Tissot winner of the competition Timekeeping 2011

After a pause of more than twenty-seven years - two years ago the return of competitions Timekeeping we reported magically back in time when the best advertisement for a brand that it followed by the victories came only in those tight against.

'S 2011 edition , like the 2009, also had a large number of participants for the enterprise-class - Classic, which brought together all the timepieces with - as words - "Non-regulatory body made ??up depending on where you could find ". In other words, with a tourbillon .

After a series of tests, testing techniques and scientific procedures, when tested in certified laboratories of the Observatory of Besançon, the COSC - Contrôle Officiel des Us Chronometer (the certifying body for the precision Swiss Official) to Le Locle and Bienne, and after they have seen evidence to submit all timepiece to magnetic fields and shock from the Haute Ecole Arc of Le Locle, the jury declared the victory of Tissot Le Locle with 764 points.

To receive the award was Thiébaud President Francois Tissot who said he was delighted to receive this' award and dedicated it to all those who have worked together to achieve this important goal.

Tissot was founded in 1853, participating in competitions chronometry, in 1885 he had earned first place with a mechanical movement pocket.

The model of the contest victorious Timekeeping 2011, which derives from one of the brand's collections, was called Le Locle in the name of the same mother located in the mountains of Neuchâtel. Mount a Caliber ETA 2824-2 automatic mechanical.

Tissot Seastar 1000 watches combine style and performance without compromising neither the one nor the other. Both the appearance that the functionality of these models are shaped by their inspiration underwater: underwater, they keep their performance up to a pressure of 30 bar, demonstrating passion for sport divers and preference for automatic watches are totally compatible. The new line includes automatic chronographs, with the revolutionary movement C01.211, elegant models and three hands, also equipped with Swiss automatic movements.

The combination of high-tech watchmaking tradition and modern materials Tissot Seastar 1000 is the ideal solution for those set out in search of pleasure and adventure on the water as on land. The theme diver is always on top, thanks to items such as unidirectional bezel, strap with buckle and diving extension and indexes and hands coated with Super-LumiNova ®. All models are also equipped with a helium valve, which operates on the same principle of the submersible. 

chronograph versions are characterized by an incisive case extra-large 48 mm, under the banner of daring and aesthetic maximum readability and off the water. The range consists of ten different versions that will satisfy the different preferences of each. Among the options available with a PVD finish that stands out blue, brand new, inspired by the colors of the ocean and combined with dials in shades of black and white, blue or black and orange, as well as a series of rubber or steel straps. The Tissot Seastar TisTechnical:
• Swiss Made Mechanical automatic movement 
• Sapphire crystal scratch resistant 
• Stainless steel 316L with PVD coating blue or black 
crown and back • Screw 
• Drain valve for helium 
• Water resistant to 30 bar (300 m / 1,000 ft) 
• 316L stainless steel bracelet with safety clasp and diving extension 
• Standard rubber strap with buckle

For Tissot, "In touch with your time" is much more than an advertising slogan is an expression of the DNA of the brand and its ongoing commitment to keep pace with technology and trends of each era. Since 1853 Tissot is guided by the philosophy of innovation. Since then, the site of Le Locle in the Jura mountains in Switzerland, Tissot has managed to transform the precision craftsmanship and elegant watches that are sold today in over 150 countries worldwide. Special materials, enhanced features and meticulous attention to detail to create affordable luxury. Tissot is a company of The Swatch Group Ltd, the largest producer and distributor of Swiss watches in the world, as well as official timekeeper and sponsor of FIBA, AFL, CBA, MotoGP, World Championships of cycling, fencing and ice hockey. With its latest innovations in communications and products, Tissot be demonstrated through the "Innovators by tradition", Innovators by tradition. www.tissot.ch will be launched at Baselworld 2011 issot be demonstrated through the "Innovators by tradition", Innovators by tradition. www.tissot.ch will be launched at Baselworld 2011


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AHCI independent watchmakers

Svend Andersen , Marc Jenni , Kazes Jean and Antoine Preziuso present their latest collections and works of art in the exhibition space. "It's a real honor to welcome these prestigious watchmakers. AHCI participating in the Working Group is part of the logic and continuity of our mission: to promote the art of the time in Geneva and beyond its borders ", cites Florence Noël , Director of the Exhibition.

AHCI was awarded the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève 2010 when its members were awarded the special jury prize for outstanding contribution to the beautiful watch.

Here are some notes on the four members who will participate in AHCI GTE 2012:

Antoine Preziuso - The Art of Fine Timepieces
A pioneer of adventure Geneva Time Exhibition, Antoine Preziuso back to the fair with a very special work of art called the GTS - Grand Tourbillon Sport. While many brands want to conquer space, Antoine Preziuso keep both feet on the ground and feeds his passion for racing, reinterpreting its tourbillon movement in a box designed in house, made ??of a sleek new material, "ChromeCobalt".

Svend Andersen - Contemporary Art
Svend Andersen is sometimes called the "Watchmaker of the Impossible" because it can leave your mouth open the whole world with amazing creations and inventions. To remember the exploits of the "clock bottle" - created in 1969, "1884" a clock "hours of the world" which tells the fascinating story of the inventor of the 24 time zones, or Hebraïka, a wristwatch with the Jewish calendar, which has created with Alain Silberstein Svend ... A true exploits of mechanics. It is an extraordinary artist.

Marc Jenni - A Unique Experience Winding
Marc Jenni has never wanted to become a watchmaker. Well, fortunately for all lovers of watches, he began an apprenticeship at the age of sixteen and has started his career in New York at Tiffany & Co. In 2008, he was ready to open his own company. For its first participation in the GTE, Marc Jenni Prologue will present his creations, with a black ring that rotates around the entire box, and JJJ, reminding the wearer of the planets associated with days of the week.

Jean Kazes - Sculptural Clockmaker
Since 1972, Jean Kazes has made a name with its carved clocks and watches. These pieces illustrate the purity of both movements - simple or complicated (perpetual calendars, astronomical representations, universal hours, ringing in step ...). These works of art are a symbol of the delicate balance struck between in-depth mastery of a watchmaker and contemporary design.

