Pure class isn’t only popular for one season. 2007’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie presented the Cartier Libre collection, diamond timepieces set in the most avant-garde designs only Cartier can pull off without making tacky. Each watch is in classic circular timepiece shape distorted in a Dali-esque fashion – oversized numbers surrounded by diamond curves. The exception of this style is the Rotonde de Cartier a grande complication watch, a platinum piece decorated with a sapphire cabochon and 18-karat-gold dial on a hand-sewn alligator wristband.


The pieces may have launched last year, but their beauty remains forever. For more information on the Cartier watches and the annual Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie event,visit WatchProsite.com,

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We're big fans of wristwatches that combine sleek design with outstanding function, and the new Urwerk 202 fills the bill better than most time pieces we've seen. Let's start out with the fact that the UR-202 is the world's first compressed air powered wristwatch. Instead of a traditional rotating vane, the 202 uses miniature twin turbines to control the rate of automatic winding. Plus, the level of air compression generated by the turbines can actually be controlled using a 3-position selector switch. Now that's pretty cool.

As much as we like the way the UR-202 winds itself, we're more intrigued with the design of the watch. If you check out this video, you'll see that the UR-202 features a distinctive time display. The hour is shown using a series of rotating circles, which points down towards a display that marks the minutes.

Urwerk offers a number of different designs for the UR-202 including red gold, white gold, black PE-CVD Platinum and TiAlN. As of now no pricing information is available, but we'd expect these to cost a pretty penny.


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A limited edition of 150 pieces in stainless steel and 50 pieces in 18kt rose gold, the Coupe City is the latest from D&S.

The case, in a cintree curvex shape, measures 38mm X 50mm X 12mm. It has a sapphire crystal with AR coating and display back.

The movement is an automatic caliber with 23 jewels and a 42 hour power reserve. Functions include the hours, minutes, seconds, the date, a second time zone, and 24 hour display.

It is water resistant to 30 meters and the strap is Louisiana alligator with deployant in 18kt gold or stainless steel.

About Dubey & Schaldenbrand
The revival of Dubey & Schaldenbrand started as a homage to the past with Cinette Robert deciding to open her vault containing her fabulous old movement collection. (During the 1970's and early 1980's, Cinette Robert was one of the few visionaries that toured all manufacturers in order to purchase watch movements and components). With the emergence of the quartz era during this particular period, many manufacturers of mechanical movements lost all hope. Their products had become a commodity seemingly without future and, of a value of merely its weight! Cinette Robert bought whatever she could and ended up with a treasure chest of over 6,000 vintage movements.
Recasing each movement according to the era when it was created, the Dubey & Schaldenbrand designs rapidly found a niche with collectors.

With these limited editions always being sold out, it became time for Cinette Robert to launch a new collection based upon modern, automatic movements. Modern does not mean that the same care and attention was not to be used. Quite the contrary. From the movement engravers to the dial and hand makers, they all shared the same vision and love for the things of the past.


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With the 80's and Gold being back in a big way what better way to match your thick gold rope chain but with Gold Pasha Seatimer Chronograph. Cartier adds one more to its array of timeless collections. Keep a tab on time the Cartier way is this Gold Pasha Seatimer Chronograph. Part of the Seatimer collection, this gold automatic chronograph has an 18K 42.5mm case with front and back sapphire crystals.

The bezel and the bracelet both have dramatic black ceramic details and the pushers and crown are finished with black cabochons. The watch uses the automatic Cartier caliber 8630 movement that is visible via the transparent sapphire case back.

For garnishing, black cabochons are embedded in the winding crown and chronograph pushers. It is water resistant up to 100 meters.

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Breitling for Bentley 6.75 Limited Edition of 500 Pieces.
Mens Watch in 18KT Pink Gold

Movement: Self-winding Breitling caliber 44b, Certified chronometer, 38 jewels

Dial: Black and Gold tone subsidiary dials Applied stick hour markers overlapped by tritium points. Luminescent gold tone hands.

Case: 18KT Pink Gold, diameter: 48 mm
Bi-Directional Rotative Bezel with Calculator. Scratch resistant sapphire crystal. Screw-down crown and solid case-back. Water resistant to 100 Meters/330 Feet.

Function: Hours, minutes, sweep seconds, date and chronograph।

Band: Light Brown Leather Strap; tang buckle; 10 inches.

