Frederique Constant and Alpina are scheduled to introduce over 10 different Horological Smartwatch models during 2015. Luxury watch styles will be available for both ladies and gentlemen.

MMT (Manufacture Modules Technologies Sàrl) is a new Swiss joint venture that was created by Fullpower Technologies, Inc. of Silicon Valley plus the owners of the Frederique Constant Group. The MMT mission is to introduce the exciting MotionX-365® Horological Smartwatch Open Platform to the powerful Swiss watch industry.

Initially, the MMT partners consist of Frederique Constant who is the Geneva based luxury watch manufacturer of classical watches. Also joining the partnership is Alpina, who is popular Swiss sports watch manufacturer that was first founded way back in 1883.

The new Swiss Horological Smartwatch collection is powered by MotionX® which allows bi-directional communication with both iPhone and Android apps. As a result, the Swiss Horological Smartwatch synchronizes automatically with applications on Apple and Android smartphones. The Swiss Horological Smartwatch now combines the features and functionality of the MotionX® technology platform with a luxury timepiece.

The MotionX patented sensor-fusion engine tracks activity and specific sleep patterns with exceptionally high accuracy. Activity and sleep information is presented in real-time on the Swiss Horological Smartwatch using beautiful traditional analog dials. There isn’t a digital screen, but the gorgeous, laser cut hands on the watch dial display information in analog form. The end result is very important here as studies have shown that better sleep and a more active lifestyle produce effective, positive behavioral changes.

The basis of the new Swiss Horological Smartwatches is based on tracking and analyzing more than 100 million nights of sleep, and years of research and development on the biomechanics of natural human motion.

The first Swiss Horological Smartwatch will offer a wide range of cutting edge functionality including:
– MotionX® activity tracking
– Always-on time & date
– Sleeptracker® sleep monitoring
– Get-Active alerts
– Sleep cycle alarms
– Adaptive coaching
– MotionX® cloud backup and restore
– 2+ years battery life

Philippe Kahn is both founder and CEO of Fullpower and was quoted, “We looked for innovative partners in the Swiss watch industry to collaborate with. Peter’s efforts to develop his own high caliber product were unprecedented, so we immediately clicked and went to work to help reinvent the Swiss watch industry.”

Frederique Constant is well respected as a family owned watch manufacturer, headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland. The luxury watch company develops, manufactures and assembles in-house calibers, in 18 different versions since they began in 2004.

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Photo: Frederique Constant

At the recently completed BASELWORLD 2015 show in Switzerland, SWISS sport watch maker Alpina announced the new Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph watch.

Alpina was founded way back in 1883, and has been a pioneer of the Swiss watchmaking industry for over 130 years. As a premier designer and manufacturer of both wristwatches and pocket-watches, Alpina announced the luxury brand’s first chronograph that developed and produced in-house – the Calibre AL-760. The design utilizes the AL-710 rotor calibre with a balance frequency of 4 Hertz, centre seconds, in addition to a date hand at the 6 o’clock position.

The pressing action of the new Calibre AL-760 is very smooth, as well as both the stopping and resetting operations. Another feature is the column wheel that rotates on bearings that controls the three start, stop and reset functions. The winding rotor also operates in both directions.

The key part in all chronographs is the clutch. Repeating pressing of the start/stop push-piece causes slight pivoting of the clutch lever. The rotations of the chronograph hand are “recorded” by the 30-minute counter at 3 o’clock.

In 1938, when the iconic “Alpina 4” sports watch was introduced, the figure “4” represented four unique characteristics at the same time:
1) – Antimagnetic
2) – Water-resistant “Geneva” case
3) – Incabloc shock protection, and
4) – Use of non-rusting stainless steel for the highly robust case.

The new Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph luxury watch by Alpina features a sporty and elegant stainless steel case. There is a screw-down winding and setting crown, plus a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal that measures 45 millimetres in diameter.

