BaselWorld 2010: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph Calibre 2912

Audemars Piguet expresses archival affection in endless altered ways. Attitude is omnipresent, both as a antecedent of afflatus and as a backlog of invaluable know-how. Certain creations, absorbed with this accustomed bequest while aswell acerb abiding in the abreast era, accept paved the way for absolutely new approaches. They amalgamate attitude and technology, accomplished watchmaking and cutting-edge automated methods. The Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Alarm assuredly belongs to this class of aberrant watches. Its architectonics is innovative, its abstracts are daring, and it beats to the accent of a 100% centralized movement.

Design

- 18-carat blush gold case

- Artificial carbon bezel

- Ceramic acme and pushers

- Openworked dial

Calibre 2912

- High-performance alarm with column-wheel and coupling lever

- Tourbillon composed of added than 70 parts

- 237-hour ability reserve

- Twin fast-rotating barrels

Calibre 2912 is a hand-wound movement absolutely developed and produced by Audemars Piguet. It combines a tourbillon, a column-wheel alarm and a bifold barrel. Its abnormally avant-garde artful is bidding through the abreast appearance of the bridges and the all-embracing architecture. The azure clear exhibition aback provides a absolute appearance of the alarm and coupling bridges accentuating the aboriginal attributes of this movement through their geometrical appearance and atramentous eloxed aluminium material. The finishing is appropriately affected and anxiously executed.

The Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Alarm is advised for connoisseurs of accomplished watchmaking with a audible alternative for admirable mechanisms forth with a affection for beat designs. Their absorption will aboriginal be fatigued to the majestic breeding of the blush gold case with its chip pushpiece guards. The biconcave adorning account at 1,5, 7 and 11 o'clock adds a adult touch, while the alternating satin-brushed and able finishing enhances the clarification and artful address of anniversary surface. The backbone of this archetypal lies chiefly in contrasts. The ablaze afterglow of the blush gold is set off to optimal advantage by the surrounding atramentous zone. The allegorical octagonal bezel with its able hexagonal screws is fabricated of artificial carbon – an ultra-sporty streaked actual alone developed for Audemars Piguet. Widely acclimated in the aeriform industry, it has been acclimatized to the baby admeasurement of the locations and to the acrimonious finishing demands imposed by accomplished watchmaking standards. The pushpieces and the acme are in atramentous ceramics. It is account acquainted that the screw-lock acme is able with a torque-restricting arrangement that avoids the movement getting disproportionately artificial during winding. The punch displays the aforementioned play on contrasts, with the numerals continuing out acutely adjoin its snailed atramentous abject and the atramentous eloxed aluminium of the tourbillon and butt bridges. Symmetry aswell plays a arch role on this dial. The 30-minute adverse is echoed by the open-worked area absolute the tourbillon at 9 o'clock, while the butt cut-outs face anniversary added at 6 and 12 o'clock, amidst by an alluringly accomplished border. The ultimate attenuate data are provided by the blush gold activated numerals and the hour and minute easily with a bright center. The Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Alarm is teamed with a atramentous alligator covering band featuring an AP folding brooch in 18-carat blush gold.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Royal Oak Offshore Tourbillon Chronograph

Reference

26288OF.OO.D002CR.01

Pink gold case, atramentous crocodile covering strap

Movement

Calibre : 2912, hand-wound, two barrels, tourbillon

Total bore : 34.60 mm (15 1/3 lignes)

Casing diameter: 33.80

Thickness : 10.67 mm

30 jewels

328 parts

Up to 237-hour ability reserve

Cadence of the balance: 21,600 accordance per hour (3 Hz)

Finishing: all locations anxiously decorated: hand-polished chamfering; mainplate featuring baby circular-grained motifs, hand-drawn strokes; punch side: atramentous eloxed aluminum tourbillon arch and butt bridges; movement side: alarm arch adorned with Audemars Piguet signature and coupling arch in atramentous eloxed aluminum; snailed and baby circular-grained barrels address the Audemars Piguet signature.

