Thursday, May 30, 2013

Cherish Your Golden Hours With Patek Philippe

Right accompanist makes a journey serene, so get ready to share your beautiful moments with the luminescence of “Patek Philippe”, presenting a wide range of watches to crown your wrists with a sense of satisfaction and luxury.

The Swiss voluptuary watch manufacturer occupies the upper echelon in the field of designing of some of the most intricate and prestigious designer luxurious timepieces. Patek Philippe Watches came up with perpetual calendar, some other models encapsulating stop watch and display watch together, and the variety of complications and the grandeur of the chronograph.

Though the company has produced some digital and quartz wrist watches in the past but now it is specialized in producing mechanical motion of variety of automatic and manual winding. Patek Philippe is notable for using indigenous watch components. Its timepieces have had some of the highest prices in worldwide auctions.

Starting with its watches, those embodying perpetual calendars are known to define Patek. The specifications of the product are: Moonphase display, central Chronograph hand which is manually wound, retrograde Date, Weekday, and Month, Year/leap year and day/night indications and a semi-minute counter.The case material is generally yellow or white gold and the dial is silver iridescent. The hour markers are black which is picturesque and the glasses used are of sapphire glass.  The various designs of such pieces are 5970P, 5159G, 5020J etc. It showcases its ability to be rare, gigantic and water-resistant.

Advancing to their Grand complications, the company decoys people of its various hues for men and women exclusively known for their complexity.  They feature celestial charts, minute repeaters and perpetual calendars. Today, Patek Philippe is unexampled in bringing the varied array of complicated timepieces to women. In 2011, the company promulgated two Grand Complications for ladies: a minute repeater and a half-minute counter chronograph. Their expertise in horology is evident in each watch capturing many lifetimes of finesse and skill to produce a souvenir of timeless worth.

The variations in the movements  include automatic mechanical, mechanical self-winding, manual wind, etc.

Special collections of such models are: 5004G, 5004J, 5004P, 5959P etc.

Proceeding to the Patek Philippe Calatrava, it encompasses the flavor of nuanced elegance with glossy lines. Members with extra thin, heavy headed nail patterns or wide polished oblique faces go unmatched presenting the best expression of style. It is 37 mm in diameter and 8 mm thick. It concentrates on the bare essentials like hours and minutes and also a sub dial for the second hand to ascertain that the watch is working properly and reflects the simplicity and beauty of movements.

So, in the nutshell, the company flaunts an unrivaled spectrum of watches for a teeming variety of people, or we can say that it has monopolized the name of watches in terms of worthiness.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

The Beauty & Intrigue Of Blancpain Watches

Blancpain watches are not as talked about as other brands; their reputation and note-worthiness seems to lay within the minds and conversations of those that already know and admire the craftmanship that goes into each and every one of these luxury timepieces. Simply put, Blancpain is one of the most esteemed watch manufactures in the world. The company began making watches in 1735 and produces fewer than 10,000 a year. The Blancpain 1735 watch is one of the most complicated mechanical watches ever made, featuring no less than 745 components. Only one of these is produced every year.

In 1988, Blancpain became the first brand in the world to offer all six different masterpieces of watchmaking at the same time: the ultra-slim movement, the moon phase calendar, the perpetual calendar, the split-seconds chronograph, the Tourbillon and the minute repeater. Blancpain prides itself on the fact that it will never make a quartz watch. The complexity and beauty with which mechanical watches operate is the only way that a watch of this high quality and caliber should exist.

The CEO of Blancpain, Marc Hayek sums up what in his mind Blancpain Watches are all about: "Blancpain has always been rather revolutionary... a little bit crazy, a bit of an adventurer. We have always tried to be different, to become more innovative, to try things that have not been tried or been achieved in the past." All Blancpain watches are works of excellence and decadence. Mens' watches are made up of the following collections: Le Brassus, Leman, Villeret, Specialties and L-Evolution, of which two new versions were just added.

