SIHH 2011 - An Impression So Far...

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The SIHH 2011, or Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie started last Sunday and all 19 exhibitors are flooding press, social media networks and watch forums with information about their new watches.

Below, you’ll see an overview of what I think are the most interesting watches presented during the SIHH 2011 (till now). For your convenience, I categorized them per brand in alphabetical order.

A. Lange & Soehne

The ‘other’ brand from Glashuette that wants to – and perhaps can -  measure themselves with the top of the bill haute horlogerie brands from Switzerland. Besides a few impressive new Saxonia timepieces and the Lange Zeitwerk Striking Time timepiece, A.Lange & Soehne introduces the RICHARD LANGE TOURBILLON “Pour le Mérite”. You probably wouldn’t have guessed, but I love regulator dials. This extraordinary regulator dial has a skeletonized lower left sub seconds dial that reveals the one-minute tourbillon with patented stop seconds. This 41.9mm diameter watch will be available as ref.760.025 in  platinum (100 pieces) and ref.760.032 in red gold.

The movement inside is caliber L072.1, 33.6mm in diameter, 26 jewels and has a power reserve of 36 hours.

Audemars Piguet

AP seems to be focusing on the Jules Audemars collection this year, perhaps to save-up Royal Oak developments for next year’s 40th anniversary of this iconic model from Gerald Genta. A while ago I covered the new Jules Audemars Extra Thin here at Fratellowatches (click here). During SIHH 2011, AP demonstrated the Jules Audemars Extra Thin, Dual Time and Moon Phase Calendar. More about these Jules Audemars timepieces in another blog post. Despite next year’s 40th anniversary, the Royal Oak Off-Shore Chronograph does get some attention this year.

It is in the details of course, especially for all you non-Royal Oak fans out there, but it differs quite a bit from the current/former Off-Shore chronograph collection. As far as I know, the new Off-Shore chronograph will be in production next to the existing models (such as the Safary, Navy, Themes edition etc). It is – surprise – a non-limited production model, 44mm in diameter and with a display back to show-off its movement. Besides the larger diameter, the bezel, crown and pusher are made of ceramic material. On top of that, the chronograph pushers, winding crown and crown-guards have a new design.

Prices start at $28,100 USD for the stainless steel model (ref.26400SO.OO.A002CA.01). Expect to pay more for the forged carbon (ref. 26400AU.OO.A002CA.01) and gold (ref.26400RO.OO.A002CA.01) models.

IWC

The watch manufacture from Schaffhausen seems to have re-rediscovered (or revamped) their Portofino collection. Now, there’s the Portofino Chronograph, Portofino Dual Time and last but not least, the Portofino 8-Days. The last one is my favorite Portofino model (ref.5101) and perhaps even in my current top 3 favorite IWC watches. The distinguished ‘Max Bill’ look of the dial with its creamy color, gold hands, hand wound movement and the strap created by Santoni (love their shoes) was bulls-eye for me, until I read about the size of this watch. A whopping 45mm seems to be a bit to much for a dress watch imho. However, let’s wait and hopefully try it on in the near future.

Hand wound caliber 59210 movement with a pocket-watch diameter (37.8mm) has a power reserve of 8 days, as indicated on the dial.

Jaeger-LeCoultre

If there is one brand making name before and during the SIHH this year, it’s Jaeger-LeCoultre. The new Ultra Thin Reverso already got a lot of attention before the SIHH, Jaeger even launched a virtual museum for their most iconic timepiece. However, if I had to pick a Jaeger-LeCoultre timepiece, it would be the new Memovox – Tribute to Deep Sea (Q2028470,wholesale rolex replica watch, 959 pieces only). For 9.500,- Euro, you’ll buy a very impressive replica of the Jaeger-LeCoultre Classique 1959.

The alarm function of the Memovox timepiece is – I think – one of the most interesting and useful complications in a mechanical watch, besides displaying time and date.

JeanRichard

JeanRichard, formerly known as Daniel JeanRichard, introduced a few very interesting timepieces as well. The Highlands sports model and the classic Bressel models are definitely worth considering. Because I just covered them for MotoringExposure, please click here to read all about them.