There is a field that technology developed in recent years has now literally "overwhelmed".

On 17 and 18 November 2009 was held in Berlin this forum TECHNO LUXURY 2009 parternship a meeting with the International Herald Tribune , which involved different brands of the world's leading spokesman in the range of "goods" luxury.

In addition to including the list of speakers and the pleasant presence of Claudia Schiffer , as regards our beloved watches is to report the presence of Maximilian Büsser - CEO and founder of MB & F and that of Felix Baumgartner co-founder of URWERK .

The two brands are an example of how we can now extend the knowledge of Haute Horlogerie using new technologies.

I thank the "reporter for the event" Maximilian Büsser who sent me this flash.

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Piguet Jules Audemars Extra-flat Watches

Jules Audemars series "Bolshoi" available in pink gold or white with anthracite dial, expresses to perfection, with simplicity and elegance, the age-old know-how of the brand. Moved by the famous Calibre 2120, designed and produced in-house in the '60s by Audemars Piguet , this movement of only 2.45 mm flat thick sapphire visible from the bottom, is further embellished by a rotor - or oscillating - finely skeletonized and engraved by hand up to represent the facade of the famous theater.

Not by chance will be produced in only 99 specimens (50 and 49 in pink gold, white gold). The number represents the years between the building of the Bolshoi Theatre - 1776 - and the birth of the manufacture Audemars Piguet - 1875.

Jules Audemard Extra-flat "Bolshoi" 
Features
References 
15181BC.OO.A005CR.01 
18 carat white gold dial, anthracite, anthracite crocodile strap

15181OR.OO.A005CR.01 
18-carat pink gold dial, anthracite, anthracite crocodile strap

The chapter HM2 Horological Machine # 2 of MB & F will close for good with 2 limited edition of 18 pieces. Maximilian Büsser Knowing this decision, although in line with the level of his work almost unique, will certainly not taken lightly. Horological Machine # 2 gave a lot of success in three years to MB & F: maybe it's just that with him came the awareness of the direction taken since the beginning.

HM2 was born in 2008 when he left his mouth open all the industry insiders, never before him a work of design presented equally innovative content of Haute Horlogerie. HM2-SV Black and Red HM2-SV - where the last two letters mean Saphir Vision - close this chapter.

Horological Machine No2 - Final Editions
The synthetic sapphire material is rarely taken into account for the production of boxes for obvious reasons: no doubt keeps the hardness obtained at high temperatures, has a porosity equal to zero, and reacts with acid only above 300 ° C. While its features are very attractive well must also bear in mind the difficulty in working it. Its surface, of course, opaque, satin should be to become transparent. The complex three-dimensional shape of HM2-SV, with beveled holes, the openings of the quadrants and the groove for the seal are an example.

The model HM2-SV Black presents a case of sapphire, dials blacks and black PVD titanium plate, a background of great effect for the unique architecture of the engine HM2 kept inside, held in place by a gasket electric green, visible Thanks to the top surface transparent. The underside reveals a distinct personality dell'HM2 color with the rotor 22 carats of brilliant green.

Red HM2-SV model has a sapphire crystal case and the two quadrants blacks mounted on an elegant base in red gold. The dials blacks, the black rubber gasket and the bright red of the bottom plate of the case creates an incredible contrast with the silver engine model HM2. The back of the house offers a splendid visual effect of the rotor-shaped "Space halberds" 22-carat red gold, custom MB & F, which is in contrast to gold red bottom plate.

Below is a complicated world
Its gauge was developed by Jean - Marc Wiederrecht: this is the first mechanical movement to the world that presents snapshots jumping hours, retrograde minutes concentric, retrograde date, moon phase and automatic winding in both hemispheres. 
The main challenge that the award-winning watchmaker faced was to ensure that the hours worked instantly and simultaneously jumping when the retrograde minute back from 60 to 0. All this happens not only instantaneously but without excessive expenditure of energy.

Wiederrecht has devised an ingenious device by which a snail positioned on the mechanism actuates the star of the minutes of the hour the instant the minutes back to zero and causes the jump time. The action is instantaneous and since it is powered by the energy of returning to zero minutes this has virtually no effect on the amplitude of the bar.



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HCI independent watchmakers

Svend Andersen , Marc Jenni , Kazes Jean and Antoine Preziuso present their latest collections and works of art in the exhibition space. "It's a real honor to welcome these prestigious watchmakers. AHCI participating in the Working Group is part of the logic and continuity of our mission: to promote the art of the time in Geneva and beyond its borders ", cites Florence Noël , Director of the Exhibition.

AHCI was awarded the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve 2010 when its members were awarded the special jury prize for outstanding contribution to the beautiful watch.

Here are some notes on the four members who will participate in AHCI GTE 2012:

Antoine Preziuso - The Art of Fine Timepieces

A pioneer of adventure Geneva Time Exhibition, Antoine Preziuso back to the fair with a very special work of art called the GTS - Grand Tourbillon Sport. While many brands want to conquer space, Antoine Preziuso keep both feet on the ground and feeds his passion for racing, reinterpreting its tourbillon movement in a box designed in house, made ??of a sleek new material, "ChromeCobalt".

Svend Andersen - Contemporary Art
Svend Andersen is sometimes called the "Watchmaker of the Impossible" because it can leave your mouth open the whole world with amazing creations and inventions. To remember the exploits of the "clock bottle" - created in 1969, "1884" a clock "hours of the world" which tells the fascinating story of the inventor of the 24 time zones, or Hebraďka, a wristwatch with the Jewish calendar, which has created with Alain Silberstein Svend ... A true exploits of mechanics. It is an extraordinary artist.