The L-Evolution collection has three recognizable design elements: a sporty 43.5mm case with double-stepped sides, oversized numerals, and multi-level skeletonized dials. So when launching a new watch within the L-Evolution collection, called the Moon Phase 8 Jours watch, the changes made were not huge. The 43.5mm case is newly designed and comes in 18K red gold or stainless steel. The watch face can be matched with either a strap or bracelet. The watch features the complete calendar with moon phase complication. This new Moon Phase 8 Jours watch runs on the brand new, self-winding Calibre 66R9. The classic complete calendar features a rotating moon phase indicator found at the 6 o'clock position. The day and month are located below the 12 o'clock position. Here, there is also a semi-circular cutout for the 8-day power reserve indicator.

The Blancpain L-evolution Moon Phase 8 Jours watch is a sophisticated looking timepiece with a Cotes-de-Geneve pattern, and two extra large Roman numerals at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions. The hands and hour markers are made in polished gold and give off a luminescent feel. Blancpain watches for women can be found in the Women's and Sport collections. One of their most well-known of their creations for women is the Saint Valentin 2009. This is the only women's chronograph watch with a flyback hand. It's an exquisite timepiece that features a heart set in rubies.

As a testament to its level of luxury, Blancpain has partnered with other luxury brands, like Lamborghini for event sponsorship, producing watches which have become best-sellers. The Super Trofeo Fyback Chronograph is one of these and was limited to an exclusive production of only 300 pieces. Another of these is Blancpain's diving watch, the 500 Fathom. The 500 Fathom and 500 Fathom GMT are a mixture of the ultimate in sports and luxury watches. For well over 250 years, Blancpain has been committed to manufacturing watches of excellence. Blancpain watches for men and women are a manifestation of passion for watchmaking, high-art, and a devotion to tradition.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Patek Philippe Watches – The Best Customer For Your Party

Are you a watch enthusiast? If yes, you might be very familiar with the popular brand, Patek Philippe. They also known as the most expensive ones one could ever find and when it comes to their Anniversary Edition it is simply mind blowing! You can just dream of getting one watch and you are done if you have just a single one from this brand!  The designs just set you back with the greatest style and format they have! Usually the Patek Philippe Watches are the top choice among the wealthy class of people. With the increased price, it becomes unaffordable for the common man. People of great wealth and obsession for watch collection are terribly passionate about the Patek Philippe watch.

The timepieces manufactured by this brand have been one among the favourites of popes, political leaders, rulers as well as monarchs after the rule of Queen Victoria. It has been a symbol of pride and royalty which prompts every royal member to have at least one Patek Philippe watch. The company leads a close relationship with Queen Victoria since 1851 when they started the supply of the watch to the royal people and to her. This set ablaze the real passion for Patek Philippe all across the royalty of Europe. The greatest incident happened at the Great Exhibition of London held on November 1851. It was then the Queen purchased the pendant style-key wound watch from the same brand. This pleased her lot which made her buy one more Patek Philippe watch which would be pinned on to her costume.

The second timepiece owned by the Queen was marvellous and everyone had their eye on this art piece bought her. It was a brooch kind of watch made of diamond and enamel and was very pleasing to all those who had a look at it. Some of the other royal people who were passionate about the Patek Philippe branded watches were the King and Queen of Denmark, Christian IX and Louise, the King of Italy and Duke of Savoy, Victor-Emanuel III and the Prince of Egypt who reigned during 1914 to 1917, Hussein Kamal. 

A new turnover for watches was when Patek Philippe introduced the first mechanical which was the first of its kind. It was brought into the limelight in the year 1989. It was the special gift or the special entry brought in for their 150th Anniversary and was named as the Calibre 89. The speciality of this watch is that it has around 33 complications and to name a few it includes time of sunrise, date of Easter, sidereal time, a thermometer, the equation of time and many others too. One of the greatest features introduced during those times in the Anniversary Special Edition was the addition of one more day in the month of February and otherwise for a hundred years to come.