Bulgari Daniel Roth Grande Sonnerie Quantieme Perpetual Watch

Bulgari Daniel Roth Grande Sonnerie Quantieme Perpetual Calendar watch

According to Bulgari, the sonnerie function will chime over 433,500 times per a year if it is continuously operated.  The movement is quite impressive, with almost 1000 parts — watch the video below for a closer look.  One interesting thing about the movement is that it is an automatic (hence the rotor).  In ultra-complicated watches such as this one you almost always see a manual-wind movement.

The Bulgari Daniel Roth Grande Sonnerie Quantieme Perpetual Calendar watch will be priced at 980,000 Swiss Francs.

Main Features :

-Westminster Carillon chimes
-Four gongs
-Perpetual Calendar
- Indicators: leap year, Month, Weekday & Date
-Moon phases
-Automatic winding for movement and striking system
-Silent centrifugal governor
-Power reserve indicator for movement (48h)
-Secured striking system

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Richard Mille RM 057 Dragon-Jackie Chan Watch

Richard Mille RM 057 Dragon-Jackie Chan Watch

The RM 057 Dragon-Jackie Chan was released to commemorates the Year of the Dragon that lasts between January 23 2012 and February 9, 2013, and also pays tribute to his personal friend, Jackie Chan

Unique Features :

• a movement baseplate of pure, deep Black Onyx and a beautiful golden dragon engraving sporting colored scales that grips the tourbillon bridge in one of it’s claws.
• round, engraved Jackie Chan signature, that is set in the black Onyx baseplate and rotates once every 60 seconds in time with the tourbillon’s rotation, adding a refined visible touch.

The RM057 Dragon-Jackie Chan is available in 18K red gold or white gold with red dragon, in a limited edition of only 36 pieces.

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IWC Pilot’s Watch TOP GUN Miramar

IWC Pilot’s Watch TOP GUN Miramar

The new IWC TOP GUN Miramar line features a polished ceramic case, hands and chapter ring in beige, and green textile strap was inspired by the colour and material range typically favoured by the military.

Thanks to the 51111 calibre, the largest manufactured in-house by IWC, the watch will continue running for a week when fully wound. The sapphire glass is secured against drops in pressure in the cockpit.  

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Reference: 5019
Case: 48mm ceramic/titanium(15mm thick),
Movement : automatic mechanical IWC 51111

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Jacquet Droz Tourbillon

Jacquet Droz Tourbillon

Freeing the mechanical watch from the effects of gravity, the tourbillon comes enclosed in a white-gold case with a Côtes de Genève dial or a red-gold case with a Grand Feu enameled dial and crafted from sapphire crystal, an exceptional material, also used for the figure-8 shaped ring applied to the dial.
 The tourbillon is placed at the very heart of the seconds subdial, off-centered at twelve o'clock.

The impact of this virtuoso feat of craftsmanship is heightened by the classical beauty of the hours and minutes subdial at six o'clock. The Roman numerals and the tapered, beautifully proportioned hands bespeak quiet elegance, a Jaquet Droz specialty. Striking a harmonious balance between cutting-edge technical performance and a taste for simplicity, these two timepieces not only feature a power reserve of 7 days, but also reveal their inner workings via a transparent case back, through which the movement and the new, personalized oscillating weight may be glimpsed.

visit for more info: http://www.jaquet-droz.com/

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Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Contemporain

Gorgeous Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Contemporain

The Gorgeous Greubel Forsey Tourbillon 24 Secondes Contemporain is a unique edition of 33 pieces featuring a titanium movement and platinum case.   Absolutely stylish royal blue finish of the plates and bridges.

The Tourbillon:  a highly-efficient fast-rotating – 24-second revolution – tourbillon cage inclined at 25 ° which minimises negative effects of gravity on the oscillator, particularly in stable positions.
It comes with a 43.5mm platinum case (15.2mm thick) and a blue alligator strap, hand-stitched with a platinum 950 folding clasp.

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IWC Pilot’s Watch Worldtimer

IWC Pilot’s Watch Worldtimer

The new IWC Pilot’s Watch Worldtimer shows current local time and can be advanced or turned back in one-hour steps to show the new local time, even when crossing the International Date Line.  The 24-hour ring makes it easy to read off all 24 time zones.  If the wearer passes through one or several time zones, the time can be adjusted forwards or backwards in one-hour steps via the crown to show the new local time, even when crossing the International Date Line. The date simply moves in sync with the jumping hour hand. Once set correctly using the crown, the black-and-white 24-hour ring encircling the dial enables the wearer to read off the time in all 24 time zones.

The 23 place names on the external city ring each represent a time zone, and standard time is centred below the name of the city. In the illustration, the dial shows local time as 10:10. The 24-hour ring displays the current UTC time in London, where it is 18:10, while the time in New York is 13:10. In cities on daylight saving time, the time can be read below the dot linked to the city name with a line. If local time is changed on the dial, the time shown by the 24-hour ring remains unaffected and the movement continues to run during the changeover.

