Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Trends Time

Grahm Chronofighter Oversize GMT Big Date

The Grahm Chronofighter Oversize GMT Big Date is made to as a great timekeeping companion to join exclusive collections of passionate watch connoisseurs or embellish the wrist of avant-garde design fans.

Drop a glance at the watch and you will immediately notice the one-of-a-kind 'left-hand drive' controls composed of a bold 'reset push-button' and extremely long 'start and stop' lever with six-sided screws. The watch features an eye-catching combination of colors-solemn black and enthusiastic orange.


The new Graham Chronofighter watch is also aimed at frequent travelers-it is provided with an easy-to-read GMT function. Moreover, the timepiece gives an advantage of a big date positioned at 12 o'clock and the signature Graham bi-compax chronograph functions.

The rugged, extremely masculilne case of the Graham watch is crafted in stainless steel case and measures 47mm in diameter. The case construction incorporates ergonomic lugs and a left-hand dual-security 9mm crown. The left-hand trigger-lever and reset push-button with a non-slip thumb grip are crafted in black PVD carbide on stainless steel, accentuating the British Racing Look. The watch is 100-meter water-resistant.

Arthur Junghans Attaché Kalender


Arthur Junghans series from Junghans has a new member: The Attaché Kalender with four features. White or black dial, equipped with steel or rose gold made hands and hour markers. This unadorned automatic has hands style date, week, month and month phase. the J800.2 movement with stripes decoration and screws is improved based on ETA 2824. The Attaché Kalender equipped with crocodile strap and fold-over clasp is sold at 1,590Euro.


Grand Tourbillon Perpetual

Arnold & Son launches a multi-functions luxury Grand Tourbillon Perpetual. tourbillon at 6 o'clock, month displays at 3 o'clock position and Day displays at 9 o'clock position. The date hands at 12 o'clock position will leap to the original position at the end of the month. Arnold & Son sets a sun time displays under the leaped date hands, which indicates the time difference between solar calendar and the local time. This Grand Tourbillon Perpetual is equipped wtih red gold or white gold of 45mm, each of them is limited to 10 pieces.

The Rose Gold Grand Tourbillon Perpetual is sold at 171,000Euro.

JeanRichard


The Bressel 1665 Automatic newly launched by JeanRichard is equipped with the self researched JR1000 movement, the case features in diameter of 42mm, thickness is 10.3mm, water resistant to 30m, and it is sold at RMB 43,800. the new Bressel Classic Grande Date has a 43mm case, and the movement uses self made JR 33 automatic movement, and it is sold at RMB 36,000.



FORTIS

Swiss Cosmonauts


B42-Official Cosmonauts Chronograph Alarm Titan belongs to Cosmonaut series, which is the third generation of Fortis, and it is limited to 300 pieces. It is equipped with the same self made F2001-5 movement as the previous Alarms and also first uses red minutes markers. Other fresh things are the buttons and the rubber protection jacket on the crown. The Titanium made case is 42mm in diameter, equipped with sapphire glass and water resistant to 200m you can observe the movement certified by COSC through the back.


BELL&ROSS
Professional diving instrument



To meet the needs of professional divers, the French brand Bell&Ross developed Instrument BR02-1000M, you can read time indicated by the hands and fluorescence scale. There is also fluorescence scale on the single direction rotary inner bezel. The diver set and adjust the diving time through the second crown at the 2 o’clock position. It is water resistant to 1,000m and the helium valve offers a perfect security guarantee. Instrument BR02 is powered by ETA 2892. This sports wine bucket shaped Bell & Ross has stainless steel version and black carbon version and the Pro Dial version with clearer markers.

U-BOAT
Strong fluorescence



In the U-Boat created by Italo Fontana, Thousands of Feet MB 1R has won a position in the famous big size automatic. The angular stainless steel case is covered by PVD painting and it is 50mm in diameter, which gives enough space for the ETA Unitas 6497 big size hand-winding movement. The case which is water resistant to 100m together with multi red fluorescence displays especially attract your vision. The dial setting design together with the left hand crown are both typical features of U-Boat. And the cowhide holes give people a strong feeling of sports. The starting sold price is 2,700Euro, making the Thousands of Feet MB 1R become the most expensive product in U-Boat.

HARRY WINSTON

Slight and rigid



The fourth member of Project zircon alloy is naturally named as Project Z4. this is a double timezone style: each timezone displays has their own hours hand and minutes hands and day and night displays. The left hand timezone can be adjusted by the left hand button and the adjustment unit is hour. The big date at 6 o’clock position is also very different,the two numbers are overlapped. The central star of the dial rotating means the watch is running. The movement of this Project Z4 is improved based on Girard-Perregaux automatic. The case is 44mm in diameter and made of slight and rigid zircon alloy.

BLANCPAIN

Leman Time Zone



Blancpain improves its time zone watch equipped with 5L60 movement. The new Leman Time Zone is 40mm in diameter and the hands follow the styles of submariner. The second time zone with hour and minute displays is at 12 o’clock position, and the day-night displays is at 9 o’clock position. The delicate movement with 100 hours power reserve can be seen through the back cover. Since the thickness of the movement is only 3.25mm, the whole thickness of the watch reaches an elegant thickness, which is only 11.4mm. the stainless steel version is sold at 9,770Euro.

Ferrari Granturismo GMT-Alarm



The Ferrari is subcontracted by Panerai, Granturismo GMT-Alarm of which is equipped with alarm setting. Different from warnings of the anti-theft alarm system, the crown below can adjust the hands with red sharp into the anticipated time. GMT-Alarm can also display the second time zone through the window. The automatic movement is AS 5008 which is improved based on La Joux-Perret. The inspiration of Granturismo is from Ferrari racing cars. The 45mm diameter case looks similar with the racing car.

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