The first pictures of the TAG watch/phone UI is out an it looks insane. How thick is this thing going to be?
Tag Heuer mobile phones will hit the shore in 2008 – Luxurylaunches.com
# Seiko’s new Direct Drive Kinetic movement. The watch can be charged manually by hand winding it, and it charges naturally as the movement of your arm rotates an internal rotor.
# Anti-reflective sapphire crystal.
# Date at the 6 o’clock position, and a retrograde day indicator.
# Stainless steel case and bracelet.
# Three-fold clasp with push-button release.
# Very bright LumiBrite paint on the hour hand, minute hand, and on the hour indices.
# Recessed reset button in case the integrated circuit ever needs a quick reboot.
# Automatic hand alignment which ensures that the power indicator hand is always accurate (calibration occurs every 24 hours).
# Water resistant to 10 bar, 100 meters, or 330 feet.
Review of the Seiko Velatura SRH005 – Watch Reviews, Information, and News
Why spend money on a pricey quartz movement when you can get a monstrous Ball with a built-in mechanical thermometer.
This is a dive watch, but the coolest feature is the mechanical thermometer that reads Fahrenheit and celsius. They used tritium tubes in the watch dial and the rotating inner bezel for excellent illumination. There are 2006 Limited Editions available worldwide for $3,299.
Head down there, guys. Good deals. I got an Omega white face GMT for $789.
Our Friends & Family sale will be held on Thursday, November 15 (9am -
8pm) and Friday, November 16 (8am – 7pm)It will be at the same place as last year.
The Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th St.
NYThanks for your interest.
Timezone takes a close look at cosmology and the equation of time. Take a gander so you can see what that weird complication actually does.
Having put ourselves in Fred Flintstone’s shoes (or saber-toothed tiger loafers, as the case may be), we can see that one fact must have seemed obvious to our flea-bitten ancestors — looking up at the sky, day or night, the natural conclusion to draw is that the earth is stationary, with heavenlybodies moving around it.
I don’t usually post boutique models but this Chanel looks OK for maybe an effete world-traveller with a watch scratching phobia.
The new Chanel J12 GMT with a black ceramic case has a nice 42 mm wide and 10 mm thick. Chanel claims that is unscratchable and stain-resistant. I have never had a problem with stains on any watch, but scratches are a different story. I do find it hard to believe that they made this ceramic material unscratchable and I would definitely have to see it to believe it.
Very cool. G-P gave the ANF a free, one-of-a-kind watch to raffle off for victims of Hurricane Felix.
“Virtus White” is an utterly exclusive piece handcrafted by Girard-Perregaux for ANF. The only one ever manufactured of its kind, this extraordinary watch was created to strengthen ANF’s efforts of providing hope and relief to children and families such as those affected by Hurricane Felix. Through the Foundation’s “Bright Future Reconstruction Fund” and relief operations, ANF seeks to rebuild lives and create new sources of opportunity. All suggested contributions of $100 made to the Foundation will merit participation in this historic drawing for Girard-Perregaux’s “Virtus White.”
American Nicaraguan Foundation: More about the Girard-Perregaux timepiece
I’ll be featuring another of our advertisers, MidwestWatches.com, in a little while but I wanted to point out, to all the coin collectors out there, that a new eBay shop just signed up with us. They sell ancient coins for fun and/or profit, so maybe you can surprise grampy with a Roman-era coin, perhaps the very kind used to buy his freedom from the salt mines in ancient Caledonia.
As if his watches weren’t bad enough.
“JACOB THE JEWELER” Pleads Guilty
“Jacob the Jeweler” of Jacob & Co. a celebrity jeweler who put diamonds on celebrities from Elton John to Kanye West pleaded guilty Wednesday to falsifying records and giving false statements to investigators looking into a multistate drug ring.Terms of the plea deal call for Jacob Arabov of New York to serve up to 46 months in prison and pay a $2 million penalty, U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Murphy said in a news release. No sentencing date was immediately set by U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn.
In return for the guilty plea, prosecutors agreed to drop money laundering charges against the man known in the hip-hop world as ‘Jacob the Jeweler,’ said Arabov’s attorney, Benjamin Brafman.
Velociphile is not one to mince words, but he really tears my beloved Big Bang (Hublot continues “their dull theme of apeing the Royal Oak albeit without nicely aligned bezel screws”) a new pooper. The most egregious offense? Calling a modified ETA movement an “in-house” piece.
My view is simple. The predominating IP in this design is from outside ETA/Valjoux. All the tricky side of it, the tolerancing, productionisation and so on was hard won by Valjoux a long time ago. Making it to drawing is easy peasy; simply substituting another material and upgrading with a few bushes and bits and bobs no great shakes. I have no evidence but would surmise Hublot still buy in the geartrain and possibly escapement from ETA. And, you can anglage and polish it till you can see your face think Lemania 2310 in Patek 5070 but it doesnt change its genes and the fact that Hublot had NO part in creating the base clever, super cheap and effective tractor. However, admittedly, what theyve done is at least one step – no lets be generous two steps – up from buying in a finished movement.
This is not an automatic watch, but it’s a pretty cheap and pretty nice-looking Invicta. I don’t like Invicta, personally, but that shouldn’t stop you from ponying up $89 for a pretty classy-looking watch.
Reader James sent me a link to Steel Cake watches, a new watch company in Brooklyn that makes beefy, larger quartz pieces for cheap. Their line-up includes a large, square chrono and an oversized military piece that don’t look like Chinese OEM knock offs, which makes me very happy. Besides, how can you go wrong for $125 a pop?
With 8- and 10-day watches growing more popular, here’s an excellent examination of what makes these “enduring” watches tick.
Endurance: A Brief History of the Long Power Reserve – TimeZone
Another great watchismo find.
This somewhat indistinguishable wristwatch has a very special feature, the hidden compartment containing a scroll on rollers under the dial and movement. By pushing a little release button at the bottom of the case, the watch opens up to reveal the notepaper rolls which can be adjusted by two roller knobs.
THE WATCHISMO TIMES: Secret Compartment Scroll Watch – 1920s Favre Leuba “Notora”
