Tuesday 14 September 2010

The world famous high-end watch manufacturer

The world famous high-end watch manufacturer, Raymond Weil, recently comes with another superb chronograph which is especially designed for women. It astonishes people by the high quality, elegant design, fascinating color and unmatchable luxury. That is Raymond Weil Freelancer Ladies chronograph.

This brand-new chronograph is a harmonious combination of modern design and mechanical complexity, destined to grasp the hearts of global women fashionistas. With powerful femininity, this chronograph merges alluring nuances and textures, featuring iridescent mother-of-pearl watch dial demonstrated by three chronograph counters located at 6, 9 and 12 o’clock respectively for 12-hours, 60-seconds and 30-minutes display. The dial is furthermore majestically completed by high-end polished indexes and baton-shaped diamond-tipped hour hands coated with luminescent substance.

This superb timepiece have a voguish, slightly oversized case with the diameter measured 42mm and intertwines highly polished surfaces incorporated by diamond-adorned bezel. Totally speaking, the bezel of the novel Raymond Weil Freelancer chronograph was studded with 66 white diamonds. For the accurate timing and excellent performance, this watch is powered by a high-frequency automatic mechanical movement which oscillates a rate of 28,800 vibrations per hour to ensure the 46-hour power reserve. Through the transparent sapphire case-back, you can see the admiring dance of the movement. Moreover, this watch is waterproof to 100 meters and it embraces the lady’s wrist with a crocodile leather strap demonstrated by saddle stitching ended with deployment buckle and double push-pieces security. For the retailed price, it is estimated to be around $2,500.

Tuesday 7 September 2010

Minute Repeater - the attribute of kingly way


What is it?

Minute Repeater is a kind of watch which can tell the time by sound. If you turn Minute Repeater's butt, you will hear the ding-dong from it. Prior to the invention of the electricity , specially at dank, it was very useful to "hear" the time from a watch. That is the reason why Minute Repeater can become so famous and precious.

History

It also has a long history, at 1676, Edward Barlow, the English watchmaker had found the organization which named Giving Hour. Then reached to the twentieth century, Ten-minute repeater, Half-quarter repeater and Five-minute repeater had appeared and the accuracy also made a big program. nowadays, Minute Repeater can tell us "hour", "quarter" and "minute" whenever we want. Its highly developed and complex not only became an achievement, but also reached a position beyond price.

The soul - tone

Though working on mechanical principle is not easy, tone is the most decisive of Minute Repeater. If you are a person who know to appreciate the watch, please remember ,"Time needs to be listened" . Time flies, but we can listen and feel the meaning of it. I think the sound must be very thrilling, and that is the meaning of Minute Repeater. So the price of a Minute Repeater with beautiful sound shoud propably reach to a million.

Gerald Genta

It was made in Switzerland, 950 parts, each one of the parts needed about 320 hours to finished.

Vacheron Constantin

All parts were made by hand, 700 parts.

IWC

It was the first watch with a built-in permanen calendar which can tell the different the Southern to the Northren Hemisphere and show that the deviation just may appear after 57,700 years. It was made in Portugal.

Master

It stands "On the continual pursuit of beauty" , global issued in a limited edition. 750 parts.