Details-

• (Reference- 3262)
• case - 45mm steel  (13.5mm thick), 
• automatic mechanical caliber

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Harry Winston Histoire de Tourbillon 3 Watch

Harry Winston Histoire de Tourbillon 3 Watch

The third series in Harry Winston’s exploration of the tourbillon

The Histoire de Tourbillion 3 is made up of polished and satin brushed 18 karat white gold and Zalium alloy metal case housing two of the tourbillions in a solo lop sided oval with the third tourbillion sitting on it’s own.

The watch  comes in a gold case measuring 65.9mm x 45.9mm , with its caseband and lugs in Zalium (a hard and ultra-light zirconium alloy), and manual-wind triple tourbillon movement w/50 hrs power reserve. Eleven color-graded blue sapphires from dark to pale show the power left in the mainspring. The markers for the hours and minutes are color-matched with the gemstones. When the six yellow citrines appear against the marker, it’s time to wind up the watch.

The hours and minutes are shown on discs rotating against their respective markers, and the seconds on a scale around the bi-axial tourbillon.  Harry Winston shows off its flair with gemstones by using blue sapphires and citrines to indicate the power reserve .
Limited to just 20 units, the watch with a Black Opaline dial is finished with hand-sewn black alligator leather and a double pin 18-carat while gold buckle.

Details:

Reference: 500/MMTWZL.K
Movement: Mechanical hand-wound movement, 479 components
Type: Double tourbillon (bi-axial): one carriage rotating every 40 seconds within a second carriage spinning in 120 seconds on a perpendicular axis
Tourbillon (mono-axial): rotating on a single axis every 36 seconds
Power reserve: 50 hours

Case

Material: Polished and satin-brushed 18K white gold
Crystal: 5 non-reflecting sapphire crystals
Crown: 18K white gold and rubber with HW engraving
Size: 65 x 45.9 mm
Water resistance: 30 meters
Dial: Black Opaline
Power reserve indicated by 11 sapphires and 6 citrines
Strap: Hand-sewn black alligator leather
Buckle: Type: Double-pin buckle
Material: Polished 18K white gold

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TAG Heuer Mikrogirder 2000

TAG Heuer Mikrogirder 2000

Conceived, developed and manufactured in-house in the company’s R&D lab in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, the MIKROGIRDER is the fastest mechanical regulator ever crafted and tested.  Accurate to an unprecedented 5/10,000 or 1/2,000th of a second, the MIKROGIRDER is a completely new regulator system — a coupling beam/girder and excitatory beam/girder system working with a linear oscillator that vibrates isochronously at a very small angle, as opposed to a traditional watch, which vibrates at an angle of up to 320 degrees.

With the MIKROGIRDER, there is no loss of amplitude and the movement’s frequency can be modulated on a very large spectrum of frequency without overburdening the power supply. The result is a significant increase in precision (division of time) and performance (frequency accuracy and stability). The MIKROGIRDER energy performance will enable TAG Heuer chronographs to attain ultra-high frequencies never before dreamed possible.

TAG Heuer has embedded this masterpiece in a new stunning asymmetric chronograph case design. Though the placement of the crown at 12 o’clock is inspired by the 1/100th of a second Heuer stopwatches of the 1920s, the overall design is decisively avant-garde.

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Hublot King Power Diego Maradona Watch

Hublot King Power Diego Maradona Watch

The second generation of Hublot Maradona limited edition – The King Power Maradona – in a limited edition of just 500 pieces was globally launched by Diego Maradona and Mr. Jean-Claude Biver, Chairman of Hublot.
Bearing the symbolic 10 and Maradona’s signature on the dial, Hublot has developed a special King Power equipped with a chronograph movement distinguished by two centre chrono hands.  The wearer can keep track of both hands at a glance; the first indicates the seconds and the other hand, specially developed for football indicates the time elapsed out of the 45 mins in each half.

Ceramic version (Limited to 500 numbered pieces)

References:   716.CI.1129.RX.DMA11

Micro-blasted black ceramic with black rubber moulding

Black PVD titanium with black rubber insert

Hands : Satin-finished and ruthenium coated with white SuperLuminova™;

Gold version (Limited to 200 numbered pieces)

 References:   716.OM.1129.RX.DMA12

Circular Satin-finished black ceramic with black rubber moulding;

 6 H-shaped relief black PVD titanium screws

Hands : Satin-finished gold plated hands with white SuperLuminova™

18K King Gold with black rubber insert

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph

Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph

Jaeger-LeCoultre  pays hommage to the classic Deep Sea styling, with a new timepiece, the Deep Sea Vintage Chronograph.

