Sheridan Dance Company – Wengeze
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IWC DaVinci Watches – International Watch Company – King Jewelers YouTube.com
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IWC watches, Da Vinci Watch areavailable for sale at King Jewelers Miami, Florida & King Jewelers Nashville, Tennessee. Visit us at www.Kings1912.com for more information and fine luxury watches. ABOUT KINGS Established in 1912, King Jewelers has proudly styled jewelry aficionados from around the world. For five generations, the King family has owned and operated King Jewelers while building an outstanding reputation steeped in quality, value, and first-class service. Offering a magnificent selection of fine jewelry collections including the fashion-forward Italian designs, classics diamond creations, luxury Swiss timepieces, estate jewelry, modern designer jewelry, as well as colored gemstones and fancy-colored diamonds, King Jewelers is the one-stop-jewelry shop that prides itself in being one step ahead of the trend. At King Jewelers you will always find the best of the best, no matter what your style or budget may be. The salon also offers bridal, baby, and gift collections. In addition, King Jewelers offers on-site jewelry and watch repairs, custom design services, appraisals, estate buying, and corporate gift programs. The showroom features shop-in-shop boutiques from Bulgari, Harry Winston, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC, and Brietling. Private viewing rooms and seating areas allow shoppers a private and comfortable shopping experience, not to mention the fully stocked, hip NYC-style bar. The new showroom also offers designer jewelry boutiques from Judith Ripka, Roberto …
IWC Watches & King Jewelers Cocktail Party – International Watch Company – King Jewelers YouTube.com
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Franc VilaWatches are available for sale at King Jewelers Miami, Florida & King Jewelers Nashville, Tennessee. Visit us at www.Kings1912.com for more information and fine luxury watches. ABOUT KINGS Established in 1912, King Jewelers has proudly styled jewelry aficionados from around the world. For five generations, the King family has owned and operated King Jewelers while building an outstanding reputation steeped in quality, value, and first-class service. Offering a magnificent selection of fine jewelry collections including the fashion-forward Italian designs, classics diamond creations, luxury Swiss timepieces, estate jewelry, modern designer jewelry, as well as colored gemstones and fancy-colored diamonds, King Jewelers is the one-stop-jewelry shop that prides itself in being one step ahead of the trend. At King Jewelers you will always find the best of the best, no matter what your style or budget may be. The salon also offers bridal, baby, and gift collections. In addition, King Jewelers offers on-site jewelry and watch repairs, custom design services, appraisals, estate buying, and corporate gift programs. The showroom features shop-in-shop boutiques from Bulgari, Harry Winston, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC, and Brietling. Private viewing rooms and seating areas allow shoppers a private and comfortable shopping experience, not to mention the fully stocked, hip NYC-style bar. The new showroom also offers designer jewelry boutiques from Judith Ripka, Roberto Coin, A …
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Girard-Perregaux, Swiss Watch Company with Rich Horological Heritage, Prepares to Meet Future in the US
Posted in articles&news on Mar 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
The Sowind Group has named a new president of its American operations. Sowind, which owns Swiss luxury watch brands Girard-Perregaux and JeanRichard, is planning a US expansion strategy for the Girard-Perregaux brand and the new president will be working closely with Sowind CEO, Michele Sofisti, and Girard-Perregaux managing director, Stefano Macaluso, to oversee this process.
Michael Margolis
“I am very excited and honored to join an iconic brand like Girard-Perregaux,” said Michael Margolis, the man who has been chosen to do the job. “I have admired the brand and its heritage from afar for many years.”
Girard-Perregaux does have an impressive and illustrious heritage. Although the Girard-Perregaux name was not established until the year 1856, the brand is generally considered to have been founded in 1791, by an orphan named Jean-François Bautte, when he signed his first watches at the age of 19. Bautte, an industrious youth, learned the various trades associated with watchmaking and became popular for the extra-thin models that he made. When he set up a manufacturing company in Geneva, Bautte decided to keep all of the various watchmaking trades under the one roof, and idea that was quite innovative at the time. In his lifetime, Bautte went on the trade with all the European courts and was even visited by the future Queen Victoria. Since that time, the company that would eventually become Girard-Perregaux has been renowned for innovation, style and prestige.
Right: 1840 Lepine Pendant Watch signed by J.-F Bautte & Co.; Center: 1870 Cross shaped pendant watch; Left: 1889 La Esmerelda Pocket Watch with Three Gold Bridges Tourbillon – owned by the President of Mexico, General Diaz.
Some historical highlights:
• 1867 – Girard-Perregaux won a prize at the Paris Universal Exhibition for a new tourbillon design. (The tourbillon was developed around 1795 by Abraham-Louis Breguet as a way to counteract the negative effects that gravity has on the more sensitive pieces of the watch escapement. By placing the escapement in a rotating cage, the pallet fork, balance wheel and hairspring were more insulated against shocks, gravity, magnetism and imbalance within the watch itself. Many variations on the tourbillon have been developed since.)
