Thursday, September 15, 2016

AUDEMARS PIGUET Supports Serena Williams in Her Quest for Victory



AUDEMARS PIGUET – Supports Serena Williams in Her Quest for Victory

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As Serena Williams is defending her title in London, Audemars Piguet accompanies its brand ambassador in her quest for a 22nd major victory

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London, Monday 4th July 2016 Serena Williams continues her grass-court campaign in South West London to defend the crown she won last year. A 7th victory there would represent her highest number of wins for a specific grand slam tournament as she counts 3 wins on the red clay of Paris, and 6 on each of the hard courts of Melbourne and New York. It would therefore become her 22nd title, which would allow her to equal the record held by Steffi Graff.

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Audemars Piguet’s brand philosophy “To break the rules, you must first master them.” perfectly embodies Serena’s quest and her unrelenting drive and passion during her impressive career. The brand now celebrates this spirit and shows its support in a new campaign launched on social media worldwide.

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Serena Williams wears the new white Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph
in rose gold Ref. 26231OR.ZZ.D010CA.01

Inspired by a verse from Rudyard Kipling’s “If” poem written on the wall of the Center Court players’ entrance - “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same -, Audemars Piguet’s campaign, consisting of a short film and series of still images, features Serena in a stunning black and white setting while reciting the famous poem with a slight twist at the end.

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“If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”


If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Woman, Sister.”



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Technical Specifications

Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Pink Gold case 37mm

Reference: 26231OR.ZZ.D010CA.01

MOVEMENT:
Selfwinding Calibre 2385
Total diameter: 26.20 mm (11 ½ lignes)
Total thickness: 5.50 mm
Number of jewels: 37
Number of parts: 304
Minimal guaranteed power reserve: 40 h
Frequency of balance wheel: 3 Hz (= 21,600 vibrations/hour)
FUNCTIONS:
Chronograph
Hours
Minutes
Small seconds
Date
CASE:
37 mm pink gold
18-carat pink gold case, glare-proofed sapphire crystal.
Diamond-set bezel, screw-locked crown.
Water-resistant to 50 m
DIAL:
Silver-toned dial with new “Lady Tapisserie” pattern, circular-grained external zone.
Pink gold applied hour-markers and Royal Oak hands with luminescent coating
STRAP:
White rubber strap with 18-carat pink gold AP folding clasp

GEMSETTING
32 brilliant-cut diamonds; ~1.02 carats (bezel)


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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Rudis Sylva – RS 16 Harmonious Oscillator


Rudis SylvaRS 16 Harmonious Oscillator 2016

 Rudis Sylva RS 16 Harmonious Oscillator 
pre-selected in the Tourbillon category GPHG 2016

When the Harmonious Oscillator was unveiled at Baselworld 2009, there were watchmakers present who thought this invention to be important in the history of timekeeping.

The reason is clear: the Harmonious Oscillator represents a horological revolution. In permanent opposition, its toothed balance wheels instantly minimize the effects of gravity when the watch is in the vertical position. The wheels are interlinked, ensuring a more stable amplitude for higher precision.

The Harmonious Oscillator is an embodiment of technical and artistic brilliance with mesmerizing micro engineering complemented by the finest hand-engraving, enameling, guilloche, and scintillating anglage.

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The main plate features a handcrafted guilloche pattern of tapering pyramids, while the bridges of the dual balance regulator feature hand-crafted anglage with no fewer than 40 incredibly demanding internal angles; 28 of which are executed in ultra-strong and difficult-to-work titanium. Both the movement and the case back are engraved by hand, with the case back also featuring sublime high-fire enamel.

The distinctive design of the new RS 16 with its high-domed sapphire crystal is by star watch designer Eric Giroud.

Rudis Sylva is proud to be one of very few independent brands to have designed, manufactured, tested, and patented an entire complicated movement. Rudis Sylva is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and is proud to be one of very few independent brands to have designed, built, manufactured, tested and patented an entire complicated movement.

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Celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2016, this boutique brand from the Jura also is also celebrating the RS 16's pre-selection in the Tourbillon category of the 2016 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), an accolade putting it in the top six tourbillons of 2016. The winner will be announced on November 10.

The red gold RS 16 retails for CHF 250,000 (excluding shipping and taxes).

