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Video now embedded - 5 months agoHi Claus, you should just copy/paste the URL for the vid directly into your post (don't use the video embed button.) In this case I also had to change https to http for it to work :-p . Sorry for the technical snag, Jackby Jack Forster - Prime Time Shot on . . . - 5 months ago. . . an NEX-6 (provided for review by Sony) and 30mm macro, except for the first, which was shot on the OMD-EM5. Keen to try the 60mm macro for the OMD though. --J.by Jack Forster - A. Lange & Söhne These were shot . . . - 5 months ago. . . mostly on an OMD-EM5 (only had the kit zoom at this point) plus an NEX-5N, 30mm macro, plus a Voigtlander 40mm M mount on a Novoflex adapter.by Jack Forster - Prime Time Live From The Lange Boutique In Palm Beach, It's The Amazing Zeitwerk "Handwerkskunst" - 5 months agoThis piece was introduced a couple of months ago and having now had a chance to see it in person, during the grand opening of Lange's first boutique in North America, in Palm Beach, I can attest to its incredible beauty. The "tremblage" engraving technique is incredibly labor intensive; apparently the dial takes two weeks to make. I absolutely, positively would not have the patience but havingby Jack Forster - A. Lange & Söhne Ach, sorry this answer has taken so long . . . - 5 months agoThe short answer is that I don't know --it's possible, but I think it's probably got more to do with how they were constructed initially; for instance, stamping a case instead of machining it, which work-hardens the metal and changes its acoustic properties, as opposed to machining a case, which is the modern practice. --J. slide1968 Wrote: -------------------------------------------------by Jack Forster - Audemars Piguet Pictures From An Expedition: In Monaco With Franck Muller - 5 months agoThe next stop after Capri was a trip to Monaco for the WPHH --that's the World Premiere of Haute Horlogerie, which is the annual debut of new timepieces from the Franck Muller Group including of course Franck Muller itself (and himself.) Monte Carlo from the balcony of my hotel. Franck, Vartan Sirmakes, and Roberto Cavalli (who's partnering on a line of watches with Franck Muller) cby Jack Forster - Prime Time By Request: The Richard Lange, Shot In Dubai - 5 months agoHi all, I got a request on Twitter a while back for some pictures of the Richard Lange and since we do requests, here they are :-) these were shot at the Lange boutique in Dubai at the Dubai Mall. A fantastic place to visit with terrific staff; the young lady who showed me this watch obviously knew both it and the company backwards and forwards. My sincerest thanks to the boutique staff forby Jack Forster - A. Lange & Söhne Pictures From An Expedition: Naples and Capri With Breguet, For The 200th Anniversary Of The "Queen Of Naples" Watch - 6 months agoI had a week back in New York . . . and then, it was off again for parts unknown, at least to me. Breguet, I'd heard, was celebrating the 200th anniversary of the "Queen of Naples" watch --a wristwatch made for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples, and delivered in 1812. Breguet, as you might expect on such an occasion, meant business: we were to join them in Naples, at the Capodimonte Palace (Carolby Jack Forster - Prime Time Le Troisième Part: Granville (Or, You Can't Go Home Again) - 6 months agoNext day we went to Granville, Normandy, by helicopter from Paris. The helicopter is an interesting device. Da Vinci famously created drawings of one (that wouldn't have worked but hey, he was still way ahead of anyone else) and the first working helicopter (and I use the word loosely) was built and flown, not by Igor Sikorsky (who did design the first successful mass produced helicopter) but bby Jack Forster - Prime Time Part Deux: The Biennale des Antiquares, and Granville, Normandy - 6 months agoNext stop: the Bienalle des Antiquares, held this year at the Grand Palais which was created for the Universal Expo of 1900 and is every inch Neo-Classical oomph meets steampunk hubris. Here's the Neo-Classical . . . And here's the steampunk (interior) --very Jules Verne if you ask me. The Biennale des Antiquares is a show of the best of the best in jewelry, art and rare antiby Jack Forster - Prime Time Pictures From An Expedition: A Trip To Switzerland, Paris, And Normandy With Christian Dior - 6 months agoIt's that time of year again --we've just closed our last issue of Revolution Magazine in the USA, and I've been on the road more or less constantly since September. It's been one heck of a fall --I've