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25 FANTASTIC HOURS

These watches are not designed to just watch them time. This is a work of art and a masterpiece of engineering.
To see what time it is, there are the usual hours. Among watchmakers around the world they are called «tool watch» - Watch tool, or «watch watch» - Watch the clock. Clock, about which we describe in this material - "kinetic sculptures" the best masters of their craft. They are bought by connoisseurs, regardless of the price space, and carefully stored in their collections.
Each year, the ranks of amazing clocks replenished. From this set we selected for you 25 of the best samples of the past three years.

Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage

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25 fantastic hours
25 fantastic hours
Model Zenith Christophe Colomb Hurricane Grand Voyage dedicated to the great Christopher Columbus to the shores of this American continent.
All items decor watches are made and painted by hand. At six o'clock position on both sides stands a glass bowl with a tourbillon.
Swiss movement with manual winding consists of 939 parts, the strap is made of alligator leather with triple folding clasp in 18-carat pink gold.
Limited edition of ten copies.

Geo.Graham Tourbillon Orrery

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Solar system on one hand conceived Isaac Newton, George Graham as early as 1713. On the anniversary of the scheme and were released Tourbillon Orrery.
In the center of the dial located tourbillon, which shines in the middle of the diamond - this is the sun.Around him the planets move: sapphire earth with his companion rhodium Moon, Mars and ruby. While driving the precious "planets" in orbit hours equal to the real turnover of around the sun.
Counter years on the rear panel indicates the hours correction for planets (Moon for 7 years for the Earth 1156 years and 25 years for Mars). The watch has a scale and zodiacal calendar that will perform well for 300 years.
Model is only available to collectors.
The cost - about $ 350,000.

Jacob & Co. Epic SF24

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Non-standard indicator of time zones - "superstructure" above the dial - is very different reactions among connoisseurs: from admiration to resentment. It is similar to the information board at the airport, which displays the city and the difference in hours. The city changed by pressing a button on the left, making a total 24. This option is ideal for those who travel a lot.
There are versions in white and pink gold, high-tech titanium. Power reserve 40 hours.
Cost - from $ 80,000 to $ 100,000 (depending on the case).

U-Boat U-65

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25 fantastic hours
Italo Fontana wanted to bring back a little of the sublime in our society and created a minimalist model of watch that, as it should have been in the XVI century, a chain attached to the pants. More than anything from the 16th century in the U-65 no. The rest - is rampant futurism and exclusive. The same chain made by a specially developed scheme.
Dial with three time zones is made of a titanium alloy has chronograph.
Total of 99 pieces.

Christophe Claret X TREM-1

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The first model chronographs X TREM-1 - fusion of aesthetics and technological innovation. The first thing that catches the eye is the flying tourbillon. This effect is achieved by tilting the tourbillon in relation to the dial 30 °.
Two hollow steel sphere encased in tubes of sapphire glass on the right and the left, move the most mysterious way. They have no support and operate only under the influence of magnetic fields. Wherein two magnets arranged so that no harmful effects on the course of hours.
Chronograph consists of 419 parts and has a margin of 50 hours.
Cost - from $ 270,000 to $ 300,000.

Romain Jerome. Steampunk Auto 100th Anniversary

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The main feature Steampunk Auto 100th Anniversary - genuine metal casing of the sunken "Titanic", used in the housing and second indicator, which resembles the blade of the ship. The idea is not new, but it looks powerful and demand.
The back cover is decorated with a medallion pattern reminiscent of the 100-year anniversary of the collapse of the "Titanic", in honor of that and released the model. The dial is integrated directly into the mechanism and is protected by a sapphire crystal. Black arrows reminiscent of the anchor of "Titanic".The watch is released in a limited edition of 100 copies.
The cost - up to $ 30,000.

Magelluna

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The focus of the new model Magelluna from Magellan Watch - dial decorated by hand. Under the sapphire dome is realistic hemisphere of the Moon, which are seen on the surface of craters and traces of meteorites. Branded curved arrows accurately along the contour of the hemisphere and show they are, of course, the earthly. Steel body model has a black wear resistant coating.