Marc Jenni - A Unique Experience Winding
Marc Jenni has never wanted to become a watchmaker. Well, fortunately for all lovers of watches, he began an apprenticeship at the age of sixteen and has started his career in New York at Tiffany & Co. In 2008, he was ready to open his own company. For its first participation in the GTE, Marc Jenni Prologue will present his creations, with a black ring that rotates around the entire box, and JJJ, reminding the wearer of the planets associated with days of the week.

Jean Kazes - Sculptural Clockmaker
Since 1972, Jean Kazes has made a name with its carved clocks and watches. These pieces illustrate the purity of both movements - simple or complicated (perpetual calendars, astronomical representations, universal hours, ringing in step ...). These works of art are a symbol of the delicate balance struck between in-depth mastery of a watchmaker and contemporary design.

After driving for iPhone arrives in your pocket, but full of useful information, even the Swiss Exhibitors Guide Baselworld , the World Watch. For years it has been an indispensable tool for fans and for professionals: free and full of exclusive news on products, has always been a guarantee not to miss anything.

The iPad application of Baselworld 2011 will be activated on 23 March, but a preview is already available from March 10. Before it is operational, the owners of the Apple tablet will have the opportunity to discover 115 new products. The contents, which allow you to know any information about the Swiss brands, will be available for consultation at any time in French, English, German, Italian and Spanish.

Will be an infinity of information at your fingertips: floor plans, a list of exhibitors with booth and position images, specifications of 175 new objects.

The application of the Swiss Exhibitors Guide contains a staggering 384 pages horizontal scroll, zoom in and see. By directing your iPad vertically you can see the models by category or brand, or search all Swiss brand name, building or area.

What are you waiting? Download - Appstore here - the application of the Swiss Exhibitors Guide Baselworld 2011 , it's free! 

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Graham Swordfish Chronograph Iris

This must have been about the idea that crossed my mind to research and development department of London Graham when he conceived Swordfish Iris the new watch inspired by the Maison dall'orologiaio English George Graham (1673-1751) led, playing at home, at SalonQP 2011 .

Do you know what Iris? Rainbow. Its colors - so-called iridescent and indefinable - are a mix of iridescent hues, just like the Swordfish Chronograph Iris. These effects were created during the machining of steel box: all the details that compose it, are put under vacuum. The unique coating which subsequently form, caused by a reaction to the plasma consists of a multilayer structure characterized by colors that change with the reflections of light.

Graham Silverstone Tourbillograph Full Black

The Silverstone Tourbillograph Full Black is a self-winding chronograph with column wheel and tourbillon. This is an automatic movement with tourbillon perfectly developed to trace the DNA of the last Graham timepiece, the design is very powerful and combined with rich content technology. The domed sapphire crystal is of extraordinary size (42 mm in diameter) and provides a view of some details of the mechanism. The 48 members of his cage skeleton are intertwined with each other and the total weight of the mechanism is reduced to only 0.485 grams. This building, called the tourbillon Cintré integrates into the chronograph complication despite the use of a large diameter wheel.

The Calibre Graham built exclusively for the manufacture La Joux-Perret has come to light after four years of research and two patents. Overall, the engineering know-how has acted by abolishing the intrinsic weaknesses of the tourbillon. First of its fragility. The reduced number of elements, lightness, and the double-deck provides stability and rigidity to the building. In Graham's call it "Tourbillon impact resistant." To reduce the sensitivity of the device controller to the magnetics in the cage was made extensive use of special iron-free. Its exhaust vibrates at 28,800 vibrations / hour.

Graham pointed out that in the end result is to offer a friendly and aesthetics as the tourbillon complication with the resistance of a military watch. The Tourbillograph Full Black has indeed passed the test Chronofiable , reference test established in animals 70 Swiss watch industry for a period of 21 days, equal to six months of actual use.

Aesthetically, the Silverstone Tourbillograph Full Black has an exclusive sports. The thin steel case measuring 48 mm and is well-titanium carbide with black PVD coating, such as its bezel. The dial, also black, has a shiny appearance due to rhodium, the Arabic numerals are visible or blurred, playing a tone on tone effect.

The finishes of the caliber that La Joux-Perret has accustomed us are of Haute Horlogerie: even the smallest mechanical part was rhodium. The rotor is supported on bearings and ceramic column wheel that controls the chronograph displays elements alternating with shiny satin.



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The most beautiful watches in 2011

As in ' sip edition of years this is the event that awarded the most beautiful watches in 2011.

The international jury of the 11th edition, consisting of watch making professionals, has awarded the Aiguille d'Or (golden hands), the highest honor recognizing the best clock of the year, the De Bethune DB28.

This event aims to highlight the excellence of the world watch industry, rewarding the best year his creations and the most influential people where you belong. It 'a way to continue to promote the watch and its fundamental values such as innovation, skills and desire to transmit the pursuit of excellence.

GPHG - The most beautiful watches in 2011
- Aiguille d'Or: De Bethune DB28
- Award for Best Women's Watch: Boucheron, Crazy Jungle Hathi 
- Award for Best Men's Watch: Hermčs Arceau Suspendu Le Temps
- Best Clock Design Award: Urwerk UR-110
- Jewel Award for Best Clock: Van Cleef & Arpels Lady Arpels Polar Landscape 
- Award Best Complicated Watch: Zenith Academy Christophe Colomb
- Award for Best Sports Watch: TAG Heuer 1000 Chronograph Mikrotimer Flying
- "Petite Aiguille" (for models under CHF 5000): Worldtime GMT Automatic Montblanc Star 
- Best Watchmaker Prize: Vianney Halter
- Special Jury Prize: Patek Philippe Museum
- Audience Award: Audemars Piguet Millenary 4101

Like every year, the audience was able to express his opinion among the 70 shortlisted by the jury watches. The Audience Award is awarded by the visitors of the exhibition that was held in Geneva by the Internet users who voted for their favorite sites GPHG clock or Worldtempus.

All watches the world's best rewarded in this 2011 edition will be exhibited at the Salon International de l'Horlogerie de Belles Montres Prestige to be held in Paris November 24 to 27.