Officine Panerai

Large watches are no fad, but here to stay. Panerai, being one of the ‘inventors’ of the current accepted watch sizes, introduces (amongst others) the PAM00382. This brushed bronze cased Panerai Luminor Submersible is definitely something different from the newly announced Luminor Marina models. The bronze, in combination with the green dial makes this watch mesmerizing, just like the yellow gold Rolex GMT-Master II with green dial.

Powered by Panerai’s in-house caliber P9000 movement, this watch has a power reserve of 3 days. Other interesting Officine Panerai models that have been introduced are the Luminor 1950 Chronograph PAM00345 and the rose gold Radiomir (PAM00379).

Vacheron Constantin

My hunger for world timers has been answered by one of the oldest watch manufacturers in the world, Vacheron Constantin. The Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle World Time enables simultaneous reading of all world timezones. Not long ago, I listed my top 3 of world timer watches, this new VC could easily be in there some where (click here for my Top 3 World Timer article).

As you probably know, the world has more than 24 time zones. Some countries or regions love to be different, and adopted a half-hour or quarter-hour difference and therefore, we have 37 different time zones in this world. Vacheron Constantin constructed a new movement (caliber 2460WT) that takes these specific characteristics into account.

The new movement is very user-friendly. Pick a reference location and place it opposite the black triangle at 6 o’clock. The requested time zone can now either be read by the hour hand or by the 24-hour disc (outer dial), while all other 36 timezones can be simultaneously read as well.

Only available in rose gold case with a diameter of 42.5mm.

Is this it?

Of course not, it is just my personal selection of favorites I’ve seen in the SIHH 2011 line-up. Later on this week, I will make another selection of interesting timepieces introduced during the SIHH 2011. In the meantime, please let me know what you think of these watches or which SIHH 2011 watches you think are very interesting. Use the comments to share your thoughts and opinion.

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RHOA “I think I look like a drag queen.”

Last night’s episode of Real Housewives of Atlanta…contained a metric ton of earrings! And a brand new baby! And a trip to New York! And a cameo by Russell Simmons, the only genuinely rich person to ever show up on the Atlanta series! My, this was an action-packed episode.

We also got to see Kandi adorably cinch her mom into a girdle and Kroy try (and fail) to reassure Kim that everything with the birth of their son would be fine. Sure, the Atlanta housewives are among the most ridiculous of the series, but they’re also the ones who act like real, live humans from time to time. All has been forgiven for Ridickulous, at least on my end.

We started with Kim, who was loading up the SUV with her assistant and her bagel and her baby daddy to go to her ob/gyn to see if it was time to have the baby yet. And, guess what, it was! The baby was only 37 and a half weeks (is that way early? Or not that early? I don’t know these things.), but the doctor sent Kim back to the car to eat the rest of her bagel and go to the hospital and have the kid because of pre-eclampsia. Kroy tried to make a football analogy, which obviously didn’t go over all that well with an irritable, swollen pregnant lady who was about to shoot out a kid.

In slightly less dire situations, Cynthia was preparing for a work trip to New York that made Peter very nervous for several reasons. Part of it was because Cynthia would be out on the town with Nene without he close supervision, but the majority was about the fact the Cynthia would be meeting with Russell Simmons. Apparently Cynthia and Russell used to date a million years ago, and since Russell has his money right and isn’t opening bars that look like houses and that have no air conditioning, Peter was obviously concerned that Cynthia’s trip to New York might snap her out of whatever kind of voodoo he has her under.

In other news, Sheree and her mom met in her vacant lot and talked about a Speak-n-Spell. I think that I probably should have reacted to this story more emotionally than I did, because absentee parents who makes empty promises and skip out on their kids are some of the lowest scum of the Earth that there is, but I couldn’t help but be distracted. Are we going to have every Sheree storyline take place at this empty lot at some point? Are producers trying to use its incompleteness as some kind of heavy-handed metaphor for Sheree’s personal life right now? Why can’t Sheree have conversations in her actual home?

