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(December 21, 2009 – Aspen, CO) – The snowy peaks of Aspen, one of the world’s most fashionable winter resorts, provided a dramatic backdrop for two days of electrifying polo at the Piaget Polo On The Snow, 10th Annual World Snow Polo Championship. The only snow polo tournament in North America, Piaget Polo On The Snow drew some of the world’s top players including Nacho Figueras, Nicolas Roldan, Alan Martinez, Juan Bollini and Kris Kampsen, as well as
polo patrons such as Chester Trent Lott, Marc Ganzi and Alan Meeker.

“We are thrilled to be a part this truly unique and prestigious event,” states Larry Boland, President of Piaget NA. “Worldclass polo, combined with the glamour and sophistication of Aspen makes this a perfect fit for Piaget.” More than 700 of Aspen’s best and brightest turned out to watch the action and enjoy the festivities, along with Hollywood stars such as Zac Ephron.

Six teams in total—Piaget, Audi, Bombay Sapphire, Land Rover, Crestview Genetics and L’Hostaria—competed on specially raised Colorado polo ponies, playing in beautiful Wagner Park right in the heart of Aspen. Piaget’s team, consisting of Nacho Figueras, Nicolas Roldan and Marc Ganzi, made it to the final match on Sunday to face off against the Audi team of Melissa Ganzi, Kris Kampsen and Juan Bollini.

In an intense match that had the crowd on their feet, Roldan scored two goals for Piaget and Ganzi scored one. It was not enough to keep Audi from claiming a 5-3 victory with Bollini scoring three goals and teammate Kampsen scoring twice. Juan Bollini’s superior play over the two-days resulted in a total of five goals and earned him the tournament’s MVP honor. He was awarded with a new titanium and stainless steel Piaget Polo FortyFive timepiece.

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New York–Patek Philippe’s Ref. 3974 has set a new world record for a timepiece sold at auction, selling for $1.2 million at Antiquorum’s Dec. 9 sale.

It’s been quite a holiday season for the auction house thus far, with sales at the New York auction–dubbed "Celebrating 35 Years of Making History in Time"–totaling $9,237,600. Eighty-five percent of the auction’s timepieces were sold by lot, with 135 percent sold by value.

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Patek Philippe sets new world record at auction

By Bernadette Morra

Chopard has created an exclusive collection for The Weinstein Company’s Nine, Academy Award nominee Rob Marshall’s adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. This marks the first time that Rob Marshall and Harvey Weinstein have collaborated since reviving the Hollywood musical with Chicago, winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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The Piaget Limelight Twice, a feminine luxury watch with two distinctively elegant identities, succeeded in captivating the distinguished international jury of the 9th annual Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Geneve, resulting in Piaget receiving the coveted "Ladies Watch" prize.

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Piaget Limelight Twice Watch Wins 2009 "Ladies Watch" Prize In Geneva – News

To celebrate the opening of its new Art Deco salon at n°10 de la place Vendôme, Patek Philippe unveiled a lovely new timepiece called the “First Ladies Chronograph”, Ref. 70171 R.

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Patek Philippe First Ladies Chronograph, Ref. 70171 R | Luxury News & Watch Information

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) Nov 18th 2009 at 8:02PM

A Patek Philippe Yellow Gold Calibre 89 pocket watch, the world’s most complex timepiece as mentioned by my colleague Ariel Adams last month, just sold for a world record price of CHF 5,120,000, or $5.068 million at Antiquorum’s 35th Anniversary Sale in Geneva.

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Patek Philippe Pocket Watch Sells for $5 Million, Sets New World Record

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) Nov 12th 2009 at 12:00PM

This watch has to have one of the most detailed Chopard watch cases I have ever seen. The image here doesn’t do this fact justice, but look at the sides and rear of the watch and you get a visual treat. This limited edition of just 500 pieces 18kt gold watch steps both forward and back with a refreshing look at the Chopard racing chronograph watch line. Case size is about 48mm wide (big for the brand!) by 15mm thick. It is water resistant to 100 meters.

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Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Chopard Classic Racing Chronograph Limited Edition Watch

A new in-house calibre represents a further step forward in the evolution of a model that has already become part of Officine Panerai’s history: the Radiomir P.999 42 mm Pink Gold combines the unmistakable design of an icon in high-end, sport watches with the new mechanical movement, the P.999, designed and produced at the Neuchâtel manufacture.

With a diameter of 12 lignes and a thickness of only 3.4 millimetres, the new hand-wound P.999 movement features 19 jewels, a 60-hour power reserve and a balance wheel oscillating at 21,600 alternations/hour. Two sophisticated details enhance the P.999 movement set in the new Radiomir in pink gold. The workings are regulated by a so-called ‘swan’s neck’ device allowing for micrometrical adjustment of the active length of the spring. Furthermore, each single movement is millesimised.