• 1880 – Constant Girard-Perregaux developed a wristwatch concept for German naval officers. Although Kaiser Wilhelm I ordered the watches and 2,000 were made, wristwatches did not gain in cultural popularity until the following century.
• 1889 – Constant Girard-Perregaux’s masterpiece, the famed Three Gold Bridges Tourbillon won a gold medal at the Exposition Paris Universal Exhibition; this piece so dominated the industry that it was disallowed from further competition in 1900.
• 1930 – Predicted by Girard-Perregaux some fifty years earlier, the wristwatch exceeded the pocket watch in popularity.
• 1945 – The rectangular, art deco inspired model was created. Fifty years later, it was revived and called the Vintage 1945.
Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 with Three Gold Bridges Tourbillon
• 1966 – Girard-Perregaux’s in-house R&D team developed the first high-frequency movement, at 36,000 vibrations per hour. These chronometers performed so well that, in 1967, a full 70 percent of certificates issued by the Neuchatel Observatory were awarded to Girard-Perregaux High Frequency Chronometers.
• 1970 – One of the first Swiss watch companies to get on board with the production of quartz wristwatches, Girard-Perregaux set the universal standard frequency at 32,768 Hz.
• 1981 – Girard-Perregaux was also one of the first to return to traditional mechanical timepieces after quartz had turned the Swiss watchmaking industry upside-down. Girard-Perregaux released a pocket watch containing the three gold bridges Tourbillon.
• 1992-1993 – Italian entrepreneur, architect and former racecar driver, Luigi Macaluso took over Girard-Perregaux and signed a “co-branding” agreement with Ferrari.
Ferrari watch face designed by Girard-Perregaux
• 1997 – Villa Marguerite, the building that would house the new Girard-Perregaux museum was purchased.
• 2004 – The first Girard-Perregaux boutique opened in Gstaad.
Margolis, the man who will now bring Girard-Perregaux into the US in the 21st century, was born in the States. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a double major in Latin American Studies and Foreign Languages; he is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and German. Margolis has held positions at Crest Reprographics and at Nikon. It was while working for TimeZone.com, however, that he developed a passion for luxury watches. He moderated that site for almost 11 years before taking a job with Hublot as US sales director. Now he will be overseeing Girard-Perregaux’s advance into that same marketplace.
“Mike is a remarkable individual, with true passion for the craft,” said Sofisti. “We are glad to have him on board to lead the US team into this new phase of the brand.”
Margolis will assume office on Thursday, March 1.
Irish Company Hijacking Russian Domain Names from Swiss Watchmakers? Tissot is the Latest Member of Swatch Group to Bring Charges against Holmrook, Ltd.
Posted in articles&news on Feb 12th, 2012 No Comments »
An Irish Company seems to have set its sights on Russian domain names that have been trademarked by makers of luxury Swiss watches who are members of The Swatch Group.
Holmbrook Limited, a company based in Dublin, has found itself in legal battles brought by the brands Longines Watch Co., Rado Uhren and now Tissot AG for hijacking Russian (.ru) domain names that the watchmakers believe are rightfully theirs.
In earlier proceedings, the Moscow Commerical Court sided with Longines and Rado, prohibiting Holmrook from using the domain names and awarding the claimants modest monetary damages, but Tissot has not been as successful. On December 6, 2011, the court ruled against the company, stating that Holmrook was neither the owner of the tissot.ru domain name, nor its administrator. Apparently, Holmrook had given the name and well as administration rights to an individual named Nikolai Mikhailyukov free of charge. Mikhailyukov has been using the site to post information about the French painter, James Jacques Joseph Tissot.
Tissot AG claims that the site was not dedicated to the painter until after charges had already been filed.
Why Holmrook is targeting Swiss watchmakers is unclear; what the company even does is hard to pin down with a simple Google search. Holmrook Limited has no website, no Wikipedia page and no presence within social media. In fact, the bulk of its public activity seems to be defending itself in court against angry Swiss watchmakers.
Steve Levy, a writer for The Fair Winds Blog: DomainStrategy.com, has a theory. “It would seem Holmrook’s main function is investing in domain names (some may call it cybersquatting instead of investing), and I view the use of content relating to the artist James Tissot to be a clever ruse which was specifically intended to avoid enforcement. It would be like someone registering apple.ru and posting pictures of fruit but with the real intention of waiting for the famous computer/mobile device company to seek out the owner and offer them a huge sum to buy the domain.”
On his website, Levy makes the comment that these problems tend to abound in Russian web spaces, due to “lax copyright enforcement and a rampant counterfeiting industry.” His suggestion to businesses is to register any important trademarks in the .ru domain quickly, before cybersquatters do.