Elsewhere, Nene and Cynthia arrived in New York and had a little bit of an expository chit-chat about what they’d be doing during the trip. Nene was going to meet with the owner of Famous Famiglia pizza about a “business opportunity” while Cynthia met with Russell about a different “business opportunity.” “Business opportunities” galore! Make sure you use the scare quotes when you refer to them, though, because other than Nene investing in a Famous Famiglia pizza storefront at an airport somewhere, none of that stuff is ever, ever going to happen in any real, business-like way.

Meanwhile, Phaedra was in court with one of her clients, a young gentleman who showed up late, hadn’t taken the illegal tint off the windows on his car, and admitted that he’d fail a drug test if the judge requested one. And he’d done all that stuff before, too! This wasn’t his first arrest! The judge said that because he hired Phaedra, he’d let him go with a fine and probation, which pretty much tells you all you need to know about why truckloads of poor people go to jail for having a little bit of weed on them while Lindsay Lohan is in Hawaii right now, despite having broken too many drug, driving, shoplifting and probation laws to count on all of my fingers.

Phaedra and her client both then walked out of the courthouse, at which point Phaedra’s client peeled off a wad of cash, paid her right then and there, and then tore out of the parking lot in the same car that got him pulled over for having tint that’s too dark. He told the judge that the tint had been removed, but in reality, it was still right there, all over his douchey, loud car. Methinks Phaedra’s going to have a repeat customer in that man, and since he pays his bills in the most preferred way for sketchy reality TV lawyers, I’m sure that’s what Phaedra’s hoping.

Back in New York, Cynthia met with Russell and they talked about the fashion industry and Cynthia’s modeling school. Russell thinks that the idea is kind of stupid and advises her to at least change it to a school of fashion, which is advice that Cynthia seems to have taken, based on her website. If Russell didn’t still want to sleep with Cynthia, I’m guessing that he would have been even more negative. Even at their best, modeling schools are basically grifting operations – if you have the look and any kind of instincts, you’ll learn once you get representation.

At the hospital, Kim was still pregnant and insisting she’d wear her wig during labor. Moving on!

In other parenting issues, Sheree had been served with papers from her ex-husband to have her child support modified. I missed last week’s episode, as you know, so I’m not sure exactly what went on during her fight with Bob, but he wants his child support lowered because he only makes $3000 a month. That sounds like a bold-faced lie to me, and if you don’t want to pay child support, you probably shouldn’t be out there knocking people up and expecting them to care for your kids for the better part of two decades afterward. I’m a little no-tolerance when it comes to men and child support, particularly when the dude actually used to be married to the woman who had his children, so I can’t help but have a little sympathy on the issue, even though Sheree isn’t my favorite.

Again speaking of parents, we moved to Kandi’s house, where the mother-daughter roles had flipped a little bit. In one of the genuinely sweetest scenes we’ve seen in these parts in a long time, Kandi was getting her mom all dolled up so that she could take some pictures for her dating profile on a “seniors singles” dating site. Kandi’s mom even let herself be filmed getting cinched up in Kandi’s girdle, which takes a whole lot of confidence when you’re 60 years old and not stick-thin.

The photos Kandi took were adorable, and the genuineness of the entire interaction, from the outfit-choosing to the profile-creating (which we didn’t see), stuck out like a pleasantly sore thumb in an episode of Real Housewives, and unlike most scenes that the producers try to play that way,buy wholesale designer handbags, it was also funny and entertaining. It might mean harder work for them, but I wish the people in charge would find more positive interactions like that to put on film, rather than the negative, sometimes disturbing stuff we usually see. It would make watching all of the Real Housewives shows a less soul-sucking experience for all involved.

Speaking of soul-sucking experiences, we then accompanied Nene on a lunch date with the guy who owns Famous Famiglia, and he more or less gave a perfect example of what a white guy should NEVER EVER EVER DO if you’d like to impress a black woman on a date. He mocked her speech patterns, he called her “girl,” he more or less acted like a giant, gross, casually racist jackass. He also ordered lunch for Nene without asking her what she wanted, and if he had done that to me, I would have stabbed him in the thigh with a fork. I mean, I would have stabbed him in the thigh for a lot of things that he did and said during that date, but especially don’t mess with my lunch.

