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MV Agusta Watch

Harlyn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:13:21 +0000

Like most self-respecting motorcycle manufacturers, MV Agusta has decided to launch a watch. Other manufacturers, including Ducati, Harley and BMW all have their own watches, usually produced by upmarket watchmakers.

MV Agusta’s watch is being produced by one of the most upscale manufacturers, Swiss (where else?) JEANRICHARD.

The “MV 75 World Champion” collection was specially developed in honor of MV Agusta’s 75 international competition victories. It is composed of three chronograph models in gold, steel and titanium. Limited editions of 75 in pink gold, 175 in titanium and 575 in steel will be produced.

The series number is engraved on the back of each watch, alongside the MV Agusta logo adorning the sapphire crystal that enables one to admire the exquisite finishing of the JEANRICHARD movement, decorated with the Côtes de Genève motif.

No prices published (but if you have to ask, you can’t afford it).

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Parmigiani Bugatti Faubourg Watch

Harlyn — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:20:06 +0000

It’s the Bugatti Type 370 watch, and it is truly a work of art. It even won the 2006 Watch of the Year award from the Japanese press. The initial goal was to make the watch only available to Bugatti Veyron owners, since it is a driving watch, themed after the car company. However, the huge demand for this watch has made cause for its release upon the general public instead of the select few who own one of those highly coveted $1.25mil+ cars.

The watch uses a very unique transversal movement with a vertical watch face, so you can look at it while driving, instead of looking at the clock in the Bugatti Veyron, the one that also cost a small fortune. The watch does need wound every 10 days, but there is a battery powered device that does that for you.

So the car is over a million dollars, how much do you think the watch made for it is? If you guessed $280,000 you guessed right, but your guess is as good as mine as to how a watch that costs that much had such a high demand they couldn’t keep it exclusive.

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Hublot Senna Watch

RevBooyah — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:10:31 +0000

This watch has been out for a while, but it’s still crazy good looking.

“Hublot’s very latest Big Bang, produced in a limited edition in association with the name of Ayrton Senna. On 18st October, the Swiss watchmaker will be presenting to the public the splendid Chronograph Split-Second with Power Reserve indicator, cloaked in black and adorned with Ayrton Senna’s signature in red and the Brazilian flag in green and yellow. A timekeeper that’s already a legend in the making.”

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Tokyoflash Rogue Watch

Harlyn — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:54:02 +0000

The LED-loving, standard clock face-defying Tokyoflash is back with its latest creation, the Rogue ($155). Made from stainless steel in either a polished silver or black finish, the Rogue features green LED lights in a circular pattern, with the outer ring of small dots representing minutes, the ring of large blocks representing rough minutes, and the inner ring of blocks representing hours. Interesting, innovative, and stylish, the Rogue will make a great fit with any wardrobe.

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$300,000 Day & Night Watch

Harlyn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:24:13 +0000

Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome’s “Day&Night” watch — which does not tell the time, only whether it is night or day — sold out within 48 hours of its launch earlier this year as watch fanatics snapped up the $300,000 timepiece.

“When you ask people what is the ultimate luxury, 80 percent answer ‘time’. Then when you look at other studies, 67 percent don’t look at their watch to tell what time it is,” Chief Executive Yvan Arpa told Reuters on Friday at Baselworld, the watch and jewellery industry’s largest annual trade fair.

“Why do people buy expensive watches? To have a trophy. A watch (costing) $9 gives the time as well as a watch at $500,000, so they really buy a trophy,” Arpa said.

The “Day&Night” watch uses the complicated Tourbillon movement — invented to overcome earth’s gravity which used to affect the accuracy of watches — which lures watch connoisseurs as well as fashion aficionados.

The Geneva-based company, founded in 2004, also has an order backlog of up to two-and-a-half years for its “Titanic DNA” watch, which is made from steel and coal from the Titanic and can cost as much as $500,000.

“If you do something that is different, which is interesting, it pays,” Arpa said.

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Nixon Rotolog Watch

Harlyn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:17:24 +0000

The Nixon Men’s Rotolog Watch is the timepiece you’ve always wanted and won’t be able to live without. Get a watch inlaid with real walnut, or choose from brightly colored enamel Rotologs if wood-grain isn’t your style. The Rotolog watch face spins past a small right window to indicate the time. Nixon’s latest offering even has a band with a seamless butterfly closure so the inlay or fill wraps all the way around your wrist. An all Black version features a sleek titanium carbide coating.

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