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“Bond Watches, James Bond Watches” runs June 18, 2010, through April 30, 2011. Here’s a look at setup week onsite in Pennsylvania, featuring all 007 watch brands: Breitling, Hamilton Pulsar, Omega, Rolex, Seiko, and TAG Heuer.
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Gucci Watches‘ partnership with the 2012 Grammy Awards ended happily last weekend with the limited edition I-Gucci Grammy Museum timepiece entering Grammy history.

On Feb. 11, American actress and singer Jennifer Hudson ushered in the I-Gucci Grammy Museum watch into the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The event was attended by Gucci Timepieces and Jewelry CEO Michele Sofisti and celebrated Gucci’s support for the Music Preservation Program. In partnership with The Recording Academy, Gucci’s Music Preservation Program seeks the identification and preservation of historical recordings in need of digital restoration. Gucci currently features the restored music of 1920s jazz musician Fats Waller on their website.

The I-Gucci Grammy Museum watch joins Gucci’s collection of digital watches and Grammy tributes. Designed by Frida Giannini, the I-Gucci Grammy Museum boasts a double-layout digital display and the distinctive Grammy Museum Gucci Limited Edition inscription on the bezel. The reverse of the watch case sports the Grammy Museum logo. In addition to its unique style, the high fashion timepiece possess all the key functionality of a sports watch. Proceeds from the sale of the limited edition timepieces will benefit Gucci’s Music Preservation Program. The I-Gucci Grammy Museum watch features:

• Swiss-made dual chronograph movement
• Tachymeter
• Pedometer
• Sailing options for regatta timing
• Countdown timer
• Backlight
• Optional analogue display
• Yellow and black dial
• Black rubber strap with metallic anthracite Guccissima patent calf leather
• Dual time zone display
• Date display
• Alarm function
• 49 mm case

Oscar and Grammy award winner Jennifer Hudson presented the I-Gucci Grammy Museum watch at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday. She wore a sleeveless black Gucci dress and gold bracelets. Guests at the intimate event were entertained with a special performance by Hudson.

The Grammy Musuem opened in Dec. 2008 for the 50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards. The Museum features several interesting music exhibits as well as educational and public programs to increase music awareness.

The Grammy Awards were held on Feb 12. at the Staples Center in Los Angeles featuring performances by Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, The Beach Boys and Paul McCartney. Singer Adele was the runaway winner of the evening, winning all six of her nominated categories including Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year. Jennifer Hudson performed a tribute to the late Whitney Houston at the awards ceremony by singing “I Will Always Love You.” Celebrities wearing Gucci included Lily Aldridge, Katy Perry and the Kings of Leon.

From:Luxury Watches That Impress Review Blog

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January 2008 – At a glamorous and glittering champagne soirée hosted by Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton, TAG Heuer inaugurated the world’s first 360 Degree Watchmaking Museum.
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John Reardon really knows his Patek Philippe.  In addition to heading up Sotheby’s New York watch department, authoring a book or two on Patek, and moonlighting as a HODINKEE contributor, Reardon actually spent a few years within the hallowed halls of The Henri Stern Agency in New York, otherwise known as Patek Philippe USA.

In this special video put together by Sotheby’s, John takes us inside Patek’s Geneva musuem.  This is absolutely worth your 5:57. 

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Omega has been very busy the past couple of years developing a wide range of projects. After completely renovating their museum in Bienne, they have now launched a complete online portal for the museum. For those who haven’t been able to visit the museum in person (myself included) this new website is a welcome addition to the wealth of Omega-related information to be found online.

We love a good history lesson (especially concerning early Seamaster divers), and the new Omega Museum website does not disappoint. It’s well designed and complimented by a host of excellent photos, timelines and articles relating to different Omega watches and brand partnerships. Omega is one of our favorite luxury brands and this site is an excellent addition to their online presence and a good supplement to the free iPad version of the Omega Lifetime magazine. It’s hard to think of another long-standing brand that takes better care of its fans and actively invests in their education. Even if you have only a casual interest in the Omega brand or their watches, their museum site offers an insider’s perspective and some interesting stories about their history. The Omega Museum website should do well in tiding us over until we can get a flight to Switzerland to witness the physical museum first hand.

From:WatchReport.com

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Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of visiting Omega’s renovated museum space across the street from the brand’s headquarters in Biel, Switzerland. Omega has a history that stretches back to 1848 and the museum tells the story of one generation to the next with great pride and impeccable curation. With a brand that conjures images of James Bond, Astronauts and the Olympics, it’s easy to overlook its modest founder and historic manufacturing abilities. The museum handles the task well though, devoting space and attention to each chapter in the company’s evolution.  In the museum you will see some of the most important Omegas ever made – the watches that made it into outerspace, those that were part of the Alaska project, those that were issued by the British military, and even a few from COMEX. 

The fun doesn’t end there, so if you want to see some really special Omegas, read on.

From:HODINKEE

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A visit to the OMEGA Museum was on my ToDo list as soon as I bought my first vintage Omega watch in 1999. In the past, I had mailed several occasions with Marco Richon (former curator of the museum) and John Diethelm (archives of Omega), but it never came to a visit to their museum in Bienne.