After that, the gifts started coming out, including a Tiffany pen (for their first “business deal”) and a random pair of Louboutins. They weren’t nearly as random, though, as the old dude who then came up to serenade Nene, who the Famous Famiglia douche said had been on a singing strike for nine years over the tragic death of his nephew. Previous to that, though, he sang for the Vatican and in Pavarotti’s kitchen or something. Right. $10 says that the guy is the Famous Famiglia douche’s driver. By the end, all I could think was that it was so incredibly obvious why the dude was friends with King Douche Donald Trump. (That’s not a compliment.)

While Nene was having the most awkward date ever, Cynthia was in the city and meeting with her longtime bestie/stylist to talk about the differences in New York City and Atlanta. As someone who’s lived both places, I can say with complete certainty that some of their generalizations were correct, particularly those about brand-awareness – Atlanta is much more concerned with flash. In fact, I was shocked at the differences in stock between the Jeffrey boutiques in New York and Atlanta – Atlanta was much heavier on accessories and shoes, particularly from big-name labels like Christian Louboutin. Obvious status symbols are big, subtlety is not.

Cynthia and Nene eventually got together for a little New York-based bash, but the scene was so short and boring that I managed to zone out for the entirety of it both times that I watched the episode. I also zoned out for most of Kim’s birthing scene, which I had assumed would be more dramatic; it seemed like before we knew it, Kim was holding a healthy, eight-pound bouncing baby boy, which is a big baby for one that was born a bit early. I guess that’s what happens when you get pregnant by a big, corn-fed NFL player from Montana: Giant babies. Still, though, I bet Nene’s earrings from this episode weighed more.

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RGM Watches: True American Timepieces

We don't usually talk about high-end dress watches, and even more
rarely about custom-made mechanical pieces, so this article is a bit of an
experiment for us. But RGM — both the company and the watches — is too unique not have some mention on Watch Report.

As amazing as it might sound, America used to be the preeminent
watch maker in the world in the pre World War II timeframe. Brands
like Hamilton, Elgin, Gruen, Benrus, and Illinois led the way in
automated production and railroad-grade watches, producing high-quality timepieces at a broad range of prices. Their decline can mainly be attributed to the quartz
revolution of the 1960s.

I'm explaining a bit of history to give you some idea of how unusual
RGM is. Roland G
Murphy, based in Lancaster PA, makes and sells high-end and custom
mechanical watches for prices that are a lot less than the Swiss
marques. Moreover, many of his creations are available with vintage
American movements such as the Hamilton 921, making for a beautiful
watch that is truly American made.

His company is called RGM (his initials), and is known for
impeccable hand craftsmanship and the use of unusual techniques like
rose-engine guilloché (an interwoven, ornamental pattern). As a small company, you can actually talk to
Roland himself, which is not exactly an option with most watch companies.
RGM also specializes in one-off custom pieces, so you can call up and
get exactly the watch you've always wanted. That's not to say it'll be cheap, of
course. From the RGM history page:

An RGM watch can be had starting at about $1,750, although the
majority of the collection ranges from $4,500 to $26,000. Major watch
complications, like its Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar or
Tourbillon, are the crown jewels of the collection exceeding $80,000
to over $100,000. Even still, RGM is considered a bargain. The
quality of the $1,700 RGM watch matches that of many other brands'
watches costing many times as much.

And further:

RGM watches are crafted in extremely small series of 18k yellow or
rose gold, platinum, and stainless steel. They feature hand-finished
cases and such elements as engine-turned (guilloché) dials and blued-steel hands. In every case, they are of the highest quality in their
price range. Most components are Swiss made although some models
feature American and Swiss made components. Every limited-edition
watch is individually numbered and signed.

Their low-priced watches use Swiss movements from ETA, Valjoux, and A
Schild. I was particularly entranced by the GMT Alarm (pictured here).