Additional Notes: Slide-rule bezel which allows to compute different airborne calculations such as fuel consumption, climbing times and converting miles into nautical miles or kilometers।

We have To give it up, the Bentleys are tight and allow you to "peacock" without showing off.


US $18,495.00

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A watch worth $152,435 must be made from something unique. A Swiss jeweler is now offering watches, which have been made from the hull of the doomed Titanic. The metal has been mixed with contemporary shipbuilding steel to make the casing of the timepieces. The black dials have been made by mixing the recovered coal burned in the Titanic’s furnaces with ceramics. The watches dubbed Titanic-DNA will be made in a limited run of 2,012 as a reference to the 100th anniversary of the disaster in five years’ time. So, £75K tag is too high. Don’t worry as the Titanic watches range in price from £4,500 to £75,000 depending on the material used, such as steel, silver or gold with diamonds.

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For the first time in its history, Vulcain offers a glimpse into the intimate secrets of a unique movement, its legendary Cricket calibre.

Vulcain discloses something of its historical mystery by presenting the Vulcain Golden Heart, an open worked watch revealing a finely engraved movement. Exquisitely crafted, the legendary Cricket calibre is distinguished by its meticulous finishing including bridges decorated with Cotes de Geneva, circular-grained or polished plates, and blued screws. The surfaces of the twin barrels – one for the movement and the other for the striking mechanism – are adorned with a fine snailed motif to enhance the beauty of the horological vision they provide.

It is available in a choice of charcoal grey or blue dials, with blued dauphine hour and minute hands and alarm pointer.

The case is stainless steel and measures 39mm. It is water resistant and the crystal is sapphire.

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Last year Bulgari made news with the first Bulgari calibres at Baselworld. This time they are back with a BANG! with Assioma Multicomplication Squelette. This exclusive complicated watch has a dial, developed completely in-house, with four superimposed layers subjected to four different finishing treatments. Made in a limited edition of just 20 pieces, the movement with a 64-hour power reserve is housed in a platinum case measuring 48 mm in length.

Featuring a perpetual calendar with Tourbillon, this complicated yet eye-catching timepiece retails for $155,000.


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Eminent watchmaker Louis Moinet created masterpieces for Kings and other famous personalities : Napoleon, King George IV of England, American Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. He also wrote his famous Watchmaking Treatise, published in 1848, which became the reference work of its century.

150 years later, a study based on his drawings of double-barrel watches has given birth to a timepiece bridging the past and present.

Movement is a Louis Moinet Twin Barrel Manufacture caliber with 37 jewels, beating at 28,800bph “Cotes du Jura” engraving, blued steel screws, an Elinvar balance spring with a power reserve of 120 hours. Functions are hours, minutes, seconds, retrograde date and power reserve indicator.

The case, in stainless steel, features two sapphire crystals. The dial is old rose in color, with “Cotes du Jura” decoration and six applied zones featuring designs inspired by Louis Moinet’s original work. The hands are rhodium-plated, coated with Superluminova, linden-tree color, the strap is Louisiana alligator leather.

The Old Rose dial edition is limited to 60 pieces, other versions come in charcoal or silver, also limited to 60 pieces each.

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The Concord C1 watch made its debut at Baselworld 2007. The C1 has a 44 mm case with a very rugged look. The rubber on the watch helps absorb shocks and make the watch sturdier. It has a transparent case-back that reveals a decorated oscillating weight.

It has an official Swiss chronometer. The movement is the automatic ETA Valgranges A07.211 with 25 jewels, beating at 28,800 bph and with a 48 hour power reserve. The dials is made of carbon fiber and machined metal with sunken applied hour-markers filled with luminescent material. There is a 3.30 mm thick sapphire crystal and a crown of rubber, composite and steel.

The watch comes in either steel or 18K rose gold.


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Invented over 200 years ago, the tourbillon movement is still considered the pinnacle of watchmaking. This year OMEGA rises to the challenge and takes this jewel of haute horlogerie into the 21st century by introducing the Co-Axial escapement into the movement. Furthermore, this De Ville chronometer places the tourbillon in the centre of the movement and as is fitting of such an achievement, the tourbillon and its Co-Axial escapement are visible through the dial. The materials and aesthetics match the daring of this mechanical innovation: the tourbillon cage is made of titanium and the bridges and plates are finished in a striking chocolate brown colour. The movement is housed in a 38.7 mm 18-carat red gold case with matching red gold hands, screws and wheels.

