Review: Inspired by New York famous skyscraper Chrysler Building, Belluna collection of Mido no doubt captures the essence of modern art, and it perfectly represents and interprets this art.

In 2008, Mido innovates with the conception of a new line, Belluna. This collection, an accord of appearance and quality, embodies with accurate account the spirit and ability of Swiss watchmaking, asserted as a mark of accurate design. The Belluna draws its afflatus from the around-the-clock forms of Art Deco architectonics and displays the a lot of contemporary abstruse appearance to allure today’s abreast macho clientele.

Water-resistant
Most of Mido′s watches are advised to be on the wrist 24 hours a day.
Mido invented the altered Aquadura cork acme sealing system.

It ensures complete water-resistance with a distinctively advised section of accustomed cork, which is nestled about the acme shaft. A abstruse analysis keeps the cork clammy and appropriately preserves its animation for years. Even if the acme is not absolutely pushed in, it is still water-resistant. Aquadura is advised for common acquaintance with baptize up to 50 meters but not for abysmal baptize diving. For base of 100 meters or more, the acme is busted down and the architecture of the case is fabricated abnormally in adjustment to bear college pressure.

Due to its above water-resistance Mido became acclaimed as the “King of waterproof watches”.

Automatic movement
Mido’s movements are based on actual austere above criteria.
Adjusted in 3 positions for top attention
High above Nivaflex NO springs for continued appellation accurateness
A busy cadence weight
Incabloc for shock-resistance

Most models are able with a cellophane caseback in adjustment to see the adorableness of the movement.

Mido′s accumulating aswell offers a alternation of Chronometers. A alarm is a top attention automated movement activated in several positions and at altered temperatures by the COSC.

Materials
Only the best abstracts accepted in the Swiss watch industry are used.
The cases and bracelets are all fabricated of top above 316L stainless steel.

The blanket for the aureate and bicolour models is fabricated with the PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) apparent analysis method. This gives the watch not alone an adorable accomplishment but is aswell actual boxy and protects it finer adjoin abrading and corrosion.

Mido is one of the few brands alms automated Titanium models.This top tech actual is generally acclimated in the acreage of aerodynamics and anaplasty and the advantages compared with animate are that it is abundant lighter, bane chargeless and hypoallergenic.

Sapphire crystal
Corundum possesses a apparent structure, and concrete and actinic backdrop which are identical to those of accustomed bittersweet and sapphire. Usually its abstention is superior.

As a absolutely abiding substance, with acerbity exceeded alone by the diamond, corundum is called for applications which are above the possibilities of acceptable materials.

Corundum is acclimated for the functions of guiding, transmissions and isolation. It resolves problems accompanying to friction, ageing, corrosion, etc.

The Pasha de Cartier Collection, introduced in 1985, pays tribute to a mid-century watch design by Cartier, distinguished by its broad round dial, protective grid and a screw-down crown and cap attached to the case by a chain. With its generous and a movement prized by connoisseurs, the Pasha de Cartier 42mm model replicates the dimension of the original Pasha de Cartier watch. The legend continues.

The Pasha de Cartier 42mm timepiece is an exceptional work of art. Cartier has embellished the silvered opaline dial with a guilloche inner square to better accentuate the graphic quality of the hour markers: 4 stylized Arabic numerals.

Features of Pasha de Cartier 42mm
A singular watch, crafted in pure gold, with an impressively large round dial (42 mm), the Pasha de Cartier 42mm timepiece displays sword-shaped hands, and Arabic numerals on its opaline face. Simple and majestic, it stands as an icon of Cartier watch design.

Beautiful Movement
The Pasha de Cartier 42mm timepiece features a peerless 8,000 MC caliber, with a double barrel that supports the balance wheel’s 28,800 vibrations per hour which guarantees accurate timekeeping.

Buckle and Bracelet
The leather strap of the Pasha de Cartier 42mm timepiece features an adjustable deployant buckle, in the finest watchmaking tradition. Versions set on a precious metal nracelet display pure, contemporary lines.

Rare Metal
The Pasha de Cartier 42mm model is available in palladium, a rare precious metal belonging to the platinum family which is challenging to manipulate and is thus rarely used in watchmaking.

Noble Steel
The Pasha de Cartier 42mm timepiece in steel features a transparent skeleton back with offers a fascinating, unobstructed view of the movement.

As it can be acutely apparent from the name of collection, Cartier Tank timepieces are committed to the aggressive tanks. To be added precise, to the actual aboriginal British tanks that appeared on the action fields of the Aboriginal World War. It was such an amazing war change that it actually afraid the abundant watchmaker.

As a amount of actuality these war machines looked actual aggressive at the aboriginal glance. Especially for those who had never apparent them before. That’s why it is bright now why German soldiers had to retreat in panic. The tanks had a actually awe-inspiring appearance: asperous curve of the aboriginal tank’ appearance and its animal force created a alarming consequence on the people.