Even their basic watches use high-grade movements that are finely
decorated. ETA, for example, comes in 5 grades of movement, from
undecorated to COSC chronometer, and RGM uses the best. Gorgeous stuff.

Not a lot of people understand, want, or need such watches, but if you
do, an RGM is both a classic and a classy choice. As unique as you want,
complete with historic American movements,women handbags wholesale, RGM is a fascinating
anomaly in the world of mass-produced European and Asian brands. I
don't own one, but someday I hope to change that.

By Paul Hubbard

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I promised to get back on my new watch At first, I was looking at Rolex watches again, but couldn’t make up my mind. Although I like the new GMT-Master IIc and the Milgauss,rolex explorer replica, it wouldn’t add much variation to my current collection. Then I was looking at the Royal Oak Jumbo, but I am not ready yet to spend over 8K Euro on one wrist watch.

However, as I have written before, I am a huge fan of the 1970s design of Gerald Genta. He designed the Nautilus, Overseas, Royak Oak and… the Ingenieur. The original ref.1832 Ingenieur SL is highly sought-after I believe,replica rolex watch for sale, and the prices paid for those are unbelievable. So I decided to settle for a brand new one! To be honest, IWC isn’t my brand. Omega and Rolex are my brand, I like what they are doing and like most of their watches. However, there are some other brands that make one or two types of watches that I really like, and that’s it. I don’t care much for IWC in general. Not my cup of tea. I do like the Ingenieur and the Portugieser line of watches though.

Anyway, I’ve read some articles on the new ref.3227-01 Ingenieur, tried one on for a day (thanks G) and decided to order one. Last saturday, I bought my IWC Ingenieur at Ace & Dik in Amsterdam, official IWC dealer. It was a pleasure to meet Alon Ben-Joseph, owner of the store, in person and we had a nice chat about watches, watch blogging etc. He ordered a fresh model, so I could remove the plastic stickers myself What a treat!

Here are the first pictures of the Ingenieur:

The watch is quite heavy (heavier than my Yacht-Master or Panerai), 216 grams to be exact. The diameter of the case is 42.5mm and 14.5mm in height. The bracelet is wonderfully crafted and it is child’s play to add or remove links. The watch/movement is protected by a soft iron inner case up to 80,000 A/m (magnetic fields), so now I can cook in our induction kitchen again . The movement itself is a self-winding IWC inhouse caliber 80110.

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Real Housewives of Orange County “I kind of want them to crawl back under the rock from whence the

Where were the fireworks last night? Where was the drama? Was it hiding in new housewife Alexis’s cleavage? Was her creepy, weak-chinned husband keeping it from the watchful eyes of the Real Housewives of Orange County viewership?

Wherever it is, we didn’t see much of it. Tamra copped to having jealousy issues, all of the housewives tried on lingerie without punching each other in the face, Gretchen got up on a pole but managed to stay clothed, and Jeana exited the show with little fanfare and a dinner where both of her sons managed to not be total douchebags.

Where was the wig-pulling? The bad, auto-tuned dance songs? The glasses of white wine with straws in them? Oh yeah, wrong housewives. Darn. I kind of miss those other ones.

So, about Gretchen and that pole. It was in Arizona, for a friend’s birthday, and there were burlesque dancers with sequin pasties and fire jugglers and things like that. Kind of a fun party, seems like. I bet it had an open bar, too – none of those stingy drink tickets. Gretchen had a few too many (she weighs approximately 110 pounds,leather handbag manufacturers in spain, so a few too many is probably two), almost kissed a “pole artist,” as Blair Waldorf would say, and then hopped up on the pole herself. She swung around drunkenly for a minute, and, uh, went and banged Slade? Passed out drunk on the bathroom floor like a classy lady? Who knows.

Admittedly, Slade is probably a histrionically terrible person. He’s apparently $80,000 behind on child support to his terminally ill son, and I’m not sure that there’s anything worse that you can do than that, but he made up a snarky lil’ nickname for Vicki (Ficky, because she’s fake and icky) and gave me a quote to use for this episode, so I’ll save his evisceration for another week. At least he’s willing to admit that he’s poor.

