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2016: Jaeger-LeCoultre Replica Watches 85 years young

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Replica Watches On Sale — An enduring classic celebrates a rare milestone for a wristwatch with a host of new models.

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In the rarefied upper echelons of the watchmaking industry, there are relatively few brands with iconic watches in their collection that date back over 40 years. The Audemars Piguet Royal Oak is as old as your editor-in-chief, while the Patek Philippe Nautilus is two years younger. But only two brands have models still in their current collections whose origins are almost as old as the wristwatch itself. One is Cartier, whose Tank model dates back to 1917; the other is Jaeger-LeCoultre with its unique Reverso watch, born in 1931.

What sets the Reverso apart is that it is a model that revolutionized watch design at the time and still does so today. Its Art Deco codes have stood the test of time and the singular feature that gives it its name, its reversible case, remains unique in the industry. It is little wonder, therefore, that the late Michael Balfour, a renowned English watchmaking journalist and author, included the Reverso in his 2007 book Cult Watches.

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1931. Reverso. Black lacquered dial. Silver-toned hour-markers. White hands. Calibre 064. Steel. © Jaeger-LeCoultre Replica Watches / Johann Sauty

To celebrate the milestone of its 85th birthday, Jaeger-LeCoultre presents a series of Reverso models that hark back to the very first Reverso that was presented in 1931. For Jaeger-LeCoultre’s CEO Daniel Riedo the crucial consideration in the new models was “preserving the nature of this exceptional watch, safeguarding its elegance and its contemporary spirit and introducing three stylistic expressions – Reverso Classic, Reverso Tribute and Reverso One – with their own distinct worlds and aspirations.” The latest evolutions in the Reverso collection also include three different case size options, new self-winding movements and the possibility to create your very own personalised watch through the Atelier Reverso.

Reverso Classic
This is truly a model to suit all tastes, with cases in stainless steel or gold, available in three different sizes (small, medium and large) and designs aimed at both ladies and gentlemen. The Reverso Classic pays a fine tribute to the original Reverso model with its Art Deco theme of Arabic numerals surrounding an inner railway-style minute scale. In keeping with the underlying principle of the Reverso, which was to offer a means of protecting the dial during polo matches, the Reverso Classic has a blank case back that can be used as a canvas for personalized engravings. The small version is powered by a Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 657 quartz movement, while the medium and large versions are both driven by the self-winding Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 965, which offers a 38-hour power reserve.

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Reverso Classique Medium Steel. © Jaeger-LeCoultre Fake Watches

The Reverso Classic Large Duo models come in larger 47mm by 28.3mm cases in 18-carat pink gold or stainless-steel and have front and back dials, the former in a silver-toned shade with Arabic numerals for the home time, the latter in black with contrasting white hour markers to show a second time zone. Two smaller versions of the same model, dubbed “Duetto”, offer a similar configuration but without the small seconds subdial on the front dial and with the addition of an Arabic 12 and 6 on the back dial.

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Reverso Classic Small Duetto. © Jaeger-LeCoultre Fake Watches UK

Reverso Tribute
All of the models in the Reverso Tribute collection feature the “Duo” concept of two different dials with a day/night indicator and second time zone display, for which the corrector pusher has been hidden in the case middle at 6 o’clock. The Reverso Tribute Duo in stainless steel also has a small seconds display on both faces, while the Reverso Tribute Calendar, in 18-carat pink gold, comes in a larger case and with a date and moonphase complication and is powered by a new hand-wound mechanical movement, the Calibre 853.

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Reverso Tribute Duoface. © Jaeger-LeCoultre Fake Watches

The future of the watch/no watch
As the grandfather of the wristwatch, there is little need to worry about the future of the Reverso. Decades before smartwatch manufacturers were selling the power-saving deactivation of their energy-hungry displays as a means of forgetting time, the Reverso had been allowing its wearers to do just that with a simple twist of the case. The Reverso’s pedigree is also without question: while King Farouk of Egypt succeeded in getting to shipments from the brand in Le Sentier at Cairo airport before the brand’s local agent, securing the best Reversos for himself before anyone else in the country, Queen Elizabeth II wore a Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 101 on her Coronation Day in June 1953, the most important day in her life. In terms of ambassadors and publicity, that is difficult to beat!

Replica Watches – Bovet Amadeo® Fleurier Virtuoso VII

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Replica Watches On Sale — Unveiled today, this timepiece features a retrograde perpetual calendar, a reverse hand-fitting and a double coaxial seconds

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The Virtuoso II Specialty Caliber that equips this new timepiece first appeared in the Bovet 1822 collections in 2014 and it equips today no less than six models. After Monsieur Bovet and Virtuoso V, the Virtuoso VII is the third timepiece in the Complications collection imagined and redesigned around this caliber. It is is adapted to the functionalities of the AMADEO® case –  a convertible case system that allows the timepiece to be transformed into a reversible wristwatch, a table clock or a pocket Replica Watches UK – and it is capable of displaying the hours, minutes, seconds and any conceivable complication simultaneously on its two faces.
Like the collection’s other models, the Virtuoso VII presents two distinct faces on its emblematic case.