However, there was added apparent appearance about the tanks. The abracadabra of categorical absolute curve and boss appearance of the alien aggressive apparatus were somehow adorable and at the aforementioned time aflame imagination. Square adamant plates with abundant rivets and little windows of aberrant appearance created the actually new design. Perhaps, the best affinity that a being of that time could accomplish was a hundred times bigger insect.

One way or another, it was a Cartier’s ability that managed to butt the actual aspect of the new aesthetics. It was Cartier who created a new Tank watch. He aswell created a new access in watch architecture which is activated nowadays: addition in one acreage walks arm in arm with addition in another.

Let’s come to know the W1529856 Cartier Tank Louis women watch:

Inspired from the 1922 model by same name, W1529856 Cartier Tank Louis for women is one of the finest creations of Cartier. All the metal exteriors of this elegantly designed watch are made from 18K yellow gold, which includes – its casing, ardillon buckle and circulargrained crown set encrusted with a sapphire cobochan.

Product Description
W1529856 model from the Cartier Tank Louis collection comes in a 18K yellow gold case, whereas the crown set is circular-grained made of 18K yellow gold and has a sapphire cabochan. Silver grained dial is protected by a scratch resistant mineral crystal and has sword-shaped hands made from blue steel. The numerals are roman. The strap of this watch is made from alligator hide, which has a 18K gold ardillon buckle. The watch has calibre 057 quartz movement is 30 meters water resistant.

Highlights
Tank Louis watch was originally created for General John Pershing, and the present model W1529856 has been directly inspired from this 1922 masterpiece. This watch has been donned by some of the most famous personalities, right from Indian Princess to most recognized contemporary film stars.

Dubuis, a talented watchmaker, founded his own atelier in 1980 after 14 years of developing complications for Patek Philippe. He took commissions to design new complications for major brands for several years. Carlos Dias, a designer for Franck Muller, joined Dubuis to launch the brand. Roger Dubuis was born in Geneva and all of his watches, strongly associated with that culture, are submitted to the quality hallmark of the Poinçon de Genève as well as receiving chronometer certifications.

In August 2008, Richemont Group has acquired 60 percent interest in Roger Dubuis SA. The announcement was made on Monday, August 11, 2008. Richemont, based in Geneva, said the acquisition was a private transaction with Carlos Dias, chief executable officer and primary shareholder of Roger Dubuis SA.

Roger Dubuis SA, based in Geneva, will continue to manufacture and distribute watches under the ‘Roger Dubuis’ name.

Roger Dubuis’s story

Founded in 1995, the manufacturing structure of ROGER DUBUIS was fully in place by 1999. The first building was inaugurated in Meyrin in 2001. Manufacturing independence was achieved in 2003 with its own production of balance-and-spring regulating organs. In 2005, a second building served to regroup the 500 employees in a single 14,500 square-metre site. The 120 machines of its micromechanical engineering workshops produce the entire range of parts for the proprietary ROGER DUBUIS movements. This fully verticalised and state-of-the-art industrialisation brilliantly endorses the company’s status as an authentic Manufacture.

April 2006 Six new movements were presented at Geneva’s Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH), three of them for the first time. They were fitted mainly in the latest Excalibur models, one of the brand’s flagship collections, and bring the number of movements manufactured to 28, each of which is hallmarked with the Poinçon de Genève, sometimes referred to as the Geneva Seal.

2007 An exhibition organised at the SIHH displayed all 28 movements, thereby demonstrating the brand’s exceptional heritage.

2008 Launch of the Kingsquare collection. In August 2008, Roger Dubuis joins the Richemont luxury group.

2009 The rigorous standards of the Poinçon de Genève quality hallmark, to which all the brand’s movements are already submitted, are complemented since 2009 by operating tests performed by recognised watchmaking laboratories. Furthermore, as of 2010, all new Roger Dubuis calibres will be systematically submitted to the COSC (Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute) for chronometer certification, and the entire Roger Dubuis movement range will be progressively COSC-certified by 2012.

Corum’s claim to fame came early on when the company introduced a watch made out of a $20 dollar gold piece which was an instant best-seller. Even though this had been done before on pocket watches, Corum was the first and only one ever to do a wristwatch.

In January 2000, Corum was purchased by it’s current owner, Severin Wunderman, and was soon under the guidance of his son Michael, the President of the company to this date.

The team was completed in 2007 with the arrival of a man with a rich professional background, Antoine Calce, to the CEO position, who oversees overall operations.
 
