ROAMER R-LINE LADIES – Swiss Made

BASELWORLD 2009 During the dynamic contours, shades of warm colors and accents are ingenious the main characteristics to roamer. The unique design of the new R-LINE is for
independence and authenticity of this traditional Swiss brand. It demonstrates the aesthetic and prestige for individuals and lifestyles qualitatively demanding.

R-LINE - Original roamer Distinctive case strap silicon flexible, modern, color and a complex - the R-LINE roamer stands for values and vision of the brand. The models are manufactured in Switzerland - their stability, resourcefulness and exceptional quality of the rolex replica workforce are a matter of course. An example of the high quality of manufacture of the clock is the dome, four-screw case. The design is unique. The dial Stainless Steel LINE-R displays a distinct structure, actually interrupted by the radial marking time indices.

The men of chronographs of the R-Line range provides a rectangular display of seconds,minutes on weekdays and at the same time highlight a design through a circular
pink gold model modern. Black screws on the bezel of the case - which is also in pink gold color -- in harmony with the color of the black silicon strap.

The ladies' model of R-line comes in a round, female. The design offers many more mixed than that of men's chronograph. White silicon strap, sophistication, PVDcoated
pink gold case with its nuances combine stainless steel with glossy black bezel and its to form a particularly striking combination all companies which improves the holding. Date window and a display small seconds to provide the functions that characterize a modern watch. A high quality Swiss quartz movement provides the technical perfection of the watch R-LINE.

ROAMER R-LINE LADIES – Swiss Made

Model: 712 849 49 15 07

Movement: Swiss quartz movement / RONDA 6004, B

Case: Convex case with stainless steel with PVD coating, diameter 43 mm

Dial display: Date and small second

Water resistance: to 10 ATM

Bracelet: Silicon strap with intricate pin clasp

Variants: With black dial, with black bezel

Babette Keller won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year 2009 award

Babette Keller, founder and CEO of the company based in Bienne Keller Trading, won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year 2009 award. A first for a woman in the world of watchmaking.

Held every two years since 1985, the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year was awarded this year at a reception held May 6 at the Grand Hotel Dolder in Zurich to Babette Keller, founder and CEO of Keller Trading, based in Biel. The prize winner is the thirteenth and the first woman "watchmaker" to have received this prestigious award. Nicola Thibaudeau, CEO of the company based in Biel MPS, he won in 1997, but at the time was the head of Mecanex, Nyon firm specializing in aerospace engineering. Babette Keller was praised for his sense of innovation, creativity and success of his company.

In the region of Bienne, one in five people working in the clock and replica rolex watch industry. While many are working for well-established companies, many others are employed by companies that have succeeded against all odds to find a place for themselves in the market. Of these, Keller Trading is a mixture of luxury watches and haute couture. In this good company, created from delicate fabrics, nylon and polyester microfibers are manufactured with great care. A wide range of microfiber fabrics consumed items requiring expertise is provided to nearly 2000 customers worldwide. Each year, nearly 950,000 items are sold and shipped around the world.

Babette Keller runs his business with a passionate interest for its products and a sense of social responsibility towards its 26 employees, who are mainly women. It offers the flexibility of working hours for each individual. To improve working conditions, it hired a masseuse who comes once a week to relax laborious staff for long hours on the bench.

The mother of four children, Babette Keller is a self-made businesswoman who, after work, like sewing clothes for her little children. In 1987, she accepted an order from his father during the night in his room, on one occasion sewing machine, it produced its first show miles in case of cotton fabric for the company Breitling. After the first models were delivered, the other levels in flooded Fired by the combination of watches and haute couture, embroidery, Babette Keller contacted other manufacturers of watches and won new contracts. In most cases, she developed small blankets, presentation cases and polishing fabrics for its customers. Gloves followed soon after.

Dissatisfied with cotton, which produced too much dust, it has sought to innovate. It was her husband, who finally had the brilliant idea: The microfibers. The entrepreneur passionate in Babette Keller Microfibres trace back to their source, a Canadian manufacturer, and obtained exclusive marketing rights for Switzerland, Europe, and then the rest of the world. In 1999 she created her own business. Ten years later, her address book includes the biggest names in watches and jewelry.

