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At the SIHH 2011, luxury icon Cartier revealed the incredible Rotonde de Cartier Astroregulateur to wide and immediate acclaim. It continues to impress its vision on the haute horlogerie landscape, this time with a technical breakthrough.

Rotonde de Cartier Astroregulateur watch had been previewed to select press late last year so its official debut had been highly anticipated.  The 50mm diameter Cartier Rotonde de Cartier Astroregulateur is cased in a niobium-titanium alloy, allowing it to weigh in at an incredible 55g. This alloy is new to watch cases, having been used once in the Cartier Swiss Watches concept watch, the ID One. Getting straight to the point, the excitement is all about the escapement and the rotor, which are clearly visible in the picture.

Cartier’s watchmakers have mounted the entire escapement, including the second wheel, onto the rotor in an effort to one-up the tourbillon. There are no independent test results yet but, as far as technical watchmaking goes, Cartier’s in-house calibre 9800 MC is simply too cool for school.

It is also far too complicated to get into in one short story but, to break it down, the escapement oscillates at a consistent rate in all vertical positions because the winding rotor keeps its center of gravity in one place.

Intriguingly, not only is this the first watch to ever attempt such an ambitious arrangement for its rotor and escapement, it is likely to be the first to ever use the real estate of the rotor to display the seconds. Of course this is only possible because the balance (and second wheel) are mounted on the rotor.

This also reveals another innovation, a system of two differentials that regulate the kinetic forces acting on the rotor. Thus this system ensures that kinetic energy supplied to the rotor remains constant, no matter how vigorous the movements of the wearer.

These years, Longines Vintage watches are hot in the world. 2011 is definitely going to be a year of remakes! At the upcoming BaselWorld show, the Swiss watch brand Longines will reveal its new Twenty-Four Hours pilot’s watch.

In the 1950s Longines supplied watches to the Swiss national airline, Swissair. These watches, developed specifically for pilots, had a distinctive 24-hour dial. This feature met the needs of navigators who, at the time, had to determine the position of the aircraft and set up a flight plan.

Compared to the original, the remake features a slightly bigger date aperture locating at 3 o’clock, more contrast dial layout and its three hands are made of plain stainless steel, coated with Super-Luminova, while the “historic” watch featured hands made of gold. The onion-shaped winding crown is also a trifle larger. The modern Longines Twenty-Four Hours is fitted with caliber L704.2, a self-winding movement with hands that make one full circle of the dial in 24 hours. The stainless steel case has a diameter of 47.5mm; the dial is matte black with 24 white Arabic numerals coated with Super-Luminova and has a railway-track minute circle.

Besides a normal for this class of timekeepers sapphire crystal with double antireflective coating, there is also an engraved “hunter” back cover that protects the sapphire display back. The inside surface of the cover is engraved with the words “Re-edition of a Longines navigation watch exclusively made for Swissair navigators, 1953-1956“, plus the watch number. The Longines Swiss Watches Twenty-Four Hours is mounted on a black alligator strap and is water-resistant to 3 bar (30 meters).

Specifications of Longines Twenty-Four Hours Vintage Re-Issue watch
Dial: Matte black, 24 white Arabic numerals with Super-LumiNova, Railway track minute circle
Caliber: Self-winding mechanical movement, Calibre L704.2 (ETA A07 171), 16½ lines, 24 jewels, 28,800 vibrations per hour, 48-hour power reserve
Functions: Hours, minutes, seconds, date, 24-hour circle on dial
Case: Circular, stainless steel, Ø 47.50 mm, Engraved and numbered back cover (unlimited series) on top of a sapphire glass
Hands: Skeleton pear steel hour-hand with Super-LumiNova, Skeleton leaf minute-hand with Super-LumiNova, Stick with drop counterweight seconds hand
Date aperture at 3 o’clock
Glass: Sapphire with non-reflecting coating
Bracelet: Black alligator with buckle
Water-resistance: 3 bars (30 meters)
Reference number: Longines Twenty-Four Hours, L2.751.4.53.x

Elegant, chaste and contemporary, the Maurice Lacroix “Les Classiques” accumulating for women offers a ambit of watches that focuses on the basics, just like its accumulating for men. It reflects a admiration for artlessness that follows the easily annular with all the adroitness of acceptable watchmaking, advised with admirable breeding and archetypal timelessness. Watchmaking at its a lot of distinctive.

Echoing the men’s models presented at the BaselWorld exhibition in 2010, the “Les Classiques” watches for women reflect the aptitude of the Maurice Lacroix Swiss Watches designers and creators to revisit a collection, while at the aforementioned time actual accurate to its built-in character.

Playing on diversity, the Les Classiques Date and the Moon Phase Chronograph are the actual absorption of femininity. They may be adapted with a automated or a quartz movement, be set with precious stones or not, be fabricated of animate or twin-coloured metal, be simple or complicate, be busy with a able or a bland finish… All reflect the all-embracing tastes and aspirations of women who adore variety, cutting a glassy watch, one with complications or a jewelled one, to fit the occasion. But it have to be authentic, with the aboriginal adumbration or the merest adorning detail award its absolution aural the 33 mm bore watch case.