Archive for December, 2010

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Q&A with Ice-Watch CEO: Jean-Pierre Lutgen

Tell us about yourself? My first experience with watches came when I founded a company called Tonton Lulu. We sold lapel pins and promotional items in “Nutella®” jars for example. We also sold watches… Tonton Lulu was renowned for its ability to launch new items into the market very rapidly, but with the internet boom [...]

Published by on December 15th, 2010 at 05:12 pm
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Five Weeks In a Balloon by Van Cleef & Arpels

SIHH 2011 in Geneva will be the time for the most astonishing launches. Reportedly inspired by world-famous fiction author Jules Verne and his Extraordinary Voyages novel of the same name Van Cleef & Arpels unveiled yet another member of its Les Voyages Extraordinaries collection of jewelry, which counts more than a hundred of highly exclusive pieces and includes [...]

Published by on December 7th, 2010 at 07:12 pm
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The tourbillon and the crocodile by Cartier

Cartier is coming with a new flying tourbillon timepiece combining the manufacturer’s masterful expertise with technical experimentation, knowledge with distinctiveness and a love of watchmaking with a passion for superb finishes and details. At the heart of this exceptional watch, a diamond crocodile carefully guards the time. Sculpted in white gold with emerald eyes, the [...]

Published by on December 7th, 2010 at 05:12 pm
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Perrelet Regulator Retrograde Watch

The people at Perrelet are at it again, dancing the complication jig. This new Perrelet Regulator Retrograde watch mixes a few complications in a way that (to my knowledge) hasn’t been done before. You have a retrograde minute display, regulator style separation between the hours, minutes, and seconds (that occupies the main dial), and a [...]

Published by on December 5th, 2010 at 07:12 pm