Case
18-carat pink gold, scoops at 1, 5, 7 and 11 o'clock
Forged carbon bezel
Black ceramic crown and pushers
Crown with torque-restricting system
Diameter: 44 mm
Thickness: 16.60 mm
Sapphire crystal exhibition back with Royal Oak Offshore inscription
Water-resistant to 20 meters

Dial
Black, snailed and open-worked at 6, 9 and 12 o'clock
Applied hollowed pink gold numerals with luminescent coating
Black flange
Pink gold hour and minute hands with luminescent coating

Strap
Hand-sewn black alligator leather with large square scales, 18-carat pink gold AP folding clasp

Functions
Hours and minutes
Chronograph with sweep seconds hand and 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock
Flange bearing a tachometric scale

2010 BaselWorld Preview: Blancpain Villeret Moon Phase Wristwatch

Baselworld 2010 marks the 275th Anniversary for Blancpain and is the break for the admission of a new Villeret Collection. The aboriginal alarm from this new alternation to be apparent is a new complete agenda moon-phase archetypal featuring a absolutely defended agenda mechanism, and under-lug correctors, adapted into a half-hunter red gold case.

This new Blancpain Villeret Collection distils aesthetics and complications that accept been at Blancpain’s amount back the aboriginal 1980s. The adumbration and breeding that accept consistently apparent Blancpain’s Villeret models accept been brought advanced in a new way, backed by the abstruse advances accomplished through Blancpain’s abundant investment in movement development over the accomplished several years.

The complete agenda moon-phase has consistently been the signature aggravation for the Villeret Collection. This Blancpain’s absolute centralized automated calibre is adapted with a antithesis aquiver at 28,800 accordance per hour with an antimagnetic basis assembly, and with two barrels guaranteeing it a 72-hour ability reserve. Nearly as circuitous as a abounding abiding calendar, this Villeret archetypal appearance a advocate adjustment for adjusting the break after abhorrence of movement damage, behindhand of the time of day. To facilitate ambience of the indications, Blancpain has able the new Villeret alarm with its patented under-lug correctors. This not alone leaves the abandon of the watches with a appreciably authentic finish, absolute by the attendance of adjusters, but aswell agency that changes can be able with one’s feel tips instead of acute a committed tool.

For the aboriginal archetypal of the new Villeret Collection, Blancpain has autonomous for a 40 mm red gold half-hunter case and a busy irised dial.

Reference: 6664.3642.55B

2010 BaselWorld Preview: Harry Winston Project Z6 24 Hours Alarm

Featuring a zalium case – a actual acclimated alone in watchmaking by Harry Winston – Project Z6 announces the accession of a new aggravation in the collection: a 24-hour anxiety on a hand-wound movement distinctively developed for this anxiety and absolute to Harry Winston. Adjusted by the crown, the striking-mechanism for the anxiety is activated by a activate at 4 o’clock. The hammer, which is anchored to the case, can be admired through an aperture on the dial, while the solid ellipsoidal gong produces optimal resonance. Thanks to its two barrels – one for the movement, the added for the striking-mechanism – Project Z6 has a 72-hour ability reserve. And analogous the complication of the 18-level movement, the askance punch reveals two overlapping disks that affectation the time and the alarm’s striking-mechanism. This alternation is bound to 300.

Movement: Hand-wound, 340 components, 45 jewels, Côtes de Genève decoration, hand-chamfered bridges, 72-hour power reserve
Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, alarm, double day/night hour indicator
Case: Zalium (zirconium-based alloy), 44 mm
Sapphire crystal
Water-resistant to 100 m
Dial Anthracite or silvered, 18 levels and 5 different kinds of finishing
Opening on the alarm hammer
Bracelet/Strap Black rubber with zalium buckle

2010 BaselWorld Preview: Maurice Lacroix Pontos Decentrique Phased De Lune

A aggregate of mechanics and architecture, the Pontos Décentrique Phases de Lune liberates time from orthodoxy. In a amphitheater of adventurous innovations, the aboriginal arena is acted out at 10 o’clock on an askance dial, area a new and different individual duke advance the minutes, while the boring hours arise at a added comfortable clip on a disk. In the additional scene, two superposed disks at 4 o’clock appearance the phases of the moon and announce day and night. The final scene, conceivably the grandest of them all, takes abode at 6 o’clock: the date is acutely apparent in a metallized azure clear window on a deejay whose patented acknowledgment arrangement has been distinctively developed in-house. Series bound to 500.

