With Baselworld 2015 nearing, luxury watch brand Glashütte is releasing new versions of their PanoMaticLunar and PanoReserve watch.

The two, new timepieces are from the watch brand’s popular Pano Collection. They both come in red gold versions with a stylish matte black dial, plus a polished/satin brushed stainless steel edition that features a dark blue dial.

The beautiful watch dial is made in Glashütte Original’s Pforzheim factory. Each watch dial is carefully manufactured using up to 40 different operations. The result in the final product is magnificent, demonstrating both a refined and carefully finished watch dial.

One of the key changes to the new PanoMaticLunar and PanoReserve watches are the colors. There is mysterious black and intense blue. The colors deliver a radiant glow to the new Glashütte watches.

Glashütte Original has designed the two Pano watch models with an off-center placement of both the hour and minute hands, plus the small seconds display. The look is unique and delivers a lasting impression.

The carefully chosen location of the individual displays was derived by the “Golden Ratio”, which is the legendary law of aesthetic harmony. The Panorama Date and the gorgeous moon phase display are respectively located in the lower and upper right.

The PanoReserve watch model features a manual winding Calibre 65-01 with 42 hour power reserve and 48 stunning jewels. The watch’s sapphire crystal case back provides a clear view of the Glashütte Original duplex swan-neck fine adjustment, in addition to the Glashütte three-quarter plate with Glashütte stripe finish, the screw balance, the hand-engraved balance cock, screw-mounted gold chatons and blued screws.

The PanoMaticLunar models include the Saxon manufactory’s Calibre 90-02, which is a mechanical automatic movement with 47 jewels, plus a 42-hour power reserve. The watch’s sapphire crystal case back also delivers a clear view of the watch movement. Features include the three-quarter plate with Glashütte stripe finish, blued screws, off-center rotor with oscillating weight in 21-ct gold, plus the hand-engraved balance cock with duplex swan-neck fine adjustment.

Another impressive feature is the Panorama Date, moon phase display, and power reserve display present indications in the German language.

You will also find the “Made in Germany” mark that reminds watch connoisseurs that Glashütte has perfected the art of fine German watchmaking since 1845.

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Photo: Glashütte Original PanoReserve watch

Jaquet Droz has introduced its new Sunstone luxury watch collection. The stunning watch features flecks of gold scintillate that produces an ember-like glow. The result mimics the luminous power of the nighttime star.

The process was first discovered way back in the 17th century, in Murano – near Venice, Italy. By mistake, an artisan glass-maker allowed some tiny shards of metal to fall into the vitreous paste. Aventurine glass was born.

The new Sunstone luxury watch collection from Jaquet Droz graces the fashion industry with three different watch models – Petite Heure Minute 35 mm, Grande Seconde Cerclée and Lady 8.

Grande Seconde Cerclée by adorning the 8 which is formed by the two interlocking dials, plus the Petite Heure Minute 35 mm, which delivers the watch model with a touch of novel originality. The watch has red gold in color with sunstone dial.

The Lady 8 watch dial is adorned in an array of beautiful golden specks, which produces a gorgeous and sophisticated look. This fine women’s watch has a dome-shaped dial in a red gold, and comes in a diamond-set 35 mm case. The watch case houses the Jaquet Droz 1153 automatic movement.

Photo: Jaquet Droz – Petite Heure Minute Sunstone watch

As we move into the new year, it’s obvious Jaquet Droz is focusing it’s new line of ladies watches on blend of individuality and beauty. The motes of gold dust add a rich look that dazzles and will sure to impress in any type of social gathering.

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Photo: Jaquet Droz

Baselworld will be held this year in Basel, Switzerland between March 19-26, 2015. Swiss watch manufacturer Frederique Constant will be introducing its new Worldtimer Navy Blue luxury watch.

The Worldtimer Manufacture watch collection continues to be the luxury watch brand’s most popular collection. Their watch designers have created a stunning timepiece that will definitely impress – Worldtimer Navy Blue.

The Worldtimer Navy Blue watch is a blend of stylish design and the finest watchmaking technology. The watch is ideal for men who enjoy to travel and looking for a luxury watch that is sophisticated and comfortable to wear on his wrist.

Due to the watch’s bold look, it can be worn perfectly with a fine suit or even with casual dress. It’s the ideal fashion accessory!

The Worldtimer watch function is valuable for global jetsetters. You simply select a city by placing it at the 12’oclock position of the watch dial.

