The Breitling Watch Blog

The new Hamilton Sunset watch is worn in the movie I Am Legend, by Will Smith’s character, and follows in Hamilton’s trend of complicated looking chunky watches with lots of functional wrist instrument style. Some of the other watches in this vein are the Hamilton X-Wind and Frogman. The Twilight differs with the Sunset in that it displays twilight info rather than sunset info.

The Hamilton Sunset and Twilight are very cool looking watches with their new Crown Protection system, which looks really cool. I’m unfamiliar as to how it actually works, but it is in several of the new Action series of watches from Hamilton. They are really starting to impress me with their innovative looks and selection of Automatic watches. Here are the specs on this bad boy:

Diameter: 44mm
Water Resistance: 200m
Sapphire Crystal
Movement: ETA 2893
Complications: GMT Hand

Sunset: Sunset times on the 15th of the month for 6 world cities – London, Gander, Los Angeles, Nadi, Manila and Muscat (Why these 6 cities I have no clue.. Muscat? Perhaps the watch is popular in Oman.)
Twilight: Twilight end and start for New York City on the 1st, 11th, and 21st of the month.

Link to Sunset on Hamilton site: http://www.hamiltonwatch.com/webapp/en-us/collection/?c=ka&y=115&p=340

I’ve launched my new Omega and Rolex watch information site. It’s pretty sparse right now, but I think its time to announce the site on here. It will focus mainly on more recent models of the watches, but will have some vintage stuff, similar to the Breitling Source site. At the moment, I don’t plan to have forums attached to the website, however this may change in the future. In the works is also a Panerai information site that will attempt to provide Panerai watch models and information in a easy-to-use format as well.

The Omega Rolex site may have some errors but hopefully they will be fixed. Check out the site here: http://www.omegarolex.com

Looks like Tiffany & Co has joined up with Nicholas G Hayek and company to have their watches built by the Swiss Watch Giant. This would appear to be a smart for both companies, as having the Swatch Group handle Tiffany and Co watches will improve their quality and desirability on the market.

Tiffany makes great jewelry, now maybe they will start making some WIS worthy timepeices as well!

http://www.tiffany.com/

The seventh annual Watchmaking Grand Prix celebrated earlier this month is the Oscars of the Watchmaking world. All the big players were there, and HublotTV provides us with Internet Video coverage!

Big Players at the awards included Harry Winston, A Lange & Sohne, Hublot, Patek Phillipe, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger LeCoultre, Audemars Piguet, and many many more. This is truly a star-studded Horological event! Would have been awesome to be able to go there and see it in person.

Some of the winners (Laureates):

Golden Hand Grand Prix Prize
RM012
Richard Mille

Special Jury Prize
Reverso Grande Complication à Triptyque
Jaeger-LeCoultre

Best Watchmaker Prize
Jean-Marc Wiederrecht
Agenhor SA

Ladies’ Watch Prize
Ballon Bleu
Cartier

Men’s Watch Prize
Observatoire
Kari Voutilainen

Design Watch Prize
Millenary Watch with Deadbeat Seconds
Audemars Piguet

Jewellery Watch Prize
One Million Dollar Big Bang
Hublot

Complicated Watch Prize
Tourbillon Glissière
Harry Winston

Sports Watch Prize
Chronographe Royal Oak Offshore Alinghi Team
Audemars Piguet

Public Prize
Defy Xtreme Open Stealth
Zenith

Videos:

Part One:

Part Two:

For more info, visit World Tempus: http://www.worldtempus.com/wt/2/1182

Jacob Arabov, also known as Jacob the Jeweller pleaded guilty of money laundering. He was accused of laundering 270 million dollars for the Black Mafia Family in June 2006.

Jacob is the created of the famous Five Timezones Watch which adorns many famous celebrities from Elton John to Paris Hilton.

The 7-year investigation resulted in the indictments of Arabov and 41 other people, Murphy’s office said. Twenty-eight have pleaded guilty, eight are scheduled for trial Nov. 19 and the whereabouts of six others are unknown.

Read more:

Yahoo News Article