Corum Models
Admiral’s Cup
The Admiral’s Cup race was first held in 1957 and the Corum Admiral’s Cup watch was introduced just 3 years later in 1960. This first watch was square, water resistant and had a sailboat engraved in the back. It had little resemblance to the current Corum Admiral’s Cup watches with their twelve-sided case design and brightly colored nautical penants decorating the bezels. The Corum Admiral’s Cup is available in 40mm, 41mm, 44mm, and 48mm as well as in versions with a chronograph complication or just time and date. Several materials are available as well: rose gold, yellow gold, two tone, stainless steel and even a titanium and rubber fusion on the Admiral’s Cup Challenge Regatta 2007.
 
Romulus
Created in 1966, the Corum Romulus was the first watch ever to display the hour numerals on the bezel. It sports a sapphire case back engraved with a laurel crown in honor of Romulus, the founder of ancient Rome. It’s available in stainless steel, white or yellow gold and a dual time version in either yellow or white gold.

Golden Bridge
The Corum Golden Bridge collection is unique in the watchmaking world. It’s four sapphire sides offer an unrestricted view of the intricately detailed linear movement, which appears to be floating in mid-air, held only by the gold bridge that names this watch. The Corum Golden Bridge is offered in 18k gold or platinum, and is also available with delicate diamond work.

Tourbillon and Classical
The Corum Tourbillon and Classical collection, as the name suggests, is devoted to the most elegant and complicated watches. The current collection is comprised of the Corum Classical Billionaire Tourbillon, a diamond and sapphire covered masterpiece of watchmaking, the Corum Golden Tourbillon Panoramique with its tourbillon movement floating between sapphire bridges, and the skeleton dialed Corum Classical Skylight Skeleton.

Coin Watch
One of the most recognizable Corum watches, the Coin watch, is still available almost fifty years after its debut. Corum precisely installs a manual wind or quartz movement inside a $20 “Double Eagle” or a $10 “Liberty” coin to create this watches that will only get increasingly rare, as the supply for this historic coins diminishes. They are available with a diamond bezel, for a more distinguished look.

Artisan Timepieces
The Corum Artisan watch line is defined by beautiful dials depicting wild animals, exotic locales, or even historic scenes, all of them limited edition masterpieces of some of the very few craftsmen left who are familiar with the immensely time consuming techniques used in these watches.
   
Corum BUBBLE
The Corum Bubble collection exhibits the company’s passion for design innovation, using extra large domed crystals that give the wearer a changing perspective from each different angle. Corum has utilized this versatile platform to create some of the most unique and recognizable limited edition Corum watches, with themes ranging from poker, pirates, to bats or even a skeleton gangster.

The Panerai story begins in 1860 when Giovanni Panerai opened his first watchmaking workshops in Florence. The business remained in family hands, being taken over by Giovanni’s son Leon Francesco then in turn by Giovanni’s grandson Guido.

It was probably under Guido’s leadership that Panerai really achieved its most significant breakthrough, becoming official supplier to the Royal Italian Navy. This connection with the Navy was one impetus behind the company’s research into luminous materials; luminous dials etc were of interest to the Navy for night time operations.

Radiomir & Luminor

In the early twentieth century Panerai produced a luminescent material known as Radiomir. This was based around radioactive radium. In 1949 Radiomir was replaced with Luminor. This was based on tritium and Officine Panerai gained a patent for its invention.

Radiomir and Luminor have become the names by which Panerai’s most famous models of watch have become known.

Slytech

1995 saw an unexpected match-up between Officine Panerai and actor Sylvester “Sly” Stallone. At the request of Stallone, Panerai introduced a special range of Slytech watches: The Slytech Luminor Submersible, the Slytech Luminor Daylight and the Slytech Mare Nostrum. These limited edition watches were engraved on the back with Stallone’s signature and were worn by him in various movies.

Today

In 1997 Panerei was taken over by Vendome, now the Richemont Group.

Panerai’s rugged, no-nonsense watches remain cult classics today with a variety of models available to buy. In April 2005 explorer Mike Horn circumnavigated the Arctic Circle, a journey of 12,500 miles on foot, skis, sailing boat and kayak. For the expedition he wore the Panerai Luminor GMT Arktos, automatic mechanical Panerai OP VIII calibre with COSC Chronometer Certificate.

 Patek Philippe’s exquisite manufacturing technology, creating a number of top brands watches. In 1927, should the U.S. auto magnate Bo Jiade ordering Ms. Patek Philippe watches, produced out of a can be made to play his mother’s favorite lullaby of playing spring form, when the value of 8,300 Swiss francs. Great collectors should be in New York Greaves requirements, Patek Philippe company from 1928 ~ 1933, spent five years, jet lag, star charts is equal to a bag table. Its exquisite outrageous, setting a milestone in the history of clocks and watches. In 1985, Patek Philippe’s 940 model produced by multi-functional watches, there are automatic, calendar, moon phase, leap month, automatic features such as jumping on a plane is only 3.75 millimeters thick, for the same watch in the thinnest.

