Browsing all posts in "Watch Movements".
The largest watch company
The Swatch watch company owns many Luxury Watch brands Swatch was originally intended to re-capture entry level market share lost by Swiss manufacturers during the aggressive growth of Japanese companies such as Seiko in the 1960s and 1970s, and to re-popularize analog watches at a time when digital watches had achieved wide popularity. The launch [...]
Jewel Movements
We all hear about Luxury Watches that have Jewel Movements however what does this mean? JewelersLounge – Luxury Watch Blog investigates and it is quite interesting. The jewel movement involves the use of jewels within the men’s watches to act as bearings at the wheel train as well as around the escapement lever. These are [...]
Baume & Mercier – William Baume Ultraflat
This amazing watch has a beautiful solid 18kt rose gold case, measures 41mm x 5.8mm and has a sapphire crystal. The watch is water resistant to 30 meters. The manual-wind (Mechanical) movement, caliber T001, measures 2mm in height. The strap is alligator with a solid 18kt rose gold buckle. Grab them while they last Baume [...]
Bulova Watches
Bulova is a New York based corporation making watches and clocks. Bulova was founded and incorporated as the J. Bulova Company in 1875 by Joseph Bulova (1851-1936), an immigrant from Bohemia. It was reincorporated under the name Bulova Watch Company in 1923, and became part of the Loews Corporation in 1979.. Bulova established its operations [...]
Why are Luxury Watches So Expensive
When Luxury Watches are manufactured there are many things associated with cost. 1. Research and Development All watches have complex movements some that are on the cutting edge of technology. There are different types of movement and all are very complex. These movement have precious stones (Ruby’s etc..) in them some are made of precious [...]
Leonardo Dicaprio Partners with Jaeger-LeCoultre
Luxury Swiss watch company Jaeger-LeCoultre—in partnership with actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio—has created its “Time to Care” program, to benefit the Leonardo DiCaprio Fund at the California Community Foundation. The fund-raising focal point of the initiative will be the sale of two timepieces in the fall of 2008. Both will be the first of a [...]
Alicia Keys and Jaeger-LeCoultre
Alicia Keys & Jaeger-LeCoultre – The Reverso Squadra Lady “Superwoman”, the new song from nine-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys creates a perfect occasion to bring the latest creation of Jaeger-LeCoultre, the Reverso Squadra Lady to stage. This song is dedicated to women, and the Reverso Squadra Lady perfectly reflects this multi-faceted feminine universe with [...]
Complicated Watches
In horology, the term complication refers to any feature beyond the simple display of hours, minutes, and seconds in a timepiece. A timepiece indicating only hours, minutes, and seconds is otherwise known as a simple movement. Common additions such as day/date displays, chronographs and automatic winding mechanisms are usually not sufficient to permit a movement [...]
Quartz Movements
A rotating pendulum inside the case is attached to a relatively large gear which meshes with a very small pinion. As the wearer moves, the pendulum turns and spins the pinion at a very high speed – up to 100,000 rpm. This is coupled to a miniature electrical generator which charges a storage device which [...]
Mechanical Watches
How it works To accomplish this, the watch contains a semicircular ‘rotor’, an eccentric weight that turns on a pivot, within the watch case. The normal movements of the user’s arm and wrist cause the rotor to pivot back-and-forth on its staff, which is attached to a ratcheted winding mechanism. The motion of the wearer’s [...]
