The stunning new Code Breaker watch would be at home on the frame of any sophisticated science fiction movie. Just as plots of this genre love to send the viewer on time travels to the past and future, this watch takes the concept of time keeping into a totally new era. Its chunky titanium case creates a distinctive time capsule of its own, while other edgy design features launch the imagination into diversified realms of bank safes, bulldozers and spaceships.

Hamilton
Code Breaker Automatic

The special effects
Code Breaker virtually gained iconic status before it left the drawing board. Its squared case can play a wide range of roles depending on the model – brushed titanium, black PVD and yellow or rose gold PVD are all shades of tomorrow’s rainbow. It comes in two size and movement versions – the larger of which containing an auto chrono movement. Many of the watches have a rubber strap formed like a bulldozer track, ready to take on anything up to and including the moon’s surface. Gold PVD and white versions of the smaller automatic model offer the alternative of a stitched leather strap, while the larger watch in its gold PVD interpretation teams up with a dark brown caiman back tail attachment.

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Fall 2008 brings a crop of new models ready for action on children’s wrists. Three dainty and fascinating “treasures” are designed to capture girls’ hearts, while two cute new models released under license with Warner Bros. bring two legendary cartoon characters to the wrist.

Flik Flak
Travelling for Beauty

Based on a concept developed in close cooperation with earning specialists and designed to make telling the time an enjoyable experience, Flik Flak watches are famous for their extreme readability and “user-friendliness”. Shock-proof aluminium cases and scratch-resistant mineral glasses enable them to stand up to all the many activities an average fun-loving, energetic child can engage in, and if they happen to get a little dirty in the process, putting them through a 40° machine cycle is enough to restore their fresh, youthful charm! Powered by accurate and reliable quartz movements, the colour-coded displays are exceptionally easy to follow and help kids keep track of the many exciting times in their busy lives.

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New York City is an inspiration. The streets glitter with bright lights, polished cars, and high fashion. An electric plaid of transit connects the city; it’s always moving, always creating, and always changing. This coming season, you’ll find all the glitz and allure of New York City embodied in our exclusive Fall/Holiday DKNY Watch Collection.

DKNY NY1374

Stunning crystals shine on our ladies Glitz watches adding a touch of brilliance to any ensemble. Go modern with our stark black leather straps, and bracelets featuring bright gold tone accents. Our updated Street Smart collection is bold and eye-catching. We’ve kept the oversize dials, precision accents, and multi functionality that he loves, and put it all into a watch perfectly crafted to fit her. High polished metals, glittering rows of crystals, and bold modern shapes brings the spirit of New York City to all our favorite new accessories.

Our Men’s Collection is sleek and modern. Perfect for a night on the town, Luminous gold tone accents pop against dramatic blacks. Bold, masculine, and functional, our Fall/Holiday Collection adds an air of sophistication to causal, professional, or evening wear.

DKNY proudly introduce the 2008 Fall/Holiday Watch Collection. It is New York City. (Fossil press)

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“STRIA is the perfect choice to accompany your evening wear as well as an ideal adornment for the wrist of any woman in search of daily sophistication.”

Bertolucci STRIA
Ref: 723.50.41.101.R01

In its Distinction collection, Bertolucci focuses on the elegance, the purity of the lines and a subtle refinement. All of the models in the collection express the brand’s creativity, innovative shapes and style: Sophisticated to glamourous, always emphasizing perfection, grace and beauty. Whatever the mood, the imagination takes flight, the quest for novelty and beauty brings us to the magical world of softness and ultimate elegance for the satisfaction of all expectations.

Bertolucci’s creation STRIA, the most recent of the brand’s great classics, reinvents the magical universe of the Mediterranean. In 18-carat pink gold or steel, the case is decorated with delicate ripples, like a shell reflecting a soft and silky light. Sizeable and slender in a well-balanced curves, fine and elegant, STRIA lies delicately upon a satin bracelet.

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The Palace Museum in the legendary Forbidden City is an iconic place of art and of international culture. It houses the world’s largest and richest collection of national treasures. Blancpain enjoys the immense privilege of having been chosen to represent contemporary watchmaking art in the Palace Museum. The world’s oldest watch brand thus becomes the first and only Manufacture to display a modern wristwatch there. In recognition of this honour, Blancpain has developed and crafted a one-of-a-kind version of its Carrousel Volant Une Minute. This timepiece has just been unveiled in an official donation ceremony held at the Palace Museum.

Blancpain Qiankun Carrousel

The Forbidden City and the Palace Museum
Lying at the heart of China’s capital city, Beijing, the 720,000 square-metre Forbidden City is considered the largest and most splendid palace in the world. Formerly carefully guarded, this palace has now open to the public and welcomes around 8 million visitors each year. Within its walls, the 160,000 square-metre Palace Museum faithfully preserves over 1,500,000 works of art and objets d’art. The Watch and Clock Hall houses one of the largest collections of mechanical timepieces, comprising over 1000 models from the 18th and 19th centuries – but no modern wristwatch up until now! A worthy ambassador of the art of watchmaking, Blancpain has been entrusted with the immense privilege of exhibiting the first and only modern wristwatch there.

