If you really want to push the boat out for your wife, you might want to consider this diamond encrusted Harry Winston Lady Chronograph. I’m sure she’ll be drooling at all the sparkly diamonds when she unwraps this gift!!!
Harry Winston say:
“Elegance and performance distinguish this chronograph, with either a hand finished mother of pearl or pave dial.”
Features include:
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This Montre Dewitt, Academia Toubillon Force Constante wrist watch (what a mouth full) caught my eye recently. Sleek, understated and quality personified are adjectives that spring to mind…
Dewitt say:
“The exclusive DeWitt calibre DW8003 mechanical movement with a constant force device designed to transmit to the Tourbillon impulses with identical energy, to exert optimum force control whatever the degree of winding. “Academia” include white gold case and hand turned gold dial.”
A real party piece watch has to be the Urwerk 103.06 Edition Speciale Joaillerie, which displays hours in the form of four orbiting satellites. As each makes contact with the dial at the base it takes an hour to move across, showing minutes. At the 60 minute mark the next satellite picks up at the first minute. It’s as beautiful as it is bizarre.
Urwerk say:
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The feted watchmaker Richard Mille have produced a quite extraordinary contraption with the Planetarium Telurium.
The precision engineering of this device has produced a clock, planetarium and a perpetual calendar - all of which took a skilled watchmaker eight years to build. The Planetarium Telurium is crafted from a mixture of precious metals which include gold, silver, tungsten, brass, titanium and steel - which give it a staggering price tag of £500,000 ($1,000,000).
The interesting part of this device has to be the depiction of planetary movements through the solar system. The clockwork mechanism is set in motion via an elegant wind up lever.
Although, this is a very unique and elegant piece of kit - you have to ask whether it’s worth the hefty price tag?
The Cabestan Winch Watch has got to be one the most unusual time pieces on the planet. It’s got a tasty price tag of £200,000 ($400,000) to boot.
The Cabestan is the result of a collaboration between Jean-François Ruchonnet and Vianney Halter.
They describe it as having:
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