Driven by the FC-718 Manufacture automatic caliber, the Worldtimer Navy Blue watch is decorated with 26 jewels and has a long-lasting, 42-hour power reserve. The cutting edge design of this new luxury watch from Frederique Constant enable all functions of the watch to be simply accessible through the crown. You won’t find any additional push buttons protruding out from the case sides.

The watch’s incredible blue navy dial features an exquisitely detailed anthracite grey world map in the middle. Both of the watch’s hour and minute hands are silver in color and include a luminous white highlight.

The watch discs will display what time of the day, showing a white disc for day or blue disc at night. The date is available on the 6’oclock counter.

The Worldtimer Navy Blue watch is water resistant down to 50 meters and the case is made from a highly-polished, three part stainless steel. The watch also features a convex sapphire crystal and see-through case back.

In addition, the luxury timepiece also comes with a blue alligator bracelet and a gorgeous wooden gift box.

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Photo courtesy of Frederique Constant

The new luxury watch creation from Grieb & Benzinger is a pure beauty. Black has long been a fashionable color. It’s a popular color associated with elegance and style plus a status symbol in the luxury industry.

The Pharos Centurion Imperial model by German watchmaker Grieb & Benzinger is a glamorous looking watch that sports a gorgeous, all-black appearance.

The watch’s cool black look is high-lited by an expressive, eye-catching pavé-set bezel that includes 66 luxurious, black Princess-cut diamonds. It’s absolutely stunning!

The luxury Pharos Centurion Imperial timepiece can also be considered understated as its sophisticated look isn’t gaudy like many luxury watches today.

The totally blackened manually wound movement is also black and comes in the signature three-quarter-plate that’s fully skeletonized, guilloché and engraved by hand. It’s professionally and stylishly decorated in true Grieb & Benzinger fashion.

The luxury watch’s case is made from blackened PD950 palladium and comes in a 43 mm in diameter size.

The Pharos Centurion Imperial watch is complimented by a black alligator-skin strap.

As with other luxury watches from Grieb & Benzinger, quantities are limited. At press time, the exact retail price is not known but expected to be in the six-digit range.

This luxury watch will make the ideal gift or a perfect addition to your own watch collection.

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First launched in 2005, the iconic “Tradition” luxury watch collection by Breguet was introduced. Now there is a new watch model with selfwinding mechanical movement and retrograde seconds hand – the Tradition Automatique Seconde Rétrograde 7097.

It’s a stunning luxury watch from Breguet that allows us to view inside and see beauty of its mechanism plus reveals bridges, escapement, wheels, barrel and other watch components.

The Tradition Automatique Seconde Rétrograde 7097 watch is made based on both technical and aesthetic excellence. These traits are core values of luxury watchmaker Breguet, who consistently strives for modernization of historical devices.

The name of the this new, Breguet watch model was derived from the retrograde seconds hand, which supplements the traditional hours and minutes display on a stylish watch dial offset at 12 o’clock position.

The watch case is made from 18-carat white gold with a finely fluted caseband. The sapphire-crystal caseback is 40mm in diameter and is water-resistant to 3 bar (30 metres).

The watch’s movement is self-winding plus numbered and signed BREGUET. Cal. 505SR1. It features 38 jewels and has a 50-hour power-reserve.

The dial of the new Tradition Automatique Seconde Rétrograde 7097 watch is 18-carat gold and Individually numbered and signed BREGUET. The watch displays retrograde small seconds at the 10 o’clock location. There are blued-steel BREGUET opentipped hands.

The Breguet watch comes with a leather strap and is also available in 18-carat rose gold.

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Back in 1963, luxury watch brand Alpina first introduced the Comtesse lady watch collection with automatic movements. Rich in tradition and offering fine lady watches since the 1920’s, Alpina is bringing back the Comtesse Lady watch line.

Offering both elegance and sportiness, the new Alpina Comtesse watch line for women embodies chic style. Its characteristics include luxury, Swissness, simplicity and unique character.

The Comtesse women’s watch features a 3 links bracelet blend along with a mother of pearl dial that is beautifully adorned with diamonds or drop shaped indexes. The lady’s luxury watch comes with a rounded, polished stainless steel bezel with an option with including diamonds or not.

Tina Maze is the Ambassadress for the Alpina Comtesse watch collection. Tina is a double Olympic ski champion in Sochi and like Alpina, strives for a alpine lifestyle and elegance.

