Apr 30, 2008
The Suunto D9 is the world's first dive computer wristwatch that has incorporated a digital compass and wireless tank data reception. The watch provides all dive critical information in one device. With help of the Suunto D9's optional wireless transmitter, the diver can monitor tank pressure and air consumption data from the wrist.
The digital compass of the Suunto D9 shows the general direction with a graphical compass rose, and the exact bearing with the numerical display.
The Suunto D9 has a titanium case and offers an USB-compatible PC interface and the Suunto Dive Manager 2.0 software.
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Apr 18, 2008
Other Casio i-RANGE features include: 48 cities world time, 5 alarms, stopwatch and EL Backlight.The IRW-100DJ-7AJF is stainless steel, while the IRW-100BJ-1JF has a leather band.
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Feb 22, 2008
In fact, in both its ‘Traditionnelle’ version and its ‘Contemporaine’ version, Vacheron Constantin proposes a form of watchmaking that is timelessly classic, one that could be qualified as a ‘reference’ in the same way we would speak of a reference work, while at the same time it has been re-interpreted, in a very subtle manner, to satisfy today’s taste.
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Feb 22, 2008
Julien Tornare, President of Vacheron Constantin North America also welcomed A-list celebrity Kate Bosworth. Celebrity DJ, DJ Cassidy was spinning some of Clive’s artists’ biggest hits and entertaining the crowd, when Jennifer Hudson was not performing.
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Feb 22, 2008
The Métiers d’art watches underline and pay tribute to the long and passionate relationship that Vacheron Constantin has enjoyed with the various professions within the decorative arts. There will be just 12 sets of four watches of this symbolic collection.
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Feb 22, 2008
Russia has been an important market for Vacheron Constantin since the early 19th century. Present in Moscow with an ‘internal’ boutique and display corners in Saint Petersburg and Ekaterinburg, Vacheron Constantin consider their growth in the Russian market to be strong and ‘healthy’ (double digit growth) given that the Russians are particularly interested in mechanical watch complications
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Feb 22, 2008
We can continue in the same vein, citing in passing the research conducted by TAG Heuer with its highly anticipated V4, or its recent mechanical 360 chronograph, capable of measurements to 100th of a second, a performance never before attained by a gear train system. We can also mention the advances in the domain of materials such as the use of silicon by Patek Philippe.
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Feb 22, 2008
The first exceptional communication instruments bearing the TAG Heuer signature will reflect the functional excellence and advanced design characteristic of the Swiss watch brand. The latter has assigned its teams of designers and watch developers to this project for a full three years, thereby creating a full range of entirely tailor-made mobile phones and related accessories.
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Feb 22, 2008
The report also has the affluent respondents citing Rolex, TAG Heuer and Seiko as the highest-quality brands for men's watches, regardless of price. The wealthy's top picks for ladies' watches put Rolex, Cartier and TAG Heuer at the top of the heap for best ladies' fine watches.
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Feb 22, 2008
To get there, Seiko decided to introduce, each year, new calibres of the Spring Drive family, and to demonstrate its savoir-faire in being able to create exceptional pieces. SPRING DRIVE CHRONOGRAPHSPRING DRIVE GMTIn 2006, the brand presented two new additions to the Spring Drive line - the Spring Drive GMT and the Spring Drive Moon Phase.
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Feb 22, 2008
Japan: Japan is a very important watch producer although it has only four major brands: Seiko, Citizen, Casio and Orient. These companies are highly industrial in nature and are completely different from the small to mid-sized brands that have long reigned in Europe, particularly in Switzerland.
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Feb 22, 2008
In Japan, Seiko has, for a long time, distributed mechanical timekeepers in the haut de gamme market segment.With a selective distribution policy, a strictly controlled network of boutiques (which will gradually pass from about a hundred sales points today to around 200 in mid-2007), a small number of available pieces, high level launches, a whole strategy for moving upmarket has been organized for this special occasion.
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Feb 22, 2008
Founded in 1848, 12 years before the first-ever British Open took place at Prestwick golf course near Glasgow, Omega's involvement in international golf today includes tournament sponsorship and official timekeeping as well as player sponsorship. Omega has been synonymous with the European Masters in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, for the past decade and is now title sponsor of the event.
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Feb 22, 2008
The mini-site covers a short history of brave explorations of our time which Omega has accompanied. The humble vision of creating: "a new type of chronograph, designed for research, industry and sport" has since become the de facto watch for men and women who push the frontiers of science, on earth and in space
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Feb 22, 2008
The exhibition, from 12 July to 25 August, is part of KaDeWes own centenary celebrations as well as an opportunity to highlight the 50th anniversary of the Speedmaster Professional, the legendary Omega chronograph that went to the moon with Neil Armstrong in 1969. During a VIP cocktail party on 11 July and as a curtain-raiser to the exhibition, four extremely sought-after limited edition Speedmasters made especially for its Jubilee year will be sold in a charity auction run by Antiquorum, the worlds leading horological auctioneers.
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Feb 22, 2008
Luminox offered a vast range of rugged timepieces in its Navy Seal Dive and Ultimate Field Chronograph series, and Longines’ LungoMare Chronograph shows what can be achieved in terms of allure. Nautica who produce ‘Architecture for the wrist’ offered a particularly aesthetic model ingeniously entitled the N Tech-083.
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Feb 21, 2008
For the third year running, Jaeger-LeCoultre will be present at all the festival highlights and will extend its patronage with the donation of a series of Reverso watches personalised by a unique engraving. This is to raise funds to restore the italian film 'Ill Feroce Saladino', a cult film released in 1937, and 'Uomini che mascalzoni', one of the films showed at the first edition of the Venice Film Festival in 1932
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Feb 21, 2008
Watches for the air forces Jaeger-LeCoultre produced a Reverso Squadra engraved with the Rua Augusta Arch, in central Lisbon, to commemorate the renovation of the monuments clock, an operation that was funded by the brands Portuguese agent. Each of the buyers of the 32 automatic GMT special JLCs with yellow gold case will have their name engraved inside the monument, near the clock mechanism.
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Feb 21, 2008
So that it beats in a perfectly concentric manner, the guarantee of ideal isochronism, Jaeger-LeCoultres engineers gave it a Phillips terminal curve to which they added a bend in the centre to correct the springs natural tendency to breathe in an off-centre manner. Exceptional aesthetics The description would not be complete without mentioning the tourbillon whose cage is machined from blocks of magnesium, which is substantially lighter than titanium.
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Feb 20, 2008
.. will be introducing some new sculptured watches to reinforce the art theme the company is pushing. Concord will introduce the La Nuit Delirium limited edition to capitalize on the success of the Delirium wat ..
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