Carl F. Bucherer – MANERO ChronoPerpetual White Gold Limited Edition

Carl F. Bucherer – MANERO ChronoPerpetual White Gold Limited Edition NEW

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A watch like no other on earth.

The traditional Lucerne brand Carl F. Bucherer has created a unique timepiece for "Only Watch 2015": the Manero ChronoPerpetual in white gold. Limited to a single model, this watch is to be auctioned off as the culmination of a global roadshow at the “Only Watch” auction for the benefit of the Monaco Association Against Muscular Dystrophy (AMM).

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Carl F. Bucherer is participating in "Only Watch", the prestigious auction of exquisite timepieces of select brands for the first time in 2015.

Unique eternity
Swiss watchmaker Carl F. Bucherer has made a unique watch just for this occasion: the Manero ChronoPerpetual Only Watch 2015.

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Featuring a "grand complication" perpetual calendar, the Manero ChronoPerpetual is able to show the date, day, month, year and moon phase without requiring correction. The mechanism accommodates the differing month lengths so it will only require manual adjustment in the year 2100. For that is when an intercalary year is skipped, i.e. when the year is divisible by 100 but not by 400. The Manero ChronoPerpetual additionally combines the perpetual calendar with a complete chronograph. The complexity of such a timekeeping mechanism makes this watch a masterpiece.

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Only the Manero ChronoPerpetual OnlyWatch 2015 is specially made of pure white gold. The date of the auction, November 2015, is embossed on the black dial in a striking red, complemented by an elegant black alligator leather band. Documenting its uniqueness, an engraving on the case back reads:
Only Watch 2015 – Pièce unique – Fabriquée en Suisse.

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Only Watch
 Sponsored by Prince Albert II of Monaco and Luc Pettavino, President of the Monaco Association Against Muscular Dystrophy (AMM), the "Only Watch" auction is held every two years. Makers of select watch brands provide one single-edition piece to be auctioned off to fund the AMM's activities and muscular dystrophy research. Honored by this invitation, Carl F. Bucherer will be presenting the Manero ChronoPerpetual OnlyWatch 2015 at this year's BaselWorld trade fair.

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Charity auction and international exhibition
Following the fair, all the single-edition timepieces will be displayed to the public in an exhibition, which will travel around the globe, starting in Monaco on September 23. The final stop for this roadshow of exclusive timepieces then comes in November at the auction in Geneva, where watch enthusiasts and collectors from all over the world will have a chance to become the owner of unrivaled watchmaking excellence, embodied by the Manero ChronoPerpetual OnlyWatch 2015.

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Technical specifications

Facts & Figures Manero ChronoPerpetual OnlyWatch 2015

Reference number: 00.10907.02.33.99  White Gold

Movement:
Automatic caliber CFB 1904,
Diameter 30 mm, height 7.6 mm,
49 jewels, power reserve 50 hours
Functions:
Chronograph: hour, minute and second counters,
Flyback, perpetual calendar with month, date, day of week, leap year,
moon phase, tachymeter, hours, minutes, and small seconds
Case:
18-carat white gold,
Diameter 42.5 mm, height 14.3 mm
domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides,
sapphire crystal case back,
Water-resistant to 30 m (3 ATM),
Strap:
Hand-stitched Louisiana alligator brown leather,
pin buckle 18-carat white gold



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Fax +41 41 369 70 72
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CUERVO Y SOBRINOS – Historiador Lady Tropicana

CUERVO Y SOBRINOS –  Historiador Lady TROPICANA NEW

A story of glamour and beauty

 In the jet set of the 50s, Tropicana was at the top of celebrity among those who belong to the high society of Cuba. Tropicana was a myth of Latin shows which, along with Folies Bergère, welcomed a charm style and atmosphere, common to the two opposite continents. 

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The female beauty was highlighted by decorations and ornaments recalling the Art Deco lines which enhanced their charm.

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  Here the inspiration for the dial design, which furthermore evokes the Art Deco finest engravings recalling the old safe of the Habana shop in Cuba.

 Photography: Adrián Fernández (Serie Epilogo II 2012)
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The new Lady intends to relaunch the complicated beauty with curved lines and reaching towards the sky taken by the costumes of the Tropicana beautiful women.

