Tag Heuer ...the origins Edouard Heuer's watchmaking challenge
It was initially a challenge that prompted Edouard Heuer, a mechanics enthusiast from the Jura, to create his watchmaking business in 1860. At that time, all watches were wound using a key and the arrival of the automobile and industrialization made this entrepreneur aware of the...
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Greg Pappy Boyington 's Waltham Navigation Watch the regular ww 2's watch for combat pilots
A veteran of the American volunteer pilot corps in China, Major Boyington is one of the most famous aces of the Pacific War, the famous "Patron" of the hotheads of VFM-214 in the Marine Corps played by Robert Conrad in the series hit "Heads Burned" At the dawn of the conflict which will...
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Rolex Explorer 2 Story... The watch for globe-trotting raiders and adventurers
The history of the Rolex Explorer II begins in the early 1970s, a time when man pushes the limits of exploration: Space, the depths of the ocean, the bowels of the Earth, no exploratory track n t is neglected and above all, economic development obliges, society opens to travel......
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Breitling: History of a Manufacture -Part 3 After the Millenium, an adventure that continues...
In 2009, the Breitling Caliber 01 was produced in the factory. Now autonomous, Breitling's creativity will be able to express itself fully, and true to its tradition, Breitling will equip its flagship model with it by increasing the size of the Navitimer case by 4mm. These models, now...
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Breitling: History of a Manufacture -Part 2 The Time of Quartz and the Renaissance
In the 1970s, Breitling, jostled by many prestigious competitors who arrived successively on the preferred markets that made it famous, saw its sales and its reputation severely tarnished. The Rolex GMT Master and the Glycine Airman prove to be dangerous competitors in the field of...
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Breitling: Une marque pour laquelle le ciel...
In 1884, Léon Breitling at the age of 24 founded the Breitling watch factory in Saint Imier, a production centered on the development of chronograph watches. Right from the start, Léon Breitling researched and designed a large number of modifications to known chronograph mechanisms....
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Jacques Brel and his Omega Speedmaster watch a passion that never leaves him
It's a beautiful love story that begins with love at first sight, one day in the year 1964, a year during which the singer discovered aviation between the aerodromes of Charleville in the Ardennes and Biarritz on the Basque coast in aboard a small passenger plane assembled by the...
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breitling navitimer, a chronograph that adds... a navigator co-pilot on the wrist
At the dawn of the 1950s, travel took on a new dimension, many qualified pilots were available following the war and progress made it possible to make planes that went further, faster and higher. With the use of the jet plane, the rise of airlines and the proliferation of travel. In...
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omega speedmaster moonwatch story The chronograph watch that walked on the Moon
omega speedmaster, the nasa's apollo mission chronograph Manufactured by Omega in 1957 for racing drivers or motor racing enthusiasts, this chronograph fitted with a tachymeter was one of the two watches selected in 1965 by NASA to accompany astronauts on the Moon. (the other model...
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tudor watches, the alternative wanted by Hans Wilsdorf created to dare
A watch brand in its own right today, Tudor was registered by the company "Veuve de Philippe Hüther" for the founder of Rolex, Hans Wilsdorf in 1926, in order to allow the many watch enthusiasts to benefit from the major advances of the Rolex brand. , at an affordable price… “For...
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Sharon Stone : More than a trend, evidence.
It was in 1998, in the film directed by Barry Levinson that Sharon Stone, will be at the origin of a ground swell that will stir the world of watchmaking and cause a major change in the way women to wear watches today. The setting is as follows: Under the surface of the ocean, a...
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Rolex Submariner the depths icon
Rolex Submariner Roger Moore James bond 007 The Rolex Submariner is to the world of luxury watchmaking what the Porsche 911 is to the world of automobiles: a legend, an icon. Published in 1954 in the catalog of Rolex watches, La Submariner, based on the know-how of the brand...
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