An appeal by Tissot was scheduled for Feb. 8, 2012 before the Russian Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals. And it’s a good bet that Omega, Union Glashütte, Breguet, Tourbillon, Calvin Klein and other Swatch Group companies are registering .ru domain names as quickly as possible.
Hublot Tribute to Morgan Motor Company
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HUBLOT GENEVE – Presentation & Stucture of the Company
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www.victorinoxblog.com Oui la communication est importante et oui aussi le net n’est pas a négliger. JC Biver est l’actuel CEO de Hublot. En plus d’etre un tres grand patron, c’est aussi un homme au grand coeur qui a su garder les pieds sur terre. Hublot’s story 1980, Carlo Crocco founds his own company and creates the Hublot watch in gold. It is fitted with the first natural black rubber strap in the history of watchmaking. In the mid-90s, rubber became the focus of interest for the top watchmaking brands. Hublot remains one of the last independent family-run watchmaking businesses with a unique mono-product concept. Around this material, Hublot extends its range to include a vast array of collections, some featuring sports complications. Late 2003, Carlo Crocco, preoccupied by his own design work and many activities for the Hand-in-Hand Foundation, a charity helping deprived children all around the world, is looking for his successor. He meets Jean-Claude Biver. May 2004, Jean-Claude Biver assumes his duties as CEO. He reinvents the DNA of Hublot by going back to its roots. Jean-Claude Biver relaunches the “Fusion” concept, the Fusion of sometimes unlikely materials such as gold and ceramic, tantalum and pink gold, and even magnesium and titanium, and the Fusion between the Swiss Watchmaking Tradition and the Watchmaker’s Art in the 21st century, all the while preserving the unique, timeless design of Hublot watches. In April 2005, Jean-Claude Biver sets up a new …
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Romain Jerome Watches + DeLorean Motor Company
Posted in articles&news on Oct 18th, 2011 No Comments »
They are coming soon – the Romain Jerome DeLorean DNA watches. Swiss Romain Jerome has partnered with DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) – now based out of Texas – for some interesting new upcoming timepieces. The watches will all share the core Romain Jerome DNA philosophy of honoring fascinating events and items from our history with timepieces that actually each contain trace amount of items from those events. In this case the watches are said to contain sheet metal from the original car bodies.
A pop culture icon solidified for eternity by the 1985 film “Back to the Future,” the story of the DeLorean DMC-12 and the company behind it is a fascinating tale unto itself. Existing automobiles are highly collectible and regularly restored. As a car the DMC-12 never quite lived up to its potential due to the failure of the company at the time, but as a design item it almost epitomizes an era. Romain Jerome spent a lot of effort seeking out a partnership with DMC, which recently became a reality. Soon we will be able to see what the Romain Jerome DeLorean DNA watches are all about. Stay tuned.
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What’s it going to take for Bischoff and Hogan to realise that they’re killing yet another company?
Posted in IWC on Aug 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Question by Ben
Yes, it’s been said before, but the neglegence that Bischoff has shown multiple times through his twitter and now facebook are mind boggling. Eric will complain that everyone is out unjustifiably criticisng his, Hogan’s and Russo’s work in TNA, but you can see that the company is slowly and painfully dying.
They seem to think that all of the ‘IWC’ are out to criticise them just for the sake of it. As a (former) TNA fan, it’s hard to watch all the talented performers such as Samoa Joe, Beer Money, AJ Styles, Daniels and the rest of the X Division job to old, past their prime stars? They feel that everyone wants to see them fail, whereas it’s actually the complete opposite.
The fact that they brought in guys like The Nasty Boys, Brutus Beefcake, Bubba The Love Sponge, Orlando Jordan and the ECW reunion along with their poor handling of guys like Jeff Hardy, terrible booking of guys that should feel special like the Hardys, Anderson, RVD etc goes to show their poor judgement.
There’s a reason WCW died, and it’s these guys. It’s the same reason TNA’s going to die. I want TNA to compete with WWE, I want them to succeed, but it has become such a train wreck. It’s hard to believe that Dixie Carter’s dad would continue to fund these idiots.
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Answer by HAHA
I think they already realize it. But do they care? Nope
Armida Dive Watches – New Dive Watch Company
Posted in articles&news on Aug 10th, 2011 No Comments »
Yet another new addition to the world of Online-based specialty dive watch companys.. enter Armida Dive Watches. Armida watches is a Hong Kong based designer of Dive watches that features both Swiss and Japanese movements. The choice is yours! The Swiss costs more, of course.
Currently the company makes two watches, the A1 and A2 Divers. The A1 is a more unique product with a very cool domed sapphire crystal and 1000m water resistance, whereas the A2 is more of a Submariner clone in a larger 42mm size and 500m water resistance. The A2 is also available in PVD black.
While there isn’t a whole lot here to excite me personally, there is some potential. Many of these boutique online-only companies put out some pretty cool stuff like Korsbek and UTS… but many fall into oblivion. I wonder which category Armida will fall into?
