other complications. If the watch is stopped, adjusting the date using the crown . or corrector restores the entire range of the watch's functions. This is a user-friendly perpetual calendar.
Astronomical moon
The most common method used to display the moon's monthly cycle is a disc with two painted moons that is driven by a wheel with fifty-nine teeth. The wheel moves one notch ahead every twenty-four hours to show that day's particular phase of the moon.
The problem with this "standard" fare is that the calculations and their resulting wheel and click is the cycle represented on the display represent a cycle that is actually 59 days long, not the 29.5 day cycle of the real moon. Therefore, the accuracy of the moon phase display is off by one day every two and one half years.
The watchmakers at Audemars Piguet Replica Watches have instead created a wheel made of 135 teeth, measuring fully 11 mm in diameter. Its cycle results in a displayed lunar cycle that is only fifty-seven seconds longer than the actual lunar cycle. Therefore it needs only a one day correction every 122 years and 44 days. The Equation of Time is appropriately issued with a corrector for future generations to attend to this variation.
With these four complications the Audemars Piguet Clinton Foundation Equation of Time expects to attract collectors who desire the definitive picture of one's place on earth. Not coincidentally, it is the earth that stands to benefit when these pieces sell, as the Clinton Foundation will see substantial assistance for its good deeds. If you are looking for the best designer inspired replica Audemars Piguet watches you can find them at www.timetraditions.com.

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Make It New

2009-06-12T13:05:00.000-07:00

Standing next to time capsule Ferraris, and Porsches, Paul Russell and Ralph Lauren
can easily get lost in the sound of a particular engine, or the $500,000 that it can take
to restore one of the world's premier automobiles.