You will find a counter at the 3 o’clock position that adds cumulative times up to 30 minutes. At 9 o’clock, the permanent-seconds hand rotates normally. The Super-LumiNova-highlighted dial from Alpina showcases the date hand at the 6 o’clock position. Lastly, the watch hands are luminous at night.

The Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph watch can withstand water pressure of up to 10 atmospheres, which is similar to a diving depth of 100 metres. The watch’s crown and push-piece are placed in in a straight line, despite the modular construction. of the calibre AL-760.

The Alpiner 4 Flyback Chronograph wristwatch by Alpina comes in either a stainless steel bracelet or alligator strap.

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Photo: Alpina

Located in Monaco, Ateliers deMonaco is a highly respected luxury watch brand. 2015 marks an important milestone for the small production, watch company, as they begin manufacturing their own in-house flyback chronograph movements.

The new in-house movements are the foundation for the new Admiral watch collection announced by Ateliers deMonaco. You will be able to view the new Watch collection at this week’s Baselworld Fair in Switzerland.

Founded in 2008, Ateliers deMonaco enables its next generation watchmakers to design and then create luxury timepieces and made of high quality. They strive to use the latest innovation and the best materials available.

The Admiral Chronograph is a limited edition, luxury watch collection of only 88 pieces of each type: either 18Kt white gold or 18Kt rose gold.

The term “Admiratus Admiratorum” which translates to “the most admired of the admired” was given during the reign of the Norman ruler Roger II (1095–1154) to his top naval commander – George of Antioch.

The patented manufacture flyback chronograph by Ateliers deMonaco measures a succession of elapsed times as well as eliminates many superfluous repetitive operations. As an example, in standard chronograph watches from other luxury brands, buttons have to be pushed three time in a row to to measure successive intervals. The first press stops the chronograph, the second to reset it to zero, and the third press starts it once again.

The creativity of the flyback function, is just a single press of the flyback” button not only stops timing the first interval, but will also reset the hand to zero. The chronograph hand starts once again as soon as button is released. That is true engineering!

Clearly the advantage of this type of mechanism is it utilizes a multi function Flyback Hammer. The Flyback Hammer is programmed to disengage the watch’s chronograph clutch wheel. Next it will engage the brake, then lastly turn both the chronograph second and minute wheel.

The admiral watch is still as popular today as ever. Pilots appreciate its accuracy and stylish looks. It’s also widely used in both racing and navigation.

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A partnership between new spy thriller Kingsman: The Secret Service and luxury watch brand Bremont has produced a luxury collection of three, special edition timepieces.

The new Kingsman: The Secret Service popular movie stars Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine. The espionage film was directed by Matthew Vaughn is based on a comic book adaptation. The movie tells the story of rough around the edges street kid, who is brought into the spy world and takes part in the challenging Secret Service training program.

The Bremont watch collection consists of three luxury timepieces. The collection celebrates both the heritage and amazing craftsmanship of Bremont’s military and aviation inspired watches. Bremont watches are well known for their precision mechanical engineering.

The Bremont watch collection plays an important role in the Kingsman: The Secret Service movie. Like all well done spy movies, there are incredible gadgets that take center stage. Bremont is quite proud to have their new luxury timepiece collection included.

The Kingsman watch collection comes in three different color opteion, including stainless steel, rose gold and black. Each stunning watch offers 24 time zones on a rotating bezel, in addition to a 42 hour power reserve, chronograph stopwatch and a creative, automatic self-winding feature.

Bremont Kingsman Special Edition Stainless Steel watch has a retail price of £4,295.00
This stylish Stainless Steel model case utilizes hardened steel along with a Trip-Tick construction by Bremonth. The luxury watch comes with a highly finished white metal dial that displays “Kingsman” emblem on the 12 hour sub-dial.

Bremont Kingsman Special Edition Rose Gold watch has a retail price of £14,995.00
The gorgeous Rose Gold model case is an 18 carat rose gold Bremont and the same features as the Stainless Steel model.

