A bold statement of Artya’s boundless creativity, the Tesla Skeleton Tourbillon is a superlative demonstration of mastery in the art of watchmaking cloaked in a contemporary design. Sculpted with an electric charge of 1,000,000 volts, the case offers the staggering perspectives of the openwork movement enveloped in the transparency of two sapphire crystals.
Released in 2008 and winner of the “Prix du Public” at the Geneva Watchamking Grand Prix awards, the MECCANICO dG has been treated to a glamorous makeover. Distinctly less sporty and more refined, it is transformed into a precious model featuring delicate gem-setting enhancing the technical appeal of its mechanical movement driving a double analog and digital dual time-zone display.
Contemporary and lightweight, the “Titanium” collection by Perrelet comes back to centre stage. By backing a Titanium collection in 2007, Perrelet broke with its classical tradition and appealed to a high-tech clientele, looking for different materials. The success encountered by this series, originally comprising five different complications, is today responsible for the collection being extended with an extremely sporty “3 hands-date” model.
If there is a brand which lacks nothing in tradition and stories to tell, it is Cuervo y Sobrinos. Even in their most innovative creations, the brand never loses sight of its origins and unique personality, a mixture of Latin feeling and state-of-the-art Swiss Watch technology. With the new Historiador family, Cuervo y Sobrinos brings to life again one of the most emblematic historic models.
The emblematic Academia Collection offers endless opportunities for stylistic evolutions and the introduction of the new Blackstream line reminds us once again of the creative power of the DeWitt Manufacture. The Blackstream inspiration is to be found in the sporting world and is designed for a young, dynamic and sporty masculine clientele. In that respect, a streamline spirit of modern and fashionable velocity was instilled into this creation.
The frigate Shtandart was the first ship of the Baltic fleet. It was commissioned under the decree of Peter the Great and on the order of the Governor Aleksandr Mshikov in 1703. It was built at the Olonetsky shipyard near Olonets under the supervision of a Dutch ship builder. The Shtandart served to open the new trading route from Russia to the Baltic sea and sailed under the flat of the Imperial Russian Navy till the October Revolution in 1917.
Extremely well received at its launch in Basle in 2009, the Marine Royale design returns this year in a new white gold execution featuring an engine-turned silvered gold dial. A boldly contemporary sport-spirited bracelet design in gold completes every version of the Marine Royale. It will be remembered that this timepiece features an alarm that can be operated underwater to a depth of 30 bars (300 metres, about 985 feet).
The OMEGA Skeleton Central Tourbillon Co-Axial Platinum Limited Edition is the ultimate expression of the watchmaker’s art. Each watch is handcrafted in OMEGA’s Cellule Haut de Gamme in Bienne by a select group of horologists. In a Tourbillon movement, all of the main components responsible for the timepiece’s precision are assembled in a rotating cage. OMEGA is the only watchmaker ever to have created an automatic central Tourbillon.
Creativity, lightness, improvements, homage to the number 8 as the symbol of the Manufacture… a host of words and ideas that fashioned the concept of the Grande Seconde SWTITANIUM. With its fluted bezel, its pure-bred design and its hollow horns, it clearly embodies passion for style and modernity. A perfect example of the fusion of tradition with the Avant-Garde spirit of the Manufacture, this wristwatch demonstrates all that Jaquet Droz stands for: love of design, perfection in every detail and mechanical excellence.
Created by Jean-François Ruchonnet and Eric Coudray , nicknamed “the masters of revolutionary watchmaking”, the Cabestan Nostromo draws its inspiration form the world of science fiction, more exactly the legendary film Alien. A single crystal on the case reveals the vertical wheels and drums as well as the ingenious articulated drive shaft used to transmit the energy to the movement.
Blancpain’s L-evolution Collection, which debuted at Basel in 2009, expands this year with a new long power reserve complication, the L-evolution Semainier. Powered by an in-house automatic winding movement with three mainspring barrels and a titanium free-sprung balance, the L-evolution Semainier offers week of the year, large date, day of the week and power-reserve indications in addition to its extraordinarily long 8-day power reserve.
The Espléndidos family is a very important icon within the Cuervo y Sobrinos collection. With its unmistakable art deco design, the Espléndidos is a watch for “connoisseurs”, for the discriminating individual seeking the unusual. With the presentation of the new Espléndidos cronógrafo, Cuervo y Sobrinos opens up a new chapter of this very successful product line.
Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms Collection is home to the most rugged sports watches in all of Blancpain’s lines. For 2010 Blancpain expands the Fifty Fathoms domain of sport to embrace the complications of a moon phase and a complete calendar married with the traditional sport companion of a column-wheel controlled flyback chronograph.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission is remembered for its political, technological and historical significance. It was the first time that spacecraft built by different nations had docked and it signalled an era of cooperation in space which would lead to the efforts to build a permanently occupied space station.
Four years ago, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, the entire Nautilus collection was subtly refined and scaled up with new models. Special acclaim was garnered by the Nautilus Chronograph with a sporty complication to enhance its intrinsic casual elegance. Within the scope of its chronograph premières at Baselworld 2010, Patek Philippe is now launching two further Nautilus chronograph models that with their differentiated personalities will appeal to an even broader audience.