BREITLING – NAVITIMER 01 "DC-3 World Tour" Edition

BREITLING – NAVITIMER 01 "DC-3 World Tour" 46 mm Limited Edition NEW


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The Breitling DC-3 circles the globe

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From March to September 2017, the Breitling DC-3 will be doing a grand world tour in several stages, an amazing accomplishment for this legendary plane that will be celebrating its 77th birthday. The crew will not be alone in flying from one continent to the other, since a 500-piece Navitimer limited edition will also be onboard throughout the journey.

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A privileged partner in the conquest of the skies, Breitling demonstrates its commitment to safeguarding the aeronautical heritage by supporting the restoration of legendary aircraft – such as the Lockheed Super Constellation and the Douglas DC-3. This twin-engine propeller plane launched in 1935 revolutionized air travel.

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Caseback engraved with the "BREITLING DC-3 — World Tour" logo.


Nicknamed the “Normandy landings plane”, it enjoyed its moment of fame in June 1944. More than 16,000 were built and most major airlines acquired them as part of their fleet. Today there are less than 150 DC-3 aircraft in flightworthy condition worldwide, including the Breitling DC-3.

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This DC-3 HB-IRJ was delivered to American Airlines in 1940 and first used by the American military between 1942 and 1944, before resuming service on behalf of various commercial airlines. Restored by a group of dedicated enthusiasts, it now flies under Breitling colors and participates in a variety of airshows.

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In 2017, Breitling will launch its DC-3 on a major round-the-world tour in several stages that will notably encompass the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, North America and Europe.

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This World Tour will begin and end in Switzerland, starting from Geneva in March and winding up in September at the Breitling Sion Airshow 2017. It will be punctuated by numerous stopovers providing opportunities to organize events and take part in air shows. Certain privileged passengers will be welcomed aboard for certain stretches.

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Breitling has also chosen to mark the event by introducing a 500-piece limited edition of its famous Navitimer aviation chronograph. This steel Navitimer 01 (46 mm), powered by Manufacture Breitling Caliber 01, will notably be distinguished by its caseback engraved with the Breitling DC-3 World Tour logo.

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Enthusiasts will however have to wait until the fall of 2017 to get their hands on this model, since the brand has decided to have it travel aboard the Breitling DC-3 around the planet, thus ensuring it is truly part of the entire adventure. Each watch will be delivered with a certificate signed by the flight captain.

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In launching this Breitling DC-3 World Tour, Breitling once again displays its determination to share its passion for aviation with a broad audience. See you in March 2017 for the great takeoff.

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Technical Specifications

Model : NAVITIMER 01 "DC-3 World Tour" Chronograph 46 mm Edition
Unique piece special - limited to 500 pieces

Reference: AB0129/DC-3

Movement
Manufacture Breitling Caliber 01.
Officially chronometer-certified by the COSC.
Selfwinding, high-frequency (28,800 vibrations per hour),
47 jewels,
More than 70-hour power reserve.
Functions

• 1/4th second chronograph
• 30- Minute and 12-hour totalizers
• Calendar (Gold Calendar Date)

Case: 
Steel (Limited)
Bezel: Rotating bezel with circular slide rule
Crystal: Cambered sapphire, glareproofed both sides
Crown: Non screw-locked, two gaskets
Back: Stainless steel illustrating the aircraft "BREITLING DC-3 — World Tour", 
with engraving "Limited Edition - 500" caseback.
Water-resistant: 3 bars
Diameter: 46 mm
Thickness: 14.50 mm
Weight (without strap): 103 gr. 
Dials: Black dial
Straps:
Strap: Leather (Brown)
Buckle: Pushbutton folding clasp width: 24/20 mm

Year: March 2017
Limited Edition  500-piece

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HUBLOT – BIG BANG SANG BLEU Titanium Edition

HUBLOT – BIG BANG SANG BLEU Titanium 45mm Limited Edition

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HUBLOT HOSTS SANG BLEU POP-UP TATTOO SHOP 

AT HUBLOT GALERIE, 

DESIGN DISTRICT BOUTIQUE WITH 

MAXIME BŬCHI DURING ART BASEL MIAMI

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Thursday, December 1, 2016 [Miami, FL]  Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot, and Maxime Büchi, famed graphic designer, tattoo artist, founder of the Sang Bleu studio in London and Hublot Ambassador, launched an exclusive Sang Bleu Pop-up Tattoo Shop at the Hublot Galerie, Design District Boutique, where Maxime himself tattooed select media and friends of the brand on site! This marks one of many celebrations for Hublot during Miami Art Basel.

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The Sang Bleu pop-up was open from 3 – 6 p.m., and will be open during the same timeframe on Friday, December 2, and on Saturday, December 3. Appointments are secured by invitation only, though the pop-up is open to the public for fans of both Hublot and Sang Bleu who wish to meet Maxime and watch his team at work.

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Attendees were offered champagne and light bites while perusing the boutique’s limited edition offerings – many of which are available nowhere else in the United States!

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Hublot and Maxime Büchi first announced the Big Bang Sang Bleu timepiece earlier this year in celebration of the creative partnership – but now the limited edition watch is being delivered.

