HUBLOT – Classic Fusion Womanity

HUBLOT – Classic Fusion Womanity Limited Edition NEW

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Womanity Foundation in its mission to empower women, Hublot launches a new Classic Fusion Womanity for Women

New York, New York, 16th June 2015 - Since 2007, Hublot has supported the Womanity Foundation (formerly the Smiling Children Foundation), an independent private organisation whose mission is to empower women and girls to shape their future and accelerate progress within their communities worldwide.

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At the iconic Le Cirque restaurant in New York, the Foundation hosted a “Friends of Womanity USA” dinner and conversation on “Why Investing in Women is Important,” with speakers including Alvin Allgood, CEO, Vital Voices, Yann Borgstedt, Founder & Chairman, Womanity, Ben Rodriguez-Cubenas, Director Rockefeller Brothers Fund, as well as Diana Rowan Rockefeller, Founder & Chair Afghan Women Leaders Connect. Marissa Brooks, Senior Marketing Director at Hublot of America attended, as well as friends and supporters of the Foundation.

In honour of the occasion, and to continue its support for the Womanity Foundation, Hublot has created a sophisticated, exclusive limited edition watch featuring a touch of purple - Womanity's signature colour - as well as a unique bracelet design, inspired by the work of Brazilian graffiti artist Panmela Castro: the Classic Fusion Womanity for Women.

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The small bracelet carefully takes individual cues from the large fresco painting Castro created live during the Official Closing Party hosted by Hublot at the FIFA 2014 World Cup in Brazil, her home, last summer. The painting is dedicated to female freedom and creativity and signed by the King of Football and Hublot Ambassador, Pelé.

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Artist activist and Founder of Rede Nami Feminista, an urban art network of female urban artists that addresses gender inequality through public art, graffiti and workshops in Rio, Castro’s social policy work provides the core inspiration for the content of her provocative paintings. Her work challenges patriarchal notions of public space as related to sexism, sexuality, subjectivity and power relations.

“We use art as a peaceful weapon and a cultural transformation tool to fight male chauvinism,” added the young 32 year old woman who was featured on Newsweek’s “150 Women Shaking the World” list in 2012.

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Ricardo Guadalupe, CEO of Hublot, commented, “Womanity perfectly represents the modern woman and the women of today: leaders, creators, entrepreneurs and women who want to make a difference. This is the Hublot Woman! Over the years, since the beginning of our partnership in 2007, we have built a mutually trusting and appreciative relationship with Yann Borgstedt. Today, I am delighted to reinforce our partnership and continue to support equal opportunities for women, as well as their respect and freedom worldwide.”

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About the Womanity Foundation:

The Womanity Foundation (formerly the Smiling Children Foundation) is an independent private foundation created in 2005 and registered as a not-for-profit foundation in Switzerland, the UK and the US. Its mission is to empower disadvantaged girls and women to shape their future and gain equal and full social, economic and political participation in order to accelerate progress within their communities. The Womanity Foundation currently supports projects in Afghanistan, Brazil, Haiti, India, Israel, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories.”

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Technical details

Reference: 565.NE.2210.VR.1205.WTY15

Series: Limited edition of 100 watches

Case
"Classic Fusion"
Polished titanium.
Diameter: 38 mm.
Bezel: 
Steel set with 36 amethysts
6 H-shaped titanium screws, countersunk, polished & locked
Bezel lug in white composite resin
Crown:
Polished titanium with Hublot logo
Pushbuttons: Polished titanium
Crystal:
Sapphire with interior/exterior anti-reflective coating.
Case-back:
Satin-finished titanium with “SPECIAL EDITION 100 NUM” engraved
Sapphire crystal with Womanity logo
Screws: Titanium
Water resistance: 5 ATM or around 50 meters
Dial:
Polished white lacquer with set with 11 amethysts
Hands:
Polished rhodium-plated – Purple seconds hand
Movement
HUB 1110 self-winding movement
Date: Window at 3 o'clock
Jewels: 21
Power reserve: Approximately 42 hours
Strap:
White rubber and white calf strap with printed painting of Panmela Castro
Clasp: Stainless steel deployant buckle clasp

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ARNOLD & SON – Instrument Sir John Franklin Set Limited Edition

ARNOLD & SON – Instrument Sir John Franklin Set 18-Carat Gold Limited Edition NEW

Instrument Collection
Sir John Franklin Set

A gripping tale and the mystery of the Arnold marine chronometer:
Arnold & Son unveils the Sir John Franklin Set of three fabulous
timepieces

The three watches in the John Franklin Set are the latest additions to the Instrument Collection and take as their subject three famous paintings from London’s National Maritime Museum. The timepieces, which feature a true-beat seconds and off-centre hour and minute hands, each depict an episode in the life of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, vessels that eventually perished in the course of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition to discover the North-West Passage in the mid-19th century.