The Contesse watch comes in a stunning two-tone version that features gorgeous a bezel with 48 diamonds that are set on a gold plated bezel in addition to a mother or pearl dial with 6 diamonds. The yellow PVD bezel version of the lady’s watch showcases 6 diamonds on the mother of pearl dial. Both luxury watch versions offer a stainless steel metal bracelet plus a yellow PVD central link.

The Comtesse in stainless steel surrounds an AL-525 automatic mechanical movement that includes 26 jewels. The fine watch has a power reserve of 38 hours plus is water-resistant up to 5ATM (50m, 150ft).

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Last week at a Christie’s auction in Geneva – Switzerland, Breguet President and CEO of Breguet – Marc A. Hayek, purchased two historic gold pocket watches. One of the two watches was a rare quarter repeating watch that’s equipped with the first free escapement with natural lift ever made by Breguet (N° 1135).

The total purchase price for both luxury watches – Breguet N° 1576 and N° 1135 was 519’000 Swiss francs.

Here’s a brief description of each of the Breguet watches:

Breguet N° 1135: (photo above)
« Petite montre à répétition des quarts, échappement libre à levées naturelles ».
A unique and historically important 20K gold openface quarter repeating watch with free escapement with natural lift.
Signed Breguet, sold on 13 January 1806 to Monsieur Le Duc de l’Infantado for the sum of 4’200 Francs.

Breguet N° 1576:
« Montre à Souscription de taille moyenne »
A fine and rare 18K gold « souscription » watch
Signed Breguet et fils, circa 1805

During the French Revolution in 1794, Abraham-Louis Breguet introduced a new model of timepieces equipped with a special movement of great simplicity. The 1576 waas sold on September 8th, 1809 to Mr. Moreau, Breguet’s agent in St. Petersburg. This Breguet watch has simple and elegant design, plus utilizes a gold cuvette. Approximately 700 watches were made with either gold or silver cases.

The No. 1135 timepiece is an important find from both a historical and technical standpoint. The Brugeut 1135 watch did not require oil on the impulse surfaces. Breguet used this design to solve the issue of a free escapement with natural lift. The luxury watch maker made just thirty watches and clocks that included this unique system. Future production halted because of the high cost, development effort and production time. The No. 1135 was sold back in 1806 to Pedro Alcantara de Toledo y Salm Salm (1768-1841), who was the Duke of Infantado.

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In 2012, the original Bird Repeater luxury watch by Jaquet Droz made its first appearance.

The following year, watch making artistry continued with the introduction of The Charming Bird watch that recognized the luxury brand’s 275th anniversary milestone. This model not only showcased the bird in an ultra-modern decorative setting, but it also sang.

This year, Jaquet Droz has done it again with the stunning Bird Repeater Openwork. The new watch model is more streamlined with a contemporary look. The animated features that made its predecessors popular are still visible.

The Bird Repeater Openwork features two beautiful blue tit birds and their two babies. The color of the birds is stunning along with a flowing waterfall on the left and a hatching egg, centered between the baby birds.

The new luxury watch from Jaquet Droz features a sapphire crystal dial that displays an exposed automated movement. The result is it shows off the vibrant colors of the birds. The bold watch dial also features a black onyx subdial.

The Bird Repeater Openwork movement is the Swiss hand-wind Jaquet Droz in-house caliber RMA88 and comes with 69 jewels, 18,000 vph, in addition to a power reserve of 48 hours.

The watch case is 47 mm in size and constructed from beautiful 18k white gold. The lxuury watch also includes double sapphire crystals. It is not water resistant.

The new Bird Repeater watch is available in white gold on a black alligator leather strap.

The Bird Repeater Openwork watch by Jaquet Droz is a limited edition collection of only eight pieces. Each one of the watches is equipped with 508 components.

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Backes & Strauss is the world’s oldest diamond company, established in 1789 and is proud to introduce the Royal ASHOKA Collection, which is a new line of one-of-a-kind luxury timepieces.

This new luxury watch collection combines exceptional ASHOKA diamonds from William Goldberg with fine watchmaking for the first time.

