Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Omega - Planet Ocean Collection and Announces Film Project in Capri

Omega chose the Italian island of Capri to debut its upgraded Planet Ocean collection. The four new watches are equipped with unidirectional rotating bezels, helium escape valves and water resistance to 60 bar / 600 meters / 2000 feet. The in-house co-axial movements with silicon balance springs are backed by a four-year warranty. Find details and stunning wallpaper images inside.

UPDATED: Pricing and launch dates added.
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The Seamaster Planet Ocean 45.50mm Titanium Liquidmetal Chronograph
The star of the new Planet Ocean Collection is distinguished by its unusual mix of new materials. Its 45.50mm case is made of grade 5 titanium, meaning that this lightweight element has been alloyed with small amounts of aluminum and vanadium and is particularly hard. It can also be polished to a brighter luster than other grades of titanium. It has a striking blue ceramic bezel whose scaling and numbers are made of zirconium-based alloy called Liquidmetal. Omega says the hardness of the materials means that these two innovative materials will maintain their appearance indefinitely.
A lacquered blue dial compliments the blue ceramic bezel. This watch is presented on a blue integrated rubber strap, and it is also available with a titanium bracelet.
The Titanium Liquidmetal Chronograph is driven by the co-axial caliber 9300 equipped with an Si 14 silicon balance spring. The watch is offered with a four-year warranty.
The Titanium Liquidmetal Chronograph will launch in October, and the suggested retail price on the titanium bracelet will be $10,500.

The Seamaster Planet Ocean 45.50mm Chronograph, Caliber 9300
The Seamaster Planet Ocean 45.50mm Chronograph is also equipped with the Omega co-axial caliber 9300, pictured above. This column-wheel chronograph has 12-hour and 60-minute counter hands placed on the same subdial at 3 o’clock. This familiar arrangement of the hands, which recalls the hour and minute hands on the main dial, enables intuitive reading of the chronograph. It also has a central chronograph seconds hand and a small seconds hand on the sub-dial at 9 o’clock.
The two chronograph control pushers function independently; accordingly, there is no risk to the chronograph mechanism as a result of inadvertent manipulation. Like Omega’s other in-house co-axial movements, the caliber 9300 features a decorative pattern known as “Côtes de Genève in Arabesque“.
The hour hand can be reset without stopping the watch, so resetting while traveling does not affect accurate timekeeping. The brushed screw-in caseback has a sapphire crystal allowing a view of the original movement beneath.
The case is stainless steel case with a choice of bezels either in matte orange aluminum or matte black ceramic with matte black dials. There is also a version offered with a stainless steel bezel paved with 42 diamonds totaling 2.69 carats.
The watch is presented with a brushed and polished stainless steel bracelet with Omega’s patented screw-and-pin system. There is also a choice of an integrated strap either in black leather or in black or orange rubber.
The new Planet Ocean chronograph, like all of the watches in the new family, is equipped with a combination of a co-axial movement and an Si 14 silicon balance spring and comes with a four-year warranty.
The Seamaster Planet Ocean 45.50mm Chronograph, caliber 9300 will launch in June, priced at $7,500 with orange strap with bezel, and at $7,700 with black strap and bezel.

The Seamaster Planet Ocean 42.00mm, Caliber 8500
The Seamaster Planet Ocean 42.00mm divers’ watch is also available with a stainless steel case and a number of configurations. It is powered by the Omega co-axial caliber 8500 and is equipped with the Si 14 silicon balance spring. This model is also offered with a full four-year warranty.
The most luxurious version has a diamond-paved bezel set with 42 diamonds weighing a total of 2.14 carats and a white lacquered dial.
The stainless steel Planet Ocean 42.00 mm is also available with a broad selection of bezels including matte orange aluminum or black or white ceramic.
The selection of straps includes a choice of black or white integrated leather or black, white or orange rubber. The 42.00mm Planet Ocean watches in stainless steel are also available with bracelets in the same metal.
The Seamaster Planet Ocean 42.00mm launches in June. The price on with an orange bezel and strap is $5,800, and other bezel and strap colors are $6,000.

The Seamaster Planet Ocean 37.50mm, Caliber 8520
This year Omega launches the first Planet Ocean models with 37.50mm cases, ideally suited for women who want the technologically advanced mechanical movement and diving features offered by the collection but prefer to wear smaller watches. There are 37.50mm Planet Ocean wristwatches in stainless steel with either black or white ceramic bezels that sparkle with 42 diamonds with a weight of 1.55 carats.
These watches are powered by the co-axial caliber 8520 equipped with the Si 14 silicon balance spring.
The selection of straps includes a choice of black or white integrated leather. The 37.50 mm Planet Ocean watches in stainless steel are also available with bracelets in the same metal.

