The Equation of Time

 Audemars Piguet

Ladies and gentlemen I present one of my dream watches.

Ok so I need to gain some self control, I musn't sell all my belongings to acquire this beauty.

But it truly is hard to resist with this timepiece.

This time piece is named Jules Audemars Equation of Time.

It's prices arounf a $100,000 (anyone know where I can finance this watch for maybe 10-20 years with 0% interest? no? ok I will continue to with my crazy fantasies.)

The exquisite Jules Audemars Equation of Time has a case with of 43 mm

with a thickness of 11.7 mm.

Water Resistance: 20m (Go swimming in this beauty? oh no no)

The dial has gold applied Roman Numerals in Pink,Yellow and White as well as the hands.

There is also a skeleton version that of course has no numerals but has platinum hands.

With a caliber 2120/2808

Glare Proofed Sapphire crystal on both the back and front.

The case comes in a variety of options, Platinum, Pink Gold, Yellow Gold, or White Gold.

It comes with a matching buckle as well and a Hand-stitched «large square scale» crocodile strap.

This Watch was made in such perfection that it is truly hard to decide between which style looks better.

The beautiful movement consist of 423 components many of which are made of 21 karat gold as well as 41 jewels.

Giving this timepiece a power reserve of 40 hours

This timepiece is very accurate thanks to the 41 jewels.

This Watch does it all as well sunrise and sunset times, equation of time, perpetual calendar, astronomical moon, hours, minutes

Now my beloved watch that isn't on my wrist as of today (Probably won't be anytime soon)

is so special it has its own movie.

Yup a watch with its own movie and no I don't mean the 3 minute videos other watches.

This timepiece got a full 15 minutes.

They effensiced the equation of time feature very well.

For those of you who don't know what that is its

the difference between "true" solar time (that of Nature) and "mean" solar time (that of Man). 

The video and the entire collection of watches will be below.

If anyone has one and doesn't want it I will take it out of your hands no hassles.

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Silvered dial with yellow gold numerals hands and case with a brown strap

Silvered Dial with White gold numerals hands and case with a black strap

Silvered Dial with rose gold numeral hands and case with  abrown

Vacheron Constantin Shows Us The Beauty Of Skeleton Movements

Another SIHH watch this one is from Vacheron Constantin

Before I go on I must admit I am very fond of skeleton movements.

But this one is truly eye catching.

                 Vacheron Constantin MÉTIERS D'ART 

This skeleton movement features Roman Numerals in a very extravagant fashion.

It comes with an external ring which can be either Black,Grey, or Blue; Which are made of Grand Feu opaque enameled 

The Movement has been detailed by hand it is a caliber 4400 SQ and is only 2.8 mm thick and 

consist of 127 parts with 21 jewels.

It produces 28,800 Vibrations per hour and has a power reserve of about 65 hours.

The casing is only 7.5 mm thick and has a diameter of 40 mm and is made of 18k white gold

It comes with an alligator Mississippiensis strap with an 18k white gold buckle.

The watch is water resistant up to about 30 meters.

 If viewing the front of the movement wasn't enough for you no worries, it has a see-through sapphire crystal.

The detail that went to this timepiece is exceptional.

It was hand engraved with such detail its hard to imagine how much time and how delicate it must have been.

 All 3 colors of this model are spectacular and very flashy.

This timepiece tells hours and minutes and you can see every part in the movement bring those actions to live.

Vacheron Constantin truly did great work with this skeleton movement and have made into a piece of art that you can wear and admire on your wrist.

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Cartier Vice President had an Accident!

It's mid week and I thought I should write about a ladies watch for a change.

I don't believe I've ever reviewed a ladies watch on this blog up to date.

I've choosen to write about the Cartier Crash

Why? Well because I found it strange that I haven't written about a ladies watch yet so I decided to write about a watch I found strange.

With a price tag of about $70,000 that could have been spent on the car that instead hit the watch.

 

This watch comes in a 18K pink gold or white gold case set with brilliant-cut diamonds, beaded crown set with a brilliant-cut diamond, silvered opaline dial , blued-steel sword-shaped hands, 18K pink gold bracelet or white gold and if that isn't enough there's one with diamonds, wrist size: 170 mm, mechanical Manufacture movement with manual winding, caliber 8970 MC, Case dimensions: 38.5 mm x 23.1 mm. Thickness: 8.8mm.

Cartier themselves don't have much to say about the latest crash timepiece, I mean who could this watch is.. well strange. But anyhow this is what they said.

Cartier:"Created in 1967 in the heart of Swinging London, the Crash watch captures the incredible energy of the city at that time. With its asymmetrical dial, it revolutionized the esthetic codes of watchmaking history. Consistently released in a very limited series, this legendary piece carries the prestige of its rare nature."