Movement: Automatic, ML 122 calibre, 28,800 vib/h, 4 Hz, 28 jewels, rhodium-plated, circular-grained, hand-decorated and snailed finishing with Côtes de Genève motifs, 38-hour power reserve
Functions: Hours, minutes, date, moon phases and age of the moon, day/night indicator
Case: Titanium, sand-blasted finishing, 45 mm
Convex sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating on both sides
Screw-down and numbered sapphire crystal back
Water-resistant to 50 m
Dial: Black off-center with openings on the hour disk at 10 o’clock and moon phases and day/night indicator at 4 o’clock
Indication of number of days to next full moon at 4 o’clock
Integrated metallized sapphire crystal on the date at 6 o’clock
Large hour numerals and minute hand coated with C1 white Superluminova creating a blue luminescent effect
Bracelet/Strap Black genuine alligator, black calfskin lining with titanium folding clasp

2010 BaselWorld Preview: Movado Mastera

With a architecture durably abiding in the automated and architectural announcement of the Bauhaus movement, the new Movado Masterä accumulating presents a new administration for the Museum’s iconic dial. Asymmetrical with a matte atramentous or white dot-textured motif, it explores a new angle of “the amphitheater aural a circle”, giving it a altered ambit and structure. With its arched center, the allegorical dot at twelve takes on the actualization of a pushpiece. The men's adaptation of the Master, which houses an automated movement with the emblematic “M” rotor, appearance bright hour-markers; the ladies’ version, on the added hand, offers a array of jewelery settings and houses a quartz movement.

Movement: ETA automatic, 25 jewels, 39-hour ability reserve
Functions: Hours and minutes
Case: Stainless steel, 44 mm
Black azure bezel
Luminescent hour markers
Scratch-resistant azure clear with autogenous anti-reflective treatment
Sapphire back
Water-resistant to 300 m
Dial: Matt white or atramentous on dot-textured motif
Asymmetrical autogenous circle
Bracelet/Strap: Dot-textured atramentous or bland white elastic with animate folding clasp
Other versions
Ladies’ models: 34 mm, quartz movement, diamond-set (water-resistant to 50m) or apparent (water-resistant to 300 m). Bezel set with 130 full-cut precious stones (0.845 ct), or diamond-set bezel and diamond-paved punch (1.415 cts), or diamond-set bezel and design hour markers (0.901 ct).

2010 BaselWorld Preview: Glashutte Senator Sixties Panorama Date

Senator Sixties Panorama Date - Stylish Design

It alone takes a glance to admit the 1960s. This amazing period’s apparent attending and feel lives on in the movies and the music, architectonics and architecture we still adore today.

German architecture from the 1960s reflects the era and stands afar in a apple of its own, beautiful in a retro-modern way, affected and independent. An accurate accolade to the spirit of the times, Glashütte Original’s Senator Sixties Panorama Date celebrates the a lot of agitative and arresting decade of the 20th century.

The Senator Sixties Panorama Date combines unparalleled arete in acceptable automated watch authoritative with a alluringly evocative ‘vintage sixties’ design.

Striking and beautiful at once, the appropriate data and blueprint of the punch arm-twist the appropriate attending of the nineteen sixties.

The Senator Sixties Panorama Date is accessible with a satin-finished or galvanized atramentous or argent dial.

The satin-finished argent archetypal presents atramentous Arabic numerals, rose gold hands, diamond-cut hour markers and the date in atramentous on white.


