Harry Winston Avenue C Large
Originally inspired by the refined geometric forms of Art Deco, the Avenue collection is an ode to New York City – its long thoroughfares stretching their slender silhouettes off into the distance, its soaring, vertiginous aerial architecture. The teeming city has always fed Harry Winston’s creativity.
Newcomer in this iconic collection, Avenue C Large varies its geometry by playing with straight lines and curves, asymmetry and contrasts.
Harry Winston Avenue C Large
Avenue C Large uses the mirror effects of skyscrapers, with its dial set with 156 baguette-cut diamonds (7.5 carats). As a frame of light, the 7.8 carats case reflects the beauty and the brilliance of each diamond.
Unrivaled, the glittering bracelet in white gold, set with 260 baguette-cut diamonds (19.5 carats), extends the brightness of the watch to infinity.
A total of 34.8 carats embodies a unique style, which is the culmination of efforts and skills between gemologists, designers and craftsmen, working together to create incredibly beautiful timepieces.
Harry Winston Avenue C Large
- Reference: 335/UQWW.DB/BD/BD
- Movement Type: Quartz
- Functions: Hours and minutes
- Case: Material 18K white gold
- Crystal: Sapphire
- Diameter: 47.6 x 34.8 mm
- Water resistance: 30 meters
- Case: setting Set with 40 baguette-cut diamonds and 13 brilliant-cut diamonds (7.8 carats)
- Dial: 18K white gold; Sunray dial set with 156 baguette-cut diamonds (7.5 carats)
- Bracelet: Material 18K white gold; Set with 260 baguette-cut diamonds (19.5 carats)
- Buckle Type: Folding clasp
- Material: 18K white gold
- Total carat 456 baguette-cut diamonds
- Weight 13 brilliant-cut diamonds
- 34.8 carats
- Collection Avenue
Perrelet Turbine Poker
Perrelet deals a winning hand with its signature double-rotor watches, and rewrites the rules of the game with the Turbine Poker. The 12 spinning blades allow tantalising glimpses of the cards underneath, while a flick of the wrist is all it takes to call your opponent’s bluff! This statement watch comes with three versions of the dial. One deals a winning pair of sevens. A second deals a pair of sevens and two royal flushes, one with hearts and one with spades. A third deals two full suits: jacks over sevens and kings over sevens. When the wrist is still, the turbine spins to a halt and finally reveals the cards. Winner takes all! (swisstime)
Perrelet Turbine Poker
Perrelet Turbine Poker
- Movement Automatic, exclusive Perrelet P-181 double rotor calibre, openwork and black lacquer rotor with Perrelet decoration
- Functions Hours, minutes and seconds
- Case Steel with black DLC coating, 44 mm
- Anti-reflective sapphire crystal on both sides
- Water-resistant to 50 m (5 ATM)
- Dial Three different hands of cards under the black Turbine
- Red and white hourmarkers
- Bracelet/Strap Natural black rubber with black DLC-coated steel buckle
TAG Heuer Formula 1 Lady Steel and Ceramic Pavée
The cycle of time in women’s life, this constant flow we all would like to suspend for a minute, an hour or a year is inflexible. As immutable and unalterable as Ceramic. Forever is Diamonds’ unique shine. Both meet in the Formula 1 Lady Steel and Ceramic, the highly successful feminine timepiece launched in 2010. With this new Pavée edition, TAG Heuer’s fashion icon takes dazzle to its most generous expression : a uniquely mysterious and feminine timepiece that personifies the myriad richness of the TAG Heuer woman and that exudes one of the prestigious brand’s most distinctive creations, the Formula 1.
TAG Heuer Formula 1 Lady Steel and Ceramic Pavée
Suspending time on our wrist with the eternity of diamonds, deluxe light catchers, fully setting the bezel and the dial up to the pavé heart for total star power… An exquisite and captivating alliance of endless glitter with a deep black ceramic, making this timepiece everything but flashy, yet with a seductive flair and a touch of sex appeal… TAG Heuer’s new Formula 1 Lady Steel and Ceramic Pavée gives a woman what she wants.
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The Grande Classique de Longines
The Grande Classique de Longines embodies the oldest aesthetic tradition of the brand known the world over for its winged hourglass logo. The ultra-slim profile of the specially designed case lends this collection a timeless beauty. Maintaining all the characteristics of the original creations, the models in this line can be seen to grace the wrists of those who appreciate reliability.
The Grande Classique de Longines
Presented for the first time in 1992, the Grande Classique de Longines has taken its many refinements from the prestigious Agassiz collection, launched in 1982, whose solid gold models were a tribute to the founder of a brand that celebrated its 150th anniversary that year. Since then, this collection has become Longines’ symbol of classical elegance and has proved extremely popular all around the world.
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TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Titanium Ruthenium and Ceramic
From October 2011: the Monaco V4 Next Generation welcomes it’s most high-tech version to date: the Monaco V4 Titanium, Ruthenium and Ceramic.
TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Titanium Ruthenium and Ceramic
With its super lightness, extraordinary tensile strength, corrosion resistance and ability to withstand extreme temperatures, titanium has become an essential building material in many high-tech industries, including luxury car manufacture, aviation, aeronautics and medicine. High processing costs and demanding know-how keep its usage limited to top-end industries.
