Close-Up: Breguet Classique 5717 Hora Mundi
The #breguet Classique Hora Mundi, in simple terms, is the first example of a mechanical timepiece with an instant-jump time zone display. All of the displays jump between time zones with the push of a button. Once you see it, the concept is so intuitive, you wonder why it has not been done before. The Breguet Classique Hora Mundi is equipped with the 5717 self-winding mechanical movement, which is based on Caliber 777 with a silicon escapement, in this case fitted with an additional module. The dial displays hours, minutes and seconds via centrally-mounted hands. The date is at 12 o’clock, and the city or time zone indicator is at 6. A large sun/moon or day/night display rests between 3 and 4 o’clock.The instant-jump time zone feature with fully-synchronized displays is the showstopper. This is a world-first for a mechanical watch, and indeed this timepiece has generated four patent applications. Here’s how it works:From among the 24 available time zones, the wearer

Carl F. Bucherer Marks 125 Years With New Manero Tourbillon Limited Edition
This year marks 125 years since Swiss jeweler Carl Friedrich Bucherer opened up his first watch and jewelry shop in Lucerne, on the way to designing and creating his first timepiece in 1919. To commemorate the anniversary, the modern Carl F. Bucherer watch brand has launched the new Manero Tourbillon Limited Edition.Carl F. Bucherer has created many complicated watches, including models with power-reserve displays, chronographs, and even a perpetual calendar �� and the company makes its own manufacture movement, but this will be the brand’s first tourbillon timepiece. The hand-wound tourbillon movement, Caliber CFB T1001, makes its debut in the brand’s Manero collection, which CFB describes as emphasizing “classical elegance.” The tourbillon, which is on display in an opening at 6 o’clock on the dial, is obviously the central attraction, but Carl F. Bucherer’s watchmakers have packed several other complications into the new watch as well. The date is

Dubai Watch Week: Reference Of The Middle East
Dubai is like no other city in the world. It is like no other city I know. I realized this fact mere minutes after arriving in the region which today is so legendary in the watch industry. The things most people say about Dubai are mixed with absolute truths along with a lot of (what I've now learned are) misconceptions. I'm writing this report after my first time in Dubai, coming as a guest of the Seddiqi family to experience the first annual Dubai Watch Week.If you've been in the watch industry for any time at all, you've heard of the Seddiqi Group. The family-run business has a reputation that precedes it around the globe, with admirers knowing them as the watch people in Dubai. It might be easy to imagine them as entitled Emirati elites, or rich real estate moguls who sought diversification through selling watches & jewelry, but just the opposite is actually true.The now-deceased, most senior Seddiqi began with a very modest station in life as part of a fisherman family �C com

Introducing: The Girard-Perregaux Esmeralda Tourbillon
Though the tourbillon's rightly associated with the name of its inventor, A. L. Breguet, it is also associated, in the minds of many students of its history, with another name: Girard-Perregaux. One of the greatest practitioners of the art of tourbillon making was Constant Girard, who founded Girard-Perregaux in about 1852, and who invented a configuration for the tourbillon that still influences tourbillon design today: the tourbillon under 3 bridges, often gold. One of the most legendary of all these tourbillons was the one know as "La Esmeralda." 1 OF 5 2 OF 5 The tourbillon known as "La Esmerelda" has had an interesting life. La Esmeralda �C Girard-Perregaux tourbillon no. 168230. La Esmerelda was and is famous for its beauty �C the characteristic, arrow-head golden bridge configuration was invented by Constant Girard, and was the subject of a U.S. patent in 1884 �C but in addition to being very beautiful, she was, like all tourbillons designed by Constant Girard,

Scratches on Crystal Help!!
I got a small scratch on my moon watch and would like to remove it. I have done this be fore but can't remember what I used. Help please!