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Tag Heuer is going to launch a brand new Carrera Calibre 5 watch model in early autumn. The watch will come in two versions – with either a brown or black dial.

Like all Carrera timepieces, Carrera Calibre 5 watch’s dial is decorated with the Clous de Paris pattern. What distinguishes this watch from other members of the Carrera family is that the dial of the watch features twelve hand-applied hour markers instead of Roman or Arabic numerals. The markers and polished baton hands are coated with a luminescent substance for maximum readability in the dark. Another distinctive feature of this watch is that the date display window is positioned 3 o’clock, unlike other Carrera watches where the window is located at the 12 o’clock position.

The watch is powered by Calibre 5, or, in other words, the Tag Heuer branded automatic ETA 2824-2 movement, which is used in many automatic Swiss watches. The movement can be seen trough the sapphire crystal case back window. The timepiece is water-resistant to 330 ft (100 meters), which means that the wearer of the Carrera Calibre 5 watch by Tag Heuer can surf, swim or snorkel, but would better take off the watch in order to dive.
The Carrera Calibre 5 watch comes with a stainless steel bracelet with five-row link design, combining both polished and brushed surfaces. The clasp of the strap has safety push buttons in order to prevent the unintentional opening.

If you are interested in the Carrera family of Tag Heuer watches but don’t think that a watch is worth so much money, you may consider purchasing a replica Tag Heuer watch. Looking exactly as the real timepieces, Tag Heuer replicas are much cheaper but perfectly reliable.

Breguet inaugurated its exposition in the Sully Wing of the Louvre Museum on June 25. This long-expected event is an excellent publicity stunt on the part of the watchmaking company, which provides an opportunity to admire numerous watches by Breguet, both from the Louvre’s own collection and from the Breguet Museum. Among watches, clocks, measuring instruments and watch making tools, as well as portraits, archival documents and patents are items loaned from private collections and such institutions as the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, the Kremlin Museum and the Swiss National Museum. Many of the items on view are presented to the general public for the first time. The exhibition, sub-titled ‘An Apogee of European Watchmaking’, will be held at the Louvre Museum till September 7, after which it will travel to other famous museums.

Visitors of the exhibition will discover the history of Breguet through the retrospective of the works of Abraham-Louis Breguet, France’s finest master watchmaker, whose timepieces were popular among Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and other noblemen at the court of Versailles. One of the purchasers of the watches created by Abraham-Louis was Josephine Bonaparte to whom he sold Breguet No. 611, the small medallion “tact watch,” currently displayed at the Louvre. The fame of the watchmaker reached so high a level that in 1783 he received a commission for an extraordinary watch incorporating all the innovations and complications known at the time. This famous watch, Breguet No. 160, also called the “Marie-Antoinette,” finally developed four years after Abraham-Louis Breguet’s death, also makes part of the exhibition. Over the course of life, the Swiss-born French watchmaker invented the subscription watch, a simple watch with one hand; the tact watch, with which the wearer could tell the time by touch, and the tourbillon regulator; which compensated the effects of gravity on a watch’s works. For his outstanding inventions, Abraham-Louis Breguet was appointed Watchmaker to the Royal Navy and given a seat in the Academy of Sciences.

The exhibited timepieces are distinguished by the by functional simplicity combined with technical mastery, original style and superb craftsmanship. Flat watchcases, extremely legible and readable numerals, rectilinear hands and guilloched dials are features of extremely inventive and practical Breguet watches which make them stand out among pretentious timepieces made in the last quarter of the 18th century.

Creating modern Breguet timepieces, watchmakers of the company carry on the tradition set by its founder. If you want to become owner of one of the legendary timepieces, but do not have the opportunity, consider purchasing a replica Breguet watch which looks exactly the same, but costs much less.

Challenging but classic, modern and artistic, new model from Tag Heuer captures one’s mind. New member of Tag Heuer watches family, Monaco LS Chronograph Calibre 12 presented at the meeting with press amazed public with its similarity with daring Porsche. Like it was said, – Tag Heuer launches a new epoch in its watch history with this new and striking model.

Among its characteristics are: the small size of timepiece, which is about forty mm, case back, accomplished of sapphire, waterproofness, which allows you to dive as deep as one hundred meters wearing this watch, strap is made either of the crocodile skin or of rustless iron. The main appeal of the new Tag Heuer watch is its exceptional display style. In the classic watch we are used to complexity of distinguishing the chronograph functions and

seconds, but here, you will be astonished by the simplicity of spotting these two movements.

Such expensive and luxurious watches are certainly the prize for many people. Although, if we think of the difference between qualitative Tag Heuer replica watch and the original, – we will find it only in the price. Famous brand watches are usually overprized due to their famous name. Several thousand watches are as a rule released in limited editions and meant for collectors and not for simple people, for everyday use. That is why – replica watches are much better. Besides its affordable prize – they offer you amazing similarity with the original, so you can be sure that no one will spot that you are wearing replica instead of the original. Moreover – replica watch can even compete in quality with the original, as manufacturers of replica watch are aware that people are buying their watch for everyday use and surely not for keeping them on the shelf.

In 1982, Omega launched a new line of Constellation watches. The first watch from the Constellation series, ‘Manhattan’ Constellation, had an avant-garde design – an integrated bracelet and four well-recognizable ‘claws’ holding the sapphire crystal on top of the polished black bezel. This striking design element was also functional – the claws increased the watch’s water resistance.

