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Jaeger-LeCoultre Yearbook Three Available December 1

Jaeger-LeCoultre Yearbook 3

The third edition of Jaeger-LeCoultre’s Yearbook features the manufacture’s brightest stars of 2009. The Yearbook includes articles by leading authors and casts its spotlight on nature, music, filmmaking, and of course on watchmaking. The edition celebrates the 80th anniversary of Calibre 101, still the smallest mechanical movement ever made. It probes the Hybris Mechanica 55 trilogy, uniting 55 complications within three wristwatches. It takes you inside the Hybris Mechanica à Grande Sonnerie, with 1300 parts capable of playing the entire Big Ben chime.

November 27, 2009 | Mike Disher

Orbita Offers a Fortress For Watches and Jewels

Agresti Jewelry Armoire

For 60 years, Agresti has been producing deluxe jewelry boxes and chests in Florence, Italy. Now, Orbita Corporation, well-known purveyor of fine watch winders and accessories and Agresti’s exclusive USA distributor, is pleased to offer the Agresti Jewelry Armoire, also known as “La Fortezza Grande” – a finely crafted cabinet that incorporates a safe with digital electronic locks and an available biometric fingerprint device.

September 03, 2009 | Mike Disher

Ulysse Nardin’s Smartphone: Where Tech Meets Mech

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As exciting as it is to experience all the new watches at the Baselworld watch fair, there is always the risk of “watch overload” setting in, which is why the occasional, rare foray into Accessories Land is often a welcome diversion. Usually, these items are limited to devices such as winders and clocks, but I found this year’s most intriguing accessory gleaming under a spotlight behind one of the porthole-shaped vitrines of Ulysse Nardin’s nautical-themed booth: namely, the company’s new Chairman Smartphone.

June 01, 2009 | Mark Bernardo

New Breitling Book and Chronomat B01 Launch

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On Thursday May 28, Breitling’s new Chronomat B01 chronograph with manufacture movement goes on sale at 33 select retailers across the USA. See the table below for a complete list. Just in time for the launch, Breitling announced the publication of “Breitling The Book” by Hervé Genoud, the comprehensive new reference work that documents the brand’s 125 year history. With 336 pages and more than 450 images, the story covers everything from the first pocket watches created by Léon Breitling in 1884 through today’s “instruments for professionals”, and along the way the invention of the first independent pushpiece in 1915, the separation of the “stop/start” and “reset” functions in 1923, the invention of the second independent pushpiece in 1934, and the first selfwinding chronograph in 1969.

May 27, 2009 | Mike Disher