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The new “Tropicana” lady line by Cuervo y Sobrinos has been developed into five different dial versions where the “Star” is the diamond dust used to emphasize the decoration. The base material is the mother-of-pearl for the white version whilst the dressy black version with white or black dust diamond is created with a beautiful “soleil” dial.

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These masterpieces are hosted into a steel case delicately set of white diamonds or rubies or sapphires in harmony with the decoration diamond dust. The dial decoration follows up to the strap not to let anything to chance.

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The strap in fine leather, exclusively handmade, shows a very fine notched insert reproducing the dial decoration in respective colours.

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TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Model:   Historiador TROPICANA
 

Reference: 3112.1NS-DN-I, 

Black soleil with diamond dust white
Available also in black diamond dust and in MOP with diamond dust blue/red /silver

Movement 
CYS 1004
ETA 956.032,7 3/4''' Quartz
Diameter: Ø 17.20
Height: 2.50 mm
Long life
7 Jewels
Functions 
Hours, minutes
Case
Stainless steel
Ø 34 mm
Height 7.10 mm
Double curved sapphire crystal with antireflective coating
Water resistant to 3 ATM
Case back: screwed (4 screws)
36 white diamond and 12 black diamond setting 
Dial
Black soleil background, silver printing
Exclusive CyS design with dust of diamond white colour
CyS logo applied 
Hands
Hours, minutes rhodium treatment. 
The design of all hands was made by CyS
Strap
Exclusively handmade leather strap with insert
Buckle
Stainless steel folding buckle with engraved CyS emblem

 
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SPEAKE-MARIN – Dong Son Tourbillon

SPEAKE-MARIN – MAGISTER Dong Son Tourbillon Red Gold Limited Edition NEW

The Dong Son Tourbillon features an 18K red gold dial intricately etched with a motif inspired by ancient Dong Son bronze drums. Polished bevels lead the eye towards the animated 60-second tourbillon. 

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The Dong Son Tourbillon features a red gold dial with centre intricately etched to leave a fascinating relief motif inspired by the prehistoric bronze drums of the ancient Dong Son people of Vietnam. The meticulously detailed dial is complemented by the drum-like Speake-Marin Piccadilly case in 18k red gold.

In addition to the signature Piccadilly case, the Dong Son Tourbillon possesses other quintessential Speake-Marin qualities including sculpted heat-blued hands, finely finished movement and fluted crown, here set with a scintillating diamond.

Dong Son drums are bronze drums crafted by the Dong Son culture in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam between 600 BC and the 300 AD. The Dong Son people were highly-skilled bronze casters and their drums – of which the sides and top surface were usually decorated with geometric patterns and scenes depicting daily life – are considered to represent an artistic level that very few cultures of the time could match.

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The beautiful hand-finished tourbillon rotating at 6 o’clock is framed superbly by its steel guard. The eye-catching, highly polished tourbillon bridge is made from Durnico steel, chosen for its superior strength.

The tourbillon has played an important role in the story of Speake-Marin. The first timepiece to bear the Speake-Marin name was the Foundation Watch, a hand-made pocket watch. The watchmaker’s topping tool wheel motif in the Speake-Marin logo, which first appeared in the tourbillon cage of the Foundation Watch, can also be seen in the tourbillon cage of the Dong Son Tourbillon.

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Peter Speake-Marin says: “The tourbillon is one of the things that I love most about watchmaking because of the animation it gives to the dial. It shows time moving in a way that a minute-repeater or grande sonnerie can’t offer. For me, it is something profound.”

The Dong Son Tourbillon’s visually-arresting blued steel hands are also designed in the same style as the hands of the Foundation Watch, the Rosetta Stone of Speake-Marin. The polished, sculpted hands – including a heart-shaped hour hand – are set off superbly by the white etched dial centre. Around the circular-grained periphery of the 18 k red gold dial, Roman numerals are first engraved, then lacquered, then circular-grained. The polished gold bezel frames the dial, just as the polished guard in the dial around the escapement frames the tourbillon.

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Turning the Dong Son Tourbillon over, the movement featuring hand-finishing can be fully appreciated through the display back. On top of the offset mainspring barrel is the noble platinum micro-rotor, its strong and sober aesthetic counter-balanced by the intricate complexity of the tourbillon.

