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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Another Black dial Daytona



This is another Daytona friend of mine is selling me, and I am serious considering to buy it as I have never used any Black Dial Daytona before, price HKD74,000.00

Chopard Happy Diamond Jumbo Watch




Chopard is a Geneva-based luxury watch, jewelry, and accessories company founded in 1860 by Louis-Ulysse Chopard at the age of 24. Chopard initially concentrated on developing precise pocket watches and chronometers based upon innovative ideas.

In 1975 the Chopard factory moved from the center of Geneva to Meyrin-Geneva. It marked a new stage for the company as it started producing ladies' and jewelry timepieces.

In 1976 Chopard introduced the Happy Diamonds collection. Watches from the collection featured mobile diamonds that floated freely between two transparent sapphire crystals.

Chopard made the most Expensive watch valued USD$25M decorated with 201 carat diamonds.
The pricture shows the Chopard Jumbo 38mm Happy Diamond Watch.
Price HKD20,000.00
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Patek Philippe 10 Day tourbillon


This masterpiece from the workshops of Patek Philippe Geneva is the first watch that combines two complications which are very difficult to accommodate in such a small space: two mainspring barrels connected in tandem for 10 days' power reserve and a tourbillon which rotates about its own axis once a minute and can be viewed through the sapphire crystal caseback.


Patek’s Ref. 5101P has a double-barrel movement that ensures a 10 day power reserve for the Tourbillon. It is a manual-wind movement, Caliber 28-20/222 with COSC certification and the Geneva Hallmark.

Tourbillon





In horology, a tourbillon or tourbillion "whirlwind" is an addition to the mechanics of a watch escapement. Invented in 1795 by Swiss watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, a tourbillon counters the effects of gravity by mounting the escapement and balance wheel in a rotating cage, ostensibly in order to negate the effect of gravity when the timepiece (and thus the escapement) is rotated. Originally an attempt to improve accuracy, tourbillons are still included in some expensive modern watches as a novelty and demonstration of watchmaking virtuosity. The mechanism is usually exposed on the watch's face to show it off.

attached is the Tourbillon of Patek Philippe Calibre 89. The 2nd Most expensive Watch, it was made in 1989.

Inspired by these genius clockmakers the young german watchmaker Thomas Prescher developed for the Thomas Prescher Haute Horlogerie in 2003 the first flying Double Axis Tourbillon in a pocketwatch and in 2004 the first flying Double Axis Tourbillon with constant force in the carriage in a wristwatch. Shown at the Baselworld 2003 and 2004 in Basel, Switzerland.

Nowadays, most of the top 10 best watch comes wit Tourbillon, besides PP, AP, VC, Jaeger, IWC,
Omega, GP, Blancpain... all comes with various kind of beautiful design and layout of Tourbillon being show on the Dial. Breget has also created its Double Tourbillon.
Also, there are many watches are made with "Similar" layout to resemble the "tourbillon" but when we look at it carefully, there are not Tourbillon., just a turning wheel carries the second hand ...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Museum Watch from Movado



The Movado Museum Watch is legend
I had this watch since 1980 when I was able to buy a better watch.
Defined by a Single Dot at 12 representing the Sun at High Moon!

The Museum Watch dial is regarded as an Icon of Modernism. This watch was design by
Bauhaus-influenced Artist Nathan George Harwitt in 1947.

When Harwitt dial was selected for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York. In 1960, it was the first watch dial ever awarded this distinction.

My one is man's, jumbo size, all Black!

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo 39mm



Royal Oak , one of the most beautiful design in 20 Century, invented in 1972 by Gerald Genta, perpetual lasting style, causal, elegant, sportive and yet not being too snobbish when we use it for work in office.

