In today’s world of luxury timepieces, numerous watchmakers are re-inventing themselves to stay relevant with the times. In the past decade, many brands from Cartier and Chopard to Lucien Piccard, TAG Heuer and Tissot have moved with the times, offering larger sized cases along with comfortable rubber and silicone straps in their collections. There’s a lot to admire with several new Lucien Piccard watch collections, which debuted this week at popular online retailer WorldofWathes.com. The legendary watchmaker has been producing premium timepieces for over nine decades, since it was founded in 1923. And the new Lucien Piccard Bremen, Burgos and Mulhacen collections,…
From Here To Eterna…
Eterna timepieces have been highly regarded and celebrated over decades for their precision automatic movements. Founded in 1856, this prominent Swiss watchmaker is noted for introducing a ball-bearing mounted rotor system on its automatic timepieces in 1948, which reduced friction and resistance in the weight that wound the mainspring of the watch. The ball bearing system not only reduced the wear and tear on the internal parts of the automatic timepiece, it also increased the accuracy as well. The design instantly catapulted the Eterna’s presence in the horological industry as many other watch brands sought to use Eterna to produce the inner mechanisms…
Trend-Setting Ted Lapidus Time…
In the world of high-fashion, the influence of designer Ted Lapidus is still present six years after his death in 2008 and fourteen years after his haute couture fashion house closed in 2000. Lapidus is renowned for introducing and pioneering the unisex fashion phenomenon in the late 1960’s, a look that is still popular forty years later. Lapidus is also celebrated for being the first designer to utilize military inspired looks on his men’s and ladies’ fashion collections in the late 1960’s as well. In the early 1970’s, Lapidus introduced the safari suit, a style incorporated by many designers today.…
An Exhilarating Experience: The New Swiss Legend Everest Chronograph
Making it to the top of Mount Everest is a coup and achievement many individuals want to accomplish in their lifetimes. Approximately 35,000 tourists travel annually to the area in Nepal in hopes of reaching the summit of the highest mountain in the world. Skilled mountain climbers and thrill seekers alike take the journey climbing over 29,000 feet to reach the top. The expedition offers a true adventure for extreme sports enthusiasts, who have to endure high altitudes, extraordinary windy conditions, not to mention the lack of oxygen and extremely this air in their journey to the summit. What’s more,…
Haurex Italian Time
When it comes to precision crafted timepieces, Swiss-made and designed models are usually the first thing that comes to mind. Switzerland is indeed the origin and home of many prestigious watchmakers in the world today. And hundreds of prominent watch brand’s headquarters and factories are located in Switzerland…from Baume & Mercier and Ebel to IWC, Rolex and TAG Heuer. Interestingly Italy is also a leading watchmaking country. This comes as no surprise since Italian fashions and designs are heralded and highly regarded throughout the globe. Many popular watch brands have their roots and headquarters in Italy, including Officine Panerai, U-Boat,…
Legendary Times
When it comes to exemplary crafted timepieces for professionals, sports enthusiasts and today’s well-heeled men and women, the Swiss Legend brand stands way above the rest. In recent months the highly-regarded brand has a released a wide variety of precision-made wristwatches for men and women with the dynamic characteristics and premium performance we’ve come to expect from them. In the past nine months, Swiss Legend has introduced the highly acclaimed Avalanche, Skyline, Pioneer and Cyclone collections for men, the Throttle and Titanio ceramic collections for women, along with the new Commander series for both men and women. In the next…
Innovative Edox Time…
Edox Watches founded in 1884 in Biel/Bienne Switzerland is a pre-eminent watchmaker celebrated for introducing the Delfin timepiece in 1961, the first timepiece that was water resistant to 200 meters, setting the standards for both shock protection and water resistance in the watch industry. The brand was founded by Christian Ruefli-Flury, a Swiss watchmaker who was convinced by his wife Pauline to start his own watch company. Ruefli-Flury named the company Edox, which means “the hour” in ancient Greek. An hourglass logo was developed in 1900 to compliment the brand name. This emblem is still featured on the dial of each…
Lunar Time…
Moon phase wrist watches are among the most sought-after and prized timepieces in the world today. These special timepieces follow the progression of the moon in its different phases… from new moon, first quarter and full moon to last quarter. A moon phase or lunar watch is a highly specialized complication featured on watch dials from some of the most prestigious watchmakers in the world, including Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Lucien Piccard, Omega, Chopard, IWC, Vacheron and Betrolucci. A window on the watch dial of these intricate timepieces displays the different phases of the mooon. The cycle from new moon to new…
The Masculine Side Of Michael Kors
This fall a new emphasis is being placed on designer Michael Kors’ menswear collections. The designer’s women’s read-to-wear collections and fashion accessories are among the most popular around the globe. What’s more the new Michael Kors fragrance collection for women, currently ranks in the top five best-selling ladies’ fragrances in the nation. Kors’ eponymous new men’s fragrance Michael Kors for Men is scheduled to launch this September, while new print and broadcast advertisements heralding the men’s apparel collections are also scheduled are featured in many fall periodical spreads. The new emphasis on men’s fashion and fragrance is designed to enhance…
Labor Day Time
The Labor Day weekend holiday is just a week away and millions of Americans will soon be celebrating the four-day holiday weekend which constitutes the official end of summer. Labor Day was established as an official holiday in 1886 by President Grover Cleveland in support of the labor movement in the nation. And it has consecutively occurred on the first Monday in September for the past 128 years. Cleveland’s signing the holiday into law came in the aftermath of the Haymarket massacre in 1886, which started as a peaceful labor rally for labor reform in Chicago IL, yet ended in…