Harry Winston Histoire de Tourbillon No.3

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The third model series Histoire de Tourbillon is the result of complex synchronization between the rotational speed, the masses involved elements, the force of inertia and even resonance.
Internal double tourbillon carriage biaxial makes a revolution in 40 seconds, and external - for 120 seconds. Second, single-axis tourbillon quietly makes a complete rotation in 36 seconds. The whole ensemble is connected into a single unit balancing differential.
The housing is 77-component three-dimensional structure of zaliuma, zirconium alloy and white gold.Indicator disk 50-hour power reserve decorated with sapphires and citrines.
Limited edition of 20 copies.
The cost - about $ 700,000.

De Bethune DB28

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Important in this model - innovation. Firstly, the "floating ears" of titanium which are able to follow the shape of the wrist. With this watch always sit nice and comfortable.
The second innovation - the "triple parachute system" that protects the movement from shocks. This titanium bridge, stay on springs - you can see it at the bottom of the dial.
DB28 are available in several versions - in various combinations of gold, anthracite and titanium. At 6 o'clock in the small window is an indicator of the phase of the moon - it is so precise that errs on the day only after 122 years.
Cost - $ 85,000.

Harry Winston Opus Eleven

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25 fantastic hours
In 2011, Harry Winston presented a model of the eleventh in a series of Opus. The watch is made in the form of a bizarre combination of three panels of cylindrical shape, located at different levels, two of which are infused with their axes in the main panel. One consists of two discs with scales that show minutes and tens of minutes, and the second shows the operation of a large balance wheel made of titanium.
Opus Eleven visual image is made ​​in the spirit of abstract art. The main dial is composed of a plurality of rollers and gears, which in a chaotic manner are 24 panels with halves of numbers, every hour "exploding" and collected in the appropriate number in the center of the board. The back panel is made ​​of transparent glass and three-layer exposes the details of the mechanism 566 to 155 stones.
In a limited edition series of 111 included in all copies.
Cost - from $ 230,000.

Urwerk 110

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Futuristic clock Ur-110 - a work of the Swiss company Urwerk. Clad in titanium case, they resemble a planetary companion with three interconnected modules.
From 0 to 60 minutes displayed in the right side of the clock and moves vertically downwards. The very same arrow shows the time of day. This arrangement allows glances at his watch imperceptibly.
The dial is protected by a sapphire crystal. On the back of the cabinet has two charge air "turbine", which are designed to minimize wear when driving hours and serve for automatic winding system.
Cost - $ 130,000.

Da Vindice Tourbillon Barometer

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Buying Da Vindice Tourbillon Barometer allow never be wrong about the weather. This is the first mechanical watch with a tourbillon that measure atmospheric pressure. Miniature barometer is located at around six hours. For the first time a similar clock byly released Swiss firm back in 2010, but the exhibition Baselworld-2013 provided updated model of the limited edition of 50 copies.
At around ten o'clock there is a power reserve indicator. Watches are equipped with Swiss automatic movement with automatic winding and a power reserve of 42 hours.
Tourbillon Barometer is available in two versions: 18-carat rose or white gold. Water Resistant - 3 ATM.
Cost - $ 210,000.

The Gagarin Tourbillon

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Watch issued for the anniversary of the first manned flight into space.
Built-in magnifying glass allows us to estimate the smallest details of decoration of the dial, it rises and falls. Tourbillon watch Gagarin Tourbillon rotates around its axis in 60 seconds and makes a complete revolution around the dial for 108 minutes. And this figure - also a reference to 108 minutes, during which Gagarin circled the globe.
Tourbillon itself like a curved suspended bridge that resembles an obelisk mounted near the city of Engels, where he landed the "East."
Gagarin Tourbillon watches were issued in a limited edition of 50 platinum pieces.
Cost - $ 405,000.