The charity auction Only Watch 2011 is now put into practice: Antiquorum.com - the international auction house specializing in the sale of luxury watches which manages the event - has put online late yesterday afternoon, the catalog of the 40 lots that, in addition to obtaining information including conditions of sale, also reports the singles " Wish Price " i.e., the price which would make the award for each timekeeper. Each listing, expressed as a minimum and a maximum, also gives an indication on the estimation of each lot, but when the final price will be determined by the bidders in Monte Carlo Friday, September 23, the day of the event.

Here they are shown one by one in this table together with links to the relevant article of the class watches that describes it.

As in previous editions of Only Watch , these days the precious "train the magic 40" - which eventually will go all together to help find the cure of muscular dystrophy - are around the world. On September 15, are expected to Milan by Luigi Verga watches. Click here to see the full list with the addresses of the exhibition sites.

Back in the auction is to be noted that - as always on the Antiquorum online catalog, there are also a simulator that will allow - for those who want to stay informed about the awards in real time via the Internet - to practice to follow the progress of each of the episodes single lot in real time as if you were in the room and, if desired, through registration on the website, you can make bids directly, instead of - before the event by sending a form - the so-called " Absentee Bid ".



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Baselworld 2010 - The End

Steel construction that will cover the Square Fair for BASELWORLD 2013.  It was thus reached the highest point of the imposing complex of pavilions. Construction work continues as planned.

The new building of the Basel Fair now has its own physiognomy. It 'was erected the central part of the new complex of pavilions planned for BASELWORLD 2013: the construction placed 32 meters above the Square Fair. It 'was placed the steel structure that will host two exhibition floors 8 feet high to cover the "City Lounge" 10 meters high.

In the summer of 2011, under the first phase of construction have been installed the cornerstones of the new building, corner of Hall 3 and the entrance area of ??Hall 1. From September 2011 were 2,600 tons of welded and bolted steel columns. There were also laid around 2,300 tons of concrete slabs to build the hall floors.

Currently it is building the roof structure, the lining of the inner courtyard of the building and installation of indoor plants. After BASELWORLD 2012 will begin the second phase of work: between April 2012 and February 2013 will be demolished in Hall 3 and the forepart of the Pavilion and a new building completed.

BASELWORLD 2012 - World Watch and Jewellery Show

The course of the next BASELWORLD (8 to 15 March 2012) will not suffer hardship as a result of the new building. The subdivision will be maintained even in areas BASELWORLD 2012. All the pavilions and all the inputs used so far will be available as in previous years.

As for my personal feeling (I'm in Basel on Sunday, Mar. 21 cm) and as also heard in the words of those who had been there for ten days, on weekends and up to the day before yesterday there was in fact a great affluence. Obviously lots of news on all fronts. Of note is perhaps more for some lack of promotion budget optimization: to be more pessimistic Malpensante or even objectivity is less.

In essence, almost all have attended the world's biggest event of the year "maintaining the position." Some examples in the high range, the segment that interests us most: Rolex , which has always been the honor of being perhaps the most (especially the number of people) "want" was anticipated with the new Submariner , but the Home crowned actually aimed much of its revenue goals on the year 2010 Tudor Heritage Chrono , more affordable, but also acclaimed by the participants on the show.

For the work of independent watchmakers point out names like Speake-Marin , Romain Gauthier and Pita : everyone interprets differently his profession and are therefore not comparable with each other. Only one episode: in the eyes of Aniceto Pita irrepressible satisfaction the attention paid to his Pita Oceana .

March is almost over, but with it almost all the most important exhibitions of 2010: we still have nine months to talk about Baselworld 2010 and the new that is still a passion for watches in store for us!


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Hublot King Power F1 Abu Dhabi

This exclusive limited edition of only 250 copies has been specifically designed in homage to the Yas Marina Circuit, considered one of the technologically advanced in the world.

The watch Hublot King Power F1 Abu Dhabi, which exhibits a blue color in homage to the famous ski circuit has some unique aspects thanks to a series of high-tech materials directly inspired by Formula (some of which have never been used before in the watch) as the ceramic bezel with circular satin finish, decorated with multiple holes that recall the high-performance brake discs. The strap is rubber and Nomex, a synthetic fiber developed by Dupont De Nemours and used - for its very low combustibility and its thermal stability - in the production of the suits worn by F1 drivers, in addition to the buttons of the stopwatch Start, Reset and Split , the latter for the split-seconds function, and a 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock.

Hublot King Power F1 Abu Dhabi - Features
Reference: 719.QM.1729.NR.FAD11 
Series: 250 pieces numbered from 01/250 to 250/250

Case: Diameter 48 mm-King Power Carbon Fiber 
Bezel: Carbon fiber and black ceramic 
bezel Decoration: "brake disc of the F1" tm 
sapphire 
bezel lugs: Black composite resin 
Lateral inserts: Black composite resin F1 logo tm 
Crown: Black PVD Titanium 
Buttons: rubber insert 
back: Carbon fiber is 
resistant: 10 ATM / 100 meters

Dial: Indexes blacks, SuperLuminova blue, indicating the power reserve with dots SuperLuminova green, white, red 
Hands: Superluminova Black Nickel Blue

Movement: Calibre Hublot HUB4247 
mechanical chronograph with automatic winding split-seconds function and power reserve indicator 
components: 293 
Frequency: 28,800 vibrations / hour 
Power reserve: 28 hours

Strap: Rubber black with blue stitching and Nomex 
Closure: Deployant Buckle King Power Titanium black PVD

Chopard Classic Racing Superfast Chrono Split Second

For many years, Chopard pays tribute to the world of racing cars and the new Classic Racing Superfast Chrono Split Second to an extreme attention to detail: Every detail of this timepiece evokes motor racing. The split-seconds chronograph movement with chronometer certificate of COSC to measure intermediate times and the right to elect, indispensable for fans of mechanics.

