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Corum Launches New Website |
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For now, we only get a teaser – a new homepage with a short movie. On Wednesday March 17 at 6 p.m. (GMT+1) as Baselworld 2010 gets underway, Corum’s new web site will officially launch. The site has been developed with internet video specialists Ivitech. When it launches, the site will unveil Corum’s collection for [...] |
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Panerai: A Tribute to Galileo Galilei |
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It’s a short walk from Galileo’s Florence residence to the spot where, centuries later, Giovanni Panerai opened the city’s first watch workshop. During his life Galileo tackled several time-measurement problems, devising a system to calculate longitude at sea using Jupiter’s moons as a celestial clock and doing fundamental work on isochronism. Four centuries later, [...] |
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Cartier, Patek Top Sellers At Patrizzi & Co. New York Auction |
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Patrizzi & Co. opened the 2010 season on March 9 in New York City. Sales exceeded $2 million and two-thirds of the 161 lots sold. The top price of $250,000 was paid for a 1929 gold and nephrite Cartier Comet table clock featuring grande sonnerie chimes—the most complicated mechanism ever made by the company. A [...] |
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Azimuth Xtreme-1 Collection |
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Azimuth and Mexican explorer Fernando Alberto Lozano Andrade have collaborated to create the new Xtreme-1 series of three watches: the Sea Hum GMT, Sea Hum 3TZ, and the Deep Diver. Fernando has previously climbed two volcanos: 19,400 foot Licancabur in Chile-Bolivia, and 16,500 foot Popocatepetl in Mexico. This year he will climb the 22,608 foot [...] |
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Jaeger-LeCoultre Online Auction Benefits UNESCO World Heritage Site |
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Jaeger-LeCoultre presents its second online auction, taking place from March 18, 2010, to benefit the UNESCO World Heritage Center. This year, the Manufacture is offering an iconic and unique timepiece: one of the two vintage 1958 Geophysic Chronometers Model E168 tested by professional climber Stephane Schaffter and his team during their recent Geophysic Expedition to [...] |
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