Eva Leube Ari

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To develop curved hours Eva Leube company spent four years. In order to choose the perfect angle "curvature", measured set of wrist and calculated the average "curvature".
Watchmakers companies brilliantly realized curved mechanism that fit perfectly into the case of sapphire glass with hand-engraved 18-karat gold or platinum 950.
All the dials are also made of 18-carat gold, and arrows - blue steel.
The cost - up to $ 126,000.

Ludovic Ballouard Upside Down

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Independent watchmaker Ludovic Ballouard developed a new version of its model Upside Down («upside down"). The name is connected with inverted display digits, except the one that indicates the current hour.
Dial Upside Down equipped with one of the central arrow to indicate the minutes. It is not the minute markings. 6 hours there is an additional dial with second hand. Closes dial sapphire crystal.
Strap with platinum buckle is made of dark blue skin.
Cost - from $ 55,000.

Nord Zeitmaschine Quickindicator

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Swiss Daniel Nebel probably wanted to speed up the time. On the new model Quickindicator minute hand makes a turn from "60" to "60" exactly one hour, but on her way - a lot of intricate loops, whereby the arrow has to run faster than conventional watches.
This clock with the minute hand of the fastest in the world.
Cost - $ 12,000.

Greubel Forsey GMT 3D titanium Globe

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On the dial GMT established a three-dimensional model of a rotating globe, which provides an indication of the global time.
Globe is fixed at around the South Pole and at night makes a full turn counterclockwise, which corresponds to the actual motion of the planets. Equator "Earth" can be considered through a window on the side of the housing.
On the back cover is a CD with the names of 24 cities, each of which represents one of the time zones.In the middle is the scale of summer time, and outside - the local.
Cost - $ 650,000.

Hublot MP 05 tribute to Ferrari

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Dream owners "Ferrari": powerful engine under the hood and a copy - on hand. Work on the clock ran parallel to the work on the super car "Maranello". The shape resembles a transparent sapphire glass bonnet Ferrari, and the mechanism - the engine. The back cover is made of titanium coated with a heavy-duty black PVD. Dynamics adds a rubber strap with titanium buckle.
The mechanism consists of 637 moving parts, and the tourbillon ensures 100% accuracy. 11 shafts provide a power reserve of 50 days. Large numbers painted on each cylinder Fotoluminiscent pigment, so the time can be seen in the dark.
The watch is released in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies.
Cost - $ 345,000.

ArtyA Son of a Gun Target

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The focus of the Swiss brand watches ArtyA - target and dust from the powder, mixed with gold. "Ears" are decorated with 32 diamonds that conflicts with the military theme, but adds luxury. Watches are equipped with automatic Swiss movement, which is in limbo. On the back side ArtyA Target also flaunts target.
The cost - up to $ 22,000.

Devon Tread 1- Exoskeleton

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These watches were designed explicitly fans of steampunk. Specialists Devon made open and transparent body, leaving it is based ballistic polycarbonate, bullet-proof and scratch resistant.
The watch is available in two versions - in white and pink gold. Belts, played the role of the dial, in Exoskeleton made of a transparent material.

Horological Machine No.5. HM5

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25 fantastic hours
Model MB & F HM5 was nicknamed «On The Road Again» for two reasons. Firstly, the watch designed especially for drivers. Second, the design of the case resembles a fastback with back slit windows - as in the famous car Lamborghini Miura. These blades can be opened and closed by means of a small lever.With this light falls on the figures and elements coated svetonakoplyayuschim element.
The body is made in the form of a wedge that makes it easy to check the time without taking your hands off the wheel. Special prism sapphire crystal displays the numbers on the side from which it is viewed, and increases them by 20%.
All the world will be sold 66 copies.
Cost - $ 63,000.

Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater

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Limited model Bird Repeater from the Swiss company Jaquet Droz is a symbol of life in every sense. When you run the repeater trigger 8 different animated mechanisms: move not only birds, but even the chicks and eggs in the nest.
The body is made of 18-carat rose or white gold, dial - black onyx. Sapphire crystal is mounted on the front side of the body and on the back cover.
Limited edition of 8 copies.
The cost - up to $ 500,000.

