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Jomashop Black Automatic Watch Winder with Blue LED's
Power Dressing
Watch by Cartier I only like automatic watches, which is a strange little anachronism. It's a Cartier Santos given to me by my wife as a wedding present and I love it. It's one of two watches I own - the other is a Breitling, which I wear when I'm doing something a little more robust than anchoring a TV show (I used to fly a plane and it's an aviator watch). The Cartier is more understated and I wear it on TV; the other one attracts more attention because it's big and chunky.
18th century watches still keeping time
A.L. Breguet supplied the self-winding (or automatic) watches purchased by Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and several high-ranking personalities at the court of Versailles. The doomed French Queen was his most faithful patron, even ordering a watch from him while imprisoned; his most famous commissioned work is the No. 160 dubbed the "Marie-Antoinette," which was completed in 1827 - four years after his death and 34 years after the intended customer's beheading. The Marie Antoinette was stolen in 1983 from a Jerusalem museum and recovered in 2007, just as Breguet president Nicolas G. Hayek was completing a replica based on archived sketches and notations (the reproduction is currently accessible, whereas the original is still tied up in litigation).
Four unique Breguet tour-billon watches are available in the Philippines - the Classique 5335 Tourbillon Messidor with hand-wound Cal. 554.3 (18-carat rose-gold case, with sapphire-crystal caseback); the Marine 5837 Tourbillon Chronograph with silicon escapement with hand-wound mechanical Cal. 558 SQ2 (18-carat pink gold case); the Tradition 7047 Grande Compli-cation-Fusee Tourbillon with hand-wound Cal. 569 (yellow gold case); and the Classique's newest incarnation, the Tour-billon Classique Grand Complication Twin Rotating Tourbillons with Cal. 588 (950 platinum case with sapphire caseback, a ring-shaped dial forming a flange in 18- carat silver gold, and at the back of the movement is a hand-engraved drawing representing the solar system). Prices range from HK$1.1 million- HK$3 million.
"We didn't remake it, we made a new movement; it took us one year and a half to make the new movement. But with Breguet it is always about the usefulness of the complication, not just a question of aesthetics; it's more than a complication of triple or quadruple tourbillon, but to keep the identity and the heritage of the Breguet watch. Of course, it is futile to make a complication that people won't buy," said Mr.
Power Dressing
Watch by Cartier I only like automatic watches, which is a strange little anachronism. It's a Cartier Santos given to me by my wife as a wedding present and I love it. It's one of two watches I own - the other is a Breitling, which I wear when I'm doing something a little more robust than anchoring a TV show (I used to fly a plane and it's an aviator watch). The Cartier is more understated and I wear it on TV; the other one attracts more attention because it's big and chunky.
18th century watches still keeping time
A.L. Breguet supplied the self-winding (or automatic) watches purchased by Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and several high-ranking personalities at the court of Versailles. The doomed French Queen was his most faithful patron, even ordering a watch from him while imprisoned; his most famous commissioned work is the No. 160 dubbed the "Marie-Antoinette," which was completed in 1827 - four years after his death and 34 years after the intended customer's beheading. The Marie Antoinette was stolen in 1983 from a Jerusalem museum and recovered in 2007, just as Breguet president Nicolas G. Hayek was completing a replica based on archived sketches and notations (the reproduction is currently accessible, whereas the original is still tied up in litigation).
Four unique Breguet tour-billon watches are available in the Philippines - the Classique 5335 Tourbillon Messidor with hand-wound Cal. 554.3 (18-carat rose-gold case, with sapphire-crystal caseback); the Marine 5837 Tourbillon Chronograph with silicon escapement with hand-wound mechanical Cal. 558 SQ2 (18-carat pink gold case); the Tradition 7047 Grande Compli-cation-Fusee Tourbillon with hand-wound Cal. 569 (yellow gold case); and the Classique's newest incarnation, the Tour-billon Classique Grand Complication Twin Rotating Tourbillons with Cal. 588 (950 platinum case with sapphire caseback, a ring-shaped dial forming a flange in 18- carat silver gold, and at the back of the movement is a hand-engraved drawing representing the solar system). Prices range from HK$1.1 million- HK$3 million.
"We didn't remake it, we made a new movement; it took us one year and a half to make the new movement. But with Breguet it is always about the usefulness of the complication, not just a question of aesthetics; it's more than a complication of triple or quadruple tourbillon, but to keep the identity and the heritage of the Breguet watch. Of course, it is futile to make a complication that people won't buy," said Mr.