Ok so ladies and gentlemen the history for this timepiece is even weirder. The story goes that a Vice president from the Cartier offices in London, was involved in a fatal car crash. A fire ensued and the occupant along with his watch was caught up in the flames, furthering along the fatality and "melting" the watch on his wrist, a Cartier Bagnoire Alongee, which is shaped like an elongated oval. The watch being melted and mangled took on the shape of a surrealistic watch from a Dali painting. The powers that be at Cartier, found this "watch design" actually inspiring, and decided to introduce is as a new design, and as a tribute to their fallen colleague. Thus the "Crash" watch was born.( in Great Britain the slang for a car accident is "crash")

A few decades after its creation the Cartier Crash became a limited edition timepiece the latest crash model only has 267 limited watches. Odd number of course.

Cartier is known for making beautiful artistic timepieces and indeed this is an artistic timepiece but I still find it strange.

So Cartier took their destroyed Bagnoire Alongee and simply launched it as something new and called it artistic. But it has seem to have caught on and sold well since it's launch in 1967 once it was turned into a limited edition in 1991 it truly caught on with Cartier collectors.

What Watch Should I Write about next?
	Patek Philippe
	Jaeger LeCoultre
	Breitling
	Rolex
	Another Watch Brand

Tag Heuer Watch To Time The Flash

Tag Heuer has two watches that seemed to be made to time how fast  DC hero Flash goes around the earth.

These two models are the Mikrogirder 2000 and Mikrogirder 10000.

These two watches set a new standard for chronograph watches.

I will be talking about the Mikrogirder 10000

These watches carry 3 chronograph readers. At 3 o'clock it has a 1/100th of a second reader, at 12 it has your basic seconds chronograph and then it has a blue central 5/10,000th of a second.

The watch has an Anthracite and Silver dial with a visible linear oscillator, black arabic numerals and hand-applied "10000" at 12. Luminescent markers on the hour and minute hands and the chronograph hands at 3 and 12 are solid rose gold, the logo is also solid rose gold.

This timepiece has a movement with 339 components with 28,800 vibrations an hour and 7,200,000 vibrations with the chronograph feature on.

42 hours of power reserve and 3 minutes for the chronograph.

The case has a diameter of 45 mm and is made of Black titanium carbide.

Tag-Heuer: 

"In early 2012, TAG Heuer’s award-winning team of engineers and watch masters made a radical decision: to start from a blank page, forgetting the hairspring and the balance wheel to repeat, using mechanistic theory, Christian Huygens’ extraordinary accomplishment of 1657— the total reinvention of mechanical watch regulation. The MIKROGIRDER represents a complete departure from the conventional, 3-centuries-old Christiaan Huygens system, which today still reigns over the mechanical watch industry. Instead of a spiral shape in a classical hairspring, it uses a coupling blade/girder and excitatory blade/girder system working with a linear oscillator.
The Mikrogirder system vibrates isochronously at a very small angle, as opposed to a traditional watch, which vibrates at an angle of up to 320 degrees. The advantages are numerous. In a classic spiral hairspring system, the effect of gravity due to mass is a dominant issue. With the MIKROGIRDER, the problem no longer exists. There is no loss of amplitude and the movement’s frequency can be modulated on a very large spectrum of frequency without overburdening the power supply.
The result is a significant increase in precision (division of time) and performance (frequency accuracy and stability). The MIKROGIRDER energy performance will enable TAG Heuer chronographs to attain ultra-high frequencies never before dreamed possible."

 Now I had to search the web to show you just how the 5/10,000th of a second of a feature looks like.

 Flash is known for being fast but it takes him about 1/10th of a second to revolve around the earth by that time this watch would have gone around its dial twice. Which means it revolves around the dial every 1/20th of a second.

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Jaeger-LeCoultre Takes A Unique Travel

So I promised 2 Jaeger-LeCoultre watches today and I'm delivering the second one to you now.

This next watch is the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometre Unique Travel.

Lets start of with what Jaeger-LeCoultre had to say about their time piece.

The first watch to combine user-friendly access to the world's time zones with flexible setting of the time in the destination zone to the nearest minute. This timepiece capitalises on the "Dual Wing" concept, thus avoiding any loss of precision. It displays the reference time together with the time in a second time zone, indicated digitally thanks to a jumping hour disc with the minutes indicated by a hand. A globe at 6 o'clock shows the time zones of the planet with a subtle day/night indicator. Its sapphire crystal case-back reveals the exceptional decoration on the movement.

That's right this is another Dual-Wing concept watch if you haven't read my previous blog where I explain it heres the link Dual Wing Concept

The watch carries a 383 movement with 498 parts to it.

 28800 vibrations an hour a power reserve of 50 hours

With 54 jewels decorating it.

Of course this watch provides Hour-minutes, Seconds, Second time-zone, Jumping Hour, Map of the world, Day/Night indicator and if that wasn't enough it has World time.

The Watch is a nice 42 mm by 13.7 mm

It comes in both White Gold and Rose Gold

with a Alligator Leather strap

The Dial is Silver-Grained

the numerals are Polished Black Nickel

and the hands are Feuille.