Montblanc - TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph GreyTech




















 Montblanc - TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph GreyTech Limited Edition

SIHH 2012

On Monday, January 16th 2012 at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) in Geneva, the new Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph GreyTech was unveiled to the public and the international press.

Few brands can rival Montblanc’s skill in imbuing their products with unmistakable and timeless iconography. The Rieussec chronograph collection has achieved unmistakable status and the TimeWalker line has represented the modern personification of Montblanc’s DNA for several years. This collection won a standing ovation last year with the TwinFly chronograph and Montblanc’s own movement. Now it outdoes itself again with the debut of the GreyTech. The appeal of the TimeWalker collection derives from sleek and distinctive styling that’s strongly inspired by modern, open, glass-and-steel architecture. Generously proportioned, tidily comprehensible dials beneath sapphire crystals that are antireflective on both their surfaces, narrow bezels and filigreed, skeletonized horns vividly prove that all superfluity has been eliminated.

Double Flyback in Shades of Grey
Montblanc received great honor and recognition after launching the TimeWalker TwinFly in 2011, a manufacturechronograph that gave new beauty to a function which had once been very popular, but had later nearly vanished from the horological landscape: a measuring instrument for brief intervals with both an elapsed-seconds hand and a sixty-minute counter from the center of its dial. Manufactured in steel and in a limited titanium edition, this wristwatch experienced such gigantic success that Montblanc decided to present a second limited-edition model in an exclusively styled version one year later: the Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph GreyTech, of which only 888 specimens will be manufactured. This watch perfectly combines technical refinement, innovative materials and discriminating design. Television screens, billboards, shop windows and magazines around the world are so garishly colorful that we cannot but feel a sense of nostalgia for the quieter monochrome era, when black-and-white films and photographs radiated so much sensuality and style, although they worked solely with shades of grey. The popularity that can be achieved by the absence of color is ably shown by noble automobile brands, where the chromatic spectrum is primarily reduced to a narrow range from midnight black to silvery grey. The same is true in the world of interior design, where classical furnishings made of metal, glass and black leather have enjoyed success for many decades. These products offer welcome relaxation for eyes that have grown weary from a surfeit of natural and artificial colors. The new GreyTech approach from Montblanc follows suit. The Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph GreyTech makes a very distinguished yet at the same time modern and technical impression. Satinized and pearl-blasted finishing gives the solid titanium case a monochrome and simultaneously contrast-rich aspect. Various shades of grey distinguish its large dial, where connoisseurs will find seven time indicators, generously proportioned apertures for the grey date disc, a pierced and anthracite-grey hour-hand and minute-hand, and large Arabic numerals. Grey elegance continues on the back, where a pane of sapphire crystal invites aficionados to admire the movement with its rhodium-plated dark grey chassis parts, which create a fascinating contrast with the golden wheels, the blued screws and the red ruby bearings. This perfect synthesis of technically oriented design, highly robust and extra-light case material, and elaborate micromechanics convinces watch lovers that understatedly elegant aesthetics and exclusive functionality have lost none of their popularity, even in the era of the smartphone.

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Chronograph Caliber MB LL100  – A Montblanc Movement with ManufactureQuality

Likewise developed exclusively by Montblanc, self-winding chronograph Caliber MB LL100 is assembled, finely adjusted and encased under the brand’s aegis and in its spacious ateliers in Le Locle. This manufacturemovement from Montblanc is also a chronograph, which is entirely logical because the world’s leading name in exclusive writing implements likewise strives toward a comparably foremost position among “time writers,” i.e. chronographs. Considering the speed and dynamism of developments at Montblanc, this ambitious goal doesn’t seem quite so unattainably audacious. The chronograph Caliber MB LL100 has all the characteristics of highly evolved horological artistry: the chronograph’s functions are controlled via a column-wheel; a modern and extremely low-wear disc-coupling engages to transfer energy from the fourth-wheel to the chronograph-wheel; and a newly calculated profile for the gear teeth significantly improves the energy efficiency. But the most eye-catching exclusivity is the chronograph function: a long elapsed-seconds hand and a somewhat shorter counter for sixty elapsed minutes are both centrally axial. When the flyback function is triggered, these two indicators race back to their starting position and instantly restart measuring another elapsing interval, whence the neologism “TwinFly” in the model’s name. The number of elapsed seconds is shown along the outermost periphery on the flange of the dial, whereas the elapsed minute counter has a large and therefore readily legible sixty-minute scale in the centre of the dial. Other functions include a date window at “9 o’clock” and a 24-hour subdial for the second time zone at “12 o’clock.” A special feature of Caliber MB LL100 is its double barrel, which gives this movement a power reserve of approximately 72 hours’ duration: an ample reservoir of power is better able to compensate for amplitude fluctuations that occur when the chronograph function is switched on or off, and it also improves the stability of the rate in all operating modes.

