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Presented by Panerai last April in Geneva, the limited series Luminor 1950 Marina Militare made the hot throats of the last SIHH and the aficionados of mark don’t have eyes that for it. Republication does a single part delivered to the Italian Navy in the years 1950, it begin again on its dial illustrate name Marina Militare very coveted by the collectors of the whole world. The first specimens intended for the French market of this very exclusive limited edition come to arrive to Paris and we could not miss making you share this event.
Panerai renews its close ties with the Italian Navy with a special 2005 edition of the Luminor Marina Militare. This model has several details which clearly differentiate it from its predecessors since it is a
re-edition of a model dating back to the 1940s: the case is of the Luminor ‘1950’ type (47 mm), the crown is at 9 o’clock with its protecting bridge inscribed with ‘REG. T.M’ (Registered Trade Mark) – a reminder that this device, which enables Panerai timepieces to survive immersion to great depths with maximum security, is protected by patents, and a small seconds counter at 3 o’clock.
The Panerai Luminor Marina Militare is a Limited Edition of 1000 pieces.
March 25th, 2006
Two very different strands of style culture have intertwined to invent a modern classic. Opening the year of celebrations around the seventy-fifth birthday of perhaps the most well-known watch of all time the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso L.A. based cult customiser Dr Romanelli has collaborated with the esteemed Swiss watchmakers Jaeger-LeCoultre to produce two exclusive versions of the timepiece with the famous rotating case.
Bearing the hallmarks of Dr Romanelli’s ‘street couture’ design methodology, with his distinctive scissors logo on the dial, these exquisite watches have been fashioned so that they may be worn on the cuff of four beautifully hand-finished Dr Romanelli jackets, creating a sophisticated fusion of progressive sportswear and luxury brand aesthetics.
The stylish and powerful Reverso Grande Réserve model integrates the technical innovation associated with Jaeger-LeCoultre and the contemporary design flourishes brought to it by Dr Romanelli’s ‘customising’ design outlook. The watch boasts a calibre 874 mechanical movement, lending it eight days’ power reserve, whilst the elegant black and dark grey guilloché dial gives it a distinguished, bold appearance. A special engraving on the case-back of Dr Romanelli’s distinctive couture scissors motif asserts the piece as a must-have fashion item.
This new version of the Reverso watch also suggests a variety of ways of wearing the watch. It comes with a special adaptation bridge with a broad strap in soft lamb’s leather that can be strapped around the cuff of the Dr Romanelli jacket. In addition, the watch head may also be removed altogether and replaced with a steel tag for a more edgy, ‘street-style’ statement. The bridge is also removable so that the watch can be worn with a more classic strap if desired.
March 25th, 2006
In the symbolic system, in Occident, the orange is associated with energy. In the professional universe the orange color symbolizes the urgency, the risk or the danger.
It is generally used to mark what is important. For example a temperature of overheating for an engine or the minimum level for a fuel tank. It is not a chance if the American coastguards made their color of it by associating it blue (its complementary color in the visible spectrum). With its orange and black dial photoluminiscent perfectly ergonomic and its mechanism of high Swiss clock industry, Instrument BR01 Orange is the perfect concretization of Bell philosophy: the function creates the form.
Bell & Ross apply its principle of legibility to 2 complementary models in their functionalities: a watch and a stop watch published automatics, each one, with 250 specimens.
March 25th, 2006
Roundnesses, countdown and optical illusion Of the new with a timeless form, the round, stylistic device of the geometry House with the new watch Rotunda of Cartier who enriches the aesthetic pallet by the Private Collection Cartier Paris. A Collection which combines also poetry and technique when she invents a time which countdown, a time cut into two, on a side the hours, other, minutes separated with the vertical from the famous Tortue watch. A style which votes for the extreme creativity around traditional lines like these duplicated and superimposed rectangles which make the surprise of the collection Cartier Libre. Elegance with the wrist, creative or fanstaque like this work of high jewellery, bracelet crocodile for a watch with secrecy in yellow gold paved of diamonds whose mouth opens and closes again as by enchantment on a language of ruby which swallows a time, here, more invaluable than ever.
A watch of high jewellery, in the great tradition of the animalist style House. Crocodile with the diamond scales of which the forms reptiliennes surround the wrist of a seizing realism. Work of pure jeweller who engraves in smoothness and miniature, legs, eyes, head, tail, scintillating of light and wild preciosity. Stones, smaller with largest which imitate with more close the skin of the animal, follow in measurement the curves of the crocodile, reproduce out of emerald, the eyes and in ruby the interior of the mouth. Marvellous details of this watch with secrecy which dissimulates a mechanism made to open and close the incredible jaw of the predator on a language to give time, genuine carpet of ruby. Dial with the mysterious and fairy-like effects that Cartier conceals with the glance for the only pleasure of the illusion and the seduction of one hide-shown ludic and extraordinary.
SIHH 2006 - Geneve 3 -9 april 2006.
March 25th, 2006
It was May 1947 when the first Ferrari crossed the gates of the firm in Maranello where, since then, all the Prancing Horse cars have been produced.
A watch bearing the brand Ferrari needs necessarily to reflect an unique excellence. For this reason Panerai represents for Ferrari a precious Italian know-how in terms of technological skills and creativity in watch-making.
The appearance of the Ferrari watches is strongly influenced by the aesthetic lines of the cars, in a continuous cross-reference between the watch and the details of the engine and bodywork.
The Ferrari watches engineered by Officine Panerai have been conceived with high quality and reliability prerequisites, typical of best watch-making and of Panerai technical standards.