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Patek Philippe 1578GM

A Rare Patek Philippe "ANTI-MAGNETIC" Ref.1578GM 18KY.Gold (35mm. Large Size.)
The Lugs are Claw style and Flared. Subsidialy seconds Dial.
Acrylic Crystal. *Caliber:27-AM400 "ANTI-MAGNETIC"
18 Jewels and Adjusted to temperature, Isochronism and 5 positions.
As mentionred, *Patek Philipple Frist ANTI-MAGNETIC movement Debuted in 1958.
It was fitted with a Gold Lever so that it could with stand and maintain accuracy near High Magnetic fields.
*This movement is Double Stamped with the Geneva Seal.

HKD$40,000.00

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Patek Philippe


An Rare Patek Philippe Geneve. Ref.2568-1

18K Rose Gold wristwatch

* Three-Body, Solid, polished, faceted Lugs.

* Cream colour Dial with applied Rose Gold baton indexes, subsidiary seconds dial.

Rose Gold baton hands.

Movt.(High-Grand) Cal:10-200,
Stamped Twice with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, Rhodium-plated,18 Jewels, Straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold,isochronismand 5 positions,
Self-compensating Breguet blance spring. Dial, Case and Movement signed. Diam. 33mm. Thicknesss 7mm.
For Sales at HKD$47,000.00
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Rolex Daytona


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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Rolex GMT Master II


In 1954, Rolex had another memorial year is his history, in Switzerland most populous city Basel, they made exposure on their most important model Explorer, Submariner, and Turn-O-Graph as for general sports goers, put this Utility Watch as a new concept to the World, created that kind of inspiration to other watch makers, Rene-Paul Jeanneret, a sport lovers, represented Rolex as the public relation officer, showed to the watch lovers the innovative of an utility watch and that motive attracted Pan AM. The World largest Air line company worked with Rene-Paul as a market leader of watch co-developing the World Famous GMT Master!

Pan Am sent Rolex WWII air hero captain Frederick Libby as a technical consultant as a user point of view, whilst Jeanneret though about adding a 24 hours bezel on the watch plus an additional pointer for 2nd City time... Rolex assigned Model 6202, using Caliber 1030 from Turn-O-Graph as the basic watch design, laterRolex decided to create a brand new caliber 1065 with a beautiful plastic dual colour rotatable bezel. Number with Ref. 6542 as the first generation of GMT Master. Not yet equipped with the crown protecting shoulders.
This Ref. 6542 is the first generation GMT Master, was the First design equipped with Cyclops (Magnifying glass on the date) In 1965, GMT Master the dual colour bezel used metal instead of plastic.

Pan Am assigned the Rolex GMT Master as Pan Am official timer and offered each of the officers of the higher rank, pilots and captains A GMT Master! Since 1960, GMT Master Change to Ref. 1675, equipped with Protective Shoulder Crown, GMT hand was made larger, and most of the feature were quite similar as today. GMT Master, Ref. 1675 was printed “Superlative Chronometer Officially Certified”. The Ref. 6542 was printed “Chronometer Officially certified”.
The major change on newer model Ref. 1675 was installed Micro Stella Free Sprung balance with higher accuracy on timing. That is why they put “Superlative…” Ref. 1675 was well appreciated by pilots of not just Pan Am, but other major air lines, and has been the best selling sport Utility Watch for in 1960-1980.

Not just in Aviation, but the Military offered them the best evaluation rating on GMT Master.
Many pilot kept this as the standard equipment on hand, since 1940-50 NANA launched a series of speed and height flying test, In 1967, the Northern American X15 made the 4,534 mph (7,269 kph) or Mark 6.72 world speed record! Pilot Peter Knight worn a GMT Master, he was very satisfied with his watch that could stand 3.5G force and maintaining that kind of time keeping. Edward Air Force Base where Pete was from has been generating a lot of flying heroes. In 1947, Drove a Bell X-1 to crack the sound barrier, Chuck Yeager was wearing his watch , and passed all kinds of test during the WWII War, his watch was Oyster. Pete still holds the world record for the Speed as of today!

So I think GMT Master II , the watch that bring us Energetic thought for the future, man’s charisma on welcoming challenges, man who can take speed, and could be winner against all kind of barrier...
I like GMT Master II as the best Sport Watch for daily uses!!


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