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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Vintage Watches: A Timeless Investment Choice
Written by admin on October 29, 2009 – 5:00 pm -By: Carolin Schober, CNBC Correspondent As investors continue to ponder whether the recovery in markets is sustainable, some may find that this is the time to put their money in an asset class that lasts. The downturn has hit the luxury watch market hard. Luxury watch exports from Switzerland, where many of the premium brands are manufactured, have seen a decline of 25 percent over the past 9 months and the slump in demand was especially severe for watches made of precious metals. However, the picture for "retail" luxury watches seems to bear little resemblance with the "collectible" luxury watch markets for brands such as Patek Philippe, Jaeger Le Coultre or Vacheron Constantin. Sales of luxury collectible watches have been more resilient... more
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Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Chronograph Ladies’ 600M
Written by admin on August 19, 2009 – 7:02 pm -With the release of the Seamaster Planet Ocean Chronograph Ladies’ 600M, OMEGA underscores its commitment to producing women’s watches which are at once beautifully designed and uncompromisingly sporty. The Seamaster Planet Ocean Co-Axial Chronograph Ladies’ 600M combines rugged professional divers’ features – a unidirectional rotating bezel, a helium escape valve and water resistance to 600 metres (2000 feet) – with OMEGA’s proprietary Co-Axial technology. The self-winding chronograph is powered by OMEGA’s exclusive Co-Axial calibre 3313 and a free sprung balance whose precision qualifies the watch as a COSC-certified chronometer. It is also equipped with a column-wheel chronograph mechanism. The 37.50 mm polished and brushed... more
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The Appeal of Swiss Watches
Written by admin on July 6, 2009 – 12:08 am -By Jaybe Scott The prestige Swiss brands have engraved their position as the world's number one status symbol, limited to the rich and famous. Some of the mass Swiss brands on the other hand, target a somewhat different demographic and are now the world's largest producer of watches. Many countries in the world now produce and export high quality watches. Yet, ask people on the street which country makes the best quality watches and 9 times out of 10 the response will be Switzerland. So, how did Switzerland and watches become synonymous with key traits. The custom of quality and detail has been upheld for over five centuries and would seriously doubt if there is any industry can make this claim in any other industry. Swiss watch making one way... more
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Omega De Ville Chronoscope
Written by admin on June 27, 2009 – 4:50 pm -The De Ville Co-Axial Chronograph in the OMEGA Olympic Timeless Collection has a sober lacquered white dial, elegantly set off by the vintage red OMEGA symbol and name, black Arabic numerals and rhodium plated facetted hour, minute and small seconds hands, complemented by elegant 30-minute and 12-hour chronograph recorders with blue hands at 3 and 6 o’clock, respectively. The counterweight on the blue central chronograph seconds hand features the five coloured Olympic rings, in reference to OMEGA’s role as Official Timekeeper of the Olympic Games. The De Ville Co-Axial collection represents the fine art of watchmaking in all respects. Its case design recalls the popular OMEGA models of the fifties; all models feature the exclusive OMEGA... more
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