There are two collections: Granturismo and Scuderia. The first range has a sophisticated sports style while the second is more aggressive and evokes the world of motor racing.
March 24th, 2006
In an edition limited to 500 specimens, Pontos Decentrique GMT fascine by excentric fitting of its functions. Were those developed in-house at Maurice Lacroix, and a patent is in the course of deposit for the module of connection between the basic movement and the posting of the day of the month. As its name reveals it already, all the functions of Pontos Decentrique GMT are offset. Aren’t the hours, the minutes and the seconds posted more as it is use starting from the center of the dial, but in an annular segment, which is slightly shifted towards 10 a.m. and thins around 6 a.m. Broad thinner indices and respectively indicate the hours and the minutes. The posting of the day and the night for a second time zone is also astonishing. It the extends largely between the center of the screen, 2 hours and 5 hours. In order to know always well if this is hour indicated that of the day or the night, the sun and the moon with resolutely modern graphics turn on a disc.
March 24th, 2006
Taking our award-winning concept to new dimensions, Magellan Watch developed an elegant limited series 1522 “Lady Magellan”. This beautifully crafted timepiece contains one of the smallest Swiss precision movements in a fully engraved world sphere encased in 18ct gold and sapphire crystal glass case. The hands gracefully follow the circumference of the globe and indicate time on a transparent chapter-ring set with golden roman numerals and brilliant cut diamonds.
This limited edition ‘Lady Magellan’ is a superbly elegant timepiece; tactile, versatile and truly in a class of its own.
March 20th, 2006
New watch AMVOX2 Chronograph Concept stresses the partnership between Jaeger-LeCoultre and Aston Martin by an exceptional creation. True concept, the watch creates a revolution with its stop watch with vertical release by rocker of the case, patented Jaeger-LeCoultre. Does this clever mechanism allow the starting, the stop and restoring by simple pressures on the ice sapphire of the watch. Series limited out of titanium and steel, its esthetics high-tech and its performances of high flight make the absolute watch of pilot resolutely of it.
This wonder without precedent, guarantor of an ease and a quite simply brilliant ease of use rests on a very new mechanism integrated in a revolutionary watchcase. Inside, an astute system of kneecap ensures the swivelling of the unit made up of the box and the glasses compared to the horns of the watch. This system actuates a series of levers which transmit instantaneously impulses to control the stop watch. Each lever is assembled on a miniature bearing stainless with 7 balls of a diameter of 0,1 Misters a device of selection comes to supplement this revolutionary construction: on does the side of the case at 9 a.m., a cursor with three positions make it possible to lock, with choice, the whole of the orders of the stop watch or only the restoring to prevent that an involuntary gesture does not cause release.
Performances to cut the breath watch AMVOX2 Chronograph Concept has a high degree of mechanical inventiveness, with qualities of reliability, robustness, longevity and precision which are the most remarkable characteristics of the Jaeger-LeCoultre mechanisms. In their field, the clock and watch makers and engineers of Manufacture push researches of a comparable nature: equipped with the new Gauge Jaeger-LeCoultre 751B, AMVOX2 Chronograph Concept indicates a temperament out of the commun run. The reserve of 72 hours walk still increases the beach during which the watch functions with an optimal precision. The complex coils with top-of-the-range columns and the very elaborate vertical clutch which guarantee the precision of the stop watch. The adjustment of the inertia of the beam by the presence of four screws on its serge ensures the stability of the adjustment under all the conditions. Lastly, the bearing of the rotor has ceramics balls.
March 13th, 2006
Proof that the strong concepts are declined to perfection, Project Z3 enriches by quite beautiful way the pallet of expression of the Ocean collection. The innovation is declined here in two versions - the Vintage Spirit and the Sport Spirit -, both sheltering a movement swirl with the posting of the hours/minutes decentred with 12h, developed by Peter Speake-Sailor. Bench on the edges of Leman, this young British clock making Master already collaborated with Harry Winston, in particular with the development of Excenter Tourbillon. Specialist in the complicated movements, it is famous for his expertise and his direction on the completion. The Spirit Sport This version plus sport of Project Z3 posts a dial decorated with famous Cotes of Geneva of which the color major black, almost animal and mysterious, contrast with the glare of the steel bridges, on each side of the cage of the swirl. The figures and the needles, in blue Superluminova, confirm the vocation of this guard.
The second characteristic has only thus far been used on the world’s most complicated watches: the carriage rotation system is located inside the carriage itself, thereby providing this micro-mechanical marvel with greater shock-resistance and enhanced regularity. This regularity is reinforced by a higher than average cadence of 28,800 vibrations per hour, ensuring a superlative degree of precision.
The transparent case-back enables one to admire the movement in all its intricacy, particularly the oscillating weight with its Z-shaped cut-out that emphasizes the unique character of the model.
A rare watch by nature, the Z3 is equally rare in terms of production, since it is issued in a limited and one shot series of 50 pieces per version.
March 12th, 2006
While joining again with the roots of the Mark, Brasilia recalls a watch of the Sixties which had already ignited the imagination of the designers of Ebel. A rectangular case moderated by soft, sensual and sophisticated lines. A sober design and a bracelet of an incomparable comfort, such are the attributes of a new contemporary, vibrating and sensual collection which mingles the traditional curves with the Mark with modern ultra lines. The collection puts in scene models at female as at the masculine, all characterized by their soft and well balanced proportions. The shape out of H of the bracelet, anti-reflecting glass sapphire on the two faces sign this distinctly drawn collection, according to whether they are models intended to the women or for the men.
March 12th, 2006
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