The first face displays the hours, minutes, seconds and power reserve, as well as all the indications relative to the perpetual calendar.
Traditionally, calendar information is presented centrally on the dial, leaving the hours and minutes to be displayed on the perimeter. Pascal Raffy, owner of Bovet, decided to do quite the opposite: the hours and minutes are displayed on a central dial.
This left the periphery of the dial free to accommodate the day and month indicators. Their exceptional size and diametrically opposed position allowed for the use of larger inscriptions. To further enhance legibility, the names of the days and months have been printed in white or black (depending on the color of the dial) on sapphire discs. This transparency allows the subtleties of the mechanism to be admired without cluttering the space. In place of jaded apertures, black or white plates now distinctly reveal the name of the current day and month.
The retrograde calendar display is positioned outside, yet concentric to the hours and minutes dial.
For aesthetic reasons and to further enhance legibility, the calendar hand is placed beneath the hours and minutes dial. Only its arrow is visible, appearing mysteriously on a graduated scale.
Finally, the leap year cycle disk, positioned at 12 o’clock, completes the calendar information, mirroring the seconds hand positioned at 6 o’clock.
This atypical construction enables the complexity of the perpetual calendar mechanism to be admired together with the decoration of the tiniest surfaces.

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Virtuoso VII, red gold. © Bovet Replica Watches

On the second face of the Virtuoso VII, the hours and minutes dial, off-centered at 12 o’clock, gives prominence once again to the movement, decorated here with circular Côtes de Genève centered on the seconds chassis. The seconds chassis is a patented mechanism developed by Bovet, which allows the seconds to be displayed on the same axis and on both sides of the movement, all the while inversing their direction of rotation. This side of the movement also features a seconds hand elegantly positioned at 6 o’clock. Finally, a power reserve indicator displays the energy amassed by the barrel spring, which alone provides five days of autonomy.

For watchmakers hand-adjust the functions resulting from the interactions between each of the movement’s 489 parts. This drive is regulated in minute detail by the Bovet watchmakers to obtain exemplary chronometry in this movement, whose fastest wheel turns twelve times a minute and whose slowest wheel needs a full eight years to complete a single revolution.

Available in red or white gold, the Virtuoso VII Retrograde Perpetual Calendar offers a black or white lacquered dial and can be personalized to meet the specific requests of collectors.

Omega Speedmaster Replica Watches “Lunar Dust”

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Omega Replica Watches UK went the extra mile at the 2014 Baselworld, playing the vintage card with the Seamaster 300 and the Speedmaster Mark II and also being innovative with the introduction of the first fully antimagnetic movement and the spreading of the co-axial escapement to all collections.

New materials are also in the current scope: after the introduction of a full-black ceramic Speedmaster in 2013, the cheap replica Omega Dark Side of the Moon, Omega presented a gray version in 2014, again with a ceramic case, nicknamed the Lunar Dust.

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Monochromatic watches have been one of the major trends in the watchmaking industry in recent years, especially with the use of black-DLC coated cases, with sometimes questionable results. Although we’re not the biggest fans of all-black watches, we have to admit that Omega’s use of the look on the Speedmaster was interesting. First of all, the color scheme works great on the Dark Side of the Moon, and the concept of a ceramic watch has been pushed to the extreme: the case, crown, pushers, caseback, buckle and even the dial are made of that same material. And the new interpretation, a “declination of grey,” is a nice alternative for those who want a brighter color.

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The Omega Speedmaster Replica Lunar Dust shares its 44.25-mm case and technical specifications with the Speedmaster Dark Side of the Moon. The case is made from a solid block of white ceramic that is treated with a plasma technology. We’re not talking about a surface coating here, but a deep treatment that tints the entire ceramic: if you cut the case in half, you’ll see that the gray tone goes all the way through. What that means is no risk of fading colors or of seeing traces of white after the case has been scratched (something that will probably never happen anyway, because ceramic is nearly scratch-proof). On the photo below, you can see the different steps of manufacturing.

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The color obtained through the process is a metallic gray, darker than stainless steel or titanium, reminding us of the color of a moon stone. The difference between the entirely black “Dark Side of the Moon” and the new “Lunar Dust” is that the dial on the latter is made of a solid piece of platinum that is finely textured and is a bit iridescent. The bezel, crown, pushers, caseback and pin buckle on both models are made of ceramics. The hands and indices, with the classical Speedmaster Professional design, are black colored and filed with Super-LumiNova. Even the engraved tachymeter on the bezel is filled with Super-LumiNova.

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