The Effect: A few minutes before the hour a number rolls down a track and a bell sounds. On the hour a cuckoo sounds and a new number indicating the hour appears at the right end of a row of numbers. The Mechanism: Cuckinetic is a true timepiece, run by an AC synchronous motor, like those in an ordinary electric …
Maurice Lacroix Starside Sparkling Date with In-House Complications
Movement is the automatic caliber ML127 with 30 jewels (with special complications module designed in-house by ML), blued steel screws, and personalized rotor. Functions are: Off-centre indication of hours and minutes, retrograde date indication with diamond in a shaped window at 6 o’clock (patent pending), moon phase indication with eccentric disc revealed by a cabochon of moonstone at 3 o’clock …
Gerald Genta’s Octo Mosaic Goes Arabic
With the Octo Mosaic, the brand continues to build bridges, this time between contemporary horology, Western traditions and Middle Eastern culture.
Nobel Watch ordered to stop using slogan
The Stockholm, Sweden-based organization that issues Nobel prizes has ordered the Nobel Watch Co. to stop using the advertising slogan, “I didn’t get the Nobel Prize…But I got the Nobel watch.” According to a release issued by The Nobel Watch Co., the Nobel Foundation sent the company a letter of warning telling them to cease and desist the use of …
New Limited Edition Watches For Heathrow’s Terminal 5
GIORGIO ARMANI is among the designers who will be launching limited edition watches to celebrate the opening of Heathrow’s Terminal 5 later this month. Designed exclusively for the launch, the designer is unveiling three new designs that will be sold at the terminal’s World Duty Free store. The designs, which include an Emporio Armani Gentleman’s stainless steel watch and two …
Vertu Constellation Monogram Collection
2008 marks the tenth anniversary of Vertu and to mark the occasion they have released a special collection of monogrammed Constellations. The Monogram Constellation collection feature a special fine grain leather which is monogrammed with the Vertu V in a process which takes four hours to finish each hide which is then finished with a special protective layer. Five variants …