While Gretchen was in Arizona getting acquainted with a pole (which might be important for her future career, considering her current financial standing), Tamra was having Alexis and her husband over for hotdogs on the grill in order to gawk at her giant diamond ring and even gianter “knockers.” Alexis can’t go to a pool party without a nanny, so she brought one of those, too. Apparently the other one had the day off.

Tamra finally admitted that she was jealous of someone, although it was Alexis and not Gretchen,swiss replica rolex watch, and the she was mostly quiet and ineffectual for the rest of the episode. Well, she did snipe at her husband for making a few completely reasonable jokes, and she also showed us that she has a really tacky body kit and ugly rims on her Mercedes SUV, but that’s about par for the Tamra course, I suppose.

The people that really got under my skin during this episode were Alexis and specifically her husband Jim. As soon as she started preaching about Jesus in their relationship, I knew I wasn’t going to like her (nothing gets old faster than self-righteousness, and did you hear the way she ordered that margarita?), but I actually like him even less.

It seems like he’s one of those guys that couldn’t date the hot girls in high school, but he eventually got rich and uses his financial power to bastardize the idea of a “traditional” marriage to mean that he calls the shots and expects the gold-digging broad he married to be the ideal, submissive female at all times, and she better not talk too loudly or try on lingerie in view of others or go on a vacation without him. And if she gains a couple of pounds as she gets older? Holy crap, someone call the divorce lawyer, he’ll just trade her in for a newer model. Although with his flabby second and third chins and pot belly, he appears to be unconcerned about whether or not she wants a hot husband.

Let this be a lesson to everyone: if you think your marriage is happy and you don’t need the cash, don’t go on a reality show. You might think that being famous looks fun,cheap designer handbags wholesale, but it’s not. The diamond on your finger may do a pretty decent job of distracting you for what a dick your husband is, but unless he gives every entertainment writer and blogger on the face of the planet a similar giant diamond, we’re not going to find his “quirks” similarly endearing, and were going to remind you of that endlessly. This woman is easily the best looking housewife from any of the various cities and appears to more or less perfectly fit the traditional ideal of female beauty; she could do so much better than this slimy, sniveling douchebag that’s squirming his way uneasily through middle age in clothes made for douchey people two decades his junior.

Okay, I’ve taken a deep breath and hopped off of my feminist soapbox until next week. Let’s talk about the lingerie party. Specifically, let’s talk about why we didn’t see more of the underwear-clad male model that was serving champagne to everyone. A cute, silent, barely dressed guy giving out free booze? Where do I get one of my own? And mostly, that was the only interesting thing that happened, besides the fact that Gretchen and Tamra managed to not rip each others’ faces off.

Lynn continued to not do anything at all, which appears to be a constant problem in her life. Her family is preparing to move to a smaller home, which we know that she’ll eventually get evicted from, and I can’t figure out for the life of me why they don’t own a home of some sort of her husband is in construction and real estate and they were, at one point, rich. And apparently they have no savings to fall back on, and also, nothing taking up the spaces between their ears. I feel sorry for their one kid that appears to be at least temporarily well-adjusted. That won’t last long with parents like hers.

There was also blessedly little Vicki in this episode, except for a brief appearance at La Perla and a conversation with Jeana about how Jeana was kind of sick of hanging out with Mean Girls. I don’t think that Vicki realizes that when she said Mean Girls, she meant her and Tamra – she was probably too busy cutting apples to go in her lasagna (WTF? Is apple lasagna, like, a thing?) to even notice what they were talking about. And then Jeana had a cute family cookout with her kids (her drunken douche of an ex-husband was, inexplicably, still roaming around the house), who were all fairly civil and human-like for the entire thing, even the male ones.

And then Jeana rode off into the sunset, removing any last vestige of likability from this entire nightmare of a show. We can only hope that maybe her financial situation won’t improve and she’ll have to come back, but for her sake (and that of her daughter, who seems like a genuinely normal girl), I hope she gets to stay far, far away from all of this.

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