Featuring a 40.5 mm case , a fixed bezel surrounds a classic black dial face, protected by a Plexiglas watch glass. The hour-markers as well as the central hour and minute hands are covered by a Superluminova coating with a warm orange-tinted shade

The time intervals measured by the two-button chronograph are indicated by two counters for the hours and minutes, positioned at 9 and 3 o’clock, as well as by the central seconds hand. The back of the stainless steel case also bears the same engraved motif as the historical model, depicting a frogman surrounded by bubbles, finishing it off with an embossed black calfskin leather strap looks exactly like the one fitted on the original.

Technical characteristics:

• Movement : mechanical automatic movement, Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 751G crafted, assembled and decorated by hand, 28,800 vibrations per hour
• Dial : matt black with hands and hour-markers featuring “Tropic” coloured superluminova
• Case : steel 40.5 mm in diameter, plexiglass watch glass
• Strap : black leather with steel pin buckle
• Reference : Q207857J

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Royal Blue Tourbillion Watch from Ulysse Nardin

 Royal Blue Tourbillion Watch from Ulysse Nardin

Price : $1.1 Million

Placed in a platinum body with 568 baguette cut diamonds (approximately 33.8 Carat Total Weight), and 234 baguette cut royal blue sapphires (approximately 16.79 Carat Total Weight), the timepiece is as blingy and haute horology as one can get them.

The dial features a unique exposed skeleton design, which plays with royal blue and platinum colored plates to depict the time. The hours and minutes hands are itself rather artistic, looking at their thin handcrafted design. The lower half of the dial, which is platinum shaded, has the branding of the watchmaker in blue enamel, at the 4 and 8 ‘o’ clock positions. The casing on the other hand, has a rather intricate and thin line of royal blue sapphire crystals.

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Richard Mille RM 037 Automatic Watch

Richard Mille RM 037 Automatic Watch

Powered by the new in-house CRMA1 movement,  automatic winding caliber created from skeletonized grade 5 titanium ,  comes in titanium, red gold, or white gold with its crown and function selector pusher in 18k red gold.

 The crown has been separated from the watch case, which means no winding stem. The watch is wound via the pusher at 4:00pm. The same pusher is also used to set the hand positions. Two subtly shaped pushers are located at 4 and 10 o’clock. The pusher at 4 o’clock allows one to select the winding (W), neutral (N) and hand setting (H) functions with a simple push.

Richard Mille RM 037 Automatic Watch -2

The convex case measures 52.2mm x 34.4mm , 50 meters water resistant tripartite case, ensured by two Nitril O-ring seals, automatic rotor with Richard Mille’s variable geometry system and  power reserve of 50 hours movement.

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Louis Moinet MAGISTRALIS watch

Louis Moinet MAGISTRALIS watch

 Louis Moinet is the first to create a watch featuring an authentic piece of the moon – MAGISTRALIS. This 2000 year-old lunar meteorite is used for the moon-phase display of the hundred-year old and extremely sophisticated complication movement (including minute repeater, perpetual calendar and single-pusher chronograph functions) powering this one of a kind masterpiece.

The incredibly complex 5N rose gold and 3N case is composed of 90 different parts, while the presentation box is highly creative in its own right: Louis Moinet introduces the first musical instrument for watches thanks to the watch stand which serves to amplify the sound of the repeater mechanism. An original copy of Louis Moinet's famous Traité d'Horlogerie adds the final touch to the fascinating history of this watch.

Magistralis is an extraordinary watch representing the expert craftsmanship of the time-honoured art of Haute Horlogerie
PRICE     $1 million Swiss Francs (CHF)
CASE      5N and 3N 18-Karat rose gold

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Autodromo Watch Line designed by Bradley Price

Autodromo Watch Line designed by Bradley Price

Bradley Price is 31-year-old product designer from Brooklyn, New York, with a special passion for cars and a pretty creative mind. Combine those two and you get an interesting mix.

Price had an inspiration: design a line of watches loosely inspired by sports car instrument panel gauges. Upon returning home, Price went to the drawing board and began rendering watch faces based on car gauges he admired.

The Brooklyn native continued to work on the designs of both the watch faces and casings and ended up creating a new company named Autodromo for his products.
“There are so many wonderful gauge designs from the 1960s and ’70s that I love,” Price told the New York Times in a recent interview. “I did some research and saw that no one was doing that for watches.”

Price currently offers five watches through his Autodromo website: Brescia, Vallelunga with a black or white dial, and the Veloce with either a PVD black or a stainless steel case, all priced at US$425.

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Limited Edition Aero Bang 44 mm Jet Li Watch by Hublot

Limited Edition Aero Bang 44 mm Jet Li Watch

Hublot, the Swiss luxury watch brand launched  its Limited Edition Aero Bang 44 mm Jet Li Watch at The Art of Fusion,Dalian, China.
The limited edition Hublot Jet Li watch designed together by Jet Li and Hublot will be limited to 200 pieces globally, and features a matte black open-worked skeleton with Chinese screen decoration on the watch face, with an Yin-Yang symbol and the signature of Jet Li on the back.

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