Bremont Kingsman Special Edition DLC watch has a retail price of £4,395.00
The Special Edition DLC model is a military inspired chronograph. The luxury watch’s hardened SS case back is DLC coated with an integrated flat crystal, and includes five DLC coated screws with DLC heads plus a skeletonised decorated DLC coated rotor.

The new watch collection from Bremont can be purchases at premium watch and diamond emporium – Chisholm Hunter.

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With Baselworld 2015 nearing, luxury watch brand Glashütte is releasing new versions of their PanoMaticLunar and PanoReserve watch.

The two, new timepieces are from the watch brand’s popular Pano Collection. They both come in red gold versions with a stylish matte black dial, plus a polished/satin brushed stainless steel edition that features a dark blue dial.

The beautiful watch dial is made in Glashütte Original’s Pforzheim factory. Each watch dial is carefully manufactured using up to 40 different operations. The result in the final product is magnificent, demonstrating both a refined and carefully finished watch dial.

One of the key changes to the new PanoMaticLunar and PanoReserve watches are the colors. There is mysterious black and intense blue. The colors deliver a radiant glow to the new Glashütte watches.

Glashütte Original has designed the two Pano watch models with an off-center placement of both the hour and minute hands, plus the small seconds display. The look is unique and delivers a lasting impression.

The carefully chosen location of the individual displays was derived by the “Golden Ratio”, which is the legendary law of aesthetic harmony. The Panorama Date and the gorgeous moon phase display are respectively located in the lower and upper right.

The PanoReserve watch model features a manual winding Calibre 65-01 with 42 hour power reserve and 48 stunning jewels. The watch’s sapphire crystal case back provides a clear view of the Glashütte Original duplex swan-neck fine adjustment, in addition to the Glashütte three-quarter plate with Glashütte stripe finish, the screw balance, the hand-engraved balance cock, screw-mounted gold chatons and blued screws.

The PanoMaticLunar models include the Saxon manufactory’s Calibre 90-02, which is a mechanical automatic movement with 47 jewels, plus a 42-hour power reserve. The watch’s sapphire crystal case back also delivers a clear view of the watch movement. Features include the three-quarter plate with Glashütte stripe finish, blued screws, off-center rotor with oscillating weight in 21-ct gold, plus the hand-engraved balance cock with duplex swan-neck fine adjustment.

Another impressive feature is the Panorama Date, moon phase display, and power reserve display present indications in the German language.

You will also find the “Made in Germany” mark that reminds watch connoisseurs that Glashütte has perfected the art of fine German watchmaking since 1845.

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Photo: Glashütte Original PanoReserve watch

Jaquet Droz has introduced its new Sunstone luxury watch collection. The stunning watch features flecks of gold scintillate that produces an ember-like glow. The result mimics the luminous power of the nighttime star.

The process was first discovered way back in the 17th century, in Murano – near Venice, Italy. By mistake, an artisan glass-maker allowed some tiny shards of metal to fall into the vitreous paste. Aventurine glass was born.

The new Sunstone luxury watch collection from Jaquet Droz graces the fashion industry with three different watch models – Petite Heure Minute 35 mm, Grande Seconde Cerclée and Lady 8.

Grande Seconde Cerclée by adorning the 8 which is formed by the two interlocking dials, plus the Petite Heure Minute 35 mm, which delivers the watch model with a touch of novel originality. The watch has red gold in color with sunstone dial.

The Lady 8 watch dial is adorned in an array of beautiful golden specks, which produces a gorgeous and sophisticated look. This fine women’s watch has a dome-shaped dial in a red gold, and comes in a diamond-set 35 mm case. The watch case houses the Jaquet Droz 1153 automatic movement.

Photo: Jaquet Droz – Petite Heure Minute Sunstone watch

As we move into the new year, it’s obvious Jaquet Droz is focusing it’s new line of ladies watches on blend of individuality and beauty. The motes of gold dust add a rich look that dazzles and will sure to impress in any type of social gathering.