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Sir John Franklin Set
Arnold & Son manufacture movement A&S6103, self-winding,
hand-finished miniature, mother-of-pearl dial, 18-carat rose gold case, diameter 44 mm
© Arnold & Son

 
To the British government, the North-West Passage had long been an obsession. It represented a shorter route to the Indies that would eliminate the need for rounding Cape Horn and avoid meetings with the hostile fleets of other European nations.

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 Sir John Franklin

And although its mythical status as a faster route to the East had evaporated by the mid-19th century, it was still one of the last uncharted coastlines of the world. In 1845, Sir John Franklin set out on his third expedition to the area in HMS Erebus, accompanied by HMS Terror. After being sighted by whalers in mid-summer, the two ships disappeared. Over forty expeditions set out to locate and rescue them but found only remnants of the expedition.

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The mother-of-pearl dials of the three models in the Sir John Franklin Set each feature an exquisite, hand-finished miniature reproduction of an original oil painting owned by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London. The first, “Friendly Encounter”, shows HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in New Zealand in about 1840, when the crew had a series of peaceful meetings with the local Maori population.

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In the second, “Antarctic Adventure”, we see the two vessels navigating storm-tossed seas in the inhospitable environment at the southern tip of the world.

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 The third, “North-West Passage”, depicts HMS Erebus surrounded by icebergs but still in open water.

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We know now that both ships were subsequently trapped by the ice and abandoned by their crews, who perished. A later expedition established that Sir John Franklin died on 11 June 1847.

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For his third and final expedition to the waters north of Canada, Sir John Franklin had with him a marine chronometer made by John Roger Arnold in around 1815 with an eight-day movement, Arnold spring detent escapement and balance. As later became clear, it was one of several items recovered during searches for the Franklin expedition but was not handed over to the authorities. Only more than a century later did it reappear on the market, when it was purchased by the Friends of the National Maritime Museum.

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Arnold marine chronometer from Franklin’s North-West
passage expedition 

John  Roger  Arnold,  marine chronometer, 

8-day movement, spring-detent escapement and
later balance, London, 1815
© National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich, UK

It was immediately clear that Arnold’s marine chronometer had been modified while missing and converted into a travelling timepiece. It was still mounted in the original bowl, to which a handle and four feet had been added. The engraved, silver-plated brass dial showed signs of alteration to the signature around the name ‘Arnold’.

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A&S6103 movement

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The three references in the Sir John Franklin Set are fitted with the A&S6103 automatic movement developed, designed and manufactured in-house at the Arnold & Son workshops in La Chaux de Fonds. The A&S6103 movement is rhodium treated with classic Haute Horlogerie finishing that includes hand-chamfered bridges and polished edges, fine circular-graining and Côtes de Genève rayonnantes, a brushed and skeletonised rotor and blued screws. It is housed in an 18-carat rose gold case measuring 44 millimetres in diameter

The magnificent Sir John Franklin Set of three timepieces is destined to become a much sought after collector’s item and is a limited edition of 28 sets.

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Technical Characteristics

Model: Instrument Collection - Sir John Franklin Set

References: 1ARAP.M08A.C120P, Sir John Franklin Set – Friendly Encounter
References: 1ARAP.M07A.C120P, Sir John Franklin Set – Antarctic Adventure
References: 1ARAP.M06A.C120P, Sir John Franklin Set – North-West Passage

Calibre:                                  
A&S6103
Arnold & Son manufacture movement, self-winding,
ceramic ball bearing, 30 jewels,
diameter 30.4 mm, thickness 7.79 mm,
power reserve 50 h,
28,800 vibrations/h, stop second device
Functions:
Hours, minutes, true beat seconds
Movement decoration:
Rhodium treated with Haute Horlogerie finishing:
Hhand-chamfered bridges with polished edges,
fine circular graining and Côtes deGenève rayonnantes,
brushed and skeletonised oscillating weight,
blued screws with bevelled and mirror-polished heads.
Dial:
Hand-finished miniature, mother-of-pearl 
Case:   
18-carat rose gold, diameter 44 mm,
cambered sapphire with antireflective coating on both sides,
see-through sapphire case back
Water-resistant to 30 m
Strap: 
Hand-stitched brown alligator leather

Limited edition: 28 of 3 timepieces
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