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Technical Specifications

Collection:  Oscillateur Harmonieux
Reference:  RS 16 Harmonious Oscillator

Movement   
Harmonious Oscillator
Dimensions:    h. 7.78 mm / Ø 39.55 mm
Winding:    manual, 49 crown revolutions
Power reserve:    about 70 hours
Manufacture:    made by Rudis Sylva
Purchases from third parties:    7 parts : escapement, stones, spring, Incabloc
Indicators:    hours, minutes, seconds
Main plate machining:   on machine with bed plate, 175 operations
Accuracy check:    100 % of components
Movement finishes
Haute Horlogerie finishing
Main plate:     bevelling, tapering pyramid guilloche work
Bridges:     hand-decorated, bevelling, circular graining, drawing
Gear train:     circular graining, diamond-polished corners
Screws:     machine threading with controlled undercut
Barrel drum:     snailed
Titanium cage bridge:     bevelling, 28 inward corners, drawing (30 hours' work)
Harmonious Oscillator
  • System unique worldwide, patent no. 575/09
  • Balances    toothed, interlinked, ensuring the same amplitude
  • Escapement:    only 1 with 1 pallet fork positioned at 90 degrees
  • Frequency:    21,600 vibrations/hour (3 Hz)
  • Cage rotation:    360 degrees in 60 seconds
  • Cage diameter:    17.40 mm
  • Balance spring:    2, flat, asymmetric deployment
  • Balance spring symmetry and energy:    constantly opposed
  • Vertical gravity correction:    instantaneous, completely eliminating the effects of gravity
Functions
Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Tourbillon
Case
Red Gold or Grey gold 18 cts
Width:    44 mm
Height:    14.3 mm
Case finish:    vertical satin finish
Bezel finish:    polished
Horn finish:    welded, polished and micro-blasted
Inter-horn distance:    23 mm
Back:    Red or grey gold, screwed
Engraving:    by hand
Crown:   red gold with machine engraved logo
Brand logo:   3 fir trees on 3 mountains
Logo symbolism:    settling of the Jura by clearing, around 1350
Dial
Silvered or matt blackhour, minute and second indicator
Hour and minute indicator ring:     Cellsun decoration
Second indicator ring:     Cellbevelled
Hand center:     hand guilloche work
Hand guilloche work pattern:     progressive circular pyramids
Hands
Gold, hand decorated
Hand decoration:    drawing on the 2 faces, bevelling on the flanks
Main plate:   hand guilloche worked, 60 tapering pyramids
Sun dial decoration:    hand-engraved with grand feu enamel
Sun dial origin:    artisan watchmaker's farmhouse from 1750, Les Bois
Strap  
Real alligator, large scales with tassel
Buckle:    tongue red or grey gold 18 cts

High-domed sapphire crystal is by star watch designer Eric Giroud.  

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Le Boéchet 10
CH-2336 Les Bois
+41 32 961 19 58
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

ORIS – BC3 Advanced Day DateAviation


ORISAVIATION BC3 Advanced Day Date Gunmetal Grey Steel NEW

Grey matter

Oris’s utilitarian BC3 pilot’s watch returns with a gunmetal
grey finish

Oris has given its legendary BC3 pilot’s watch a sporty new look for 2016. Part of the Oris collection since 1999, the BC3 is one of a long line of historically important aviation pieces made by the independent Swiss company that goes back to the original Big Crown of 1938. The new BC3 brings the Oris pilot’s watch story right up to date.

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The flagship piece in the new line-up is the BC3 Advanced Day Date with a stealthy gunmetal grey PVD-coated stainless steel case. It comes on either a beige textile or black rubber strap.

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The dial is grey with special ‘light old radium’ Super-LumiNova® hour markers. The same material has been used to fill the white hour and minute hands, while the second hand is black with a white tip. This package has been carefully considered by Oris’s designers to create a watch that’s clearly legible both during the day and at night, in keeping with the traditions of the pilot’s watch’s practical aesthetic.

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Much of the watch’s robust look comes from the protectors that flank the screw-in crown. The watch is water-resistant to 10 bar/100 metres, even with its glass case back, which provides a view of Oris’s automatic Calibre 735 and its trademark Red Rotor.

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The new Oris BC3 Advanced Day Dates transparent case back reveals Oris Calibre 735 and its trademark Red Rotor

The movement provides the watch with day and date indication in two windows stacked at 6 o’clock like an instrument panel in an aircraft cockpit.

As well as the gunmetal grey version, the new BC3 Advanced Day Date is also available in steel with a striking blue dial, or in below-the-radar black-DLC-coated steel with a black dial.

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The new Oris BC3 Advanced Day Date features a stainless steel case with gunmetal grey PVD coating

Over the last two decades, Oris’s BC3 has become one of the most recognisable pilot’s watches on the market, thanks to its functional, fit-for-purpose aesthetic and reliability under pressure. The additions to the BC3 Advanced Day Date collection pick up on these themes and ready the model for the future. The watch is available from now, priced CHF 1,400.

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Product Features

Model: Oris BC3 Advanced Day Date
 
Ref. No. 01 735 7641 4263 TS, Ø 42.00mm

Movement
Automatic movement Oris Cal. 735,
based on Sellita SW 220-1, with day and date at 6 o’clock
Winding Automatic winding, bi-directionally rotating red rotor
Dimensions Ø 25.60 mm, 11 1/2’’’
Power-Reserve 38 hrs
Vibrations 28’800 A/h, 4 Hz
Jewels 26 
Functions 
Centre hands for hours, minutes and seconds,
individual date and day windows, instantaneous date and day,
date and day corrector, fine timing device and stop-second
Case
Multi-piece stainless steel case with gunmetal grey PVD coating
Stainless steel screw-in security crown and crown protection with gunmetal grey PVD coating
Flat sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating inside
Screwed stainless steel case back with gunmetal grey PVD coating and see-through mineral glass
Water-resistant to 10 bar/100m
Dial
Grey dial with printed numerals filled with Super-LumiNova®
White hour and minute hands, filled with Super-LumiNova®
Black central seconds hand with white tip
Strap
Beige textile strap with gunmetal grey PVD-coated stainless steel buckle
Also available with a black rubber strap with gunmetal grey PVD-coated stainless steel folding clasp