Konstantin Chaykin "Lunokhod"

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This model is the only one Russian watchmakers adopted in AHCI (Academie horlogere des createurs independants), Konstantin Chaykin.
"Lunokhod" named in honor of the glorious achievements of the Soviet space program in the study of the Earth's satellite. The main novelty is the piece ball with a diameter of 12mm, symbolizing the moon made ​​of Damascus steel vutsa Indian (Wootz). It, like the earth's shadow gradually closes the silver hemisphere with a black rhodium-plated, revolving around it. Such a display of lunar phases used for the first time in watchmaking.
The cost - about $ 800,000.

Chopard 201 Sarat

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The most expensive watch in the world worth $ 25 million, and on their background clock for half a million or more so for 100 thousand dollars does not look quite so and expensive. But much more beautiful than this unbridled luxury of 874 diamonds.
Cost - $ 25 million.

Haldimann H9 Reduction

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This watch, we would like to introduce you to the latest, because they challenge the entire watch industry and, in a sense, high society, with its glamor and luxury. A sort of hour trolling the level of "God."
Haldimann H9 Reduction feature a flying tourbillon caliber and H.Zen-1 with hand winding, the frequency of vibrations which reaches 18,800 per hour. But see the technical perfection can not be as elementary and see the time. The dial is protected in every sense of the opaque blue-black sapphire crystal. The owner can only hear the continuous operation of gears and look at your reflection in the black "mirror."
The brand owner Bill Haldimann still did a favor for admirers of his talent - the back panel cover is made of a translucent material.
Cost - $ 175,000.

E'llipse Traveler Watch

Minimal & Sleek ? find out. Ood-les of technology? find out, Large screen? find out, find out and find out The “E’llipse Traveler Watch” is the watch to finish all wristwatches. y? Becoz it has a elegant processor & the latest mathematical in human machine learning. Yes it will make you to learns! E’llipse Traveler watch knows what you actually want & keeps you updated. Thats not all. Bluetooth & ZigBee modules enable indoor navigation, which is an impossible element for the GPS. UI is based in it - 1 for every kind; weather, time, calendar & a customized API lets developers get invented.

Which watch will Obama wear to the White House? Tag Heuer?


Now that Obama has been elected the 44th President of the United States, people want to know what is it that made Obama succeed in his victory. Is it his magnetic charisma or his ability to convey his policies in an articulate manner? Is it his policies of change that won over the younger generation or is it his image?

Obama's clean-cut polished image definitely made an impression and a definite part of his image was his watch.
After much early speculation it was later confirmed what watch Obama wore on the campaign trail. The watch in question was most definitely a Tag Heuer Series 1500 Two-Tone Diver. Here Obama is in the photo above campaigning in New Hampshire with his Tag Heuer Divers Watch.

I found the same watch for sale on Ebay except with a two tone bracelet. Obama's Watch has a brown leather band. Obama seemed to have gotten the watch sometime in 1991 or 1992 and wore it for the next 15 years. A long time to wear a single watch which says something about Obama and about a Tag Heuer Watch. His Tag Heuer Watch accompanied him on the most incredible journey to the most coveted position in the entire United States, and being that Obama is but 47 years old and will be when he begins his presidency, the passage of time that was displayed on his watch, was used by Obama wisely. Very wisely.

Info about the Tag Heuer Series 1500 Divers Watch:
In 1991, Tag Heuer introduced the Series 1500 as "professional sports watches" and "first and foremost functional pieces of diving equipment"
  1. The Watch was available in three sizes.
  2. The Series was discontinued in 1998. (Maybe with all this hype - Tag Heuer should rethink the series)
  3. In 1991 Obama's watch would have cost $575.00
  4. Distinguishing features are the raised triangles on the bezel with a triangle displaying a single dot above the 12 'o'clock position.