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The lower tourbillon cage is supported by a striking paddle-shaped bridge offering clear visual access to the surrounding gears below. The rhodium-finished German silver bridges and movement plates are circular-grained with polished screw heads and countersinks. Technical details are engraved and gilded on the bridges either side of the platinum rotor.

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The Speake-Marin Dong Son Tourbillon is a limited edition of 8 pieces in a 38 mm red gold case.

The Dong Son bronze drum culture 
Dong Son drums are bronze drums crafted by the Dong Son culture in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam between about 600 BC and the third century AD. Weighing up to 100 kilograms, some drums would have required the smelting of between one and seven tons of copper ore. Since the late 17th century, more than 200 such drums have been discovered from eastern Indonesia to Vietnam and parts of southern China.
It is thought that the Dong Son drums were used as musical instruments in festivals, in prayers for rain and for good harvest, in rituals such as weddings and funerals, and for rallying men for war. The sides and top surface of the drums were usually decorated with geometric patterns and realistically inscribed scenes depicting daily life – for example war, animals and boats.

The unique dial of the Dong Son Tourbillon 
These traditional patterns and iconography provide the inspiration for the highly-intricate dial motif of the Speake-Marin Dong Son. In fact, the Dong Son Tourbillon dial motif takes its cues from some of the most revered Dong Son drum creations, including the Hoàng Ha drum, Co Loa drum and the most important of all due to its well-preserved nature and intricate decoration, the famous Ngoc Lu drum.

The top surfaces of these drums are adorned with a central starburst and concentric circles within which are repetitive images of armed warriors and flying egrets as well as geometric hatching.

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The dial centre motif of the Dong Son Tourbillon follows a similar pattern to these historical masterpieces, with an outer ring of graceful egrets complemented by an inner ring featuring plumed warriors holding their weapons between the 12 points of the eye-catching starburst. These 12 points also form a neat horological reference for the central hands indicating hours, minutes and seconds.

Intricate etching 
It is not just the iconography of the Dong Son drum motif that gives the Dong Son dial its vitality, but also the spectacular precision of the etching in the 1.0mm thick 18 k gold dial.
“The precision of the etching to create the Dong Son dial motif was only made possible thanks to an extremely innovative chemical etching process,” says Peter Speake-Marin. “Such an astonishing level of detail couldn’t have been achieved by human hand.”
The precision-etched areas of the red gold dial are 0.3 mm deep, matte finishing emphasises the ‘all white’ dial treatment and provides a stunning contrast with the circular-grained, red gold motif.

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Speake-Marin J Class Magister Dong Son Tourbillon 18K Red Gold Case
Features and indications
• Central hours and minutes
• Hand-finished 60-second tourbillon   
• White-lacquered, multi-level dial
• Automatic-winding movement with 950 platinum micro-rotor
• Power reserve 72+ hours
• 42mm Piccadilly case
• Display back
Dial and hands
• 18 k Red gold & White-lacquered the "Dong Son" drum motif, multi-level dial featuring tapered Roman numerals are first engraved
• Central Speake-Marin signature Foundation hour and minute hands in heat-blued steel
Movement and finishing
• Calibre SM3
• Rhodium-finished German silver bridges
• Glucydur balance
• Automatic-winding movement
• 950 Platinum micro-rotor
• Diameter of rotor: 16.40mm
• Single barrel
• Frequency: 21,600vph / 3Hz
• Power reserve: over 72 hours
• Dimensions: 30.40mm x 5.40mm
• Jewels: 25
• 4N gold-plated bridge engravings:
Twenty Five (25)
Jewels; 60 Second Tourbillon;
Platinum Rotor Mass;
Swiss Made; Speake-Marin Switzerland;
Frequency 3Hz;
72 hour power reserve;
Case and strap
• 38mm
• Iconic Piccadilly case in polished 18K red gold
• Case comprising 27 components
• Dimensions:  11.30mm x 5.40mm
• Front and display-back sapphire crystals treated with anti-reflective coating
• Case-back circumference engraving: “Speake-Marin – The Piccadilly”   
• Water resistance: 3atm/30m/100ft
• Hand-made, natural alligator strap
Buckle: 
• Pin buckle in 18K red gold

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John Travolta and the North American X-15

BREITLING – John Travolta and the North American X-15
 two flying legends in the Breitling sky

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Global star, seasoned pilot and aviation aficionado, John Travolta has been flying the Breitling banner for more than 10 years. For the new 2015 campaign advertisement, the privileged partner of aeronautics professionals depicts him alongside another flying legend, the North American X-15, exceptionally loaned by the Air Force Flight Test Museum from its base at Edwards, California.

