Van Cleef & Arpels Pont des Amoureux Watch
This is a very interesting and nice to look at women's watch from Van Cleef & Arpels. If I was a woman, then I would likely start saving up for one. Pennies, nickles, and dimes until I reached $116,000. The watch is the Pont des Amoureux, which means lover's bridge. The complication makes it such that the two figurines? connect at midnight for a "kiss." This was no easy task actually. Check out this image of the watch internals. Just a small part of this area is dedicated to the manually wound mechanical movement. The rest is for the complex retrograde minute and hour hands.? The watch is also in 18k white gold, with lots of diamonds, and the dial is totally hand painted. A real piece of art work with what Van Cleef & Aprels calls a "poetic complication" - how sweet.Read more about the Van Cleef & Arpels Pont des Amoureux watch on my article at Haute Living here. Best MatchItems Ending FirstNewly-Listed Items FirstPrice + Shipping: Lowest FirstPrice + Shipping: Highest Fir

Introducing: The Bvlgari Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater, The World's Thinnest (In Current Production)
Records in watchmaking are increasingly elusive, and generally transient. However, pursuing them has given rise to some very interesting watchmaking. Breaking a record may be hard, and holding it is even harder, but for now, it looks like Bvlgari has managed to do both, with the launch at Baselworld 2016 of its Octo Finissimo Minute Repeater. 1 OF 5 Ultra-thin wristwatch movements are rare; complicated ultra-thin wristwatch movements are even more rare, since the challenges in ultra-thin watchmaking tend to rise exponentially as the watch becomes more complicated. For that reason, the most complex watches are made in ultra-thin variants by only a few companies, and as a rule, they're those firms with a very long technical history in such watchmaking – Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Audemars Piguet, Piaget. Bvlgari came late to the ultra-thin game but they're playing it like they mean it, with such watches as the Octo Finissimo Tourbillon (see our int

BASELWORLD 2011 - New Model - Patek Philippe 5270 - Perpetual Chrono 5270G
(Press Release and Images: Patek Philippe SA)Patek Philippe Ref. 5270Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Ref. 5270: a new complicated wristwatch with a rich 70-year heritage of tradition and innovationWhile Patek Philippe concentrated on the launch of new chronographs from November 2009 to the end of 2010, the emphasis is now on other complications. But to the delight of many watch lovers, the year of chronographs has not quite ended yet. One example is the new Ref. 5270, which for the first time combines the functionality of a perpetual calendar with the new classic chronograph caliber that is crafted entirely in-house and had its global debut in 2009.Seventy years ago, in 1941, Patek Philippe added chronographs with perpetual calendars to its range of regularly produced timepieces. Since then, they have ranked among the manufacture’s most popular Grand Complication wristwatches. They unite two degrees of difficulty that require many manual steps, mastered to the required degree of p

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Why the Fifty-Eight is the star of Baselworld...
1. GMT SchmeMT. Everyone is doing one (even TAG) and let's be honest - we all want a 16710 with 70-hour movement and GlideLock clasp, right?2. The Rolex Submariner has become a parody. No longer a tool watch but a piece of jewellery that non-WIS buy with their first bonus cheque. Just witness the I scratched my Sub!!!, My best friend dropped my Sub!!! posts on this very forum.3. The Tudor Fifty-Eight is the Submariner we've all been waiting for. Classic proportions, just the right amount of fautina and a price that means it'll take the knocks without the owner having a nervous breakdown.Of course Bill Yao did it first, but being late to the party is better than not turning up at all.4. With this watch, Tudor announced that the era of Wrist Clocks is officially over.I used to own a Tudor Blue Snowflake. Perfect go-to watch but as the prices on them went stupid, I was too scared to wear it. And take it near water? No way.The Fifty-Eight will become my new Snowflake and I was the first t