I'm only writing this blog for Yu - Dream Watches: 2006-09-10

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Paul Picot - Technograph

The Technograph was developed on the basis of the automatic ETA caliber 7750. A clever system of two superimposed dials makes for a perfectly clear display of the hours and minutes in the center of the reading zone, to the exclusion of all other indications, while the small seconds hand, the chronometer minute counter, the calendar and 300 division minute-circle are located in a peripheral zone on the lower dial.

Paul Picot - Technograph

The principle is as follows: the top dial in the centre of the watch (hours and minutes) is fitted on the bottom dial. The small seconds hand is displayed on a dial added at 9 o’clock, in a half-moon shape. The 30 minutes chronometer counter at 3 o’clock works on the same principle, the only difference being that the 15 first minutes are shown in the outer area starting at noon, and the next 15 in the inner area.

Paul Picot - Technograph

The oversized date aperture is located on the bottom dial at 6 o’clock. A flange with 300 divisions, applied to the outside diameter of the basic dial, enables the chronograph seconds and fifths of a second to be indicated by the centre seconds-hand. The dial assembly is made up of 5 separate components.

Paul Picot - Technograph

The case, in stainless steel, 18kt rose or white gold, measures 44mm. It has a domed sapphire crystal with AR coating and a sapphire display back secured with screws, guaranteeing water resistance to 100 meters.

Paul Picot - Technograph

The dial can be had in rhodium, anthracite or brown.

Paul Picot - Technograph

Vacheron Constantin - Only Watch 05 Malte Tourbillon

Vacheron Constantin - Tour de l’Ile (250th Anniversary)

Vacheron’s Tour de l’Ile is a limited edition of 7 watches, crafted in 18kt pink gold, individually numbered and each featuring a one-of-a-kind hand-guilloched motif on the back dial.

Movement is the hand-wound Vacheron caliber 2750 with 834 parts (necessitating 10,000 hours of Research & Development by VC). The movement beats at a leisurely 18'000 bph, with a power reserve of 58 hours. It has 38 jewels.

Indications & functions are: hours and minutes, seconds at 6 o’clock, repetition of the hours, quarters and minutes on request. A Tourbillon, power reserve indicator, second time zone indicator, phases and age of the moon and striking-mechanism torque indicator.

The perpetual calendar shows the day of the week, date, month, leap years and perpetual equation of time with sunset and sky chart indicators. It is branded with the Geneva Hallmark of quality.

The case, in 18kt pink gold measures 47mm X 18mm, with a lug width of 23mm. The crystal is sapphire as is the display back.

Tour de l’Ile, Vacheron Constantin $1,500,000 US dollars