Chopard has done twice paradoxical features melted

The epitome of sophistication and elegance sporting aesthetics: Chopard has done twice paradoxical features melted to give Miglia 1000 GT XL Chrono Speed Black with a force of nature. The combination of rose gold and blackened steel DLC this model gives a distinctive dimension based on the power of contrasts. Chronometer certified by the COSC (Swiss Official Chronometer Testing Institute), chronograph movement appeal to connoisseurs of fine mechanical engineering - either in cars or rolex replica watches.



Contrasts and elegance are the two impressions of flowing Miglia 1000 GT XL Chrono Speed Black. The gentle warmth of 18 carat rose gold on the bezel, pushers and the crown is a striking contrast with the dynamics of the sport in the case of DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon) blackened steel. Equipment with a black dial and black rubber strap with the exceptional 1960 Dunlop Racing tires because of these effects gives an incredible sense of strength in the reliability exceptional mechanical marvel.



Water resistant to a depth of 100 meters, the generous 44 mm in diameter in the case of DLC blackened steel. This revolutionary steel offering exceptional resistance. Hardness, protecting it against scratches and guarantees that the test of time.



In addition to the chronograph with central second hand, minute against 12 hours and the hours of 6 pm on settlement movement COSC certified chronometer also the central units of hours and minutes, small seconds and date 9 hours through a window at 3 o'clock. The split-level with accountants oversized 6 hours and 12 numbers transferred under the sapphire crystal to create an impressive sense of depth and relief. The tachometer scale engraved on the bezel and the rationalization of buttons further enhance the sporting aspect watches "speed machine", reserved for a privileged group of about 500 people.

Girard-Perregaux presented to the Patent Office of the United States patent for a design

On March 25, 1884, the continuing watchmaker Girard-Perregaux presented to the Patent Office of the United States patent for a design that represents a movement with three arrows in the form of bridges in parallel.


Today, Girard-Perregaux Manufacture continues the tradition of the Tourbillon with three bridges, which has a completely new century started a movement of the watch: besides its functional and technical interest, are also becomes a design element in its own right.


There are few things that can boast such a distant origin still maintain their attractiveness intact. Girard-Perregaux is proud to celebrate this anniversary.

The history of this cult, in fact, the issue goes back to the 1860s. At this time, La Chaux-de-Fonds replica rolex watchmaker Girard-Perregaux was constantly conducting research in the field of Tourbillon escapement. Invented in the early 19th century, this system of putting the party that governs the movement in the cage rotation on its axis, bringing the rate to compensate for errors due to Earth's gravity. In 1860, Constant Girard-Perregaux created a watch that won a first-class from the Observatory of Neuchatel its Tourbillon movement plated contained three parallel bridges. The watchmaker to your search: in their watches, gold became a functional material, and the architecture of the bridges was improved .... This long and patient work of building was completed in 1884: the captain wishes to protect the design of a movement with three arrows in a harmonious way of building bridges in parallel. Since there was no body in Switzerland at that time, Constant Girard-Perregaux presented his application for a patent on American soil, with the Patent Office of United States and was granted March 25, 1884.

the Aiguille d'Or this year was awarded to Richard Miller

After being awarded six times in succession to firms in Geneva, the Aiguille d'Or this year was awarded to Richard Miller, a French who created his company in the Jura region of Switzerland.

Invited by the State and the City of Geneva, nearly 1,500 guests gathered at the Grand Theater on November 14 to attend, for the seventh consecutive year, the official ceremony of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie in Geneva. The evening was led by a trio of charming: the actress and television presenter Lolita Morena, Ivana Dugalic, Miss Switzerland 2007, and Christian Luscher, Rechtsanwalt Geneva.

2007 was an extraordinary year for Richard Mille! Indeed, after witnessing the inauguration of new premises in The Breuleux by the company that develops and manufactures rolex replica watches bearing his name (Guenat SA - Watches Valgine), designer french won for the first time, cableway of the Aiguille d'Or, the highest award of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie in Geneva. This distinction was awarded not only for the RM012 model of competition, but for all of his work. In just ten years, the RM collection has been supplemented by a dozen models, all revolutionaries, in one way or another.

The RM012, effort that combines the worlds of technology, architecture and visual appeal, is the first quarter of the history of rolex replica watchmaking to abandon the concept of a solid metal plate to a tubular structure . With this model, Richard Mille further refines architectural character of its size with a very original and complex tubular construction, which creates a perfect visual harmony. This unique time-required two years of development and four prototypes before arriving at the final version. Joining the movement takes several months, as is the attention to detail of each operation. One of the strengths of RM012: its apparent fragility, a chassis that seems to be weightless. And yet this structure, consisting only of tubes, more resistance to twisting that many plates of substance. It is also very resistant to temperature, and corrosion and shocks. The RM012 is available in a limited edition of 30 platinum coins.