The Royal Ashoka watch collection’s inaugural piece was unveiled last week at the World Presentation of Haute Horlogerie. This stunning luxury watch features no fewer than 92 ASHOKA cut diamonds, 131 Ideal Cut diamonds and two baguette cut

diamonds. The diamond total 225 signifies one diamond for every year Backes & Strauss has been in existence. The total weight of diamonds used in the watch totals 26.21 carats.

The inspiration for the new Royal Ashoka watch is from the legendary Ashoka the Great, who during the third century BC was the ruler of India’s Maurya dynasty. Ashoka the Great ruled with love, respect and compassion for his subjects. He gave up war and focused on Buddhism as his way of life. He spread the Buddhism doctrine across all of Asia, establishing monuments to Gautama Buddha.

No hundreds of years after Ashoka’s death in 232 BC, his name lives on as a 41.37 carat, D color, internally flawless diamond that was pulled from a mine in India. Each ASHOKA can be executed only from diamonds that meet the exacting specifications of the Goldberg family.

The stunning ASHOKA® diamond cut features 62 displayed facets and rounded corners.

CEO of Backes & Strauss – Vartkess Knadjian was quoted, “William Goldberg and Backes & Strauss both share a deep appreciation for handcrafted precision and challenging their craftsmen at the highest level. The result of this meeting of masters is a collection of timepieces so intricate they are masterpieces inside and out.”

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Luxury watch brand Chopard is honoring the Porsche Club of America for 60 years of successful existence by creating a 60 plus 6 watch piece limited edition collection. The new luxury watch celebrates the largest single-marque (brand) car club in the world.

The Mille Miglia translates to thousand miles in Italian and was an Italian open-road endurance race that first occurred between 1927 and 1957. Starting in 1977, Mille Miglia has turned into a race for vintage and classic cars that were made prior to 1958.

Chopard has been a proud sponsor of Mille Miglia for 25 years. Next year will mark the 60 years of existence for Porsche Club of America.

Beginning in early December, the new Chopard Mille Miglia luxury watch will be available for purchase at www.pcatime.com.

There are two different Chopard Mille Miglia watch styles to choose from – stainless steel and 18-karat rose gold.

The watch case has a 42.00 mm diameter and a height of 12.31 mm. The case is also water resistance down to 50 meters. The case of the Chopard Mille Miglia features a sapphire crystal case back that is printed with a special Porsche Club of America full-color logo.

The watch offers automatic Swiss chronograph movement with hour and minute chronograph counters at 6, 9 o’clock, running seconds at 3 o’clock and a date window between 4 and 5 o’clock position.

The vivid blue dial is stunning and comes with white numerals, scales and markers. The white baton hour and minute hands are inlaid with Super-LumiNova. The watch also comes with a red and White central sweep-seconds chronograph hand.

This luxury timepiece is sure to become a true collector’s item. As previously mentioned, it’s a limited edition collection. Just 66 pieces in total, there will be 60 of the 42 mm stainless steel case and 6 of the 18-karat rose gold watches available for purchase.

The Chopard Mille Miglia will be priced at $5,990 for the stainless steel watch model and $21,000 for the 18-karat gold watch.

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The new Lady 8 Shiny women’s watch from Jaquet Droz is ideal for a woman who appreciates the sensuality of time.

The figure eight is Jaquet Droz’s lucky number. The Lady 8 made its first appearance in Jaquet Droz collection in 2013 and has quickly become a symbolic feminine timepiece and a highly precious jewel.

The latest edition to the Lady 8 collection is the new Lady 8 Shiny watch. It features an uncluttered dial that is crowned with a precious stone. It’s simply stunning and has to be seen in person to fully appreciate this fine piece of luxury jewelry.

The Lady 8 Shiny watch by Jaquet Droz presents a true painting dial adorned with gorgeous gemstones with grey gold and diamonds (1.49 carats). At the watch summit is a stunning pearl of diamonds (1.4 carats) that screams ultimate luxury.

The 35 mm watch face of the new The Lady 8 Shiny is surrounded in beautiful 18 karat gold and 398 diamonds. The watch’s upper ball bearing is covered in 146 more diamonds. The watch dial includes 491 diamonds and the buckle on the alligator leather strap has 125 additional diamonds.

The new folding clasp was designed specifically for the Lady 8 Shiny watch model. It also is in the shape of a figure of eight. The clasp is made of grey gold and diamonds totaling 1.51 carats.

If you are looking for a special luxury watch for that special woman in your life, then consider the sleek and stunning Lady 8 Shiny watch from Jaquet Droz.

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