Description
Split-
Specifications
Description
Passion is a good counselor. Chopard gives further evidence with the new Classic Racing Superfast Chrono Split Second. Elegant and sporty at the same time, the clock enriching the collection Classic Racing, a tribute to the automobile world of Chopard. For many years, the House is the faithful partners of several classic races, including the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique and the "most beautiful race in the world", better known as the Mille Miglia.

Everything in the new Classic Racing Superfast Chrono Split Second, it evokes the world of classic cars so special. Beginning with the famous Dunlop Racing strap, whose design incorporates the racing tire tread hominisation 60s. Natural rubber, is fitted with folding clasp. The dial instead of call-board instrumentation of vintage racing cars. The indices of minutes on the flange, in particular, remember the numbers characteristic of the tachometer and speedometer. In this example, every detail tells the story of the mechanics race, from small racing wheel burnished steel DLC (Diamond Like Carbon) coated screw-down crown on the rubber, the grooves engraved on the sides of the loops, were taken as d ' air, until the screws on the bezel in relief that are inspired by those of the rims.

The functions of the Chopard Classic Racing Superfast Chrono Split Second are no different. The automatic movement with COSC chronometer certificate, housed within the polished stainless steel case 45 mm DLC, indicates the hours, minutes, small seconds at 9 o'clock and date within a circular counter at 3 o'clock - a very neat feature as well as rare. The main feature of this watch, however, is the split-seconds chronograph , a complication playful among the most complex to implement.

Split-
This device is intended to measure or an intermediate time, or two simultaneous events, but of varying duration. When the mechanism is triggered via the button at 2 o'clock, the second hand is red and white split-hand, perfectly superimposed, they begin their run. In the first case, the hand can be stopped via the split-button-covered rubber - new - which is 8 hours. Pressing the button a second time, this hand "recover" immediately the other second hand that has since continued its run. In the second case, after split-hand immobilized, by pressing the button at 2 o'clock also stops the run of the second hand. Two measurements are so visible - the minutes and hours counters are read in 12 and 6 - before using the button to reset the count to 5.

Like any masterpiece, signed, the case back is engraved with the words "Superfast Split Second." The Classic Racing Superfast Chrono Split Second is offered in a limited edition of 1,000 copies.



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Speake-Marin Pioneer Spirit

At SalonQP , the London exhibition of watches that today will close its doors Saturday, November 12, Peter Speake-Marin is presenting his latest Pioneer Spirit who, true to the name chosen, is engraved on the case back to the motto "Fight, Love & persevere "(Fight, Love, and Persevere).

It 'just the iconic case " Piccadilly "to bond with her ??undeniable classic signature forms an independent English watchmaker who resides in Switzerland: it highlights the traits that Peter has chosen to remember that he, although an open mind and working now long in the land Confederation, remained tied to the ancient traditions of his country's watchmaking. This case of 38 mm. I was not new: at the launch of the Marin 1 ( click here ) at Baselworld 2010, I held in my hands a lot.

Speaking of the new Pioneer Spirit Peter says: " His spirit inspired by a clock that I bought fifteen years ago while I was restoring the antique clocks in Piccadilly, London. It was a real military watch the first half of the 20 th century that put it back on track in his spare time and I wore a regular basis as my personal timepiece. Since I started my brand Speake-Marin, I always wanted to make it work one day to resume the semblance of my favorite and I enjoyed trying to imagine how in the end I would have built . "

A good story, but for a watch is not an independent part of a commercial design: it may feel good, but nothing that can happen to people who do this job. When you pass your hands timepieces of all styles and eras, someone - sometimes just one and unknowingly - enter into you and they will always happen if the chance of a lifetime to build its own clock, of course, from A to Z .

Pioneer Spirit observing its simplicity is evident. Following the rules which at one time, a military watch was to follow the choice of colors white on black - both lacquered - returns the maximum readability. The same intensity are oversized Roman numerals at 12, 3, 6 and 9. The hour is in the typical style Speake-Marin ' Foundation 'and, together with that of the latter in the center, covered with Superluminova.

The self-winding Calibre FW2012 is visible from the transparent sapphire caseback. The skeleton oscillating weight with deep cuts is another hallmark of Peter's vision. Along with the name, numbers, and the motto of which I have already mentioned above, is labeled 'Limited Edition': it will be built only 68 pieces .

Trivia: When Speake-Marin speaks and writes by hand finishing that brings to the plate, the bridges, the rotor and lower case in any other particular, he speaks and writes always referring to the Foundation pocket watch - his watch with tourbillon, who created early in his career.

"an example? The wheel that displays the seconds, the German silver bridges, finishing the round grains and wide curves, I'm not Swiss, French or American, and my style is a lot myself because there was no compromise to be respected due to existing components or mechanisms to adapt. I had the opportunity to draw this movement exactly the way I wanted. This is the great advantage of starting from scratch . 




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Stefan Johansson Vaxjo: Chronographs Racing

Nineteen races a year starting in March and end in November, when not sitting in the cockpit, then spend the day to keep fit, finish a race and have to run to catch the plane to the next destination, hoping to can adapt the first six / nine different time zones at once.
More than nine months a year, a Formula 1 driver who live like this. Of time for hobbies and passions, there is not much except recently some little game of poker in the Grand Prix weekend - before going to bed early.

Times are far away from Clay Regazzoni and James Hunt, the most famous viveur and later pulls the circus, but also those of Elio de Angelis - our valuable home rider who unfortunately died in 1986 at the Paul Ricard circuit during testing of mundane.Helium, in addition to winning two Grand Prix was a talented pianist and even if they coped very well to draw portraits.

Stefan Johansson memorable ex-Ferrari driver was another of the 80 sample to relax in his spare time he loved to paint. "Little Leaf" - "Little Leaf" , so called from a small Stefan's father, moved to the U.S. to continue his career professional driver, gradually began to learn some mechanical watches, their complexity and forms so as to begin to draw and produce under the brand name Stefan Johansson Vaxjo .