HNWIs and Ultra-HNWIs spend a significant portion of their wealth on Other Luxury

Other Luxury
Luxury makers also reported strong growth in 2007. Richemont, the second largest after the firm LVMH said its sales rose 14% during the last three months of 2007 to 1.7 billion euros. Wealthy consumers in the Middle East, Asia Pacific and North America showed the highest level of consumer spending for luxury goods (clothing, designer clothes and accessories, etc..)
Globally, HNWIs and Ultra-HNWIs allocated 10.2% to expenditure on health and welfare, which included visits to high-end spas, investments in fitness facilities, as well as scans of the entire body. At the regional level, HNWIs in the Middle East, Asia Pacific and North America most affected in this particular category of passion investments.
Investments sports, clubs, wine collections and other personal interests rounding other types of investments of passion. Wine distributors in Europe and the United States reported that sales of wines Midrange slowed during the second half of 2007 and early 2008, while those of "good value" and expensive-wines increased in part because the strengthening of the interest of buyers from emerging markets of China and Russia to invest their new wealth in the wine collections.
While overall investment passionate interests were weighted more heavily toward tangible, such as art collections, yachts, jets and other regional differences can be discerned. Asian HNWIs allocated more "intangible categories, as the experience of luxury and travel, health and wellness, and luxury consumables. Luxury spending in the Middle East and North America have global HNWIs exceeded averages.155 comparison with Ultra-HNWIs, who favored more tangible investments such as art collections, HNWIs, in general, were more likely to spend on "intangibles".

Looking Ahead
The global art market and the segments of the luxury industry tend to be "latecomers to economic downturns." Consequently, some industry analysts have expressed fears that these sectors in May still be affected by the turbulence in financial replica rolex markets in late 2007. However, historically, investing in fine art, private planes, luxury cars and other high-value collectibles have been more immune to economic slowdown, their ultra-HNW buyers tend to be less affected by these trends. "Affordable (and aspirational) luxury goods, which are more accessible to HNWIs and people less fortunate, may suffer more impact if the drop is sustainable.
Despite these concerns, the analysis suggests that new wealth and growing consumer demand in the Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and the Middle East will continue to outweigh the pressures of economic stagnation in Western markets.

TAG Heuer is more focused than ever on innovation

New mechanical movement, industrial expansion and organic growth: TAG Heuer is more focused than ever on innovation.

Founded by Edouard Heuer in 1860, TAG Heuer is a Swiss avant-garde of watchmaking for almost 150 years. His prestige meter sports watches and chronographs have written some of the most beautiful pages of watchmaking history, particularly as regards their accuracy and time. TAG Heuer is the only watch brand in the world to offer a precision of clockwork precision of 1/10th, 1/100th and 1/1000th of a second. The company employs over 1,000 people at its sites in Switzerland La Chaux-de-Fonds and Cornol and its 17 international subsidiaries. Based on its success in the watch industry, the company decided to diversify the supply of brand with its own range of reading and sunglasses, which was successfully launched in 2002 and its first communication tool , placing on the market Meridiist mobile phone which was launched a few months ago.

Since 2006, the site of La Chaux-de-Fonds was the location of all brand operations, including the various units mount (T1, T2 and T3), logistics, R & D and all customer service. In January 2008, TAG Heuer has opened a new museum that gives visitors an immersion experience of the universe of the brand. In September 2008, a new space was opened on the site in response to the mark of success. An additional 3000 m2 were added to the existing 10,000 m2. More space and machinery are not the only requirements - know-how is also necessary, of course, if a century and a half mastering the infinitely small is to be preserved. TAG Heuer has acquired the professional skills that are essential to this level of ambition of manufacture: design engineers, industrial engineers, manufacturers, responsible for prototypes, etc, have recently been recruited.

