26.05.10 / Zenith / Author: admin / Comments: (0)
Tags: watches, Zenith
Founded in 1865, the Zenith has a reputation for its bold originality of combining the precision of mechanical watch with aesthetic feelings.
The Vintage Titanium Anniversary is the limited edition of Zenith which is to commemorate the 40th anniversary of El Primero clock mechanism. This Vintage Titanium Anniversary of Zenith is a highly precise watch with complicated design. It is a piece for personal collection.
In 1969, Zenith developed the El Primero clock mechanism named El Primero 469. This name is to commemorate the gorgeous year 1969 when the mechanism is developed. Made of 278 units and 31 rubines, El Primero is a self-winding mechanism. It is now mostly applied in the automatic chronometer watches. This mechanism has written a brand new page for the watch manufacturing industry. Forty years later, now the Zenith is launching Vintage Titanium Anniversary series to mark the 40th birthday of El Primero.
Driven by El Primero clock mechanism, this Vintage Titanium Anniversary features a black outlook with white strip and Arabic markings. The watch case is measured as 40 mm, a medium size watch for men. The dial design is complicated with three sub-dials at 3, 6, and 9 o’clock position, indicating the hour, minute and second in a more detailed way. The hour and minute pointers are black collocating with white while the second pointer is sharp red which forms a sharp contrast in the dial. As a chronograph, its markings show the precision of the watch. At 4, there is a showcase for the date indicator. This design of this Vintage Titanium Anniversary is mostly inspired by original concept of the clock mechanism. The limited edition is definitely worthy of person collection and many watch collectors have stored one.
24.09.09 / Watch Stories / Author: admin / Comments: (0)
Tags: parmigiani fleurier watches, watche designs
Look at the above picture, can you tell what it is at first glance?
A car engine? That’s pretty close! But er… you are wrong!
This year, the Swiss watchmaker Parmigiani Fleurier stunned the world with its monster creation – the Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti 370 watch.
The Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti 370 is designed to commemorate Bugatti’s release of their now legendary Veyron super-car.
The front of the innovative watch looks like a auto engine. As we all know engine is widely regarded as the heart of a car, it makes perfect sense for the watch designers to house the the heart of the watch – the transversal movement- in the engine-like cylinder. The movement is organized on a horizontal axis instead of the traditional vertical axis.
But how does the watch tell time?
Although it looks like a complicated high-tech gadget at first sight, actually it really simplify the way how people watch time.
Here’s the profile of the watch. The watch face is located at one side of the watch next to the movement. Just imagine, if you wear such watch on your wrist, what will happen when you check the time on your watch?
Yes, you don’t even have to move or turn your wrist to see the time. The watch dial is almost faced to you directly always. Especially when you are driving a car, if you wear the Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti 370 watch, you don’t need to raise your hand, or lean your body ahead to see the time. All you have to do is to quickly move your eyeball, then you’ll know the time. It’s more safe and make you more concentrated. What a design!
It’s a interesting invention. But it may also take a while for you to get used to wearing such watch since you always raise your hand to see the watch all the time.
Actually only few will have such trouble of getting used to this new watch. It is said, only 150 pieces of Parmigiani Fleurier Bugatti 370 watches will be made every year. The good news is that the high demands of Parmigiani watches drive manufacturers to produce high quality Parmigiani replica. You can spend about $100 to get the Swiss replica at www.WatchesLux.com now.
18.09.09 / Watch Stories / Author: admin / Comments: (0)
Tags: Blancpain watches, Patek Philippe watches, Putin watch
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited an arms factory in the town of Tula south of Moscow this Monday. A factory worker asked for Putin’s watch tongue in cheek after the prime minister admitted times were tough for ordinary people.
After Putin’s speech on the economy, the metalworker Viktor Zagaevsky approached Putin and said, “Vladimir Vladimirovich, maybe you’ll give me something to remember you by?”
Obviously unable to think of an appropriate souvenir, Mr Putin jokingly asked the man what he wanted. “Maybe your watch,” the worker replied.
A little bit shocked for a moment, Mr Putin promptly took off his watch and gave it away to the man. Then it’s the man’s turn to be stunned.
Zagaevsky shows off his Blancpain Leman Auqua Lung watch given by Mr Putin
The watch, branded by famous Swiss watch maker Blancpain, is worth of about £5,500, which amounts to an average Russian’s yearly income. Later Zagaevsky’s son told the media that it would take his father two years to scrape together enough cash to buy Putin’s watch.
Putin's Blancpain Leman Aqua Lung Watch
It is said Mr Putin couldn’t refuse the man’s request in such circumstances. Some say Putin handed over his watch out of patriotism and good wills since both Zagaevsky’s two sons serve in the Russian military in addition that Zagaevsky works for the weapon factory.
Actually this was not the first time for Putin to gave away his watch to his Russian countrymen. Just last month, the Prime Minister met a shepherd when he is having a holiday in a desolate mountain areas in Siberia. He gave his watch to the shepherd’s son as a gift for the shepherd’ hospitable reception.
Mr Putin is known for his penchant for Swiss watches. It is said the most expensive watch Mr Putin owns is a yellow gold Patek Philippe watch that retails for about £35,000.
Given Putin’s status as a national leader, he would not wear a Patek Philippe replica watch – which you can buy on the internet easily. That means the Patek Philippe watch would cost more than Putin’s annual salary. This raised discussion about how Putin accumulates his wealth.
In my opinion, to avoid such rumor, maybe next time Mr Putin can just have a photo taken with his people and then autograph on the photo as a present. Since Putin is widely respected in Russia as a national hero, I think the Russians would readily accept this more personalizd and memorable gift.
