BASELWORLD 2014 - The World Watch and Jewellery Show - Day 4

Company News

Carl F. Bucherer teams up with the Swiss Football Association

In summer 2014, when football’s 20th World Cup kicks off in Brazil, the eyes of the world will be on one thing: the beautiful game. And, especially for the World Cup, Carl F. Bucherer has created a timepiece that underpins the strength of the Swiss national team and reflects its enormous commitment. The partnership between the Swiss National Football Association and Carl F. Bucherer is also an expression of the close links between the Lucerne-based watch manufacturer and its homeland. It shows that the two partners have values in common: resolve, tradition, a visionary spirit and charisma – all characteristics that are integral to this unique new model. For the special edition of the Patravi ScubaTec bears the colors of the Swiss Football Association.

The Ladies Automatic "World Heart Federation" Collection by Frédérique Constant

Once again in 2014, Frédérique Constant will be joining forces with globally renowned actress and model, Ms Inès Sastre in fighting the scourge of heart disease, particularly in women and children, through their support to the World Heart Federation (WHF). Inès will once again be Frédérique Constant’s Female Charity Ambassador, a role she so graciously and effectively filled in 2013. This will be the second consecutive year that Frédérique Constant will be honoured to support the WHF’s “Hearts of Children” campaign. This year, the brand’s support takes the form of a US $75,000 donation to the WHF, in addition to the design and creation of a new Ladies Automatic “World Heart Federation” collection of watches.

Product Launch

Rolex Sea-Dweller 4000

Rolex has unveiled the Sea-Dweller 4000, featuring a 40 mm case, black ceramic bezel, helium escape valve and depth rating of 4000 feet (1220m). The bracelet is also upgraded with Rolex’s Glidelock & Fliplock clasp features on the bracelet. The watch is supported with caliber 3135, manufacture Rolex Mechanical movement with bidirectional self-winding via Perpetual rotor.

OMEGA Speedmaster Apollo 11 45th Anniversary Limited Edition

The OMEGA Speedmaster Professional Apollo 11 45th Anniversary Limited Edition wristwatch commemorates the first lunar landing and celebrates its link to the iconic chronograph that was part of the adventure. The black PVD dial has been produced using a special laser which creates the design elements on the watch’s face by removing the material surrounding the name, sub-dial numerals and hour markers. The Speedmaster Professional Apollo 11 45th Anniversary Limited Edition is enhanced with 18K OMEGA Sedna™ gold hands and indexes and a matching bezel. Another striking feature of the watch is its brown coated nylon fabric strap which inspired by the NATO straps that have equipped the timepiece issued to military personnel since the end of the 1950s. This timepiece has been produced in an edition limited to 1,969 pieces. It is fitted with calibre 1861, a manual-winding chronograph movement.

TAG Heuer CH 80

TAG Heuer revealed its newest movement, its second movement entirely manufactured in-house, this time with an unprecedented 80-hour power reserve. The new TAG Heuer chronograph was named CH 80 in reference to its production site (Chevenez) and its 80-hour power reserve. Extremely slim (6.5 mm), this 233-part new movement is equipped with a vertical clutch system that gives it exceptional power and precision. Manufactured in TAG Heuer Avant-Garde workshops at La Chaux-de-Fonds and Chevenez, the Calibre CH 80 movement powers counters at 3, 6 and 9 o’clock, plus the date window. It has exceptional “Côtes de Genève” finishing and snailing on the blackened tungsten oscillating weight and nickel-plated minutes and gear-train bridges with finely beveled and polished angles. The movement is composed of an assortment and a four-spoked balance supplied by the Swiss company Atokalpa. The bridges, plates and ébauches are all produced in Chevenez.

Boucheron Reflet Watch

Boucheron offered a new take on its stellar Reflet watch. A rectangular model regularly interpreted for over 20 years in a variety of sizes, materials and gem-set variations, the Reflet watch made its mark on its era thanks to an interchangeable strap system. It returns in a series of versions including a slim and tall variation equipped with a self-winding movement and featuring a blue sapphire at 12 o’clock, a gemstone also picked up on the crown.