Ralph Lauren comes up to Essex, Massachusetts, he'll try to describe something nebulous that's not quite right about a car, and he turns out to be right all the time," says Paul Russell, 52, who is famed for the painstaking efforts that he applies to restoring prized automobiles. "It really doesn't matter if it's the silky sweet sounds of a Ferrari V-12 or the thumping exhaust on some other treasure, Ralph has a remarkable feel and ear for cars. I've done 13 restorations for him (along with taking care of his entire collection), and I'm always impressed with his knowledge."
Lauren has been equally dazzled by Russell's mechanical brilliance. The Polo clothing mogul first "discovered" him in 1981 when Russell was an anonymous grease monkey, quietly perfecting his craft on British and German imports in a small Topsfield, Massachusetts repair shop. Lauren asked him to restore a fifties era Mercedes 300SL, or a fabled Gullwing with upward opening, hatch type doors, and obviously satisfied with his fine eye for detail, later commissioned him to pursue the Holy Grail of vintage car awards.
This "turning point" project involved the passions that stir most collectors, and a 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic coupe. Hoping to win Best of Show at Pebble Beach's Concours d'Elegance (the Super Bowl of classic car events), Lauren brought this prized, coach built car to Russell in 1988 for a pricey, museum quality restoration. Spending two years on the shape of every rivet and valve, even if it meant poring over original photographs, and obsessively searching for esoteric parts, Russell made sure that Lauren's dream was realized. (The two men would win again with a 1931 Mercedes Trossi SSK.) Lauren can safely boast about his prize, a car now reportedly worth $15 million, and also be acknowledged as the connoisseur who first propelled Russell to international stardom.
"The workmanship, the loyalty to history and detail, what I do is a lot like Swiss watchmaking," insists Russell, who must combine the skills of a detective, archaeologist, historian, and mechanic to fashion automobiles faithful to their glorious past. "I'm not working on transportation appliances. I'm restoring art, bringing back vibrant colors, making various parts live again, and to do that takes all my passion. My hunt is for perfection, historical legitimacy, and like a watch that's technically sophisticated, this integrity lies in the minutiae that distinguishes a fine car."
Despite those feelings of kinship with Switzerland's best artisans, Russell has no intention of starting a watch collection. "While having several watches is not important to me, I really admire the work of Gerd Land at Chronoswiss, because he honors the tradition of mechanical innovation," says Russell, who still appreciates a "power wind" Ido Oceanstar (time and date) given to him by his parents. "This high school graduation gift was a huge thing. Because it's an automatic, I always felt that I had a much better watch than my dad."
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Everyone who guesses the correct watch automatically enters a lottery The winner i will be announced in the April 2004 issue of WatchTime. The prize is a Paul Baldin
Mimetico valued at $1,500. It's a relatively simple watch with no high octane adornments. Yet sturdy looking, and still telling perfect time after years of Russell's knocking around inside engines, this Ocean star well suits his mechanical bent.
"Once you put a body on the chassis, you never see it, but a car restorer must still aim for integrity, the original specs of every part," in¬sists this stubborn perfectionist, who while owning a 1973 Porsche 911S, drives a VW Passant to work. "It's the same with a fine watch. You don't see the exquisite detail inside so a watch is a great leap of faith."
The Oceanstar seems to satisfy those demands for exacting precision. Yet while holding great sentimental value, it's still not his favorite watch. That honor belongs to a watch steeped in racing folklore, a timepiece he bought when accompanying a client to a famous vintage car rally.
"I went to the race to support a client, and I was so enamored with the watch he received for participating, I had to have one," cheerfully recalls Russell. "It's simply a beautiful chronograph. I don't have huge hands, and this elegant timepiece fits me very nicely. It's just a perfect watch that's been made by someone with an eye."
Though a regard for history has stirred a fascination with watches, or what's called "the artistic execution of a mechanical job," Russell has little time to further his horological education. Now working on 25 cars in his crowded shop, including a Ferrari Testarossa and a prized 1959 Porsche Spyder, he must not only restore their original specs, but also supervise a burgeoning workforce of 18 specialists (mechanics, body men, upholsterer, etc.). He has little time to retreat to a small island off the Maine coast, where he and his wife Barbara are building a cabin.
"It's a treat for me to work on that Porsche since the owner is a very knowledgeable collector who understands history," relates Russell. "Our commission is to make that car seem like new. This allows us to get into a discussion about such matters as the shape of the dome on the rivets that hold the structural support inside the door, total minutiae. This is still important. We're not trying to rewrite history books here. We're just trying to represent history accurately."
Pausing to attend to one of his innumerable daily "crises," Russell looks at a piece of chrome, and barks a few instructions to a nearby body man. He then discounts the pressures of working with demanding clients like Ralph Lauren, and says, "what makes what I do exciting is the detective work, the striving for accuracy and perfection. Whether it's lovingly restoring the aluminum castings on a Bugatti, or block sanding the cam boxes flat again, I'm turning back the hands of time. We're building time warp machines here."

Jaeger Lecoultre Reserve Grande Reserve

2009-06-01T00:28:00.000-07:00

A clearly legible dial with a small seconds subdial at the "9" and a cushion-shaped case with stirrups to attach the strap. On the other hand, this watch packs a powerful punch beneath its dial. Not only does the movement keep running for eight long days be-tween windings (hence the model's name), the remaining power reserve is shown on a bridge that's visible through the big transparent pane in the back. The scale is milled into the surface of the bridge, above which a little blued steel hand traces its hebdomadal arc. If eight days of au¬tonomy and a power-reserve display on the back make you think of Jaeger-LeCoultre Imitations, you're right: the luxury manufacture delivers this ex¬clusive movement to its sister company in the Richemont Group. This movement isn't based on the caliber used in the Reverso Grande Reserve, but on the one encased inside the Master Eight Days, which is augmented to include a big-date display and a day-night indicator. The Master Eight Days shows the remaining power reserve on its dial, but the differential with its planetary gear train is situated on the backside, so the shaft for the hand could also be shifted toward the rear. That's an inge¬nious solution, which not only helped this successful brand design a unique com¬plication, but also led to the creation of an exclusive and high-status movement. All of the edges and borings are beveled and polished. A swan's neck fine adjustment is used to fine-tune the balance. If you are looking for the best designer inspired replica Jaeger LeCoultre watches you can find them at http://www.timetraditions.com.

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