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During the 1960s, this experimental rocket-plane made nearly 200 flights, pushing the limits of aeronautics and opening the door to space, notably by setting two historical records: one for altitude in 1963, at 107,960 m, and the other for speed, at 7274 km/h (Mach 6.7).

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The photos for this new visual co-starring Travolta and the legendary X-15 were shot in California, on the runway of the famous Mojave Air and Space Port.

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They are a vivid tribute to the conquest of the skies, a grand adventure with which Breitling is closely linked through its reliable, accurate and innovative instruments.

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CHRONOSWISS – Timemaster GMT Automatic

CHRONOSWISS – Timemaster GMT Automatic NEW

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Chronoswiss at Baselworld 2015

This year Chronoswss will present fascinating and exclusive novelties.

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As a small foretaste, we are presenting our new Timemaster GMT with new design and carbon dial

Meetings in Tokyo, a business lunch in London, or a pitch in Silicon Valley - even when you're on a business trip, it's nice to be able to see what time it is at home. With the new Timemaster GMT, Chronoswiss introduces the latest addition to its sports line that harmoniously combines the practical feature of a second time zone with a robust exterior.

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In the past few years, the Timemaster line has seen some significant changes and all models have been adapted to conform to the new design. In 2015 Chronoswiss takes the next step with its Timemaster GMT: For the first time in the company's history, a new material is being used - carbon celebrates its premiere on the lavish dial, which is composed of several layers. The high-quality composition in smooth anthracite gives the durable sports watch a "face" with three-dimensional depth - you can clearly make out individual filaments - and emphasizes the overall sporty feel.

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The design's color scheme is heavily made up of highlights in "racing yellow", a highly dynamic colour. With its Super-LumiNova coating, the GMT hand even glows in the dark.

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Depending on the design, "racing yellow" produces a striking contrast to the anthracite of the carbon dial or a galvanic blue sheet with fine sunburst finish. Just like all Timemasters, the new model with GMT feature is available either with a pure stainless steel case or with DLC coating.

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Perfectly connecting the striking case of this ticking cosmopolitan is a band made of fine stainless steel, sporty rubber, or a new textile material, which has a similar structure to carbon.

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Technical Specifications

Model: Timemaster GMT


Reference: CH-2533 Carbon dial Stainless steel
Reference: CH-2535 Carbon dial Stainless steel with DLC-coating
Reference: CH-2563 Galvanic blue dial Stainless steel

Movement
Chronoswiss Caliber C.289
Diameter: Ø 25, 60 mm
Height: 4, 10 mm
Jewels: 21
Balance: Glucydur, three-legged
Balance spring: Anachron
Fine adjustment: Via excenter cam
Shock protection: Incabloc
Frequency: 4 Hz., 28,800 vph (semi-oscillations)
Power reserve: Approx. 42 hours
Special features: 
Skeletonized rotor with Côtes de Genève, ball bearings,
Polished pallet lever and escape wheel; bridges and plates with perlage
Dial
Metal dial, carbon or galvanic blue with sunburst pattern;
Ring with satin finish featuring second time zone (24-hours-scale)
Metal hands coated or inlaid with Super-LumiNova, shape Modern style
Displays
Central hours, minutes and seconds,
Second time zone (via GMT hand),
Digital date at 6:00
Case
Measurements:
Ø 44 mm, height 13,90 mm
Solid case in stainless steel or stainless steel with DLC-coating
Bezel with satin finish or polished, featuring a 5-minutes-scale and antireflective sapphire crystal
Screw-down case back with full thread and embossing
Screw-in onion-style crown; screw-in lugs with patented Autobloc System
Water-resistant to 10 atm
Strap
Rubber, Textile or stainless steel bracelet
Clasp
Folding clasp

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