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For the first time, Delma Watch Ltd. presents a timekeeping instrument that embodies all forms and materials ever used by the Lengnau-based Swiss company. Despite its rugged looks and multilayered construction, the chronograph has a surprisingly slim silhouette, underscored by the rounded flanks of the case.

Delma Watch Ltd
Midland Chronograph

Delma Watch Ltd. not only stands for a legendary past but also for an innovative future. This is clearly expressed by the styling of the Swiss watchmaking company’s latest creation. So far, the venerable brand’s watches reflected a preference for classic shapes, but with its Midland line, Delma now showcases a subtly designed chronograph that deliberately unites all of its characteristic legacy forms and materials. The prominent timepiece is embedded in a steel case with a black PVD-coated steel plate which are screwed together, setting the stage for the notched rotating bezel.

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Vacheron Constantin has brought a new look to the Patrimony Contemporaine Retrograde Day and Date by dressing it in the purest and rarest of metals - platinum – and limiting it to a series of only 100 pieces stamped Vacheron Constantin Collection Excellence Platine.

Patrimony Contemporaine
Retrograde Day and Date
Collection Excellence Platine

Endowed with a strong personality, this 100% pure Vacheron Constantin timepiece is the Geneva-based manufacture’s leader in the medium-complication segment. It was presented in 2007 in pink gold and voted “Watch of the Year” the same year.

Having decided to introduce it into the Collection Excellence Platine, Vacheron Constantin has reinforced its unique character, magnified its aesthetic qualities and pushed the “all platinum” concept even further:

• The Patrimony Contemporaine Retrograde Day and Date boasts a generously-sized 42.5 mm platinum case, a sand-blasted platinum dial discreetly bearing the exclusive PT950 hallmark, and a midnight-blue alligator strap hand-stitched with woven platinum and silk thread (exclusive to Vacheron Constantin) with a folding clasp also in platinum, creating an unostentatious but visually spectacular piece.
• Besides the hour and minute display, this deceptively simple watch features two of the most useful complications: day and date. Displayed with finesse and subtlety in the form of two original retrograde indicators on the dial, they highlight the interior complexity of the mechanical movement.
• A convex sapphire crystal back reveals the finishing and decoration of the 2460R31R7 movement, which is stamped with the prestigious Hallmark of Geneva. The automatic mechanical movement, designed, developed and made by the Vacheron Constantin manufacture, is distinguished by the meticulous chamfering work of the Côtes de Genève bridges and circular graining of the plate. Its 22K yellow gold guilloché rotor is powered by an innovative system of ceramic ball-bearings.

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Eterna, Switzerland’s traditional watchmaking company, will be launching two new dial designs for the Eterna Vaughan Big Date line in the autumn of 2008 – one in anthracite, the other in off-white. The Vaughan Big Date marked Eterna’s return to the established art of fine watchmaking in 2007, a line with its own movement. The Eterna 3030 calibre provides the function of a unique big date display. The Eterna Vaughan Big Date retains its timeless style and classical elegance.

Eterna Vaughan Big Date off-white

Slim-line elegance
The watch’s outward appearance matches the brilliant design of the movement in the Eterna Vaughan Big Date; for the first time, the rose-gold case has been given an anthracite-coloured dial in combination with a brown alligator-leather strap, emphasising the watch’s classical elegance. The stainless-steel version now fitted with an off-white dial also comes with an alligator-leather strap in either black or brown. The convex dial shaped to match the lens-shaped movement gives the casing particularly smooth contours. Design highlights such as the subtle minute markings, purist design of the indices and straight, classical dauphine hands combine to form a fine outward appearance.

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This unique jewellery set, which has emerged from the Audemars Piguet Haute Joaillerie workshop, is an invitation to close your eyes and allow yourself to daydream for a few moments. To imagine a gentle summer evening in a garden pervaded by the fragrance of begonias, lilacs and hydrangeas. Tinkling piano notes and the haunting sound of a violin float through the warm summer air – while the cheerful laughter of the many guests spills out from behind the large bay windows of the house.

Audemars Piguet - Carnet de Bal Haute Joaillerie Set; Reference 79414BC.ZZ.9177BC.01

Inside, people are chatting and couples are dancing. In the centre of the room, at the heart of the party, sways a modern-day princess in a white taffetas gown. Her neck is daintily encircled by a choker and her wrist is graced by a watch on which all the garden flowers seem to have crystallised into sparkling diamonds. The object of countless admiring gazes, she dances the night away – while privately imagining she is filling in a dance card or “carnet de bal”, just as young ladies used to do.

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This stunning new timepiece pays a glowing tribute to Paris and its famous Place de l’Etoile surrounding the Arc de Triomphe, from which twelve prestigious avenues radiate in a rigorously symmetrical pattern. Among them is the Champs Elysées, which one can easily imagine at the centre of this perspective symbolised by Gérald Genta.

Gérald Genta
Octo Place de l’Etoile

Octo Place de l’Etoile is a brilliantly daring jewellery watch blending shapes, colours and materials in the brand’s distinctively avant-garde spirit. The avenues fan out in a vanishing perspective towards the jumping hour aperture, deliberately placed at 11 o’clock in this model. They alternate between diamond-set (totalling 199 gems in all) and enamel-coated motifs that extend over onto the bezel. The construction evokes the historical cobbled streets of Paris. The unexpected use of the colour mauve imbues this creation with a strange sense of solemnity.

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