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Omega extends its traditions of design excellence and quality to leather Omega's Fine Leather Collection, available exclusively through its international flagship boutiques since the end of 2007, enjoyed a warm market reception in 2008. The exacting standards of craftsmanship, design and superior materials which have always characterized Omega's watchmaking tradition have found new expression in the Fine Leather Collection. In 2008, the Fine Leather Collection was awarded the prestigious Red Dot Design Award, an annual prize created to recognize innovative product design. The Replica IWC Portuguese award acknowledged the practical slip opening on the outside of the Collection's wallets and key holders, which perfectly accommodates slim items such as car park cards, electronic hotel keys and loyalty cards. Unique to Omega, this attribute combines innovation with a strong visual identity.
The Trianon Year Trends Following the same strategy, now in place for the last eight years, centered on the excellence of its products, communication and distribution,Breguetconfirmedits position in 2008 as the worldwide leader in prestige watchmaking. In response to growing demand, new land was purchased for the planned extension of the two sites in L'Orient and L'Abbaye, enabling the brand to expand its production space. The company also enlarged its decoration departments, in particular the work-shop preparing manually engine-turned dials. The Replica Breitling Avenger aim is to ensure the passing on to the next generation of this art done by hand, an integral part of Breguet's history and identity. The brand is one of the few to possess a workshop of master guilloche artisans integrated into its production system. Resources for the chamfer workshop were also increased, both in terms of material and personnel.
The year 2008 was spent by Breguet under the aegis of its distin-guished patron Marie-Antoinette. Still considered today as one of the five most complex timepieces in the world, the legendary watch bearing her name has now been found. The announcement of this news by a Jerusalem Museum, which came just after the presenta-tion by Breguet at Baselworld of its new Marie-Antoinette watch, manufactured by the Breguet watchmakers in four years (2004 to 2008), turned the occasion into a veritable media happening.
The Replica IWC Pilot re-opening in September of Marie-Antoinette's Estate in Versailles was marked by a memorable celebration, presided over by Nicolas G. Hayek and the French Minister of Communication and Culture, Christine Albanel. During this event,cartier love bracelet bangle w screwdriver box, Breguet presented to an appreciative public, composed of personalities from around the world, the restored Petit Trianon. In line with its philosophy, the brand remained in the cultural lime-light, associating itself with some of the world's greatest names of classic artistic heritage. The Replica Cartier Pasha latest international Breguet boutique was opened at the Dubai Mall and boutiques will be completed and inaugurated in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai and Pusan in South Korea in 2009, despite the fears of an expected economic crisis.
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In 1783 an admirer of Marie-Antoinette ordered from the Breguet workshop a watch incorporatingallthewatchmakingknow-howofthetime.TheQueen for whom this watch was destined was never to have the opportu-nity to admire this masterpiece since it was only finished in 1727,cartier love necklace ebay, 34 years after her tragic death and four years after the disparition of A.-L. Breguet. Referred to as the "Marie-Antoinette", the Breguet n° 160 fascinated watch collectors for over two centuries. Stolen from a Jerusalem museum in 1983, its whereabouts were unknown for a long time, which led Nicolas G. Hayek to take up the Replica Cartier Roadster challenge in 2004 to reproduce it as the Marie-Antoinette n° 1160 pocket watch. To recreate the original movement research had to be carried out in the archives and drawings of the Breguet Museum as well as other cultural institutions such as the Musee des Arts et Metiers in Paris. Comparative studies of antique watches brought new light to bear on watchmaking techniques of the time.
These investigations also led to the discovery that this legendary watch included the complication of jumping hours which did not feature in any description. The other complications of this masterpiece are a minute-repeater, a perpetual calendar, an equation of time, a long independent seconds-hand, small seconds, a power-reserve indicator and a bimetallic thermometer. The self-winding movement comprises no less than 823 components. The plates, bridges and mobile gear-train are in gold and the friction points set with sapphires. The Replica Cartier Tank mechanism also comprises a gold helical balance-spring, a bimetallic balance-wheel and a double "pare-chute", an invention by Breguet to protect the balance-staff against shocks and jolts. This masterpiece resides in a precious watch box sculpted from the wood of Marie-Antoinette's oak tree, sumptuously decorated on the inside with inlaid work, all done by hand with over one thousand fragments, portraying the hand of Marie-Antoinette holding a rose, with the exterior of the box offering a faithful reproduction of the parquet flooring of the Petit Trianon.
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