Just recently, the Omega museum has been refurbished and a new curator (Brandon Thomas) has been appointed. Omega invited me over to come to visit their new museum and two factory visits to see how their Co-Axial movements are manufactured.

Together with the guys from aBlogtoRead, Hodinkee, Les Rhabilleurs and WatchingHorology we headed to Bienne, Switzerland, to see these treasures of one of my favorite brands. This blog article only covers the museum visit, more on the factory visits will follow soon.

The original museum (it was totally refurbished early 2010) opened its doors in 1984, being the oldest museum dedicated to a single watch brand. The location always was the same, right across Omega’s HQ in Bienne. Our guide, Brandon Thomas, introduced himself and started the tour in a room that was packed with historical watches and movements. It even included the work bench of Louis Brandt, where he began in 1848, over 160 years ago.

The center display on the picture above was packed with Omega movements, from the first Calibre 19″ that gave the name (Louis Brandt & Frere – OMEGA Watch Co) to their company in 1903 via the  popular caliber 55x and 56x movements to their current Co-Axial in-house movements.

This first room also includes a number of historical wrist watches like the Omega Centenary, the predecessor of the Constellation, the water resistant Omega Marine (pictured below), 30T2 chronometer watches and enamel dialed watches from the 1950s.

Besides a long history on mechanical wonders, Omega is of course also famous for their Olympic Games time measuring, the Speedmaster being the watch worn on the Moon and the Seamaster being a sporty and professional diving watch. The main room of the museum is packed with watches that were in space, under water (there is even a display with COMEX equipment and an official COMEX Seamaster), on the wrist of several James Bond’s and timing equipment used for the Olympic Games.

One of the things that impressed me most was the number of watches that were actually used by astronauts, movie actors, royal family, presidents and other people. What about President Nixon’s watch? It was number One of the gold Speedmaster Professionals (out of 1,014) that we reported about before (click here to read that article).

Perhaps more famous are the Speedmasters worn by astronauts. Below you’ll see the Speedmaster watches of NASA astronauts Richard Gordon (on a glove) and Eugene Cernan, where Gordon wore a ref.105.012 and Cernan a ref.105.003 model. As you can see, the 105.003 Speedmaster pre-Professional of Cernan was put on a JB Champion bracelet. Gordon’s Speedmaster was worn on the official NASA Velcro strap.

Besides these NASA watches, the Omega museum also features a part of an original NASA control room center. Lifting the top, all we saw was a few wires and electrical circuits, in total less power than a modern Apple iPhone has.

Modern Speedmaster watches are also presented in the museum of course, like the skeletonized Speedmaster as pictured below or the X-33 prototypes. On the opposite of the museum’s reception, there was a room filled with watches from the current Omega collection. We are pretty sure though, that your visit will be mainly about the historical models.

Although we have a lot more photos of the Omega museum – more on that later – we would like to end this blog post with the Omega Seamaster Professional featured in The World Is Not Enough. Yes, the lights are real and flashing. How it works? You need to check Fratellowatches Facebook album. : )

In total, I shot 125 photos in the Omega Museum, all can be viewed by visiting the Fratellowatches Facebook album. Make sure to ‘Like’ the Fratellowatches FB page! More on the factory visits soon, these visits have made me even more enthusiastic about the brand from Bienne.

Furthermore, I would like to thank Omega for organizing yet another great event (like the Capri event earlier this year). I can recommend a visit to the Omega museum any time, even for the people or collectors who are lesser focused on this brand, it will be an interesting experience.

The OMEGA museum is open Monday through Friday between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. except on public holidays. Entrance is free of charge and guided visits are available in English, French or German.

Click here to go to the Fratellowatches Facebook Photoalbum for the complete photo report.

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I have heard there are a number of museums dedicated to the author Harold Bell Wright or who have items of interest to HBW fans. Where can I find these museums?

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Branson, MO

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Check out these Jacob images:

NYC – Metropolitan Museum of Art – Landscape with Cattle




Landscape with Cattle
Jacob van Strij (Dondrecht 1756-1815)
Oil on wood
Insribed (lower right, falsely): A. cuÿp.

Marquand’s gift of a major painting by Jacob van Ruisdael in 1889 made it somewhat predictable that a typical work by "A. cuÿp" (to quote the inscription on this panel) would follow in short order. Given the Museum’s four important paintings by Aelbert Cuyp (1620-1691), the present picture may be regarded as a happy accident, for it is a fine homage, dating about 1800, to the Dordrecht master by his much later emulator Jacob van Strij. In Van Strij’s estate sale of 1816, the Marquand panel was listed as "the same, after the same"–that is, one of several landscapes by Van Strij done in the manner of Cuyp.

Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890 (91.26.8)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met’s holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met’s purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.

In 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art was ranked #17 on the AIA 150 America’s Favorite Architecture list.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1967. The interior was designated in 1977.

National Historic Register #86003556

2007-10-06 20:08:45 by:wallyg

My nephew Jacob getting ‘clipped’ by his dad.

2008-12-14 19:32:46 by:Rambis Photography

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