These are watches that reflect the world of racing that Stefan continues to live with passion and with great results. And 'his work the chronograph AND MARK VIII 033shows that the edge of the dial for each index, excluding 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock, ten classic colorful flags FIA official, used in any international competition run by the commissioners.
The steel case is of enormous size: it measures 47 mm in diameter, but the satin finish to protect it from minor scratches that can occur in the narrow cockpit of a race car, are extremely elegant.

Mount a reliable Valjoux 7750 automatic mechanical movement with 30-minute and hour. There are the small continuous seconds, a measure that can only be done with the chronograph. The time is 3 hours long with a window that also shows the previous and following days.
For the straps, there are several possibilities: one in Silicon, good to stay engaged in environments with high temperatures, or python or crocodile with a core of PVC. 
The Mark VIII also built - limited edition - with high cash- tech entirely of carbon.
Stefan Johansson Vaxjo MARK VIII F658 is instead a chronograph that features a Valjoux 7751 and has a form with the complete annual calendar with moon phases.

Curiosity

At one time, and unlike today's riders, usually very superstitious, for any reason would never have changed the graphics of your helmet. Of the three characteristics of Swedish green leaves until the company did not Stefan went to race in Formula CART (USA), where it seems that some colleagues - indicating that color as unfortunate - persuaded him to paint the blue.




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Tissot winner of the competition Timekeeping 2011

The accuracy & obviously mechanical - is a subject that affects a lot the fans watch . As a timepiece with quartz  or electronic quartz - can under the principles that govern provide values that can not be even compared with his predecessors, after a pause of more than twenty-seven years - two years ago the return of competitions Timekeeping we reported magically back in time when the best advertisement for a brand that it followed by the victories came only in those tight against.

'S 2011 edition , like the 2009, also had a large number of participants for the enterprise-class - Classic, which brought together all the timepieces with - as words - "Non-regulatory body made up depending on where you could find ". In other words, with a tourbillon .

After a series of tests, testing techniques and scientific procedures, when tested in certified laboratories of the Observatory of Besançon, the COSC - Contrôle Officiel des Us Chronometer (the certifying body for the precision Swiss Official) to Le Locle and Bienne, and after they have seen evidence to submit all timepiece to magnetic fields and shock from the Haute Ecole Arc of Le Locle, the jury declared the victory of Tissot Le Locle with 764 points.

To receive the award was Thiébaud President Francois Tissot who said he was delighted to receive this' award and dedicated it to all those who have worked together to achieve this important goal.
Tissot was founded in 1853, participating in competitions chronometry, in 1885 he had earned first place with a mechanical movement pocket.

The model of the contest victorious Timekeeping 2011, which derives from one of the brand's collections, was called Le Locle in the name of the same mother located in the mountains of Neuchâtel. Mount a Caliber ETA 2824-2 automatic mechanical.

The design-inspired underwater triumphs above and below sea level

Tissot Seastar 1000 watches combine style and performance without compromising neither the one nor the other. Both the appearance that the functionality of these models are shaped by their inspiration underwater: underwater, they keep their performance up to a pressure of 30 bar, demonstrating passion for sport divers and preference for automatic watches are totally compatible. The new line includes automatic chronographs, with the revolutionary movement C01.211, elegant models and three hands, also equipped with Swiss automatic movements.

The combination of high-tech watchmaking tradition and modern materials Tissot Seastar 1000 is the ideal solution for those set out in search of pleasure and adventure on the water as on land. The theme diver is always on top, thanks to items such as unidirectional bezel, strap with buckle and diving extension and indexes and hands coated with Super-LumiNova ®. All models are also equipped with a helium valve, which operates on the same principle of the submersible.

chronograph versions are characterized by an incisive case extra-large 48 mm, under the banner of daring and aesthetic maximum readability and off the water. The range consists of ten different versions that will satisfy the different preferences of each. Among the options available with a PVD finish that stands out blue, brand new, inspired by the colors of the ocean and combined with dials in shades of black and white, blue or black and orange, as well as a series of rubber or steel straps. The Tissot Seastar Tissot confirms the proven ability to skillfully in combining advanced technology and attractive design.



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Greubel Forsey GMT: At the World From Tourbillon

The new watch marks a "first" for Greubel Forsey and in the history of GMT watches. After exploring, invented and developed new mechanisms of tourbillon in the world in the last decade, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have combined to present a new complication: the GMT, that have played in their own way.

With this extraordinary timepiece, Robert Greubel and Stephen Forsey have focused their energy on the second time zone, traditionally a complication known as GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), the historical reference meridian for boaters.

One complication practical and much appreciated by the fans, the second timezone is particularly useful for business people, often on the move, who moves for pleasure, to those who have friends and relatives around the world.

True to his philosophy and the continuous search for perfection and innovation, Greubel Forsey, and went beyond the conventional way of interpreting the second time zone. The GMT and features a beautiful three-dimensional setting: a spherical globe, offering an original display time all over the world. This set of technical and poetry shows us a whole new way of perceiving the different time zones.

Located at 8 o'clock in the prominence of the globe "flying" and ingeniously fastened to the end of its swing axis - the South Pole - allowing an optimal view of its surface, made of titanium, a material resistant and lightweight.

As the globe rotates once every 24 hours in a counterclockwise direction - the natural direction of rotation of the earth - the position of the continents can interbreed with the 24-hour ring with day and night of the equator.

The night hemisphere, from 18 am to 6 hours, and marked in black ring around the globe, while the hemisphere during the day, from 6 to 18 hours and visible in the clear. And put it in evidence through the side window, deftly inserted into the case middle that lets the light as the day to symbolize the earth, and is opposed to the southern hemisphere.

So if and noon in England, the observer can immediately see which begins in Geneva or Rome in the afternoon, the sun is rising on the east coast of the United States, and that the darkness of the night is falling on the Middle East. A single quick glance is enough to know what time it is anywhere in the world - if you extend the look, and only for the sheer pleasure of admiring all the intricate details of the beauty world.