The domed, galvanized atramentous punch gives pride of abode to the panorama date affectation and appearance alluringly august argent Arabic numerals at hours 3, 6, 9 and 12, cautiously complemented by a accomplished atramentous minute ring. Gently arching, white gold hour, minute and abnormal easily and diamond-cut hour markers enhance the simple breeding of the design.

The able stainless animate case and a finely-worked atramentous Louisiana Alligator covering band complete this superb 20th-century best design.

The shaped azure bright case aback aboriginal apparent on the Senator Sixties models is

a affection of the Senator Sixties Panorama Date as well, enabling a bright appearance of the Caliber 39-47 automated movement and its aquiver weight, crafted in 21k gold.

Reference:

39-47-01-02-04 (silver dial)

39-47-03-02-04 (black dial)

Details:

Stainless animate case;

Diameter: 42 mm / height: 12.4 mm; waterproof up to 3 ATM

Sapphire bright (on both abandon anti-reflective);

Bottom: Azure bright (inside anti-reflective)

Hands: rose or white gold with beaming spots on the hours,

Automatic Movement Caliber 39-47

Hour, minute and additional central, panorama date at 6 o’clock;

Diameter: 30.95 mm / height: 5.9 mm

Oscillating frequency: 28.800 A/h; Power reserve: 40 hours (+/- 5%); collapsed spring, Incabloc shock protection, askew edges, able animate parts, Glashütte three-quarter bowl with band finish, skeletonized rotor with 21-ct gold cadence weight, swan-neck accomplished adjustment.

2010 BaselWorld Preview: Glashutte Original Panomaticlunar XL

PanoMaticLunar XL - Beneath is more

A account of principle: beneath is more. Minimalism. Modern design. Function takes on form, and blush is adapted into a attenuate ambit of grays. The PanoMaticLunar XL. The quintessential understatement.

The PanoMaticLunar XL presents the archetypal curve and attending of the PanoMatic XL models in an understated, affecting form.

Set aural the galvanized matt gray punch are the appropriate askance hour/minute and accessory abnormal dials, cautiously formed and galvanized in the aforementioned aphotic gray hue.

The affected moon appearance affectation presents a animated argent moon and stars adjoin a aerial argent sky.

Applied white gold Arabic numerals advertence hour 12 are affected by white gold hour markers and white gold hour, minute and abnormal hands.

Enhancing the minimalist architecture is the visually acute panorama date display, whose white numerals on a aphotic gray arena present the date after the charge for a bifold window.

The 42 mm stainless steel case offers both polished and satin-finished surfaces and is held securely in place by a finely-worked gray alligator strap.

At the heart of the new PanoMaticLunar XL is the Caliber 90-02 automatic movement.

Its finely finished elements, the three-quarter plate, swan-neck fine adjustment, Glashütte ribbing and sunburst decoration, characteristic of the fine art of mechanical watch making at Glashütte Original, are clearly visible through
a sapphire crystal case back.

Reference: 90-02-36-12-05

Case Diameter: 42 mm
Height: 12.5 mm
Case Material: Stainless steel
Waterproof up to: 3 ATM
Glass: Sapphire crystal, on both sides anti-reflective
Bottom: Sapphire crystal, inside anti-reflective
Movement: Calibre 90-02
Dimensions: Diameter: 32.6 mm, Height: 7 mm
Balance: screw balance with 18 weighted gold screws
Oscillating frequency: 28.800 A/h
Power reserve: 42 hours (+/- 5%)
Balance spring: flat spring
Shock protection: Incabloc
Additional details: Automatic movement, dial grey, hour, minute and small second decentralized, panorama date, moon phase silver/silver, second stop, exquisitely finished movement, polished steel parts, beveled edges, blued screws, Glashütte three-quarter plate with stripe finish, balance bridge hand-engraved, eccentric positioned and skeletonized rotor with Glashütte stripe finish, rotor with 21k gold oscillation weight, Duplex swan-neck fine adjustment.