Saturday, December 29, 2012

Angular Momentum & Manu Propria - Verre Eglomise Snake





























































For the coming year 2013, Angular Momentum & Manu Propria have created a serial of Verre Églomisé miniature painting watches featuring portraits of beautiful snakes





























































Angular Momentum & Manu Propria - Verre Eglomise Snake NEW

People born in the Year of the Snake share certain characteristics: Acute, aware, charming, cunning, elegant, mysterious, passionate, proud, serene, and vain. They are attractive people who take cries with ease and do not become flustered easily. They are graceful people, exciting and dark at the same time. They enjoy reading, listening to great music, tasting delicious food, and going to the theater.
They are fascinated with all beautiful things in life. Many of the most beautiful ladies and men with strongest personalities were born in the Year of the Snake.

Contemplative and private, Snake people are not outwardly emotional. They usually act according to their own judgment and do not follow the views of others. They can appear cunning and reticent and work very modestly in the business environment. They will plot and scheme to make certain things turn out exactly as they want them to. They are not great communicators and can become quite possessive when they set their minds on achieving the interest of a partner.

Snake people become easily stressed and have to avoid hectic schedules or noisy atmospheres. They need calm and quiet to thrive and succeed. They must have sleep, relaxation, and peace to live a long, healthy life.

People born in the Year of the Snake are usually very sophisticated and cultured in their choices for home decoration. They are elegant and graceful and place emphasis on their comfort when deciding what to decorate with. They are materialistic and need to have as many of everything as possible.

They become bored easily and therefore change jobs quite frequently. They are very conscientious and diligent at work. They are organized and precise, cautious and alert when doing business. They act confidently, calmly and have a strong sense of responsibility and clear goals. Sometimes,
because they like to work alone, they can seem as though they are withholding information or being secretive about some important things.

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Snake people are oversuspicious, which is their nature. They hide their suspicion, and acting as if nothing is on their minds. They like to think deeply, plan carefully and make a systematic and appropriate exposition of their views. They like to follow the fashion and be properly dressed. And, they usually speak with great care.

Snake people are passionate lovers and show a strong desire for control when associating with others. They will never forgive anyone who breaks a promise. They show their resentment with ice-cold hostility instead of bitter words. Some of the people born in the Year of the Snake may strike their enemies with a deadly blow.

It seems not easy to deal with a person born in the Year of the Snake, especially when he thinks one way and behaves in another. There always lies an alert heart behind his serene appearance. He has a strong will and will try his best to hold fast to his position. He is so cunning that when you think you may have seized him, he has already slipped away.

Snake people will face danger fearlessly and deal with unforeseen disasters. They are not annoyed by lack of money and are usually lucky enough to own everything they need. They can be successful as long as they avoid excess spending. Although they are intuitive, they should avoid dive right into decisions without weighing the consequences.


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The Green Snake
18 Kt. white gold, historical handwinding
movement, crown with
green cabochon Jade.
A Verre Églomisé miniature painting
on the reverse of the sapphire
crystal with aperture for digital
time display à Souscription

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The Blue Snake
18 Kt. white gold, historical handwinding
movement, crown with
blue cabochon Sapphire.
A Verre Églomisé miniature painting
on the reverse of the sapphire
crystal with aperture for digital
time display à Souscription

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Panerai - Radiomir “Small Egiziano” Reference 6154

OFFICINE PANERAIRadiomir “Small Egiziano” Reference 6154



THE REMARKABLE CHARISMA OF THE 6154: THE ”SMALL EGIZIANO” BY OFFICINE PANERAI, A STAR OF CHRISTIE’S AUCTION

On 14 December 2012, at the Rockfeller Center in New York, Officine Panerai was one of the undisputed stars of Christie’s “Important Watches” auction, an important event attracting the greatest watch collectors from all over the world. At the auction the 6154, renowned for its rare beauty and known by enthusiasts of the Florentine brand as the “Egiziano Piccolo” or “Small Egiziano”, was knocked down for the figure of $326,500, three times its pre-sale estimate of $80,000 to $120,000: a record price never before achieved by a Panerai watch.

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This exceptional watch created by Officine Panerai for the Egyptian Navy has a stainless steel case and its characteristic Panerai Radiomir brass dial was originally black. The copper colour which is so admired today is the result of the corrosive action of the Radiomir, the radium paste used to make the dial luminous, which having been in contact with the brass for many years has radically changed its colour. The remarkable result achieved in this auction is a confirmation of the fascination and power commanded by the history of Officine Panerai, a brand which looks forward to the future while always remaining true to its past.

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Lot Notes 
The present watch is one of the exceedingly rare examples of a Panerai reference 6154 to appear in public to date.

The "Small Egiziano" reference 6154
it is thought that Panerai supplied a small series of the present Radiomir model, attributed the reference number 6154, following a request of the Egyptian Navy. Members of the Egyptian Naval Forces attended the Commando School of the Italian Navy in the naval base of La Spezia asking for the same watches as their Italian brother-in-arms.


Nicknamed the "Small Egiziano" (Italian for "Egyptian"), reference 6154 features a smaller case than its counterpart reference 6152, the latter available with or without the protective crown guard. The movements and cases were supplied by Rolex, the dials featuring the luminous material developed by Panerai and patented as "Radiomir".

Regrettably, no documentation survived in regard to the precise number of the "Small Egiziani" produced. Scholarship however stipulates that no more than some 30 watches were supplied to the Egyptian Forces and that few other examples were made as prototypes.

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