All posts tagged Watch

It Hardly Gets Any More Complex Than The Arnold & Son DBS

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Depend on Arnold & Son to explore and surface out the beauty of complexity. Not many watch brands have the liberty to call themselves manufacturers; Arnold & Son is a proud maker and marketer of watches of the highest degree of sophistication and technical excellence. Swiss watch making is almost synonymous to luxury and fashion, and certainly, Arnold & Son knows a thing or two about these. The range of calibres flaunted by the brand is as amazing as any you can find in even the most high end watch stores of the world. The latest bomb that has … Read More

Eric Clapton’s Patek Philippe 2499 Watch Could Fetch $4.3 million

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Eric Clapton has recently been in the news for a lot more than just his iconic music pieces. The living legend set some serious waves in the auctions’ market by offering the ‘Abstraktes Bild’, a painting as respected as this three time Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. The painting has been made by Gergard Richter, and was auctioned off at $20 mn, a price that is as many as 20 times the one that was paid originally for the piece of art. However, we are focusing on the recent news of Eric Clapton offering his Patek Philippe 2499 time … Read More

Romaine-Jerome’s Cult Video Game Watches

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Romaine-Jerome, the Swiss watchmakers with a knack for bringing vintage video game nostalgia back in full flame, has recently come up with a fresh new line up of 80 watches based on the cult arcade game, Pac Man.

The game which has claimed the addiction of everyone at some point or the other during childhood or youth, going so far as to spread Pac Man Fever to be a household term in the video game culture of the 80s, has now come alive in the memories of enthusiasts, in the form of 46mm wide watches that contain steel which … Read More

The Tread 1 Steampunk: Victorian Futurism at Its Best

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$25000, when a price for a Victorian style watch made in present day, doesn’t seem justified, unless there’s more to it. Well, here it is.

Devon, a design lab based in California, is committed to developing luxury products to suit the fancy of any connoisseur. The horological world was recently amazed by the Tread 1 unveiled by the lab, a watch that amazed on many levels, with its Time Belts system movement used to show the time exposed on the body. What started as a fantasy project has now resulted in the further evolution of this concept into the Devon … Read More

Something borrowed- the Hublot Atelier courtesy watch

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What do you do when you have to part with your precious Hublot watch when it needs repair or servicing? Do you hate turning to your cell phone to tell you the time? Fret not. Hublot has created the special Atelier Watch for all their customers. This watch cannot be bought by the customers, as the ‘Not for Sale’ marked on it suggests. This elegant black watch has been exclusively designed as a courtesy watch. That means that whenever you hand your watch over to Hublot for any kind of servicing or repair, you can choose to borrow the Hublot … Read More

Diamond watch to die for – Hublot is back in action

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Watches have always been the center of fascination for mankind since times immemorial. They are not just pieces of equipment that we use today to tell the time and use to schedule our daily lives, they are symbols of power and status that help us in defining who we are and where we stand in society. For many years now, the brand of luxury watches has defined the society of rich and mighty, bestowing true class and might and separating the ones with true taste and potential.

Although luxury watches have become the statement of choice for many millionaires around … Read More

Space Age watch celebrates 50 years of grandeur.

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This is the convergence of two of mankind’s grandest fascinations, the quest for the infinite expanses of outer space and the lure of the world’s coolest gizmos, coming together in harmony in the creation of one of the most iconic pieces of engineering equipment the world has ever seen, the Breitling Navitimer Cosmonaute watch, the first ever wristwatch chronograph to make a journey to outer space.

One of the oldest and most celebrated brands of watch makers, Breitling is not just a part of the famed Swiss watch makers who are revered across the world, it is also one … Read More

Four New Luxury Watch Brands Introduced To Watches of Switzerland

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Watches of Switzerland, the famous luxury watch retailers welcomed four new brands to their online store this week. Classic watches from Gucci, Raymond Weil, and Tissot are available for purchases for customers as well as discover the exciting new contemporary watch line GC. Each brand brings a unique perspective to watchmaking and Watches of Switzerland is proud to represent their designs.

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Gucci celebrates its 40th anniversary of watch making this year. The luxury Italian brand continues to create collections with a glamourous edge and standout craftsmanship.

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Tissot watches are built to be worn in the most extreme of … Read More

Cypris Tourbillon Black and White Swan three gold bridge Tourbillon watch – as swanky as it sounds

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Watches have for many decades now, been the icon of luxury and opulence the world over. Since the invention of watches, they have held a special place in our culture, with every successful man being measured for his character by the kind of watch he wears. The tradition has been carried over to the modern times, where the millionaires seek to stand out in the glamour world by the sheer force of the watches they own, making expensive watch making an interesting and dynamic business.

Although there is no deficit of expensive watch makers, not everyone has the pedigree and … Read More

Ticking away at millions with Audemars Piguet

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When you are living the rich life, everything that you own bears the stamp of opulence that is so characteristic of the high life that signifies the world’s millionaires. Even accessories that do not matter ordinarily to an ordinary man become priceless pieces of art when they adorn the lives of the high and mighty. And we are not talking of just fast expensive cars and private jets, we are talking of watches.
Wrist watches have, for long, been a symbol of a man’s taste and character; although its preliminary function is keeping immaculate time, as a valuable piece of … Read More