Wallpaper magazine did a special collaboration with Bell & Ross and Jonathan Ellery for the latest August ‘Handmade’ issue (see above). Ellery used a graphic motif that signified the big bang on a BR01-92 B&R watch which only comes together twice every 24 hours as the circles rotate.

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The Omega Skeleton Tourbillon Co-Axial Platinum Limited Edition – quite a mouthful. Limited to an edition of 18 pieces

The Omega Constellation Double Eagle 4-Counters

The Omega Seamaster Ploprof 1200M

The Omega Speedmaster Professional Apollo-Soyuz 35th Anniversary watch

There where few new additions from Omega that were presented at Baselworld 2010, most notably was another commemorative wristwatch that celebrates the 35th anniversary of the first international space flight in 1976 when two spacecraft built by different nations docked together.

Astronaut Lietenant General Thomas P. Stafford (USA) and cosmonaut Lieutenant General Alexei A. Leonov (USSR) met in the docking hatch that linked their respective spacecraft. They both shook their Omega wearing hands (no joke – Omega has a very hard working marketing department) and 35 years later, it spawned a commemorative edition that includes a dial created from a sign piece cut from the meteorite which entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

Since no two piece of the meteorite dial are alike, each dial remains unique. Conveniently, they had enough meteorite available to make exactly 1,975 pieces.

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Tissot PRS 516 Chrono Auto Valjoux

This year Tissot focused on two re-issues, some new variations of pre-existing models such as the Sailing Touch which is their touch screen version for martime enthusiasts, the release of PRS 516, a classic tissot case with an automatic movement and five smaller (3mm smaller) quartz variations and of course, the Visodate.

The Original PRS 516

Visodate Automatic 1957 – Reissue

Tissot Veloci-T (Gents and Ladies) Automatic

Tissot Lovely – 37 Top Wesselton Diamonds, Quartz movement

Lady Heart – Diamond Studded, Automatic, 3 ATM

Sailing Touch – A new additional to Tissot touch screen collection. The ST version has a maritime theme with meteorological forecasting ability, a tide-calculator and a regatta countdown in addition to the regular T-touch functions

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MB&F continues to get creative with the revelation of their new aviation inspired complex mechanical wristwatch called the Thunderbolt. Founder Maximilian Busser explains how personal this design was for him:

Because from the age of 8 to 12-13 I spent every free minute crafting model airplanes… They were everywhere in my room. Hanging from the ceilings, accumulating on the shelves, in the cupboards. I would spend hours assembling, modifying, painting anything which had two wings. HM4 is a very personal interpretation of what would happen if you crossed a piece of ultra high end horology with the world of aeronautics.

You can watch a video of the wristwatch over here.

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Angular Momentum’s new model, La Boulle Classic “Day & Night”, has a 24 hour self winding mechanical movement and a clever elegant dial that i thought was noteworthy. Probably due to the recession, these watches are only made on order only.

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The UR-CC! is the first mechanical wristwatch to mimic the digital linear display. The linear time is displayed by two large cylinders. One for jumping hours and the other, a retrograde cylinder for the minutes. The seconds are also displayed by a rotating disk on the dial. The UR-CC1 took more than three years of R&D.

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Pontos Decentrique GMT

Masterpiece Chrono Squelette

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Maurice Lacroix

RSW’s new mechanical timepieces for ladies is called the Moonflower. The watch was inspired by such symbols as the moon, meteorites, origins and floral compositions. The movement uses three discs to tell the hours, minutes and seconds. The watch uses an automatic movement (ETA 2824-2)

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Perrelet’s Split-seconds Chronograph “Louis-Frédéric” is a tribute to the founder’s grandson. Some History here: Louis-Frédéric emigrated to Paris towards the end of the 18th century, became watchmaker to three successive kings of France, won competitions and in 1827 applied for a patent for his invention – the split-seconds chronograph counter, which also received an award from the Academy of Sciences in Paris. Almost two centuries later, Perrelet is reinterpreting this complication in two exceptional versions: one in white and pink gold limited to 50 pieces; the other in white gold in a limited series of 27. The movement is automatic (Perrelet P-241 calibre, 28,800 vib/h, 25 rubies, 46-hour power reserve)

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Louis Moinet’s new Jules Verne Instrument 1 is named after science fiction writer, Jules Verne who famously wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth. Though, they want to refer specifically to a particular novel – From the Earth to the Moon for the reason that the watch has an authenticated piece of lunar rock in the side of the case at 9′o’clock. Sure, it also provides a new method to start and stop a chronograph but A LUNAR ROCK?

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Concord Tourbillion Gravity

Someone needs to tell Concord that its a recession. They just released the Tourbillion Gravity which has a bi-axial tourbillion. I really can’t tell how it works but its definitely awe inspiring to look at. The movement is a hand-wound, Concord C104 calibre (21,600 vib/h, 72-hour power reserve).

C1-World Timer

C1 Retrograde

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I didn’t know this but Movado claims they were the first one to show a complete date window in their watch back in 1946. This year, they bring it back. The watch uses an ETA movement.

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.. And round and round. De Grisogono’s Instrumento Grande Open Date is a “2009 replica” of their previous case rather than an updated model. It features an automatic movement that lays bare a dual date window disc as a design feature.

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The UR103T is the latest update from Urwerk which is a creative collaboration between watchmaker Felix Baumgartner and designer Martin Frei.

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The New Carl F. Bucherer wristwatch called the Patravi EvoTec Daydate uses their very own movement – the FB A1000 which they premiered at last year’s Baselworld. This is the first time they’ve used it in a model and since this is their very first movement, there are a lot of high-fives going around at their booth this year. This was the result of their purchase of a workshop by the name of Techniques Horlogeres Appliquees SA (THA) in Ste-Croix, that they renamed to Carl F. Bucherer Technolgies SA (CFBT).

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Sport Class Xls

Callanen International, a subsidiary of Timex corp, continued with their mission to upscale some of their brands by taking the Gc collection from Guess one step further by including three new mechanical models. The automatics will be available by the end of the year and the expected retail price is between 3000€ – 3500€

The new GC Sea Automatic

S-4 Lady

Gc Mechanical Skeleton

Sport Class Xls

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For its 125th anniversary, Breitling has revived its legendary Navitimer. Launched in 1952, this timepiece has become the brand’s iconic model.

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Aquanautic introduces its very first tourbillon that comes with a double-crown locking system and a 5-day power reserve. The movement is hand wound.

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Formex’s new timepiece is targeted at racing car enthusiasts. The case can be inclined on a 90° axis between 10.30 and 1.30 using a lever at 4 o’clock. The novel crown-guard prevents any inadvertent altering of the time. The openworked dial offers a magnificent view of the Grand Prix movement. Limited edition of 199 pieces.

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