Baselworld-2015: main novelties hour show of the year

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Today in Basel, Switzerland over the world's largest annual exhibition of watches and jewelry Baselworld. At this year's parade was attended by representatives of more than 1,500 brands from forty countries. Thus Baselworld-2015 became the biggest trade show of Haute Horlogerie, which annually following the Geneva Salon identifies the main trends industry.
Baselworld-2015: 10 new products, the main watch exhibition
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This year, including popular watch "complications» Baselworld-2015 - chronographs, grande date («big date"), anti-magnetic technology Master Co-Axial, high-speed tourbillons and lunar calendars. Of current trends, as before, like sports watches Yacht-Master Rolex, El Primero Sport Zenith - in this area among watchmakers present a particularly high level of competition.
By popular models on display, along with complex mechanisms Stranger Vivaldi from Ulysse Nardin or Arnold & Son, include innovative forms, such as, Hublot Magic Gold, sophisticated clock-like ckeletony The Perrelet Turbine Skeleton and time-consuming zhakemary - Jaquet Droz. Forbes chose ten of the latest models of watches from luxury brands Baselworld-2015.



Chopard
Mille Miglia GTS Power Control

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Mille Miglia collection inspired by classic luxury cars Gran Turismo and the world-famous Italian endurance rally "Mille Miglia", held by the route Brescia - Rome and back. Ruler hours initiated by Karl Friedrich Scheufele,, co-president of Chopard, updated in 1988.
Sports Watch GTS Power Control with power reserve of 46 hours in a stainless steel housing with two large protruding numbers "6" and "12" are reminiscent of retro and dashboards for the first time are driven by watchmakers Chopard. 01.08 caliber completely designed, constructed and assembled in the workshops of Fleurier Ebauches.

Blancpain

Villeret Grande Date

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau was one of the first researchers of the oceans who have experienced scuba prototype. Captain Cousteau was immersed in water, using a mask and flippers hundreds of times. Indispensable in his expeditions remained Blancpain Series Fifty Fathoms - watch Swiss manufactory of Villeret, earned the status and standard of diving.

Round Dial waterproof to a depth of 200 meters hours enclosed in a two-stage model of the new Villeret housing and made in the technique of hot enamel. Mechanism "of the classic" lines of Blancpain is the first time complexity grande date («big date") - two large date window located at "6" hours.

Breitling

Colt Cronograph Automatic

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Brand with years of experience development hours for aviation - Breitling - confirms the reliability and accuracy of all its mechanisms official chronometric certification COSC. Swiss manufacture of Grenchen owns the world's only private professional aerobatic team (Breitling Jeam Team) and is a leader in developing wrist chronographs.

Exact Cronograph Automatic with subtle embossed circular pattern on a dark dial in polished stainless steel housing has a diameter of 44 mm caliber Breitling 13 and the minimum reserve of 42 hours.

Colt line was originally intended for the pilots of the armed forces and was first launched in 1980.

Arnold & Son

Constant Force Tourbillon

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Limited model Constant Force Tourbillon with patented constant-force module and a power reserve of 90 hours from the royal line of Royal collection of Arnold & Son refers to the first marine chronometer by John Arnold, the British, who modified the complex mechanism with a particularly precise course of John Harrison. In 1770, the Swiss factory navigation equipment was first endorsed by the British Board of Longitude for marine use.

Constant Force Tourbillon in a housing diameter of 46 mm in 18-carat red gold has an anthracite dial and original open-motif double eight, which allows us to consider it from different angles.

Issue hours limited series of only 28 copies.

Jaquet Droz

The Bird Repeater Jeneva

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The new model of the minute repeater Jaquet Droz watches from the masters-zhakemarov of La Chaux-de-Fonds is dedicated to Geneva - the city where Pierre Jaquet-Droz in the XVIII century opened his first watch workshop.

Birds have always been a special theme for Jaquet Droz. On the dial white mother of pearl reproduced in miniature, the largest lake in the Alps Leman Salev tops and a pair of black-headed goldfinches coiling nest on the island of Rousseau.

Limited The Bird Repeater Jeneva equipped with eight automatic movements in the likeness of dolls, automata with manual winding caliber RMA88, power reserve of 48 hours, and the disc of black onyx, off-center hour and minute counter at "12 o'clock".

OMEGA

Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M

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In anticipation of the 24th tape of the film series about a secret agent James Bond ("007: Spectrum») OMEGA introduced an updated edition of antimagnetic watches Seamaster Aqua Terra 150M in a limited number of 15 007. The mechanism in steel caliber 8507 is resistant to magnetic fields due to technology Master Co-Axial, exceeding 15,007 gauss, and is waterproof to a depth of 150 m.

Design hours "heraldic" dial inspired by the fictional coat of arms of the family and their familial Bond theme: "The World Is Not Enough" ..

Maurice Lacroix

Masterpiece Gravity

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Chronograph Masterpiece Gravity with an extraordinary display of time was first presented at the exhibition Baselworld-2014. It was the first watch Maurice Lacroix c mechanism completely made of silicon.

For updated hours of collection Masterpiece, the most innovative series of Maurice Lacroix, released on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Swiss watch company of Senlezhe, characterized skeletonized and off-center dial, decorated pattern Cote de Geneve («Geneva stripes"), durable alloy body Powerlite and stainless steel, as well as the manufactory caliber with automatic winding ML230 and a power reserve of 50 hours.

Hublot

Big Bang Unico Full Magic Gold

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Revolutionary Magic Gold by materials scientists Hublot and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) - the world's only a scratch-resistant gold alloy, which is close to the hardness of 1000 Vickers (almost twice the usual standard of 18-carat gold). Magic Gold in a new limited edition model of Big Bang Unico Full Magic Gold is combined with the already significant for the Swiss watch company design Big Bang.

Robust housing chronograph black ceramic with flyback function with a power reserve of 72 hours is equipped with manufactory mechanism HUB 1242 UNICO and consists of 330 hand-picked components.

Girard-Perregaux

Tri-Axial Tourbillon in white gold

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Girard-Perregaux - a recognized leader in the manufacture of watches with a tourbillon, presented an updated version of the limited triaxial models Tri-Axial Tourbillon, first made in white gold.

Manufactory Haute Horlogerie has developed a high-speed tourbillon with the regulatory body, which rotates on three axes instead of the traditional one. Complex sapphire crystal dial has a special bulge for the tourbillon, the lower carriage which makes a complete rotation about a first axis for a moment about the second axis 30 seconds and about a third - in two minutes. This complex mechanical system consists of 140 components and is only 1.24 g

Longines

Conquest Classic Moonphase

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Longines, timekeeper many famous sporting events, was the first Swiss company that launched the rectangular clock (barrel) form. Manufactory, founded Saint-Imier, has dedicated a new model in the line of Conquest to all lovers of equestrian sport. Classic Moonphase mechanism has complication - the lunar calendar and chronograph to visit the races.

Watches 42 mm Automatic caliber L678 in stainless steel and rose gold frames opaline dial with luminescent coating Super-LumiNova.







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