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Top 10 Most Beautiful Watches
#10 Harry Winston Opus 11
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The Opus 11 includes 155 jewels and 566 components.
The center hour circle displays the hour with 24 placards that revolve and rotate on a complicated system of gears attached on an epicycloidal gear-train.
#9 Breguet Grande Complication Tourbillon 5317
This Men’s watch has 39 mm 18K Yellow Gold case with tourbillon. Self-winding movement engraved by hand. 5-day power-reserve indicator. Running seconds on the tourbillon shaft. Compensating balance spring with Breguet overcoil. Silvered gold dial, hand-engraved on a rose engine. Sapphire caseback.
#8 Jaeger-LeCoultre è Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon
The Sphérotourbillon appears to be floating in the air as it majestically sits on the elegant gray dial of this Duomètre Sphérotourbillon watch in pink gold. This model will delight lovers of Fine Watchmaking who are seeking a model that combines originality and sophistication.
#7 Jaeger-LeCoultre Duometre Unique Travel 
The first watch to combine user-friendly access to the world’s time zones with flexible setting of the time in the destination zone to the nearest minute. This timepiece capitalizes on the “Dual Wing” concept, thus avoiding any loss of precision.
#6 Jacob & Co. Rose Gold Astronomia Diamond Baguette
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The gravitational triple axis Tourbillon timepiece features a three-dimensional sidereel display that boasts an Oval Sky Indicator of the Celestial Panorama, “Jacob Cut” Red Moon Orange Sapphire with 288 facets and diamond encrusted 18K rose gold. This timepiece costs a whopping $1,015,000 USD!
#5 Rotonde de Cartier Astrocalendaire
The Rotonde de Cartier Astrocalendar watch revolutionizes the perpetual calendar in terms of function and appearance. Its innovative design has produced a three-dimensional concentric display of the day, date and month. A flying tourbillon, rotating once every minute, occupies center-stage.
#4 Ulysse Nardin Moonstruck
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The watch has 18k rose gold round case, fixed smooth blue ceramic bezel, mother of pearl blue and rose gold accents. It has Swiss automatic movement with hours, minutes, dual time zone and moonphase functions, sapphire crystal, navy blue alligator strap with rose gold deployment buckle, exhibition case back.
 
#3 Patek Philippe Ref 6102 Grand Complications 
 
Patek Philippe knows what they are doing! This distinguished Grand Complication lives up to its name, coming in at number 2.

This timepiece is a start gazer to say it can be looked at just like the beautiful night sky. Patek Philippe uses their 240 mechanical movement on this timepiece. Illustrating the hours and minutes of solar time a beautiful sky chart with the phases as well as the orbit of the moon. It gives you the time of the meridian passage of Sirius and moon. And a hand for your date. Composed of 315 components 45 jewels
with a diameter of 44 mm. It has power reserve of 38-48 hours and produces 21,600 vph.

#2 A. Lange & Söhne Perpetual Calendar Terraluna

The Terraluna comes in a case choice of rose gold or white gold, both with a solid silver dial.
It displays minutes, hours, seconds, and a leap year indicator positioned accordingly.

The movement (above) is pure beauty at its finest.


#1 Van Cleef & Arpels’ Midnight Planetarium Watch:

It is now possible to wear the night sky on your wrist.
The dial displays Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with a rose cold casing.
The month, days, and a red marker for your special day, are all displayed along the bezel.
This piece of arm candy is perfection what with its gems for the corresponding planets.
It is true to the actual planet’s revolution around the sun.
This extraordinary time piece includes the gems:
Serpentine for Mercury
Chloromelanite for Venus
Turquoise for Earth
Red Jasper for Mars
Blue Agate for Jupiter
Sugilite for Saturn

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]]> JLC Counters Gravity Affects, SIHH Jaeger-LeCoultre https://swisswatchland.com/2014/01/30/jlc-counters-gravity-affects-sihh-jaeger-lecoultre/ Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:59:58 +0000 https://swisswatchland.com/?p=3272 SIHH is one of my favorite watch events. My last few post have been about watches released at the SIHH  This next post will be about.. yes.. another.. watch released at the SIHH. Don’t worry guys I’ll review watches that come in to us later. But come on SIHH releases some of the most magnificent watches one can lay their eyes on.
But today I’ll be covering 2 Jaeger-LeCoultre. We’ll start with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon
The Spherotourbillon is part of the Duometre line, a line in which all watches use the Dual Wing concept this concept to put simply uses two power sources one for your time keeping and the other for your regulation and complication needs. This watch will be sold in very limited quantities, 75 in platinum and an unknown amount of rose gold but it’ll be limited as well as stated by Jaeger-LeCoultre CEO.
Ok so lets explain why there is a Dual Wing concept.
In a watch when you use its features a certain amount of power is used to support them, this can affect your normal features.
Let me show another world example imagine you’re on your computer it has say 8 GB and you have your platform and start up programs that use up say 3 GB (That’s a lot for just a platform and startup programs I know) then you open a video editing program that uses 4.5 GB you’ll notice that your operation on your basic platform might slow down, this is essentially the same for watches.
To resolve this they gave the complication and regulation its own power source so it won’t affect the normal time keeping of the timepiece.
Seeing the image above of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Duomètre à Sphérotourbillon. You can see there are two mainspring sections one labeled Hours/Minutes the other labeled Regulator. Separating the power source assures high accuracy . But just to take it a step further in accuracy they used a dual-axis, dual cage tourbillon on a 20° incline. The fact that it uses two axis means the tourbillon can counteract gravity in a large magnitude of positions. To make this watch even more exact they’ve added a flyback seconds button at 2 o’clock which resets your seconds without stopping the watch.
 The Watch has a 382 movement which consist of 460 parts with a 50 hour power reserve.
Jaeger-LeCoultre says the following about their timepiece

“An authentic revolution in the field of Grande Complication models, the Duomètre Sphérotourbillon, stemming from almost 180 years of history and invention unique to Jaeger-LeCoultre, is equipped withan unprecedented multi-axis tourbillon. In addition to the axis of its carriage, the Sphérotourbillon has a second axis inclined at 20° and thereby freeing it from the effects of gravity in all positions. The revolutionary `Dual-Wing` concept featured in Calibre 382 once again paves the way for an original function and makes this exceptional model the first tourbillon watch that is precisely adjustable thanks to the small seconds flyback system.”

  • The watch is beautiful and unique.
  • On the dial you will find two power reserve indicators.
  • A Date feature around the hour and minute indicator
  • A second indicator as well as a dual time feature.
  • Of course your able to see the beautiful tourbillon on the face of the watch.
  • Look below to see the The Rose Gold Model and White Gold Model as well as a special model that seems to have a night sky dial which I loved.

 

 

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