Retail Price
Swiss retail price: CHF 1,400

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Monday, September 12, 2016

BLANCPAIN – VILLERET Shakudō Gold














BLANCPAIN VILLERET Metiers d'Art Shakudō Ganesh Red Gold 45 Unique piece NEW


Artistic crafts by Blancpain

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Blancpain’s Métiers d’Art studio located in the Vallée de Joux has created a new one-of-a-kind timepiece bearing the image of Ganesh.

Blancpain’s award winning in-house Métiers d’Art studio is renowned for its mastery of a wide range of artistic crafts, including fine engraving, enameling in multiple forms such as painting, champlevé and cloisonné, along with damascening, shakudō, and more. Its latest creation brings together fine engraving, damascening and shakudō in a one-of-a-kind creation bearing the image of Ganesh. It reprises – albeit with an entirely new interpretation – the Ganesh theme featured in the watch that won the Artistic Crafts prize in the 2015 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève.

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The black patina of the dial is created using the shakudō technique. Blancpain’s artisans delicately treat the surface multiple times to achieve the final subtle black shades that mark this art form which was originally developed for the decoration of swords and jewelry. Blancpain is the only watch house that has mastered this time-honored motif. The dial base presents another art form, damascening, whose application to watchmaking is also exclusive to Blancpain. The fine designs are hand-carved into the surface of the dial, following which gold is hammered into the resulting troughs. The images themselves are fine gold hand engravings that are held in place without the use of adhesives.

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The watch itself is part of Blancpain’s Villeret Collection. Its 45 mm red gold case with Blancpain’s signature double-stepped bezel houses hand-wound in-house Caliber 15B. The transparent case-back showcases the movement finishing featuring finely hand-applied Côtes de Genève along with beveling and circular graining.

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The launch of this exceptional one-of-a-kind piece coincides with the Ganesh Festival in India, which is now recognized around the world.

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 References:  6615-3616-55B
Collection: VILLERET Metiers d'Art 

Model:  Shakudō Ganesh
Limited edition of Unique Piece


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Friday, September 9, 2016

ETERNA – HERITAGE 1948 Reveil


















ETERNAHERITAGE 1948 for HIM Reveil Special Edition NEW

A MODERN UPDATE TO AN ICONIC WATCH

Eterna is proud to unveil the 1948 For Him Réveil in our new Heritage Collection, a modern update to an iconic watch that blends Eterna’s classic style and watchmaking prowess. The Réveil is a one shot release and limited to seventy pieces because of the rare movement that drives the watch. The Movements 1475 features an alarm clock function – a special complication for mechanical watches and a tribute to Eterna’s pioneering history.

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A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH

Innovation continues to be a guiding principle for Eterna, endowing our watches with modern aesthe- tics and technology. However, from time-to-time, innovation must give way to the strength of Eterna’s past. By pure happenstance, a discovery was made at Eterna of seventy vintage alarm watch movements. The Réveil is a diamond in the rough for the watch enthusiast and discerning collector.

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Combining the technical precision and gloried history of one of Eterna’s most unique movements with a refreshed and modern watch design, the Réveil from the Heritage Collection is a truly unique offering. Set and wind the alarm function on this purely mechanical watch and wait as every exceptional piece of this movement works in harmony until it is time to alert the wearer. The Réveil is limited to only seventy pieces and will never be produced again.

A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC

The Réveil features the Movements 1475 mechanical movement with hour, minute, second and alarm clock functions. The Réveil also has a 46-hour power reserve. The alarm is set and wound to the appropriate time, indicated by the distinctive red hand. The case is composed of polished and brushed stainless steel with a 40 mm width and 12.41 mm thickness.

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The red alarm hand is even more striking against the vintage white egg shell dial. A classy black leather strap and pin buckle clasp secure the Réveil against your wrist. This watch is truly unique and will be admired by anyone who sees it on your wrist for its classical look and it will captivate the admirer when they are told how special the movement is.

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Technical specifications

Model: HERITAGE 1948 Réveil Special Edition

Reference: 2957.41.64.1388 Stainless steel ∅ 40
 Three-hands, black calf leather Limited Edition of 70 pieces.

Movement:
Calibre Eterna 1475,
Power reserve 46h,
18’000 A/h, 17 jewels,
Alarm 12s
Case:
Polished and brushed stainless steel
40.00 mm/12.41 mm
Screw locked down.
Dial: White egg shell
Functions: Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Alarm
Crystal: Scratch-resistant, anti-reflective sapphire crystal
Strap:
Black calf leather, pin buckle

Limited Edition of 70 pieces.

PRICE: CHF 4 900 / € 4 950 / $ 5 000

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Schützengasse 46 
• CH-2540 Grenchen
• Tel. +41 (0)32 654 72 52
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