Women want sports watches, not men’s watches. The new Admiral’s Cup Challenger 40 Chrono Diamonds matches this expectation with a subtle alchemist’s blend expressed through a 40 mm case displaying the collection’s dynamic DNA, clothed in mother-of-pearl and diamonds.
STROM adds a new and exclusive watch model to the Agonium collection - the "Draco" model. Following the successful launch of the Agonium Collection with the model "Memento Mori, Carpe Diem" in 2010, Daniel Strom now presents the second limited edition model of this independent product line, the "Draco". People have always been fascinated by mysterious elements and magical experiences − by wondrous phenomena that seem to be more powerful, more unswerving, older and greater than people themselves.
In 2011, the manufacture Zenith is writing a new chapter in the saga of its enduring romance with the fair sex. The world’s most precise movement, the legendary El Primero, appears within a 38 mm case perfectly suited to women’s wrists.
It is extremely rare for every single component of a watch’s case, its dial and its movement to be designed by just one man. When that man has the talent of master watchmaker Peter Speake-Marin, the result is a timepiece of transcendental harmony of form and function, aesthetics and technique. The result is the Thalassa.
The Duomètre line gets a new member: the Quantième Lunaire shows time, date and the age of the moon with the unprecedented precision of the ingenious Dual-Wing-movement concept. The Duomètre à Quantième Lunaire embodies the latest in horological achievements of Jaeger-LeCoultre: it displays time with a jumping seconds hand showing 1/6th of a second increments and additionally providing the date and the age of the moon in a separate sub dial.
Time-measuring instruments have marked significant epochs in history for millennia. Six thousand years ago, the shadows cast by obelisks in the Sumerian city of Ur revealed the passage of the sun; two thousand years ago, astronomers in ancient Greece used the Antikythera mechanism to calculate the positions of the sun, moon and planets in the heavens; and in the 18th century, John Harrison’s H4 clock enabled safe and accurate navigation by sea.
The flight instruments in the cockpit of a fighter jet are subjected to abrupt variations in pressure, intense vibrations and violent accelerations – from 9G to 11G. Thanks to its robust construction, the ZENITH Stratos can withstand it all. As the faithful heir of the Rainbow Flyback model developed for the French Air Force in 1997, the Stratos is equipped with the world’s most accurate automatic chronograph movement – the mythical El Primero – as well as the Striking 10th and Flyback functions.
An eight-legged anthropod equipped with a tourbillon movement. A creature that imposes its own vision of mechanics and design. C1 BlackSpider is a predator on the prowl. Its prey is time. Its weapon is empty space. Its technique is surprise.
Angular Momentum has created an exceptional collection of Artisan Timepieces with „Verre Èglomisè“ miniature paintings of beautiful Falcons on the reverse of a 18.300 ct. Sapphire dial, placed in a 18 Kt. white gold case. The movement a historical self-winding movement manufactured between 1950 and 1960. The crown decorated with a black cabochon diamond.
The CODEX IDENTITY Venus brings the Venus 203 mechanical movement into the spotlight once again with two limited and numbered editions. This vintage movement, a 100% Swiss watchmaking masterpiece dating from the 1950s and 60s, indicates the day, date and month as well as the phases of the moon.
Patek Philippe's new Ref. 5235 Annual Calendar Regulator embodies a number of novel facets never before featured in the manufacture's collection. It is the first Patek Philippe wristwatch with a regulator dial, characterized by a sweep minute hand, a subsidiary hour dial at 12 o'clock and a seconds subdial at 6 o'clock.
Boys’ toys – fast race cars and exclusive watches are typical status symbols of the mostly male MANSORY clientele. But until now, the refining specialist for luxury cars could only fulfil automobile dreams. Yet, with the presentation of the GRAHAM Chronofighter Oversize MANSORY, MANSORY changes this big time.
In 2011 Chopard presents the new L.U.C Quattro, which is powered by one of the biggest successes of Chopard Manufacture – the famous four-barrel L.U.C 1.98 movement. This elegant and sophisticated reinterpretation adopts the new aesthetic codes of the L.U.C collection and will delight devotees of Haute Horlogerie as well as all those with a taste for distinguished lines.
Angular Momentum has realized a collection of Artisan Timepieces with "Verre Èglomisè" miniature paintings on the reverse of the sapphire crystal or dial featuring beautiful pictures and portraits of Arabian Horses.
The Chronomaster Open unites in a spectacular fashion the most rigorous watchmaking tradition with bold contemporary design. This ZENITH model uncovers the very essence of time and reveals, in the openings on its dial, the 36,000 vibrations of its movement: the legendary El Primero. The aperture invites interest as much by the magic it emanates as by the curiosity it inspires. But make no mistake: the Chronomaster Open is fi rst and foremost an example of technological prowess, a timepiece that is 100% technical and 100% passion.