Yema, the French watch brand that marked the seventies.... with rallygraf, yatchingraf, astronaut or superman watches
Yema, the French watch brand that marked the seventies with the superman. There exists in the collective unconscious of watch collectors a brand with which professional watches are associated. Today it is Rolex and its submariners or explorer and other gmt-masters that hold the...
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Claudie Haigneré... Breitling aerospace Mission Cassiopée on the MIR station... ...The first French astronaut in space
Claudie Haigneré… breitling aerospace mission Cassiopée, the first Frenchwoman in space aboard the MIR station "At the origin of a feat, there is inspiration and enormous preparation", it is with these words that Claudie Haigneré will conclude her intervention during a speech...
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W-10 The Military Queen, The military watch of the British forces ... ... from the end of the Seventies ...
W-10 the queen, The British military watch of the late seventies. At the end of the 1970s, the stock of Commonwealth military watches had far exceeded its potential use. Coming mostly from watches that began their career in the early fifties, see during the Second World War, the...
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Seiko: From the Hattori workshop to bullhead chronograph watches... ... The Japanese watch brand that left its mark on the seventies
Having become one of the main players in the Japanese watch industry since the middle of the twentieth century, the Seiko watch manufacturer was at the forefront of the Japanese commercial offensive of the 1970s on a world watch market numbed by years of hegemony. of Swiss...
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Sean Connery, James Bond 007, Rolex Submariner... icons are forever...
Sean Connery, the James Bond 007 against Doctor No of 1962, of 1963 in Good Kisses from Russia, in 1964 in Goldfinger and the following year in Operation Thunder will continue eternally to embody the secret agent of his gracious majesty. His masterful interpretation of the fictional...
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Rolex Sea Dweller, more than a waterproof watch.. ...a tool at the service of deep-sea divers
It is in Antiquity that the first known underwater works date back: research by snorkelers to recover valuables from wrecks (the initiative of which is attributed to King Xerxes) or the refloating of ships. and the construction of port works by the divers of Alexander the Great equipped...
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Vostok: The watchmaking sputnik that came from the cold... a Russian watch to materialize the glory of the Soviet Union the kommandirskie project
Vostok, the brand unknown to most Westerners, has been manufacturing mechanical and automatic watches since 1942 in the greatest tradition of the Jura watch industry. It is also, remarkably, one of the few manufactures in the world to produce its own movements without purchasing a...
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Tom Hanks, the Omega Speedmaster, and Apollo 13 the snoopy award touch
Tom Hanks and his Omega Speedmaster…. Houston, we have a problem In 1995, Tom Hanks took on the role of astronaut James Lowell in Ron Howard's Blockbuster "Apollo 13". A film that will deeply mark him and that will push him to produce the twelve-episode TV series "From the Earth to...
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The new rolex submariner 2020 Prices of pre-owned rolex 40 mm models is already skyrocketing.
Rolex Submariner 2020. The new 41mm rolex models rock the modern submariner 114060 and 116610LN in the collection. September 2020 marks the arrival of a new range of Rolex Submariners: with the reference 124060, an undated Submariner replacing the 114060, it is a range that gains...
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Officine Panerai the watch of the first military combat swimmers ... from radiomir to luminor... Sempre stare il migliore
Semper Modum Tempus, Semper Melior "Always measure time, always be better", a motto that Giovanni Panerai has made his own. Tuscan founder of the “Orologeria Svizzera” trading company, an opulent store of clocks, regulators and pocket watches backed by a repair workshop. Faithful to...
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From the Longines Marine Nationale to the Omega Constellation Marine Chronometer Megaquartz by Eric Tabarly Secrets of a winning sailing race under the stars
Navigating, following a marked route in order to arrive as quickly as possible at your destination is an art, which like any other requires a quality tool. Like the artist who relies on the precise line of his pencil, the navigator relies on his watch to navigate according to the...
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Rolex GMT Master 1 for pilots and world travelers
It was in the 1950s, and at the height of its glory, that the most powerful airline in the world at the time, Pan Am, decided to respond to the emerging competition from other companies on the theme of modernism, technicality and prestige. After changing its name from Pan American...
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