TUDOR Heritage Black Bay

TUDOR released its new Heritage Black Bay watch. An open book on decades of underwater adventures, the TUDOR Heritage Black Bay is a tribute to the long tradition of TUDOR dive watches. While taking its design cues from a model made in 1954, it also reprises style signatures from the brand's past. Much more than a reissue, it combines these iconic touches with numerous modern accents in a stylistic collision between past, present and future. Winner, in the "Revival" category, of the 2013 Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève in a version in warm colours, this new icon returns in a different but complementary spirit: icy and sharp in keeping with the original qualities of TUDOR Submariner tool watches and their mission to accompany divers from some of the world's foremost naval forces.

A beautiful and spectacular time piece from Jaquet Droz

A unique high end Jewellery timepiece on display at Jaquet Droz stand at BaselWorld.

CHARRIOL Colvmbvs™ Grande Date GMT

Charriol sets sail for new horizons with this latest timepiece inspired by Christopher Columbus: the Colvmbvs™ Grande Date GMT. Its generous case, for the first time in steel with a pink gold PVD treatment, makes no secret of its ties with the wide-open seas. The watch is supported with a mechanical automatic, technotime 651 calibre with GMT module, decorated oscillating weight.

Fendi Crazy Carats

Fendi takes fur towards peaks that have not been explored for almost a century. Bearing testimony to this longstanding tradition, the new Crazy Carats watch is fitted with a precious strap in two-tone mink, while the watch itself features a number of sparkling surprises. A turn of the crown reveals three different types of gemstones according to the mood of the moment. White diamonds or blue or pink sapphires alternately light up this luxurious composition, underscored by fascinating gemsetting on the bezel. The mysterious and enchanting Crazy Carats comes in four different versions, each available in a 50-piece limited series.

Balmain Maestria Lady Round

The Maestria Lady Round is unanimously praised by women, irrespective of age, social class, taste or character, since it appears to have universally appreciated qualities: modern while being traditional and refined, simple, but at the same time sophisticated, discreet, yet glittering, gentle and still full of energy. And that's not all. Other strengths contribute to this acclaim: its round shape, its pure lines, the perfection of its finish and its pleasing detail. And also its versatility: thirteen models for a range that is guaranteed to bring luck. Whether its face is made up in black, white mother-of-pearl or silvered arabesque motifs, it retains the same sparkling smile. It remains equally appealing whether its body is covered in diamonds (66 on the case, 12 on the dial), steel, pink PVD or yellow PVD. Whether its arms are satin or steel, it embodies elegance in all its styles.

REUGE “Migratory Birds”

Since 1865 the manufacturer Reuge in Ste-Croix from the canton of Vaud is devoted to the design and manufacture of musical boxes, mechanics and then mechanical singing birds. During BaselWorld 2014 Reuge on one hand showcased its latest creation of music boxes along with a 40 day power reserve clock with 12 different melodies that is worthy of the Museum of Modern art made in exciting collaboration with the prestigious company L’Epée. Reuge exhibited also unique mechanical singing birds: Tabatière: out of a mysterious box a singing bird appears and disappears perplexingly after he has pleased observers with his song and movement. Singing bird cage: in addition to the traditional cages with two birds there will be a limited edition large bird cage showcased with life-size birds. It is so unique that only 25 pieces per year can be produced.

Caran d'Ache presents the Limited Edition Crystal

When two Manufactures, both devoted to excellence, combine their unique skills, their creativity gives form to three fine writing instruments, proposed as limited editions: Crystal. This encounter began with a droplet, or rather the famed Coutard design which René Lalique imagined in 1935. On the body of a pen crafted from white gold, black ceramic or white ceramic, Caran d'Ache has reproduced this iconic spray of water to bring forth the magic of exceptional objects, made entirely inside its workshops, in Geneva. On ceramic, these droplets spell out a pattern in relief, magnificently orchestrated by talented artisans. And when Crystal drapes itself in white gold, no fewer than 341 diamonds (3 carats) illuminate with their absolute purity the shower of drops along the writing instrument. This unique objet d'art is accompanied by an inkwell in satin crystal, especially created by Lalique. The renowned glassmaker's signature completes this opus with a crystal cabochon that crowns each pen.

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