In recent years, TAG Heuer has developed a design and engineering specialist competence center with an annual budget of several million Swiss rolex replica francs to help him achieve his goals as an integrator of manufacturing and improve its responsiveness . The R & D - totally independent in terms of making prototypes and testing - intends to remain at the forefront of technology and is currently developing partnerships with leading universities, research centers and private aerospace industry, research institutes. The main points of the R & D department are looking for new biocompatible materials with high performance engineering, technology transfer of aerospace and automotive industries and the development of new mechanical exhaust. Accordingly, the speed with which TAG Heuer records of patent applications has sharply accelerated in recent years: from 60 patents have been filed since 1860, 16 in the last 4 years and 12 will be deposited before the end of the year. TAG Heuer and is currently working on 150 major innovations that will be available over the next five years.

On the side of movement, TAG Heuer has the biggest names in the watchmaking industry and its suppliers and works with Zenith and Dubois-Depraz to develop such exceptional caliber. At the same time, the company is about to begin industrial production of the 4th movement, Caliber 18, the successor of the Caliber 360, the only mechanical movement to measure and display 100th of a second, the Caliber S, electro movement consists of more than 230 pieces, and V4, the drive belt revolutionary mechanical movement, which is actively being developed for industrial production. The new Caliber 18 is designed to meet the highest expectations in terms of time keeping and precision. The new column chronograph, developed internally, will be produced at a location near the existing industrial site in Cornol which, in time, will host a workshop dedicated to the manufacture of mechanical parts of the future traffic It will be mounted on the site of TAG Heuer in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the increase in the number of mechanical movements available to the company for parts of luxury collection by 2010.

A great Watchmaker

In these days where nothing is free, Jacky Epitaux managed to get some of the biggest sports stars, including Ronaldinho, to promote its brand at almost any cost.

So how does a small Swiss watchmaker of Les Bois, near La Chaux-de-Fonds manage to wrap one of his plays around the wrist of doubt the greatest footballer on the planet, without having to pay for privilege?

In short, thanks to a lot of patience and an unorthodox approach.

Rewind back to the summer of 2002, and the famous designer Rodolphe Cattin and Epitaux Brazil just seen win a record fifth World Cup.

"Our passion is football and we decided to create and there is a watch to commemorate the victory of Brazil", Epitaux, who is chairman of Rodolphe Watches, told swissinfo.

The result was the SFr15, 000 ($ 12,500) Instinct Penta limited edition colors of the Brazilian flag, yellow, blue and green. One hundred were made and only 15 remained unsold.

Through a friend, Epitaux managed to pass on information about the watch to the Brazilian team. Then, when Brazil came to Porto to play a friendly against Portugal in March 2003, there was Epitaux to the team hotel with his army watches.

"I set up an exhibition in the lobby of the hotel and evening, hanging with the players at the helm," he recalled. "Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Ronaldinho said they each take an hour and insisted on paying half."

The limited edition Penta (Rodolphe) Elusive Ronaldinho
Early last year the watchmaker flew to Brazil to return the watches to Cafu and Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho, but - as it is on the ground - has proved more elusive.

Having signed in Barcelona in 2003, Brazil is now the number 11 of the hottest tickets on the planet football. According to the magazine France Football, he anticipated the England player David Beckham as the highest paid, collecting in a cool SFr36 million a year in salary and endorsements.

After several calls to the sister of the player Deis, a gap in his busy schedule was found in June last year and Epitaux had three days to find a jewelry store in Barcelona and put everything in place for the rotation.

"It was very funny actually. About 50 journalists have, and I think they thought Ronaldinho was not able to do so. But he arrived on time, dressed like a rapper all in white, and was very friendly and smiling, as usual, "he said.

"The only problem was that all the journalists wanted to talk about football and we had to keep their direction all watches on time."

Ronaldinho also received a SFr6, 000 Rodolphe Instinct Weekly "for everyday wear, but other than watches, and nothing else has changed hands.

"The success of this summer in our love of football and Brazil, and how we have addressed the players," said Epitaux, who was in Brazil, nearly 20 times. "We have always kept a low profile and has never behaved like paparazzi.

Watches success
For Epitaux, the fruit of more than two years of work was another successful chapter in the life of the young company of watches and jewelry.

Founded ten years ago, Rodolphe employs around 40 people and produces about 200 watches a year, ranging from a SFr2, 000 ladies quartz with a SFr100, 000 time-tourbillon.

In March last year, Geneva-based luxury replica rolex watch group Franck Muller bought a controlling stake in Rodolphe, opening up new global opportunities for the company.

But in the coming days Epitaux has its eyes on the transfer of some time, rather closer to home.