Invented by the Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet in 1801, the perpetual rotation of the tourbillon cage was designed to compensate the effect of gravity on the escapement and thus make the watch more precise. Still valued for their mechanical mastery, to this day tourbillon watches are assembled by hand and only a few pieces can be produced each year by highly qualified master watchmakers. OMEGA has been producing tourbillons since 1947 and is proud to create the Central Tourbillon, testimony to the company’s knowledge and craftsmanship. Its intricate construction and reduced size make this mechanism a rarity much sought after by serious collectors of horological masterpieces.

The unusual and intriguing dial of this unique watch is a work of art in its own right and adds a modern twist to the beauty of the tourbillon, which is visible in its entirety through the sapphire glass with an anti-reflective treatment on both sides. The sapphire glass dial reveals the exceptional level of thought and detail that has gone into this timepiece. The colour of the hands and screws matches the 18-carat red gold of the seconds track and hour markers; however, adding a contemporary look, the plate and bridges are an unusual rich brown colour. This is achieved using a treatment of PVD-physical vapour deposition. Sun brushing the metal creates additional texture and adds depth to the bridges.

The tourbillon takes pride of place in full view at the centre of the watch and makes one revolution every minute. The seconds hand is mounted on the tourbillon cage and matching the red gold motif of this watch, an Alpha-shaped red gold insert is set into the tip of the hand. This seconds hand sweeps over the small etched dots that make up the red gold seconds track. With the tourbillon mechanism in full view at the centre of the watch, a unique system is used to display the time. Gold Alpha-style hour and minute hands are etched on to two separate sapphire discs with an anti-reflective treatment on both sides. The two discs rotate around the centre axis to display the time. Facetted and diamond polished solid gold indexes are applied at 12, 3 and 6 o’clock.

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More than original, the Vintage 1945 Jackpot Tourbillon shakes up accepted traditions. Who thought that the precision of the greatest watchmaking complications could never harmonize with the uncertainty of games of chance? Girard-Perregaux merges these two worlds in one exclusive Haute Horlogerie model of unexpected complexity.


For the first time, a watch combines a Tourbillon and a slot machine equipped with a striking mechanism in perfect proportion with the Vintage 1945 case.

Slot machine mechanism
The handle on the side of the case is connected to a rack. By pulling the handle, the rack slides up. When the rack reaches its highest point, and only then (a so called “all or nothing mechanism”), it starts the reels spinning and slowly slides back down. When it has returned approximately two thirds of the way, it activates stoppers, which stop the reels one by one and synchronically activates the striking mechanism.

Vegas baby Vegas!

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For the 2007 SIHH watch and jewelry show in Basel, Cartier will be showing the Rotonde a Grande Complications. The watch has a platinum case which measures 43.5mm and has front and back sapphire crystals. It has a white gold dial and a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, monopusher, chronograph and a power reserve of eight days.

It uses the manual wind Cartier Manufacture caliber 9433MC movement. The watch is done in a limited edition of 10 pieces.

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According to TimeZone:

The new Masterpiece Le Chronographe in stainless steel features the new ML 106-2 manufacture movement, which was conceived and developed entirely in Maurice Lacroix’ own technical department in Saignelégier last year.

The Maurice Lacroix manufacture ML 106-2 chronograph movement is a work of superlatives and a true original. Moreover, with uniquely grand proportions for a wristwatch chronograph it is a genuine technical accomplishment.

Maurice Lacroix’ new design has minimised this risk – it guarantees the correct positioning of the individual chronograph components, and hence the accuracy of the information displayed, by pressing the blocker against the wheels for longer than was heretofore possible.

This rare 60-minute counter demands a significantly higher level of watchmaking complexity and is far more difficult to manufacture than the familiar 30- or 45-minute counter. The ML 106-2 calibre also features top-quality components, like a swan neck precision adjustment and two genuine gold chatons in the chronograph bridge.

The case, in stainless steel and features two sapphire crystals, the top one being AR coated. The dial is solid sterling silver 925 in anthracite finish .

Pretty badass...

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According to TimeZone:
Debuting at Baselworld 2007 will be the new Longines Weems.

The case, in stainless steel, measures 47.5mm and features double sapphire crystals.

The “Weems System of Navigation" was developed by Captain Philip van Horn 80 years ago. The mobile central dial allows the seconds hand to synchronize with a radio signal.