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Photo: Jaquet Droz

Baselworld will be held this year in Basel, Switzerland between March 19-26, 2015. Swiss watch manufacturer Frederique Constant will be introducing its new Worldtimer Navy Blue luxury watch.

The Worldtimer Manufacture watch collection continues to be the luxury watch brand’s most popular collection. Their watch designers have created a stunning timepiece that will definitely impress – Worldtimer Navy Blue.

The Worldtimer Navy Blue watch is a blend of stylish design and the finest watchmaking technology. The watch is ideal for men who enjoy to travel and looking for a luxury watch that is sophisticated and comfortable to wear on his wrist.

Due to the watch’s bold look, it can be worn perfectly with a fine suit or even with casual dress. It’s the ideal fashion accessory!

The Worldtimer watch function is valuable for global jetsetters. You simply select a city by placing it at the 12’oclock position of the watch dial.

Driven by the FC-718 Manufacture automatic caliber, the Worldtimer Navy Blue watch is decorated with 26 jewels and has a long-lasting, 42-hour power reserve. The cutting edge design of this new luxury watch from Frederique Constant enable all functions of the watch to be simply accessible through the crown. You won’t find any additional push buttons protruding out from the case sides.

The watch’s incredible blue navy dial features an exquisitely detailed anthracite grey world map in the middle. Both of the watch’s hour and minute hands are silver in color and include a luminous white highlight.

The watch discs will display what time of the day, showing a white disc for day or blue disc at night. The date is available on the 6’oclock counter.

The Worldtimer Navy Blue watch is water resistant down to 50 meters and the case is made from a highly-polished, three part stainless steel. The watch also features a convex sapphire crystal and see-through case back.

In addition, the luxury timepiece also comes with a blue alligator bracelet and a gorgeous wooden gift box.

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Photo courtesy of Frederique Constant

The new luxury watch creation from Grieb & Benzinger is a pure beauty. Black has long been a fashionable color. It’s a popular color associated with elegance and style plus a status symbol in the luxury industry.

The Pharos Centurion Imperial model by German watchmaker Grieb & Benzinger is a glamorous looking watch that sports a gorgeous, all-black appearance.

The watch’s cool black look is high-lited by an expressive, eye-catching pavé-set bezel that includes 66 luxurious, black Princess-cut diamonds. It’s absolutely stunning!

The luxury Pharos Centurion Imperial timepiece can also be considered understated as its sophisticated look isn’t gaudy like many luxury watches today.

The totally blackened manually wound movement is also black and comes in the signature three-quarter-plate that’s fully skeletonized, guilloché and engraved by hand. It’s professionally and stylishly decorated in true Grieb & Benzinger fashion.

The luxury watch’s case is made from blackened PD950 palladium and comes in a 43 mm in diameter size.

The Pharos Centurion Imperial watch is complimented by a black alligator-skin strap.

As with other luxury watches from Grieb & Benzinger, quantities are limited. At press time, the exact retail price is not known but expected to be in the six-digit range.

This luxury watch will make the ideal gift or a perfect addition to your own watch collection.

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First launched in 2005, the iconic “Tradition” luxury watch collection by Breguet was introduced. Now there is a new watch model with selfwinding mechanical movement and retrograde seconds hand – the Tradition Automatique Seconde Rétrograde 7097.

It’s a stunning luxury watch from Breguet that allows us to view inside and see beauty of its mechanism plus reveals bridges, escapement, wheels, barrel and other watch components.

The Tradition Automatique Seconde Rétrograde 7097 watch is made based on both technical and aesthetic excellence. These traits are core values of luxury watchmaker Breguet, who consistently strives for modernization of historical devices.

The name of the this new, Breguet watch model was derived from the retrograde seconds hand, which supplements the traditional hours and minutes display on a stylish watch dial offset at 12 o’clock position.

