Posted in Fashion, Luxury Brands, Watch on 2 September 2009
Hermes has done a very smart job with the new follow up to the Arceau Chronograph range. Called Ebony this watch really is a sibling of the Arceau chronograph Alezan that was announced at Baselworld but in a different color, we mean symbolically so!
This timepiece too is has been dedicated to the Hermes equestrian heritage. The lines are still smooth and refined. The Arceau Ebony Chronograph is black all over, including the strap. The 43mm wide steel watch case provides relief while the red dials offer lethal attraction in the stark contrast. The rings around the dials lend a sense of depth. We like the clean and simple face of the watch. The faceted window cut for the date window is a very intelligent idea.
Posted in Exhibitions, Watch on 10 April 2008
Basel World is known as a celebrated trade show for the watch industry. Having seeing Seiko space watch, Versace $227000 jewelry watch and $300,000 day and night watch….the list is still not complete. Another entrant to the list is an offering by new watchmaking tag team Greubel Forsey making up to this event for the fifth time since its foundation in 1999. They are real watch mechanics who offered a tourbillon, a watch apparatus that tries to accurate the seconds that are intrinsically lost in automatic timepieces.
It’s similar to a two-dimensional gyroscope called “Double Tourbillon 30°” watch. It is developed with two small gyroscopes, each equipped with an angled, revolving dial in the center. It is designed in such a way so that it can worn from any angle as it maintains a balance between action and recline and the watch drops the check of the possible number of seconds. Recently designed “Tourbillon 24 Secondes Incliné” watch integrates a single angled tourbillion that spins every 24 second, thereby touting to be ultra accurate. Against the estimated $425,000 price tag of the double tourbillon, this luxury comes cheap at an affordable price of $200,000. Also, Greubel Forsey’s art piece, the Quadruple Tourbillon Differential, is company’s contemporary and complicated watch with two time-correcting tourbillons that run separately, allow for almost complete precision. Dubbed as “Invention 2, ″ it is priced at $500,000 and is a real marvels in the watch industry. Counted 60-70 watches will be manufactured.
Via NYT
Posted in Designer, Exhibitions, Watch on 8 April 2008
The Seiko watch company has a convincing tale behind the production of their latest watch viz. the Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk. Unveiled at Baselworld, the model has been designed to endure the intense surroundings of outer space and word is around that Richard Garriott, the sixth private-citizen space explorer would be carrying it while making a trip this fall.
Garriott, a video game designer by profession and son of a NASA astronaut is in a mood to drop $45 million for his trip and wishes to visit the International Space Station, thereby becoming the first private citizen to do a space walk outside of it. He would be wearing the Seiko Spring Drive Spacewalk over the spacesuit so the watch can help him survive through zero gravity and a setting where heat can get as low as down beating 22 degrees Celsius. It is light in weight and bears a dial with a Lumibrite conduct for readability. The case is air stiff and is designed using high-intensity titanium. This limited edition watch is available in counted 100 models out of which three would be taken away by Garriott on his October adventure and rest 97 will hit the market in December priced at $25,000.
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