Okay! Now I know what you thinking. You thinking that I have gotten this post all wrong. All the latest pictures have Obama wearing a large faced dark watch with white hour markers and black leather strap. For Obama's 46th birthday, on August 4, 2007, he received a gift from the Secret Service Agents who were protecting him on his Presidential Campaign - a large, black-dialed chronograph bearing the shield of the Secret Service. This watch is only available for Secret Service employees at their Secret Service Store located at their Headquarters in DC. Manufactured by Jorg Gray, the Chronograph sports a tri-compax design (24 hour indicator at the 3 'o'clock position, seconds at the 6 'o'clock position and chronograph minutes at the 9 'o'clock position) A quick set date is located at the 4:30 position. Markers and hands are luminous.

So as Barack Obama heads to the White House on the first day of his presidency, what watch will he wear? Will it be his trusty Tag Heuer who has kept time for him year in and year out? Or will it be his birthday present from the Secret Service? Or will it be a new ultra expensive watch given to him by some head of state? I have a hunch it will be the Tag Heuer. Just a hunch.

Dyson Energy Bracelet








Dyson Energy Bracelet is a gadget that uses Seebeck effect to harness energy and power your mobile phones for a few precious minutes more, when you desperately need it. Lemme explain a bit: The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa. This typically includes three separately identified effects, the Seebeck effect, the Peltier effect, and the Thomson effect. This is coz three different guys discovered it around the same time, however Peltier–Seebeck and Thomson effects are reversible and Joule heating is not.

The designers explain:

Thanks to the Seebeck effect, the temperature difference between the surface which touch the skin and the other which is in the ambient air allows to produce electricity that is stocked in a battery. When the user needs to recharge a mobile device, he plugs it into the Dyson Energy through a micro-USB port (universal connector imposed to constructors in 2012) and can have some additional minutes in use.

Firstly, we have tested the Peltier element in its most common use: i.e. the creation of heat and coldness on the same component (Seebeck effect), and we have noticed that there was electricity production. We have met an engineer who allowed us to evolve on our project while explaining us that there was not possible to plug the elements serially. Therefore, we chose to work with only one element. As a result of many calculations, we have validated this technology payoff regarding our concept. For instance, some hours are sufficient to power its cellphone for a dozen minutes of communication.

Luxury Watch





Louis Vuitton’s Tambour watch collection has enhanced with the adjoin of the Tambour Mysterieuse, a watch made of luxury gold and steel, but still in the immediately recognizable tambour drum outline, this completely mechanical watch deals in the horological magic stuff. Calibre LV115 is another addition in this series which has been developed, created and assembled in the workshop of this brand in Switzerland. This exceptional piece can reserve 8-day power and there is nothing redundant about the mechanical movement and healthiness stands in bleak contrast to its ephemeral nature. The hour and minute indicators generally placed on completely transparent mobile sapphire discs.

Goodness Of Laser Lights On A Watch




I officially declare it the era of weird, whacky and un-conventional watches! Why else do think the Invisible Shot Laser Watch is here. Face of it, it’s a normal bracelet lookin thang, but press a discreet button and a laser light reflects the time on your wrist. Certainly for the night-club-hopping-teeny-boppers, who love their laser pointers.

Tick Tack Music Watch





We’ve evolved from Walkman to iPod (plus whatever else there is, let’s be honest) and from wrist watch to cellphone-held-clock. Now. What would have happened if instead of the clock merging with the cellphone, the clock merged with the music device? We’ve got wrist tunes, contact!

Let’s have a short (or long!) discussion here about the combination of things. As things stand, the most common place I find people hold their time is in their cellphone. On their portable phone! Imagine that. I couldn’t have say, 15 year ago. I wouldn’t have believed you. What if things had gone differently than they have - what if instead, time stayed on your wrist, and music went there too?

This concept is called “Tick Tack Music Watch,” and I’ve got to say it’s pretty cute. Like a bunny rabbit cute. Designer A.Tnokovski plans on marketing it to “teens” and I think he’d be right.

I’m thinking as soon as phone service becomes as “free” as internet service, we go ahead and build that in to Tick Tack 2, and we’ll be in business.