The case in pink gold is 42 mm in diameter, slightly smaller than the historic, first Radiomir watches. The thickness has also been reduced thanks to the development of the new movement. The result is a thinner, lighter watch, perfect for the most elegant of situations while not betraying the watch’s military origins and sporting character. All of this thanks to the pink gold of the case that is satin-finished, a detail that tones down the sparkle of the precious metal making it more understated and refined. The small polished bezel, on the other hand, creates a pleasing contrast effect. The warm feel of the satin-finished gold also emphasizes the dial with its dark brown colour rather than the black of the traditional models, a colour tone enhanced by the anti-scratch and anti-glare sapphire crystal.

The layout of the dial is still the classic one and represents another of the characteristic features of Panerai watches. The exceptional legibility in the dark is in fact achieved through a ‘sandwich’ structure with the luminescent material placed between two metal layers, the top one perforated in correspondence with the numerals and indexes. Also luminescent and plated in pink gold, to complement the case, are the index-shaped hands and perpetually-moving small seconds hand in the auxiliary dial at 9 o’clock. The watch, with wire lugs that are easy to remove when substituting the strap and water-proof up to a depth of 100 metres, features the classic screw-down, truncated-cone crown ensuring maximum water-tightness.

Numbered and produced in an edition of 500 pieces, the Radiomir P.999 42 MM Pink Gold (PAM00336) is part of the Historic Collection and is completed with a dark brown alligator strap with a pink gold pin buckle.

P.999

Officine Panerai presents the P.999, a new hand-wound mechanical movement – like the very first Panerai watches – entirely designed, developed and produced at the Neuchâtel manufacture.

The P.999 is a modern mechanical movement combining reliability, robustness and precision and features the special structure with wide separated bridges that characterises all the other Officine Panerai manufacture calibres.

With a 12 ligne diameter, equal to 27.4 mm, and a thickness of 3.4 mm the P.999 calibre is slightly smaller than the other Officine Panerai calibres making it ideal for models which are smaller, both in diameter and in thickness, than the historical watches. With 19 jewels, a single barrel providing a 60-hour power reserve and small seconds at 9 o’clock, the new calibre is made up of 154 components and beats time at a frequency of 3 Hz: this means that its balance wheel makes 21,600 alternations/ hour. Equipped with adjusting screws, the balance wheel is protected by an Incabloc® anti-shock device while the regulating system has a swan’s neck spring.

Thanks to the P.999 calibre, which will be used in some of the Historic Collection models, Officine Panerai further enriches its range of in-house movements and confirms its role as that Workshop of ideas which, as well as safeguarding its own historical heritage, is able to interpret the present while looking to the future.

RADIOMIR P.999 42 MM – PINK GOLD

Movement: Hand-wound mechanical, Panerai P.999 calibre, executed entirely by Panerai, 12 lignes, 3.4 mm thick, 19 jewels, Glucydur® balance, 21,600 alternations/hour. Incabloc® anti-shock device. Swan’s neck regulator. Power reserve 60 hours. 154 components.

 

Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds.

 

Case: Diameter 42 mm, 18 ct. brushed pink gold with removable wire loop strap attachments (patented). Screw-down winding crown personalised OP.

 

Bezel: 18 ct. polished pink gold.

 

Back: See-through sapphire crystal.

 

Dial: Brown, with luminous Arabic numerals and hour markers. Small seconds at 9 o’clock.

 

Crystal: Sapphire, made from corundum, 1,5 mm thick. Anti-reflective coating.

 

Water- resistance: 10 bar (100 metres).

 

Strap: PANERAI personalised alligator strap and 18 ct. polished pink gold buckle.

 

Reference: PAM00336

By Adam Keith, Associate Timepiece Editor for ViaLuxe-

Luxury brand Montblanc has concluded the celebratory inaugural events for a grand new flagship boutique on Rue de la Paix, in the heart of Paris’s opulent shopping district.  Standing two storeys and covering some 500-square meters of space, the store is among the largest of its kind in the world, and effectively conveys the prestige of Montblanc as a renowned house of exceptional writing instruments, fine timepieces, and high jewelry.  It is the fourth of Montblanc’s exclusive stores in Paris, and represents a new crown jewel in the brand’s constellation of European boutiques.  

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Montblanc Opens Two-Story Boutique In Paris – News

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) Oct 14th 2009 at 12:01PM

Here is a watch that for some is the holy grail of Chopard Mille Miglia watches. It combines just about everything that people like from the timepiece collection, and is a limited edition on top of that – of only 500 pieces. I am pretty psyched about this watch, and look forward to spending some time with one, you know… alone. The case is the GT XL style, meaning it is 44mm wide, and has those cool integrated chronograph pushers and crown guards.

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Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Chopard Mille Miglia GT XL Chronograph Limited Edition Watch