Jewelry and Luxury Watches

A watch of course? A Steampunkwatch. “Perfect” I say, “Just perfect” Romain Jerome has surfaced from the deepest darkest ocean where the titanic rests in gloomy solitude; sank back to earth from its space voyages; leaped from lava spewing mountains and come to rest in the crevices of our imagination by adding its latest timepiece to its Titanic DNA collection. Steam Punk ,as you know, is an antique sort of science fiction, where strange gadgets churn in steamy hisses and rusted metals rear ugly heads between flickering gas lamps and swirling fog… and gears, lots and lots of grinding gears. So ,of course, it is not the first time a watchmaker has associated steam punk with watches. The genre almost demands it, being mechanical and all that, but one thing is certain, Romaine Jerome has indeed perfected the look.

It all depends who you ask, and the debate is rife, but will Girard-Perregaux have to do a little tweaking to its Womens Cat’s Eye Movement Zodiac Watch? Will it have to squeeze a new sign between its Capricorn and Sagittarius depiction? Blame this astrological debate and horoscope catastrophe on the the astronomers from the Minnesota Planetarium Society. They have discovered ,as a result of a an earth “wobble” or the moon’s gravitational pull on Earth, the alignment of the stars were pushed by about a month. So what does this mean?

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Tag Heuer has unveiled the first ever fully integrated, COSC certified mechanical chronograph baring a column wheel system, which indicates 1/100th of a second via a sweeping second hand. This milestone in mechanical horological craftsmanship is a “in house” Tag Heuer accomplishment.

With this design Tag Heuer pays tribute to its very first sports stopwatch – the Carrera Mikrograph. Unveiled in 1916, the Carrera Mikrograph turned competition ties into split second winnings by measuring in 1/50th and 1/100th of a second . Prior to this timekeeping milestone , stop watches could only measure time in 1/5th of a second. Tag Heuer has proved itself with its extreme timekeeping precision and through the years has became the official timekeeper of three Summer Olympic Games of the 1920s, the Skiing World Championships, Indy 500 Race, Formula 1 and many more.

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