Replica Timepieces

The Harry Winston Histoire de Tourbillon collection had its first appearance in 2009. After its debut, it soon commented by the public as a collection of technical sophistication and highly appealing design.

This year, a reversed version, the Histoire de Tourbillon 2 Watch was unveiled, which boasts a creative construction and a bi-axial flying tourbillon.

When you first look at the watch, you’ll probably be amazed by its design as I did. It has its displays showed in different offset sub-dials. Let me break down each quarter to you. At 9 o’clock is the seconds display with the tourbillon escapement. Lower at the 6 o’clock is the minutes display while upper at two o’clock shows the day/night aperture.

To better create a 3-D effect, the case is formed in a construction of several levels, which is a significant accomplishment for a 30-meter watch resistant watch. Crafted from white gold, the watch case is measured 48.5mm in diameter, looking relatively large in appearance.

Besides the mysterious and complicated appearance, Histoire de Tourbillon 2 Watch manifests great power too. The power of this watch comes from a Harry Winston patented mechanical hand-wound movement. Being hand-crafted, the movement ensures excellent rating precision and reserves power for 50 hours.

The black alligator leather strap finishes its magnificent look.
With such a complex look, the watch targets at those who love contemporary high-tech instrument and who would like to take it as a piece of artwork. For your information, only 20 pieces are launched. It’s really precious.

People who show great fondness for watches should know what brand of watch is prestigious and what type of watch is quite popular recently. Another point they also need to know is the maintenance of watch. Indeed, the service life of the watch depends on whether the wearer can use and service the watch in a right way. Now I would like to introduce some basic tips about how to service your designer timepiece.

1. Concerning the waterproofness, watches can be divided into three types including the submariner watch, the waterproof watch and the non-waterproof watch. You should check the waterproofness of the watch before you decide to buy it. The rubber seal contributes to the waterproofness of watch. Generally speaking, most of the watches are waterproof to depth of 30m, 50m, 100m, 200m or 300m. Even if your timekeeper is waterproof, you had better not wear it when you have a hot shower or a sauna bath. That’s because the rubber seal can expand with heat and contract with cold under the influence of temperature. As a result, water condensate will seriously damage watch parts. Hence, the waterproof rubber seal and time knob should be replaced regularly. By the way, when you change a new battery for the quartz watch, you also need to change other waterproof watch parts to guarantee the waterproofness.

2. The travel-time error is allowable for all types of watches. For instance, the mechanical timekeeper has about 30-second travel-time error every day, while the quartz watch has about 15-second travel-time error every month. You should set the analog-type quartz crystal watch forward one minute when you are regulating time. Automatic mechanical watches and automatic quartz watches will easily stop running under the condition that you don’t wear them and just put them aside. In that case, you need to wind them before you plan to wear them.

3. Materials of the watch mirror glass mainly include perspex, common glass and sapphire crystal. With regards to watchcase and watchband, commonly found materials are plastics, copper, stainless steel, titanium alloy, gold and ceramic. Among these materials, sapphire crystal, titanium alloy and ceramic are wear-resistant. Though they are wear-resistant, they can’t endure fierce shock. They are easy to be damaged by some substances with the same hardness or better hardness. Besides, it is important to regularly clean watchcase and watchband because sweat and grime can corrode external parts of the timekeeper.

Famous for its tourbillon watches and perpetual calendars, the watch enterprise Girard Perregaux is putting forward a retro style model – the 1966 Small Seconds at the SIHH 2011. With its classical pocket watch style and exquisite details of watch making, this 1966 small seconds soon captures a lot of attention.

The Girard Perregaux 1966 Small Seconds represents the brand’s 1966 collection, which commemorates the time when the brand achieved successfully a big development of high frequency movements and a wide social recognition. The piece is a representative of Girard Perregaux’s retro style model with fine watch details.

The watch features an enamel white dial. It uses the traditional Grand Feu technique that was used to be applied in the pocket watches. To produce the purest and the most pristine effect, fine powders applied in the dial were fired in high temperatures. This pure beauty is unattainable if is applied in other methods. Further traditional beauties are the two blue feuille-shaped hands pointing to hours and minutes and the second hand one the subdial at 6 o’clock. The general classical styling of the elegant piece is even amplified by the rebellious little red “60” on the second subdial. The brand logo GP is showed exquisitely under the 12 o’clock index.

Driving the watch is a new automatic movement, the modified version of Girard Perregaux Calibre 3300, which could be viewed clearly through the sapphire case back. To make it able to resist strong shocks, the face is also made of sapphire crystal. The alligator strap adds a classical sense to the whole appearance.

This watch is available in both pink gold and white gold case. Choose whichever that appeals to you better. As a matter of fact, both versions appeal to me.