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The brand-new, totally redesigned 45mm Big Bang in titanium, which sees its lines beveled, features a signature Sang Bleu geometric graphic – evoking the harmonious and proportional relationships derived from Leonard de Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. The titanium bezel of the Big Bang sees its roundness shaped into a hexagon. These facets confer a three-dimensional effect upon it.

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The matte black dial presents a wide black satin-finish circular flange stamped with the hours. The numerals created for this piece by Maxime's typeface-design agency SwissTypefaces SARL. As for the seconds counter, it appears discreetly on the metal sculpture that dresses the dial.

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Curves that contrast with the piece as a whole. As if to reinforce its mysterious spirit and give time another dimension, no hand appears on the dial. The time is displayed through the superposition of three rhodium-plated octagonal-shaped discs. The largest disc indicates the hours, while the small one marks the minutes.

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To make it easier to tell the time, one of the tips of the hours and minutes octagons is in white SuperLuminova. As for the seconds, these tick by in the center on a black disc stamped with the H of Hublot and the stylized hourglass of Sang Bleu.

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The unique strap is hot stamped in a gradient from black to gray on calfskin stitched to rubber and connected by Hublot’s patented one-click interchangeable strap system.

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The watch was released in a limited run of 200 units, and is available for purchase at the Hublot Galerie, Design District Boutique in Miami.

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Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot, commented, “Maxime is a creative force and a true artist. This collaboration represents a perfect marriage of the technical design and watchmaking expertise of Hublot with the artistic vision of one of the field’s greatest talents. The result is a timepiece for collectors of exceptional watches and art alike.”

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Maxime Büchi, tattoo artist and founder, Sang Bleu, shared, “For me, the coming together of Sang Bleu and Hublot is a “match made in heaven” insofar as the two projects, in their respective domains, represent the highest level of technical and creative innovation without ever compromising the quality of their aesthetics.

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A feature of Sang Bleu and Hublot is the principle of “fusion”, in their manner of building bridges between materials, techniques and cultures. As a watch lover, I have always dreamed of such a collaboration, and I cannot imagine a greater opportunity to further develop my creative scope and the reach of Sang Bleu.”

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ABOUT SANG BLEU

A multidisciplinary artistic platform founded by Maxime Büchi. In 2006, Maxime launched the eponymous magazine. An interdisciplinary project merging art, fashion, literature, sociology and tattooing. In 2014, he created the Sang Bleu London Tattoo Studio, bringing together a dozen top-flight tattooists. Among his prestigious clients, Kanye West and Adam Lambert wear his ink on their skin. Today, Sang Bleu is a contemporary design brand in the broadest sense.
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Technical specifications

Model:  BIG BANG SANG BLEU Titanium 45 mm
Reference: 415.NX.1112.VR.MXM16 — Limited Edition of 200 pieces

Case
Diameter: 45 mm
Satin-finish and polished Titanium with engraved geometric Maxime Büchi design
Bezel:  Hexagonal bezel, satin-finish and polished Titanium with 6 Titanium H-shaped screws
Bezel lug:  Black composite resin
Glass:  Sapphire glass with anti-reflective treatment
Crown: Black rubber and satin-finish Titanium
Back: Satin-finish Titanium with "Limited Edition 200NUM" engraving
           Sapphire glass with anti-reflective treatment
Water resistance: 10 ATM (100 m)
Dial
Black dial with Maxime Büchi design
Hands: Octagonal skeleton hands, rhodium-plated
Movement
UNICO HUB1213 mechanical movement with automatic winding
No. Components: 255 (28 rubies)
Power reserve: 72 Hours
Oscillating weight: Geometric design by Maxime Büchi
Strap
Calfskin with grey gradient and black rubber with geometric inscriptions by Maxime Büchi.  
Buckle: Titanium folding clasp.

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RADO – HyperChrome Ultra Light wins Good Design Award®

RADO – HyperChrome Ultra Light wins Good Design Award® Automatic NEW

Design accolades for pared-down, 

lightness-inspired timepiece

2016 GOOD DESIGN™ Award
HyperChrome Ultra Light wins second prestigious design prize

(Lengnau, Switzerland – 2016) Swiss watchmaker Rado has once again proven its mastery of cutting-edge design and materials: The Rado HyperChrome Ultra Light, a striking timepiece with minimalist design and featherweight components, has won the coveted Australian Good Design Award® – the brand’s second design award this year.

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With its index-free dial and deep grey monochrome colour palette, the HyperChrome Ultra Light is a meditation on simplicity. Naturally dark grey silicon nitride lends the lightweight matt monobloc case its notable hue.

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The dial is texturized with concentric grooves that gently sweep downward, reminiscent of the soothing patterns sculpted in the sand of a zen garden. A fashion-forward Nato strap secures the limited-edition timepiece to the wrist, capturing the essence of a clean and simple unisex aesthetic.

High-tech materials, zen inspiration

The HyperChrome Ultra Light stands out thanks to its unique fusion of zen-inspired design and high-tech components. The minimalist monochrome timepiece is crafted from a trio of incredibly light high-performance materials – silicon nitride ceramic, anodized aluminium, and hardened titanium. The result is a highly scratch resistant automatic timepiece that weighs only 56 grams – a remarkable marriage of lightness-inspired form and function.