 Patek Philippe watches the output of the company, there are strict limitations, each no more than 1 million. From the company was founded nearly a half century to the present, its total output of only 60 million. Fine plus limited, so that the table Patek Philippe great store of value. In 1989, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the company’s total 100 produced to commemorate the table to four times the appreciation of the early 90s. In 1953 the company produced a platinum diamond-studded star moon calendar male table, held in Hong Kong ‘97 was a spring auction in order to European buyers bought 5.3 million Hong Kong dollars, the price Patek Philippe Perpetual Calendar watch broke The highest bid of the auction the highest price and the Asian watches two records.

 Patek Philippe is currently still the world’s only manually refined, and can be completed within the original manufacturer of all the tabulation process and to adhere to the traditional technique of clocks and watches. Swiss watch industry, said the traditional manufacturing techniques such as “Geneva, 7 kinds of traditional watchmaking craft”, which means that combines the designer, watches division, goldsmith, watch chain maker, sculptor, ceramic artist and jeweler’s traditional crafts. Patek Philippe are convinced that by such a skilled master craftsman of the produce to the list of Jiewei art treasures, which is the Patek Philippe watches the most even have to be proud of. In order to break with tradition and create a better working environment, Patek Philippe’s current president and managing director of Philip Mr. Shi Dong since 1988 began planning and constructing a new facility in was “to Patek Philippe Korea’s unique combination of technology and science and technology under one roof. ” Completed after the opening of the new plant to become a complete “into the table,” the factory next to an old castle has been renovated into a Geneva museum collections of private treasures.

 To achieve further development, Patek Philippe formally in October 1996 issue of “International Journal of Patek Philippe,” to the British, French, Japanese, Chinese, German, Italian language version 6 released an attempt by the magazine’s content to attract customers, enhance corporate image. All these proved Patek Philippe constant quest for innovation and change in business philosophy, so that this century-old factory is still full of vigor and vitality.

Official Chronometer Certification was awarded to Rolex in 1910 from the “Bureau Officiel” in Switzerland, the first time this had ever been given to a wristwatch. This was to be the first of many accolades awarded to the watch, including the Class A Precision from the Kew Observatory in 1914.

In 1926 the Rolex Oyster was released. It was the first wristwatch to be considered waterproof, proven a year later when the watch was worn by the swimmer Mercedes Gleitze in his successful bid to cross the English Channel. This was beneficial to Wilsdorf whom had sponsored the event and gained considerable exposure for his new Oyster Watch. Wilsdorf recognised the importance of advertising and marketing his creation in order to gain publicity and prestige.

1931 saw the creation of the Perpetual Rotor, a mechanism now seen as the basis for self-winding movements. In the following years Rolex released the first Oyster Perpetual Ladydate (1954) the GMT Master with dual time zone function (1955) and the first Day-Date (1956).

Andre Heiniger took over the company following the death of Hans Wildorf on 06 July 1960. Rolex continued to invent and innovate in terms of technical skill and style throughout the 2nd half of the century. The Sea-dweller (1967) was certified as reaching depths of up to 1,220 metres making it the choice for Professional Divers – a point that was quickly adopted in advertising the model. The Explorer II (1978) and Cosmograph Daytona (1988) were also released to international waiting lists securing Rolex as one of the worlds most prestigious watch brands.

But Omega is more than just a fashionable watch. In 1965, the Omega Speedmaster chronograph was “flight-qualified by NASA for all manned space missions” as the only wristwatch to have withstood all of the U.S. space agency’s severe tests, including passing grades for extreme shocks, vibrations, and temperatures ranging from -18 to +93 degrees Celsius. The greatest moment in the Speedmaster’s history was undoubtedly 20 July 1969 at 02:56 GMT, when it recorded man’s first steps on the Moon’s surface as part of the Apollo 11 mission. Omega watches rocketed off to space on many subsequent missions, including visits to Skylab and the historic Apollo-Soyuz link-up of Soviet and American astronauts in 1975.

In more recent years, Omega created the world’s first self-winding wristwatch with central tourbillon in 1994 and made history in 1999 with the first mass-produced watch incorporating the co-axial escapement, developed in conjunction with renowned English master watchmaker George Daniels. In simple terms, the escapement is the heart of a mechanical watch, generating the impulses that make the mechanism move. Omega’s Co-Axial Escapement drastically reduces the friction among the parts that transmit energy to the other components, producing greater stability and precision and reducing service requirements.

Today, Omega is known for its rigorous testing of new movements, cases, and bands. Each new Omega movement is tested on the wrist in existing Omega models, while various laboratory tests are conducted to determine temperature-resistance, shock-resistance and vibration-resistance.