The interpretation of the second time zone, which takes place on the globe in an intuitive, accurate reads - about 12 hours - at 10 o'clock on the dial the secondary. The function of GMT is easily adjusted via the dual-function button set to 10 hours. Continuing clockwise around the dial, are the main dial at 1 hour and minute on which the indicator is part 2 of 3 and small seconds, the indicator of sectoral reserve.

The movement, specially developed for the model GMT , and with 24 seconds tourbillon, inclined at 25 °, one of the greatest inventions patented Greubel Forsey. In addition to its great reliability clockwork, its compact size allows more space to include other complications.

The combination of the elements on the dial and perfectly balanced and proportionate. It also reveals a sense of depth and dimensionality, thanks to the globe and the Tourbillon 24 Secondes positioned at 5, which contributes to a triple asymmetric, giving rise to a voltage controlled subtly plays with the circularity of the box without breaking it completely.

The bottom of the GMT reveals the mechanism linked to the world in the form of a beautiful hard hours in the world which contains the names of 24 cities, each of which represents one of several areas of the global and indicates summer time and time d 'winter. By aligning the city with the correct local time on the outer ring, the exact time will be visible on the dial side of the world.

A bright sun at midday, illuminating the bottom of the bottom of this unique timepiece.

Even in the latter setting, the GMT, is immediately recognizable signature Greubel Forsey : the careful finish since in the most minute details where we find the traditional decorations such as hand grenage, rounded corners and polished, the bead, the parties satin or bright polishing effect black. Once again a beautiful demonstration of savoir-faire in the continuous pursuit of excellence.

Greubel Forsey GMT - Specifications
The movement is composed of 436 elements, 87 of which are of the tourbillon cage that weighs just 0.36 ounces. Coaxial two barrels in series provide a power reserve of 72 hours. The movement has 21,600 vibrations per hour / 3 Hz and Phillips terminal curve spiral.

Plates and bridges are finished by hand, decorated grenage, bead, polished and beveled mirror polishing effect with black. The dial and 18K gold and the size and stayed in a white gold case of 43.50 mm in diameter and 16.14 mm in height. The dial protected by sapphire crystal, curved on the dial, with anti-reflective coating, as well as on the bottom and side window visible on the case middle.

The clock and completed with a black alligator strap hand-sewn with white gold folding clasp with logo Greubel Forsey. We will see at SIHH 2012.

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Urwerk UR-110 Torpedo ZrN "Champagne Supernova"

January 31 - before the press kit Urwerk UR-110 I tried to myself immersed in the creation of new and Felix Martin, interpreters always in Haute Horlogerie mechanical design solutions and quite futuristic.

Almost two months later then at Baselworld 2011, the movie I touched hands and Its operation that - "threatening" - 3 h and satellites That His mimicry with rotate on the dial as many fighter planes in combat formation. Watch this short video.

Yesterday Urwerk - Directly from the ITS "special department" http://www.urwerk-rarespecies.com Launched the new UR-110 Torpedo ZrN - Otherwise said "Champagne Supernova" . This is a very special zirconium nitride Torpedo to be built in only 12 samples to be sold through Exclusively Chronopassion (Paris), Marcus (London), The Hour Glass (Singapore) and Westime (Los Angeles).

If you know Already Know That Urwerk Among her teachers there is the use of high-tech materials . Zirconium Nitride - ZrN - is a ceramic coating with a machine-tool work with just A Few microns thickness of the metal That Gives the recipient - in this case the lunette blasted steel - an incredible hardness (2000 Vickers is Called). The processing result is a big resistance to scratches, use, corrosion donating to this RH-110 Reflections of light-colored "champagne".

Felix Baumgartner - Part of the castes of AHCI independent watchmakers Explains: " The beauty of RH-110 is In Its apparent simplicity, For Him we have radically different technical solutions Adopted from our previous creations: "Continuous" Instead of using ball bearings to fixed axis runs the full height of the clock, maximum rigidity with minimum Providing play. The complication of the carousel is perfectly balanced and Entirely on this axis . "
Curiosity

But why this particular Torpedo Urwerk Gave HIM the nickname "Champagne Supernova"?

It is inspired by the space. Long ago in a galaxy far, far away, a white dwarf star, rich in carbon and oxygen, exploded in a giant thermonuclear reaction. The resulting Has Been Called a supernova SNLS-03D3bb and revolutionized astronomy as it was found two times more Powerful than you thought to Celestial Body Like That Could Never Achieve.

It Took Four billion years of Evidence That the sun Reached That cataclysm the earth in the form of an unusual pale yellow light. SNLS-03D3bb was Discovered April 24, 2003, and soon nicknamed 'Champagne Supernova'.

If your eye has already fallen on the image below, you will probably be irretrievably been dazzled by the new Zenith Christophe Colomb an incredible new limited edition from the collection of Haute Horlogerie the House, so do not wait to continue reading this post.

Although the design of this masterpiece was announced over two years ago by former leaders of the House on the route of Thierry Nataf Defi Xtreme Tourbillon Zero-GJean-Frédéric Dufour - current CEO of the House - but he wanted to exploit it by giving it a completely new classical, and above all closer to the true roots of the brand.


So in a yellow gold case, 18K pink or white gold completely redesigned, but with 45 mm diameter remains of enormous size, that's ahead of you Christophe Colomb moved by mechanical movement Calibre 8804 and featuring an Academy escapement that rises from the crystal gyro with very convex front face at 6 o'clock and slightly also in the bottom. Of course, "traveling" at 36,000 alternations / hour, the so-called "high frequency" for over forty years the flag of Zenith. 
The silver dial has guilloche worked on "Grain d'Orge" except for the section of the small seconds at "Clou de Paris" with Roman numerals and indices blacks. The hands are blued and acciatio indicate hours, minutes, seconds and riseva charge at 3 o'clock.



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Franck Muller Aeternitas Mega 4

New for 2011, the Senator Automatic is a fitting tribute to the centuries-old tradition of fine craftsmanship Glashütte Original watches. 