The watch case is made from 18-carat white gold with a finely fluted caseband. The sapphire-crystal caseback is 40mm in diameter and is water-resistant to 3 bar (30 metres).

The watch’s movement is self-winding plus numbered and signed BREGUET. Cal. 505SR1. It features 38 jewels and has a 50-hour power-reserve.

The dial of the new Tradition Automatique Seconde Rétrograde 7097 watch is 18-carat gold and Individually numbered and signed BREGUET. The watch displays retrograde small seconds at the 10 o’clock location. There are blued-steel BREGUET opentipped hands.

The Breguet watch comes with a leather strap and is also available in 18-carat rose gold.

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Back in 1963, luxury watch brand Alpina first introduced the Comtesse lady watch collection with automatic movements. Rich in tradition and offering fine lady watches since the 1920’s, Alpina is bringing back the Comtesse Lady watch line.

Offering both elegance and sportiness, the new Alpina Comtesse watch line for women embodies chic style. Its characteristics include luxury, Swissness, simplicity and unique character.

The Comtesse women’s watch features a 3 links bracelet blend along with a mother of pearl dial that is beautifully adorned with diamonds or drop shaped indexes. The lady’s luxury watch comes with a rounded, polished stainless steel bezel with an option with including diamonds or not.

Tina Maze is the Ambassadress for the Alpina Comtesse watch collection. Tina is a double Olympic ski champion in Sochi and like Alpina, strives for a alpine lifestyle and elegance.

The Contesse watch comes in a stunning two-tone version that features gorgeous a bezel with 48 diamonds that are set on a gold plated bezel in addition to a mother or pearl dial with 6 diamonds. The yellow PVD bezel version of the lady’s watch showcases 6 diamonds on the mother of pearl dial. Both luxury watch versions offer a stainless steel metal bracelet plus a yellow PVD central link.

The Comtesse in stainless steel surrounds an AL-525 automatic mechanical movement that includes 26 jewels. The fine watch has a power reserve of 38 hours plus is water-resistant up to 5ATM (50m, 150ft).

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Last week at a Christie’s auction in Geneva – Switzerland, Breguet President and CEO of Breguet – Marc A. Hayek, purchased two historic gold pocket watches. One of the two watches was a rare quarter repeating watch that’s equipped with the first free escapement with natural lift ever made by Breguet (N° 1135).

The total purchase price for both luxury watches – Breguet N° 1576 and N° 1135 was 519’000 Swiss francs.

Here’s a brief description of each of the Breguet watches:

Breguet N° 1135: (photo above)
« Petite montre à répétition des quarts, échappement libre à levées naturelles ».
A unique and historically important 20K gold openface quarter repeating watch with free escapement with natural lift.
Signed Breguet, sold on 13 January 1806 to Monsieur Le Duc de l’Infantado for the sum of 4’200 Francs.

Breguet N° 1576:
« Montre à Souscription de taille moyenne »
A fine and rare 18K gold « souscription » watch
Signed Breguet et fils, circa 1805

During the French Revolution in 1794, Abraham-Louis Breguet introduced a new model of timepieces equipped with a special movement of great simplicity. The 1576 waas sold on September 8th, 1809 to Mr. Moreau, Breguet’s agent in St. Petersburg. This Breguet watch has simple and elegant design, plus utilizes a gold cuvette. Approximately 700 watches were made with either gold or silver cases.

The No. 1135 timepiece is an important find from both a historical and technical standpoint. The Brugeut 1135 watch did not require oil on the impulse surfaces. Breguet used this design to solve the issue of a free escapement with natural lift. The luxury watch maker made just thirty watches and clocks that included this unique system. Future production halted because of the high cost, development effort and production time. The No. 1135 was sold back in 1806 to Pedro Alcantara de Toledo y Salm Salm (1768-1841), who was the Duke of Infantado.

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