His firm has established a temporary presence in the small town of Weggis on Lake Lucerne, where Brazil are based until next month, the finals of the World Cup in Germany.

Omega watch Specifications

MOVEMENT

- Omega Co-Axial Calibres 8500
- Self-winding movement in both directions
- Officially certified chronometer
- Jewels: 39
- Frequency: 25’200 A/h (3.5 Hz)
- Power reserve: 60 hours

- Special luxury finish:

o monochrome rhodium-plated rotor and bridges
o Geneva waves in arabesque
o blackened screws, barrels and balance wheel

- Exclusive features with:

o Time zone function
o Co-Axial Escapement with 3 levels
o Omega free sprung-balance
o 2 barrels mounted in series
o NIVACHOC



DISPLAY
- Central hour-minute-seconds hands, date window at 4H30

MATERIAL
- Case: stainless steel
- Bracelet: stainless steel or rubber


CASE
- Diameter: 55 * 48 mm Height: 17.50 mm
- Water resistant up to: 1200 m (4000 ft)
- Brushed casebody with polished bevels
- Bi-directional rotating bezel with blocking system at 2H; black etched on the inside of the sapphire bezel ring scaled to 60 and with an orange dot in triangle at 12H; anti-reflective treatment outside; triangle, numerals and scale marks painted with white Super-LumiNova

- Bezel-release security pusher at 2H with orange aluminium ring
- Automatic helium escape valve at 4H; “He” embossed on varnished black ground protected by transparent lacquer
- At 9H, screw-in crown guarded under crown-protector
- 4.9mm flat scratch-resistant sapphire crystal with anti-reflective treatment on both sides
- 2-piece oriented caseback:

o centre piece: horizontal seawave embossed ground with polished Ω, “Seamaster” and Seahorse on matt surface
o sealed with an outer screw-in ring: black chromed engraving “1200m/4000ft”, “Ploprof”, “Omega Calibre 8500 Co-Axial Escapement”

DIAL
- Polished lacquered black dial with applied polished
- Polished indexes coated with white Super-LumiNova
- Transferred inscriptions in white, except “Professional” in orange

HANDS
- Varnished white hour-seconds hands coated with white Super-LumiNova
- Orange aluminium minute hand coated with white Super-LumiNova

BRACELET
- Brushed mesh bracelet “Sharkproof” with pinned adjustment links or black or orange rubber strap
- New diving safety clasp, black chromed, “Seamaster”, “Professional” and seahorse engraved on cover; adjustable to 18 positions over 22mm and with extra diver extension of 26mm
- Fitting : 24mm on casebody, 20mm on clasp

SPECIFICATIONS
- Special presentation box

- User’s guide for:
o Time-date adjustment: unscrew crown to release protection, pull crown to appropriate adjustment position
o Bezel rotation: press simultaneously on security pusher

o Bracelet’s complementary length adjustment:
- Clasp: release clasp, press on “push” and slide inner clasp
- Diver extension: unfold while clasp extended

Mr. Yassin Tag was appointed Brand Manager for the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent

1 May 2009 - Vacheron Constantin, world's oldest continuous Swiss watchmaker in operations, is pleased to announce that Mr. Yassin Tag was appointed Brand Manager for the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent.



Yassin Tag replaces Hugues de Pins, who was recently appointed president of replia rolex in North America.



Before this new position, Mr. Tag was Area Sales Manager, Middle East and Indian Sub-continent, in close cooperation with Mr. de Pins from 2006 until early 2009. During these three years, he has helped to improve the position, recognition and sales of the brand in the region.



Shortly after his birth in Switzerland in 1975, Yassin Tag moved with his family in Egypt. After earning his degree in Management and Commerce International de l'Ain Shams University, Cairo, he pursued MBA at the University of Sorbonne, Paris, France. Mr. Tag moved to Switzerland in 2002 and joined the Maison Vacheron Constantin, the historic boutique in Geneva, as Sales Executive. He moved to Dubai in 2006 as Area Sales Manager of Vacheron Constantin in the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent.



Tag Yassin's promotion comes as a further affirmation of his abilities and commitment to the brand. As the new head of brand Vacheron Constantin in the Middle East and Indian Sub-continent, it will continue to develop the position and brand recognition of high-end luxury watch category, based on incomparable heritage, namely -how, elegant and classic, and unique handmade finish.



He lives and is based at the Vacheron Constantin offices in Dubai.