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A leading design brand, Rado has over 30 prestigious product design awards to its name. The brand also has a longstanding tradition of initiating and partnering with design events and promoting young talent through the Rado Star Prize.

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The Good Design Award® is the second design honour that Rado has received recently, following the Rado True Open Heart’s receipt of the Red Dot design award earlier this year.

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About Rado

Rado is a globally recognized brand, famous for innovative design and its use of revolutionary materials to create some of the world’s most durable watches. Ever since its beginnings in Lengnau, Switzerland, Rado has had a pioneering spirit, with the brand philosophy “if we can imagine it, we can make it” still holding true today.

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Good Design Australia

The Good Design Awards is Australia’s longest standing national design award and promotion program, and one of the few forums for professional Industrial Designers and manufacturers to showcase their design expertise to national and international audiences. As a result of more than 50 years of design benchmarking, the program has focused on progressively raising the standard of design and innovation in Australia and around the world.

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TECHNICAL DATA

Model: HyperChrome Ultra Light wins Good Design Award®

Reference number 01.766.0069.3.111

Movement   
Automatic
Case
Silicon nitride ceramic, anodized aluminium, and hardened titanium
Size:   43.0 mm
Weighs only 56 grams
Case & Bezel:    Ultra-light high-tech ceramic
Transparent sapphire case back
Water resistance:   Water-resistant 10 bar (100 m)
Dial     Dark
Crystal:    Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating
Strap
Fabric grey Nato strap

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Ulysse Nardin – DIVER Chronograph Artemis Racing Edition

Ulysse Nardin – DIVER Chronograph Artemis Racing Steel/Blue rubber Limited Edition NEW

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Innovation. Performance. Engineering. 

Ulysse Nardin Presents the Limited Edition Diver Chronograph Artemis Racing.

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How fitting that Ulysse Nardin would embark on a partnership with America’s Cup team Artemis Racing – sharing as they do a seafaring history, as well as a desire to push against limits, and to innovate with new technologies and materials. The Swiss watchmaker pays fresh tribute to the seafaring skill of Artemis Racing with the Ulysse Nardin Diver Chronograph Artemis Racing, crafted in a limited edition of 250 pieces.

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With its dashing Artemis Racing-inspired styling and the reliable precision of the Diver collection, this marine-lover’s timepiece proves itself on land or at sea. On land, its ultramarine coloring reveals its aquatic DNA, as does the distinctive wave pattern on two sides of the bezel. Fine engravings of the celebrated Artemis Racing catama-ran in action decorate the dial. The beautifully stylized Artemis Racing logo appears both in the 30-minute counter at 9 o’clock, and on one
of the two bracelet elements.

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Elegant design aside, the Diver Chronograph Artemis Racing is a diving watch in every detail, down to its rubber-ized screw crown for added water resistance: this diver will take you down safely to 200 meters. Another feature of the timepiece – a unidirectional bezel – helps divers keep a grip on their time underwater, preventing accidental movements in the wrong direction. Luminescent Superluminova markers on the dial improve visibility in the dark-est places.

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Lest we forget, the Diver Artemis Racing watch is a high-performance chronograph too: the chronograph counters appear at 6 o’clock and at 9 o’clock, with the permanent seconds at 3 o’clock and an angled date window be-tween 4 and 5 o’clock.

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A bold flash of yellow on the counters, markers and minute and hour hands aids with legi-bility as well as providing a stylish contrast to the Diver Artemis Racing’ deep blue hue. Rubberized pushers make for a better grip when a start or stop function is necessary.

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Like every Ulysse Nardin timepiece, the Diver Chronograph Artemis Racing is constructed from the most ad-vanced materials available, enhancing its ability to withstand the most challenging environments. Its 45.8 mm di-ameter case is made from stainless steel coated with rubber and finished with a medallion on the case-back illus-trating the catamaran in racing while its rubber strap brings comfort and flexibility.

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Technical specifications

Model: DIVER Chronograph Artemis Racing Edition

Reference: 353-98LE-3/ARTEMIS

Limited Edition of 250 pieces

Movement   
Caliber UN-35, 11 ½ ’’
57 jewels
Power-Reserve: Approximately 42 h
Winding:    Self-winding
Functions
Chronograph with central chronograph seconds hand

• permanent seconds in a counter at 3 o’clock
• chronograph counters at 6 o’clock and at 9 o’clock
• Date between 4 and 5 o’clock

Case
Stainless steel coated with a matte-blue rubber
Diameter: 45.8 mm
Vulcanized rubber pushers
Bezel: Fluted, unidirectional rotating bezel, stainless steel coated with a blue
rubber
Crown: Screw down security crown
Crystal: Anti-reflective sapphire crystal
Case-back: Stainless steel medallion illustrating the Artemis Racing sailing boat in racing
Water-resistance:    200 m
Dial
Blue dial engraved with the motif of the Artemis Racing catamaran
Luminescent hands
Bracelet
Blue Rubber strap with two titanium elements and deployant clasp

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