The Girard Perregaux Sea Hawk II Pro 3000m (phew what a mouthful!) is a watch that might do James Bond proud. It’s tough as nails with panache and style in bucket loads.
Retailing for £6,000 ($12,000 approx) the Sea Hawk includes a rotating bezel, 4 o’clock crown (not sure what that means?) and an ascent / descent indicator.
Why is it tough? Well it’s certified to NIHS 92-10 Swiss industry standard - which basically means that the Sea Hawk is one of only a handful of watches that can go to a depth of 3,000m without imploding.
The watch casing incorporates two de-pressurisation valves which prevent helium, which penetrates in from the sea at depth, exploding out the watch when you surface. Ok, you have to ask the question “how often will I go down to 3000m” - but forget that. This watch is tough, cool and full of sophistication - just like our friend Mr Bond, the Sea Hawk can do things that we would never entertain!
Posted by Ruth Miller on Wed 30th April 2008 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Luxury Watches
The Maurice Lacroix Memoire really is a remarkable piece of engineering - and so it should be with a retail price of £135,000 ($270,000).
This is the first mechanical watch with a memory function. This means that whilst it’s working as a chronograph, it remembers the time and switches back automatically. For example, you can switch into chrono mode, setting the hands to 12 o’clock and then revert to watch mode and the hands will flit back to their correct position.
This is amazingly done with mechanical movements, including three rotating columns, several separate chronograph hearts and 604 miniturised wheels and cogs. Accommodating all this doesn’t make the Memoire dainty, it’s quite simply bold and beautiful.
Steinway & Sons Watches have just launched their ‘Seconde Metronomique’ watch, the worlds first wrist watch that features a one-second metronome.
Developed by Jean-Marc Wiederrecht – Winner of the award for ‘Best Watchmaker’ in the 2007 Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève,‘the Seconde Métronomique’ features a precise one-second
metronome on the dial.
This watch is limited to just 300 timepieces, costs £15,100 and comes in either white gold, yellow gold or red gold (100 available of each).
Posted by Peter Brady on Mon 24th March 2008 at 06:22 AM, Filed in Luxury Watches
This New York based Swiss watch manufacturer have produced a range of some of the most desirable watches on the market today.
Yes they are related to the famous Steinway & Sone piano band, hence some of the designs relating to pianos, notice the iconic shape of the grand piano’s precious-timber sound board on each model.
There are both ladies and gents ranges with too many details to list. If you want to know more then check out their website here.
Prices from £6,800.
Posted by Bob Bulmer on Wed 23rd January 2008 at 10:20 AM, Filed in Luxury Watches
Ok, so it’s not ridiculously expensive like most things on this site, but it’s super cool and I’m a big fan. It’s called a Flud Turntable Watch and is based on the classic Technics 1200 deck, complete with detailing like the arm, pitch control and start/stop.
To top it off it’s only £30 and comes in box modeled on a record flight case – how cool is that!
Buy it here.
