The difference between a $500 watch and a $50,000 watch
Written by admin on January 30, 2010 – 12:02 am -Jack Forster, Forbes Magazine The difference between a $500 watch and a $50,000 one is often in the movement. The ground floor of the Roger Dubuis factory, a top-tier manufacturer specializing in artistically extroverted timepieces, comes as a shock. This is one of Geneva's temples of haute horlogerie, a place where you'd expect the loudest sound to be the nearly inaudible cricket-song of a hand file against brass. But in this gigantic room blue- and white-coated technicians tend enormous, sleek machines. The air is redolent of oil and coolant, the ceiling is strung with pipes and conduit, and, here and there, warning signs and bundled cables testify to the huge amounts of electricity being consumed. It's in a room like this that virtually... more
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CONCORD C1 Biretrograde
Written by admin on August 22, 2009 – 5:13 pm -Concord unveils a double retrograde complication that combines the date and day of the week, in a world in which engineering and design battle for precedence. Cut from platinum or rose gold, the C1 Biretrograde leaves nothing to chance. Exploiting the brand’s emblematic construction concept, it offers a bold and contemporary display of time. Driven by a Concord C101 automatic movement, the C1 Biretrograde is a symbol of excellence released in a limited edition of just 50 platinum and 150 rose-gold versions. The model boasts an imposing case that combines various materials and a transparent multi-layered dial: the time mechanism is displayed below 3.3 mm of sapphire crystal, remaining perfectly legible. The chapter ring, which is slightly... more
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