Movement is a Swiss automatic with 46 hours of power reserve (base ETA 2892).

About Longines:
Longines is a watch company founded by Ernest Francillon at Saint-Imier, Switzerland. Its origins can be traced back to the 1830s and it currently holds the oldest registered logo for a watch company (a winged hourglass). Longines is currently owned by the Swatch Group.

Longines is famous for its 'Aviators' watches. One director of Longines was a personal friend of Charles Lindbergh ; after his transatlantic flight, Lindbergh designed a pilot watch to help with air navigation. The watch was actually built to his specifications, and is still produced today.

It is said that Albert Einstein and Patrick A Johnson used a Longines pocket watch. Longines watches have been worn by many celebrities, including Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Aishwarya Rai, Billy Zane and Harry Connick Jr.


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Blancpain has given watch lovers a preview of some of the watches they will be showing off at Baselworld in April.

Blancpain will be showing their Leman Repetition Minutes Aqua Lung. This watch uses a patented Blancpain invention, a complicated system to keep moisture out. The gear system connects the repeater slide and the repeater actuating lever through two racks and a transmission shaft with two intermediate wheels fitted with two "O-Ring" gaskets to ensure the system is water-tight.


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The most complicated model by Graham is this Piece Unique with a tourbillon, a minute repeater and splits-seconds chronograph.

The case, measuring 42mm, is done in 18kt rose gold and features double sapphire crystals.

The movement was designed by Christophe Claret and is composed of 583 parts.

About Graham:
George Graham was born in 1674 in the small village of Cumbreland, England. He became an apprentice watchmaker in 1688. Seven years later he was admitted to the Company of Clockmakers and trained under other masters of his time. Though he died penniless, during his life Graham's research and innovative creativity would come to impact the watch world forever. In 1715 he invented the anchor escapement. Other inventions for which he is credited include the deadbeat escapement, the mercury compensation pendulum, the minute repeater with damper, and the chronograph! The Graham brand is Swiss but carries on old English watchmaking traditions with its limited annual production of exceptionally well defined chronographs.

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The latest watch from Breguet is the Ref. 5837, a chronograph that includes a tourbillon. The watch has sapphire crystals and boosts water resistantence up to 100 meters. The 18K pink gold watch includes thehttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif manual-wind movement Breguet caliber 554.2T with 25 jewels and a power reserve of 50 hour

The dial is black rhodium plated over 18K gold and is engine-turned in a wave pattern. This rather tight watch comes oddly with a rubber strap. The strap is caoutchouc rubber with a rose gold deployant.

About Breguet
Breguet is a manufacturer of fine watches, founded by Abraham Louis Breguet in Paris in 1775. Currently part of The Swatch Group, its timepieces are now (since 1976) produced in the Vallée de Joux in Switzerland. Breguet is one of the oldest surviving watch-making establishments and is the pioneer of numerous watch-making technologies, the most famous being the tourbillon, invented by Abraham Louis Breguet.

Breguet has recently introduced a line of writing instruments as a tribute to writers who mention or feature Breguet watches in their works. Breguet watches are often easily recognized for their coin-edge cases, fine guilloché dials and distinctive blue pomme hands (often now referred to as 'Breguet hands').

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Three spinning disks one over the other creating a bullseye triple tier spinning display of time. Top circle spins fastest with the seconds, second disk rotates the minutes and the bottom circular plate revolves the hour.

The red line denotes the linear accumulation of the current time.

The time showing on the model below is 2:13 :55

The big 39mm square metal case.
All perfect mint condition

$95

Tight!

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Girard Perregaux RD-01 PVD watch available through out Girard-Perregaux dealers world wide.

Also, check out the new Chopard L.U.C. Strike One


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Revolver NYC - Lower East Side Rock & Roll bar. No Ropes, No Lines, No Drama.

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Now #1 in Japan!

This limited production 72 Blue L.E.D. watch lights up brighter than any other watch available. The time is read by reading the hours on the left and the minutes on the right. When the button is pressed for the time it will spiral all the lights on and off then show the time. Press the button again and the day and date will be displayed. Now what really makes this watch stand out, is the light up feature, the watch lights up every light in a spiral and then off in a spiral every 2 minutes from 6 PM to 1 AM. Super flashy and you will be Pimpin' large.

Pimpin was never easy till now. Grab one and see for yourself." [Via toykoflash.com]

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