The last Omega Constellation watch was launched in 1995 and promoted by Cindy Crawford. From that moment, Omega has regularly chosen top models, sports champions and movie stars as its ambassadors. However, the Omega Constellation family has not had any new members for 14 years. And finally, this year the popular series has been joined by new models. The original 1982 Constellation design is still easily recognizable in the latest members of the Constellation family – they incorporate the famous claws. Still, the watches were re-designed to fulfill the wishes of today’s customer. The bracelets, having recognizable horizontal links, have been re-engineered to increase comfort. All the 2009 Constellation dials, in silver, champagne, white mother-of-pearl, black, and brown, also feature a supernova guilloche pattern that emanates from the Constellation star at the 6 o’clock position. The hands made of plated rhodium or rose or yellow gold are treated with Super-LumiNova. The new Omega Constellation watches are water resistant to 100 meters (330 feet).

The replicas of the older members of the Omega Constellation family are available on our site. Besides costing much less than the real iconic timepieces, these high-quality Omega replica watches are practically undistinguishable from them.   

The 8 year contract of Brad Pitt with Tag Heuer ended in December of the last year and the company has chosen Leonardo Dicaprio as the new face of the TAG Heuer Carrera watch.
Jean-Christophe Babin , CEO of the brand said that the idea to make

Leonardo Dicaprio Tag Heuer ambassador came to his mind in 2003, but in that year Brad Pitt was chosen as the face of the brand. The preference was given to Brad Pitt because he was older at that moment and this suited better the image that was chosen to present the collection. Now the things have changed. Dicaprio became more mature and more suitable for the role of Tag HEUER ambassador. Also this choice was influenced by the fact that Brad Pitt refused to present the collection to American market, though this was very important for the brand. Leonardo Dicaprio said he was happy to promote the brand in America.

The actor has signed a three year contract. The deal is worth several million dollars. The actor will be endorsing the Tag Heuer Day-Date Carrera.

Lots of blind people read the time, touching with the the tips of the fingers the face of hunters, which glass lid opens. The first timepieces for the blind were made up back in the 18th century (Tact Watch by Breguet).

In order to read the time with accuracy, some require just a gentle touch. But the majority of people face difficulties, defining the time this way, to say nothing of the increasing of the probability of error, as hour hands can be distorted or broken because of touching.

In order to solve this problem, an Austrian from Vienna introduced conventional symbols instead of the Roman numerals, the form of which allegorically looks like the figure of hours that they represent. The system of Lukaschovsky, having the name of its deviser, consists in representing one hour by a dot, two hours by two dots, three hours by a triangle, four hours by a square, five hours by a five-pointed star, six hours by a zero. In the first half of the dial, these signs are convex; in the second they are represented symmetrically but they are concave.

The hour hands are solid enough to resist frequent contacts of fingers, because they are made of steel.

Another system, thought up of by a watchmaker from Swiss, P. Tissot, has the advantage of using the Braille system, already known to the blind. The minute divisions are indicated by smaller prominent dots.

Omega have just announced that for the forthcoming James Bond film - The Quantum of Solace, they will be producing a limited edition Planet Ocean watch. At this time, exact details are sketchy but it is thought that 5,007 will be produced worldwide and these will be available from October time. Prices and specifications of the watch are not yet available but this will be a very sought after pieces by Bond collectors.

Since the formal cooperation between Omega and film 007 in 1995, the watches worn by 007 spy, regardless of the radiation cutter, mini rope hook or remote ignition equipment, all are Seamaster diving with blue dial which is watch resistant to 300m. in the newest film 007, apart from the compact story and delicate organs, Omega improves the wrist equipment functions for the most elegant king spy for the whole world, which matches with black dial, and the water resistant has gone up to a step, from 300m to 600m, and the only reason for this is only to meet the need of this most particular high-tech spy in the world, making him can deal with different dangers. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes an artist gets inspiration where least expected. For instance, the Cartier Tank watch was inspired in 1917 by the new Renault tanks which Cartier saw in use on the Western Front. The prototype watch was presented by Cartier to General John Pershing of the American Expeditionary Force.

There are now over thirty variants of Tank watch, in both automatic and quartz versions. The two of them are designed for ladies. Their lines and proportions are similar to those of tanks found on First World War battlefields. They are both a square and a rectangle, yet elegant. The Lady

No cross, no crown. Sometimes watches need to go through hardships in order to get laurels. Like Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean, which was on the wrist of Daniel Craig while he was doing all those difficult tricks. In return, after that it was sold at auction for more than 200 thousand. Today it rests in a collection of some James Bond admirer.

The Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean replica watches blend together polished and brushed finished surfaces for both cosmetic appeal, and functional advantage. Their bezel is slightly smaller than the case. This gives the Planet Ocean watches a smoother and more distinctive appearance. Their solid hands look like an arrow. The Planet Ocean replica watches also have bold color schemes. Some parts of the face of the watches are orange, in different degrees depending on the particular model.

Piaget Watch Company has presented the novelty named Polo Tourbillon Relatif. The watch created for real Parisians and Paris fans will be shown at the upcoming SIHH 2008 watch and jewelry show.

The new wrist accessory (as well as previous models of the brand) is a special version of Piaget prestigious Polo Tourbillon Relatif watch.

It is supplied with a unique mobile flying tourbillion which is suspended upon the minute hand of the watch. The tourbillon is hand-wound. Such a tourbillion is considered to be one of the most complicated, interesting and expensive devices in the haute Horlogerie world. It uses the unique Manufacture Piaget caliber 608P movement elaborated by the brand. The mechanism is adorned with 27 jewels and has 70 hours power reserve.

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