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Limited Edition of 500 Pieces – The case, in titanium with sand-blast finish (and special coating to prevent fingerprint marks) measures 45mm. The crystal is sapphire with AR-coating. Movement is the automatic ML caliber 122 with in-house module (patent pending) for hour/minute/moon indication.

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The King Power Alinghi seals watchmaker Hublot's association with the Swiss Alinghi team.


Today in Geneva, Hublot's CEO Jean-Claude Biver, side by side with Ernesto Bertarelli, the president of Alinghi, unveiled the chronograph sporting the colors of the Swiss Defender of the 33rd America’s Cup. Swiss Made expertise was the toast of the hour this evening on the shores of Lake Geneva, as the exclusive, limited edition Hublot "King Power Alinghi" watch made its debut. The pride of the participants was swelled by immense motivation felt on all sides to defend the Swiss colors together in a few weeks' time, when Alinghi and Oracle do battle on the water.

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This model is water-resistant to 300 meters and thus well able to withstand the incredible pressure exercised in the depths of the ocean. It is sure to delight sub-aquatic enthusiasts, while also finding favor with non-divers well acquainted with fine technical and sporting watchmaking accomplishments. They will see it as a sturdy, reliable timepiece that is resistant to strong pressures, shocks, as well as to magnetic phenomena, presented within a collection that has already proved its mettle in the world of sports watches: the Royal Oak Offshore collection.

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36 complications, 25 of them visible, 1,483 components, a 1000-year calendar, a price tag of 2.7 million dollars, and 5 years’ work: what others have simply dreamed of, Franck Muller has made a reality!

Never has the Maison de Haute Horlogerie better deserved its name of “Master of Complications”, pulverizing the record number of complications ever housed in a single wristwatch.

The challenge for the Master Watchmakers of Genthod was enormous: how to embed all the complications known to this day in a watch that was designed to be worn. The Aeternitas movement served as a base, while the Mega 4 represents the apotheosis of the art of watchmaking with its grand and small Westminster chime striking-work, the only one available on the market with a tourbillon visible on the dial. Added to this are a minute repeater, a mono-push-piece split-seconds chronograph, a  perpetual calendar secular, and an equation of time which only varies by 6.8 seconds per lunar month, the equivalent of one day every thousand years!

Although the first piece of this exceptional, limited series was presented to an American collector at a ceremony in Monaco last November, the Master Watchmakers of Genthod are already putting the finishing touches to a second Aeternitas Mega 4, which will be available in the very near future.

And for all those who would like to share the dream of Franck Muller’s creations first-hand, the Master of Complications has organised two WPHH – World Presentation of Haute Horlogerie – exhibitions this year at its Watchland site in Genthod on 17-23 January and 17-27 March from  9.00 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Warning! Horological Machine No3 (HM3) is so far outside existing timekeeping references that it may cause sensory overload. The mind first attempts to take in the kinetically active movement, paradoxically seen in all its glory on the top of the watch and partially circumscribed by a ring of large numerals. However before that information can be processed it is assailed yet again, this time by twin cones rising majestically from the sculptured three-dimensional case. No wonder many struggle to reconcile the reality that this dynamic sculpture is actually a highly technical wristwatch that tells the time and date.

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This roley is piiiiimp.  Too bad it'll cost ya...

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With its latest masterpiece, CENTURY continues to appeal to the self-assured, conquering man. Sublimely masculine, the PRIME TIME CHRONOGRAPH EGOS DAY & DATE embodies power and strength.

Power, greatness, strength and beauty…

True to the spirit of the ESQUIRE collection, the new PRIME TIME EGOS CHRONOGRAPH combines the proven good looks of a dodecagonal case with the timeless character of CENTURY sapphire.

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The 3rd. Edition of the Salon International Haute Relojeria Mexico 2009, held in Mexico City from  September 29th to October 1st, was considered by Audemars Piguet to be sensational, both in terms of media presence and end customers.

Audemars Piguet attended along with 29 other brands and exhibited 35 watches and 12 pieces of jewelry (including Jules Audemars Chronometer, the Jules Audemars Grande Complication, the Jules Audemars Chronotourbillon skeleton and sets of fashion jewelry).

At the time, Mr. Philippe Merk, CEO of Audemars Piguet, together with Francois Henry Bennahmias, Wolfgang Sickenberg and Olivier Quillet, marked their presence by revealing for the first time a limited edition Royal Oak Offshore Pride of Mexico for aficionados of the brand and the horological press.

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Geneva (Switzerland), La Cité du Temps, 1 October 2009 – Longines has celebrated the 120th anniversary of the registration of a logo that the famous St. Imier watchmaker still uses today. Protected since 1889 in Switzerland (FOIP), this factory trademark comprising a winged hourglass and the name Longines is the oldest of its kind still active, in its original form, in the international registers kept by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). To mark the 120th anniversary of its logo, the brand has organised a themed exhibition in the Cité du Temps in Geneva, published a study about the symbol and created two exceptional limited series of timepieces numbered from 1 to 120.

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