TAG Heuer is a pioneer in its use in watchmaking, having mastered its manufacturing challenges. The brand’s Research & Development team has now developed a process enabling the use of Titanium Grade 5, a special alloy used in aircrafts, turbines and surgical implants, in the case construction of its most avant-garde timepiece to date, the Monaco V4 Titanium Ruthenium and Ceramic.
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SAINT HONORE COLOSEO Moon Phase
Designed for enthusiasts of exceptional objects, the COLOSEO Moon Phase combines SAINT HONORE‘s watchmaking knowledge with its passion for innovation.
The elegant architecture of the COLOSEO case has inspired the watchmakers to produce a new refined version: the COLOSEO Moon Phase watch.
SAINT HONORE COLOSEO Moon Phase
Disciples of the COLOSEO model will appreciate the care taken with this piece with its materials and characters alternating between masculine lines and calendar functions and the romanticism of its complication dedicated to the moon.
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F.P.Journe OCTA UTC
Created in the 19th Century, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. Already used by the British navy to calculate their longitude position from the Greenwich meridian, it was introduced in the United Kingdom by the Railway Clearing House in 1847. It was then legally adopted as official time throughout Great Britain in 1880, and then in the entire world for the major part of the 20th Century, before being replaced in 1972 by UTC, Universal Time, Coordinated, due to the inconsistency of average solar time.
F.P.Journe OCTA UTC
GMT is usually used in the watchmaking world to designate watches with a second time zone. GMT is based on terrestrial rotation, while UTC on atomic international time therefore the two time measurements are close but not the same. Unlike GMT, UTC offers the current view of time zone division directly linked to the real rotation of the earth, and less variable.
F.P.Journe innovates once again with the presentation of the Octa UTC®, a patented system that uses the modern standards of determining time zones in full hours. Mechanically it indicates the different time periods linked with the earth’s geographical positions, including summer and winter hour.
On the dial, the local hours are indicated by the blue hands, and linked to the calendar indicating the current geographical time. The rose gold hand indicates the hour of the second time zone on 24 hours, represented by the earth’s 24 time zones.
Swatch Group terminates partnership with Tiffany & Co. New York for material breach of contract
Today Swatch Group terminated its cooperation contracts with Tiffany & Co. This action became necessary following Tiffany & Co’s systematic efforts to block and delay development of the business.
Within the framework of the long-term partnership agreement, in spring 2008, Swatch Group founded Tiffany Watch Co. Ltd., which was responsible for the development, production and distribution of « Tiffany & Co. » branded watches. Worldwide sales were handled through points of sale operated by Tiffany & Co., by The Swatch Group Ltd. and by independent retailers.
Tiffany Watch Co. Ltd. will be permitted to wind down current business over the course of two years following effective termination of the cooperation contracts.
Swatch Group and Tiffany Watch Co. Ltd. will press claims for damages against Tiffany & Co., New York, in compensation for the loss of planned long-term future business. (Swatch press)
Vacheron Constantin Collection Excellence Platine Patrimony Contemporaine self-winding
The Collection Excellence Platine, launched in 2006, welcomes a new model stemming from the elegant Patrimony Contemporaine line. This Haute Horlogerie classic is available for the first time in a 42 mm diameter, issued in a naturally rare and limited edition of 150.
Rarely have pure shapes found such an eminently suitable material. By associating the acknowledged elegance and understatement of the Patrimony Contemporaine line with the precious nature of solid platinum, the Manufacture Vacheron Constantin is revealing yet another facet of exceptional watchmaking. Governed by the same spirit of excellence, this gleaming ‘jewel box’ was bound to house a remarkable mechanical gem – and such is indeed the case with the legendary Calibre 1120, an ultra-thin self-winding movement with an excellent reputation that is entirely developed and crafted by Vacheron Constantin and also carries the prestigious Hallmark of Geneva.
Vacheron Constantin Collection Excellence Platine Patrimony Contemporaine self-winding
Previously available exclusively in a 40 mm-diameter case, the ultra-thin self-winding model of the Patrimony Contemporaine collection finds a new field of expression meeting the expectations of connoisseurs eager to enjoy a distinctive presence on the wrist combined with undeniable elegance. With its fine, taut lines, slim silhouette and broad dial opening, this new 42 mm-diameter case fitted with a transparent back continues to display the timeless design that has earned its predecessors such enduring success.
Harry Winston Midnight Big Date
Classic yet modern. In a word: timeless. The new Harry Winston Midnight Collection embodies the quintessence of watchmaking, imbued with a sense of authenticity and refinement.
Harry Winston Midnight Big Date depicts the time indications in a unique style, true to the spirit of the brand and to watchmaking tradition. This intrinsically elegant watch would undoubtedly have appealed to Mr. Winston himself.
Harry Winston Midnight Big Date
The arrangement offers each element a prime place and gives depth and relief to the dial. A single diamond is perched discreetly above the large date, reminding connoisseurs of Mr. Winston’s habit of keeping one of his gems in his pocket for the sheer pleasure of rolling it between his fingers.
Crafted in rose or white gold, the 42mm case chooses understated elegance to better highlight the sophistication of the time indications. The timepiece features an inherent visual balance that adds both elegance and readability. (Harry Winston press)
