The Vacheron Constantin Malte tourbillon

The Vacheron Constantin Malte tourbillon is a wearable sculpture in diamonds

Ulysse Nardin Presents | The Redesigned Freak Cruiser Timpiece

Cartier Crash Summer Limited Edition

Chopard Classic Racing Jacky Ickx

Ulysse Nardin Launches: Black Toro

 Ulysse Nardin Launches the Industry’s Best Perpetual Calendar Timepiece to Date: Black Toro

Corum Unveils the Black Ceramic Golden Bridge

Hublot Pays Tribute to Ayrton Senna with its Latest Tourbillon Timepiece

 Photos Courtesy of Hublot

Even nineteen years after his death, Ayrton Senna casts quite a shadow. Widely regarded as the best racing driver in history, Senna won three Formula One World Championships with McLaren before his life and career were cut tragically short at the ripe young age of 34.

Sky Moon Tourbillon from Patek Phillipe

 Patek Philippe’s most complicated watch, the ref. 5002 Sky Moon Tourbillon, has recently gotten a follow up. The new version is reference 6002G, and it is designed to mirror the intricate mechanism inside by means of incredibly detailed ornaments and engravings. Now the watch has not only an overwhelming number of complications (13!), but also an absolutely mesmerizing exterior.

Cristiano Ronaldo Stars In New Jacob and Co.’s Campaign

Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo is the new face of the eminent watch and jewelry label Jacob & Co. Real Madrid star has been a long time client of the New York jewelry maker and therefor we had a chance to see him wearing his favorite "Ghost" watch, and the reason why he was chosen for this campaign were natural.

Limited Edition LUC Engine One H Watch by Chopard

 Need a new conversation piece to wear on your wrist? Well, Chopard might just have the thing for you. This year the luxury manufacturer is launching a new model in the LUC “Engine One” collection. Very similar to the 2010 LUC Engine One tourbillon watch, this one has a very distinctive feature that differentiates it from the first model: the horizontal position of the dial, as opposed to the original vertical one.

Called LUC Engine One H, the timepiece is inspired by automotive engines, just as the name clearly indicates. You cannot overlook how the power reserve indicator that spells full/empty, like fuel gauges do in cars. The titanium case measures 44.5 mm by 35 mm, and the beautiful dial shows a tourbillon withvariable inertia balance wheel, situated at 3 o’clock. 
Only 100 pieces will be manufactured, and the official launch will take place soon at Baselworld.

Ulysse Nardin Stranger – The First Music Box Wristwatch

 Launched this month in Zurich, the Ulysse Nardin Stranger is a world’s first. More exactly, it is the first music box wristwatch and it was developed in collaboration with musician Dieter Meier. Limited to only 99 examples, the exquisite timepiece plays Frank Sinatra’s iconic Strangers in the Night song, hence its name.

BLUE DANUBE by GRIEB & BENZINGER

 

“This amazing new GRIEB & BENZINGER is based on a gorgeous base movement originally made by Patek Philippe for Tiffany in about 1890. With a diameter of only 36.5 mm, this tremendous assembly of complications including a minute repeater and a split-seconds chronograph is rare in such a small movement. Keeping in mind that this movement is already about 120 years old, it is doubtlessly a sensation and tribute to historic watchmaking.

This extraordinary, complicated watch well displays the intense workmanship associated with the hand-engraving and guilloché as well as the hand-skeletonization modifications of plates and bridges which are also finished with rose gold or rhodium coating. Every single component must be treated and restored, some had to be entirely replaced and, of course, they all had to be reassembled to form one functional unit after treatment. The detailed restoration of the more than 400 components of this movement required intense attention and took more than 6 months. Taken comparison to the production of new movements, the treatment in the GRIEB & BENZINGER workshops is so intensive that it comes even close to a brand new production than just a restoration. And in fact it is not just restoration – it`s art at its finest.

A signature element of every single GRIEB & BENZINGER PLATINUM is the blue platinum coated base plate. This is to honor famous Abraham-Louis Breguet student Charles Oudin who has already built movements with blue base plates about 1820. The GRIEB & BENZINGER workshop is proud to own one of these rare original blue Oudin movements.

Since there were a striking amount of timepieces with blue base plates supplied by Swiss watch manufacturers (through Bovet and Charles Oudin among others) to imperial China of the Qing Dynasty under Emperors Jia Qing and Dao Guang, the BLUE DANUBE also symbolizes these historical roots.

The dial is another highlight and signature element of the BLUE DANUBE. Skeletonized by hand and with a rare Breguet frosted finish it unequivocally shows the connoisseur the technical prowess needed to turn such an historic movement into a new masterpiece.

The BLUE DANUBE is once again a breathtaking collector’s item: a minute repeater split-seconds chronograph in typical GRIEB & BENZINGER finish – a real one-of-a-kind watch. In a solid 43 mm diameter case, this unique timepiece is not only a design statement on the wrist but again the heaviest platinum watch of its kind worldwide and of course a piece of art for only one lucky collector worldwide for 350.000 € / US$ 450,000 

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HUBLOT F1 ™ KING POWER INTERLAGOS

As the Official Watchmaker of Formula 1™, Hublot is proud to present the new F1™ King Power Interlagos in tribute to the land of samba and the famous São Paulo circuit (famous because, unlike other courses, it runs anticlockwise), available in a limited edition of 250 numbered pieces.

Sporting the same cobalt blue (pantone 280) that is found in the centre of the Brazilian national flag, the F1™ King Power Interlagos is rendered unique by several features executed in a range of high-tech materials directly inspired by Formula 1™ (some of which have never before been used in watchmaking), such as the ceramic bezel with a circular-grained satin finish, adorned with multiple holes evoking the high performance of a brake disc, a strap made from rubber and Nomex™, a synthetic fibre developed by Dupont De Nemours which – thanks to its low combustibility and thermal stability – is used in the outfits worn by F1™ drivers, and the push-buttons for starting and resetting, the split-seconds function and a 30-minute to 3-hour counter.

Bernie Ecclestone - Formula 1 CEO (left)

The Formula 1 King Power Interlagos Watch was created by Hublot, to honor the Grand Prix of the Formula 1 World Championship, hosted this year by Interlagos, the famous Brazilian circuit.

Also inspired by the Brazilian flag, the designer chose a beautiful cobalt blue for the band and dial-face. At a closer look one can see that the ceramic bezel has small holes in it, resembling a car’s brake disc, and the 2 reset buttons reflect the F1 root.

Only 250 pieces of this magnificent timepiece are to be sold by the Hublot dealers. This is your unique change to own a watch that also commemorates the end of the 2011 Championship.

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