It already shows a deep respect for the classical approach traditionally followed in designing a watch: thin black Roman numerals, in fact adorn a silver dial surrounded by an elegant small to "chemin de fer". The harmony of the dial is complemented by blue steel balls for hours and minutes, as well as the thin blue sphere of the latter is decorated at its end by a counterweight to the traditional double G. 
The sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective coating allows a clear reading of this pure classic design. The cabinet is made ??of lustrous pink gold.

The sapphire crystal case back allows the eye of the beautiful vision of the heart dell'intenditore clock, offering, thus, further incontrovertible proof of the valuable art of watchmaking Glashütte Original manufacture. This is the 39-59 caliber, a movement with automatic winding, meticulously finished and made entirely by hand at their own manufacture, with 28,800 a / h and a power reserve of 40 hours.

Significant characteristics of this movement are superb, among others, the steel components polished to a mirror, the anglage, the precious swan-neck micrometric, the rubies in settings of gold screwed, the traditional Glashütte three-quarter plate and skeletonized rotor, both decorated with ribbon Glashütte.

The Senator Automatic is also available with stainless steel. Both the gold and the steel has a black strap handcrafted leather alligator Louisiana with buckle closure.

Franck Muller Aeternitas Mega 4: TODAY is the most complicated watch in the world

Franck Muller Patek Philippe 36 to 33 beats! It is not the result of a game of handball: it is " just a settling of scores "between the Manufacture de Haute Horlogerie in Geneva: Mega Aeternitas 4 has become the most complicated watch in the world for three points down on the Calibre 89 of Patek Philippe .

In 'Empire salon exclusive setting of the Hotel de Paris in Monaco, Saturday, November 7 last the watchmaker Franck Muller has delivered to its owner Mr. Michael J. Gould, the model Aeternitas Mega 4 capable of displaying 36 complications , of which 25 visible in the rear quadrant. To obtain such a mechanism was needed 1483 individual pieces.

Gould arrived in Monaco with his private jet with family and friends from Colorado. Franck Muller and Vartan Sirmakes his partner partners Watchvalley - name of the corporation Muller - before an audience of 400 invited handed him his new toy, which has also become with its $ 2.7 million, the ' clock most expensive ever sold outside of an auction.

Honor the winners, but also to the vanquished! The competition always exalted level of the game ... But we must tell the truth to do even two considerations:

The first is that Aeternitas Mega 4 is also the wristwatch far more complicated world , it has also beaten the great Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile for 36 to 16 (complications)!

The second, however, is that there It took twenty years to get this record: despite the Haute Horlogerie is always bound by statute to some rules of the past, technology and know-how of how to interpret it, has grown greatly in recent years. Finally remember that the Patek Philippe Calibre 89 is also consists of 1728 pieces. I wonder if the arrival dell'Aeternitas 4 Mega resize value "of the king" who had allafine down from his throne?

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Startimer Alpine Classic: The Collection

Alpina Geneva is proud to present its new collection Startimer Classic , a fascinating range of contemporary timepieces, modeled after the original Pilot Alpina of the 20s and 30s. The functional design of the Alpine Startimer Pilot has been wisely revisited creating a collection of more traditional, slightly less sporty but with a high wearability, while maintaining the classic charm that characterizes the entire Alpine range Startimer.

For two decades, Alpina Watch International is a renowned specialist manufacturer and supplier of official military watches for pilots. These early pioneers had strict requirements: their tools must be extremely accurate and provide maximum impact resistance. Today, Alpine uses these historical designs as the basis for a new collection of functional and contemporary timepieces, all finely decorated with silver dial.

Startimer Classic Collection is available in two different sizes. The first is a version of automatic three hands and date (cal. TO-525) with stainless steel indices and stainless steel finish or polished pink gold. The second version is the Chrono-Automatic (cal. TO-860), with two lap counters and stainless steel case, available with indices finished in polished steel or pink gold. The Chrono-Automatic is also available in a special variant of classical with telemeter scale on the dial.

The Startimer Collection evokes the fascinating history of Alpina and its commitment to ensuring reliability and professionalism. A century later, Alpine continues to drive innovation, always respecting the fundamental values of the brand: a design clean, clean, linear combining past, present and future.

Chrono-Automatic - Specifications

Reference: AL-860SCP4S6
Movement
Caliber AL-860 Automatic Chronograph
Power reserve: 42 hours
Black Mountain Rotor decorated with Côtes de Genève

Functions
Hours, minutes, seconds, chronograph

Case
Stainless Steel - built in 2 parts - diameter: 44 mm
Crystal: Sapphire front and back
screwed down crown and caseback
Water Resistance: 10 ATM

Dial
Silver, with large Arabic numerals and indices blacks nickel hand-applied
superluminova hands coated with white triangle on the Alpine Chronograph

Strap
Black / Brown crocodile buckle Alpina
Brand new TUDOR of 2011 are the result of careful stylistic research and propose a concept of a thoroughly modern and sophisticated brand, the result of a subtle balance between aesthetics and performance techniques. Tudor became an icon of chic back, an expression of functionality, reliability and seduction. As in the past, the house pays tribute to its unique values and a tradition more than sixty years of presenting the collection Grantour.
TUDOR adds a new dimension to the line Grantour, dedicated to motor sports enthusiasts, with a new design and Grantour Grantour Date Chrono and the introduction of a new model, the Fly-Back Chronograph Grantour. This allows you to more quickly measure intervals of time due to resetting of the chronograph function and its immediate wake.

42 mm case with the same dates and the Grantour Chrono GrantourThe new model is equipped with a button fly-back red. The dial is decorated with a wedge-shaped element, which partially surrounds the seconds counter at 9 o'clock, alluding to the engine drive belts. The Fly-Back Chronograph Grantour and available in steel and, for the first time in the range TUDOR, steel and pink gold 18 ct.

Grantour line and equipped with safety buttons bi-stable locking to an eighth of a turn, and elongated loops and technology with a satin finish. Numerous novelties, such as indices and smoothed and placed in an increase of the totalizer, intervene to complement the design of the watches Date, Chronograph Fly-Back Chrono Grantour line.


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