The World Map was beautifully done and in such an appealing fashion.

In the back of the watch you can see the movement and the world time feature as well which is written in a very visible manner.

In the front you can see your current time on the right hand side and then your second "Dual Time" time on your left side with a digital display in vibrant red showing you your jumping hour.

 The World Map it is also a Day/Night indicator.

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JLC Counters Gravity Affects, SIHH Jaeger-LeCoultre

JLC Counters Gravity Affects, SIHH Jaeger-LeCoultre 

SIHH is one of my favorite watch events.

My last few post have been about watches released at the SIHH 

This next post will be about.. yes.. another.. watch released at the SIHH

Don't worry guys I'll review watches that come in to us later.

But come on SIHH releases some of the most magnificent watches one can lay their eyes on.

But today I'll be covering 2 Jaeger-LeCoultre

We'll start with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

The Spherotourbillon is part of the Duometre line, a line in which all watches use the Dual Wing concept this concept to put simply uses two power sources one for your time keeping and the other for your regulation and complication needs.

This watch will be sold in very limited quantities, 75 in platinum and an unknown amount of rose gold but it'll be limited as well as stated by Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO. 

Ok so lets explain why there is a Dual Wing concept.

In a watch when you use its features a certain amount of power is used to support them, this can affect your normal features.

Let me show another world example imagine you're on your computer it has say 8 GB and you have your platform and start up programs that use up say 3 GB (That's a lot for just a platform and startup programs I know) then you open a video editing program that uses 4.5 GB you'll notice that your operation on your basic platform might slow down, this is essentially the same for watches.

To resolve this they gave the complication and regulation its own power source so it won't affect the normal time keeping of the timepiece.

Seeing the image above of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon

You can see there are two mainspring sections one labeled Hours/Minutes the other labeled Regulator.

Separating the power source assures high accuracy 

But just to take it a step further in accuracy they used a dual-axis, dual cage tourbillon on a 20° incline.

The fact that it uses two axis means the tourbillon can counteract gravity in a large magnitude of positions.

To make this watch even more exact they've added a flyback seconds button at 2 o'clock which resets your seconds without stopping the watch.

 The Watch has a 382 movement which consist of 460 parts with a 50 hour power reserve.

Jaeger-LeCoultre says the following about their timepiece

"An authentic revolution in the field of Grande Complication models, the Duomètre Sphérotourbillon, stemming from almost 180 years of history and invention unique to Jaeger-LeCoultre, is equipped withan unprecedented multi-axis tourbillon. In addition to the axis of its carriage, the Sphérotourbillon has a second axis inclined at 20° and thereby freeing it from the effects of gravity in all positions. The revolutionary `Dual-Wing` concept featured in Calibre 382 once again paves the way for an original function and makes this exceptional model the first tourbillon watch that is precisely adjustable thanks to the small seconds flyback system."

The watch is beautiful and unique.

on the dial you will find two power reserve indicators.

A Date feature around the hour and minute indicator

A second indicator as well as a dual time feature.

Of course your able to see the beautiful tourbillon on the face of the watch.

Look below to see the The Rose Gold Model and White Gold Model as well as a special model that seems to have a night sky dial which I loved.

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You can now carry a miniature planetarium on your wrist

You can now carry a miniature planetarium on your wrist

As the title suggest you can no carry a miniature planerarium on your wrist

thanks to Van Cleef & Arpels

This watch is so beautiful so mesmerizing so majestic.

The Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight Planétarium Poetic Complication

This SIHH realese features the representation of movement of 6 planets around the sun 

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all beautifully displayed on the dial.

The movement is self winding and contains 396 components

The shooting star circulates the watch every 24 hours and is used as an hour marker.

The bezel allows you to select your own lucky day (If you can wear this beauty you're already lucky)

Using the position of the you can find out the day and month as well.

The case back is decorated with such grace its hard to imagine how much detail and time this timepiece took to make, the oscillating weight itself is decorated with a night sky.

The Watch case is 44 mm and made of rose gold and has a leather strap with a folding buckle.

The planets have the following movements and are made of the following materials.

Mercury: Rotates around the dial every approximately 88 days and is made of serpentine

Venus: Rotates around the dial every approximately 224 days and is made of chloromelanite

Earth: Rotates around the dial every approximately 365 days and is made of turquoise

Mars: Rotates around the dial every approximately 687 days and is made of red jasper

Jupiter: Rotates around the dial in almost 12 years  and is made of blue agate

Saturn:n Rotates around the dial in over 29 years and is made of sugilite

It is true to the actual planets revolution around the sun which is truly extraordinaire.

The Blue star dial goes perfectly with the rose gold casing of the watch.

The selected gems are perfect for their corresponding planets and are easy on the eyes.

The day, month and year can be set using two push buttons and viewed through two apertures on the dial.

Truly a magnificent timepiece that can be admired by everyone not only watch lovers.

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