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GreyTech Expresses Technical Elegance
The matte grey titanium case is distinguished by the unmistakable “handwriting” of Montblanc’s TimeWalker family of watch models. The case’s liberal diameter of 43 mm and the narrowness of the bezel result in a very large dial: this spaciousness visibly enhances the legibility and the readily comprehensible arrangement of the individual displays. The horns, which are skeletonized in the typical TimeWalker style, reliably hold an anthracite-grey alligator-skin wristband with large quadratic reptilian scales and a tone-in-tone grey stitching. A pronged buckle made of bead-blasted titanium keeps the strap securely closed around its wearer’s wrist. In accord with the understated styling in shades of grey, the case is matte finished all around, the middle part of the case is vertically brushed, and both the bezel and the edge of the case’s back are bead blasted. The result is a discreetly technical look that instantly identifies this wristwatch as a functional time-measuring instrument. The excitement that this high-tech aspect can generate becomes evident at the very latest when one peers through the sapphire crystal in the back and through the slightly cambered sapphire crystal above the dial. The face has large piercings and a very lively appearance thanks to various shades of grey. Circular apertures inside the hour-circle allow one’s gaze to penetrate to a somewhat darker date disc with raised anthracite-grey numerals; the current date is surrounded by a white frame at “9 o’clock.” Six anthracite-grey numerals in raised relief mark the hour-circle; white scales are printed for the second time zone at “12 o’clock” and for the small seconds at “6 o’clock. Special mention is earned by the second time zone with its anthracite skeletonized hand: a shiny anthracite-colored sunburst in raised relief adorns this display’s 24-hour dial for the daytime hours from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., while the nighttime hours are portrayed by a net of arcs which symbolize the paths of the stars across the firmament. The smallest details are of the utmost importance on a wristwatch: this is evident here in the large hands for the time display and the chronograph’s function. The anthracite-grey hour-hand and minute-hand are coated with luminous material, which combines with noctilucent indices to assure good legibility in the dark. These hands sweep across the scale of the sixty-elapsed-minutes counter, so they’re slit lengthwise to allow the wearer to see through them and read the counter’s scale. The chronograph’s well-balanced elapsed-seconds hand is dark anthracite in color with a light grey tip; the elapsed-minutes counter is light grey with a dark anthracite tip. Another attractive aspect of the GreyTech comes into view through the sapphire window in the back: the movement with its black rhodium-plated components. A layer of dark grey rhodium has been applied to the plate bridge, which is traditionally decorated with Geneva waves. The same coating embellishes the generously skeletonized winding-rotor with its extra-heavy oscillating weight and pierced Montblanc emblem. As one would expect an outstanding chronograph, the column-wheel that controls the chronograph’s start, stop and flyback commands is likewise visible. This firework of horological technology is certain to spark enthusiasm.
The Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph GreyTech will be manufactured in a limited edition of 888 specimens and will be available starting in autumn of 2012.

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TECHINCAL SPECIFICATIONS


Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly  Chronograph GreyTech

Movement  
Manufacture Calibre MB LL100
Type of movement Mechanical movement with automatic winding, chronograph with flyback function, column wheel control, vertical disc clutch, twin barrels
No. of jewels 36
Power reserve Ca. 72 hours
Balance Screwed balance, Ø 9.7 mm; moment of inertia: 12 mg/cm2
Hairspring Flat
Frequency 28,800 A/h (4 Hz)
Wheels Special toothing for more efficient power transmission
Indications Hours and minutes in the centre; Small seconds at “6 o’clock”; 24-hour counter for second time zone at “12 o’clock”; Date window-display at “9 o’clock”
Complications Flyback chronograph with central minute and second hands; 24 hour counter for second time zone at 12 o`clock
Features
Case Satin-finished and bead-blasted titanium case
Dimensions Ø = 43 mm, height: 15,3 mm
Water resistant To 3 bar (30 m)
Sapphire crystal Domed sapphire crystal with double anti-reflective coating
Case back Bead-blasted titanium case back with sapphire crystal
Dial Open worked, grey dial with rhodium-plated numerals and black pierced luminous hands
Bracelet/Strap Anthracite alligator-leather strap with tone-in-tone stitching and bead-blasted titanium pin buckle
Limitation 888 pieces

Ident 107338

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