been to Paris (a lot) as well as Switzerland (several times) and less frequently visited locations including Naples, Capri, Berlin, and Dubai. With all the running around and work involved in getby Jack Forster - Prime Time Revolution Magazine Event With Blancpain At NY Boutique - 6 months agoHi everyone, I'm very pleased to announce that there are still a a few places open for our holiday event with Blancpain USA President Adam Bossi at the New York Boutique. Please RSVP ASAP if you're interested in joining us for an evening of friendship and some of the most interesting watches Blancpain makes, brought in especially for the occasion!by Jack Forster - Prime Time Official Press Release From Rolex On New F1 Partnership - 6 months agoPRESS RELEASE Rolex, the leading luxury watchmaking brand and a pioneer of sports sponsorship, will become a major long-term partner of Formula 1TM from 2013 as Official Timekeeper and Official Timepiece. This rein- forces Rolex’s commitment to motor racing and its support of global sport at the very highest level. This new partnership with the pinnacle of motor sports brings together twoby Jack Forster - Prime Time This Just In: Rolex to Replace Hublot as Official F1 Timekeeper - 6 months agoRolex will replace Hublot as the official watchmaker and timekeeper of Formula One. The partnership, which commences as of the 2013 season, sees Rolex replacing Hublot in this position. Remarked Bernie Ecclestone, F1 boss, ""The brand’s prestige, the excellence of its watches as well as Rolex’s passionate and long-standing commitment to motor sports gives it true credibility." Clickby Jack Forster - Prime Time Pre-SIHH: IWC Shows Off New Ingenieur Lineup At Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 - 6 months ago2013 will be the Year of the Ingenieur for IWC, and the collection has been expanded and refined with a host of new models --including the new Ingenieur 40mm Automatic, which returns to the size and design of the Gerald Genta designed Ingenieur SL, which first debuted in 1976. The new 40mm Ingenieur Automatics are not exact duplicates of the original design --aside from the fact that the IWC logby Jack Forster - Prime Time Specifications . . . - 6 months agoMechanical movement – Date display with crown-activated rapid advance – Central hacking seconds – Soft-iron inner case for protection against magnetic fields up to 40,000 A/m – Screw-in crown Calibre Frequency Jewels Power reserve Winding Materials Glass Water-resistant Diameter Case height 30110 28,800 A/h / 4 Hz 21 42 h automatic MOVEMENT WATCH Ref. IW323902: stainlby Jack Forster - Prime Time Pre-SIHH: Big News From IWC --The Ingenieur Original Is Back - 6 months agoHi everyone, We're on the way back from an amazing three day visit with IWC and the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team --a full report's coming soon, so stay tuned, but these were too good to not share right now. A sneak peek at what's already one of my personal favorite new watches of 2013: the IWC Ingenieur Automatic. Self-winding, 40mm, a fantastic homage to the original Gerald Genta designby Jack Forster - Prime Time A Visit To The AP Restoration Department . . . - 6 months ago. . . on our Audemars Piguet Forum --J.by Jack Forster - Prime Time Lost Worlds: The Restoration Workshop At Audemars Piguet Le Brassus - 6 months agoAs you all know, Audemars Piguet had us in Berlin last month to interview Michael Schumacher, and to introduce the new Royal Oak Offshore Michael Schumacher chronographs. Though the Royal Oaks cast a long shadow, it's good to remember that Audemars Piguet was considered one of the Big Three Swiss haute horlogerie watchmakers long before Genta ever put pen to paper and created the world's first sby Jack Forster - Audemars Piguet What People Wore To The Jaeger LeCoultre Gala In Paris: Wristshots! - 6 months agoGreetings everyone, As the designated annoying guy with a camera, I decided to do a quick informal visual survey of what people were wearing for the 3 day Jaeger LeCoultre event in Paris. It was a full 3 days --we saw the new UTT, as well as three new watches which are embargoed until SIHH, and also attended a gala event for the opening of the new JLC boutique on the Place Vendome, which is aby Jack Forster - Jaeger-LeCoultre LIVE pics of the new Jaeger LeCoultre Duometre UTT . . . - 6 months agoCheck it out on our Jaeger LeCoultre forum. --Jackby Jack Forster - Prime Time Live Pictures: The New Jaeger LeCoultre Duometre "Unique Travel Time" - 6 months agoHi everyone, Thought I would share with you some pictures from the UTT launch event in Paris last week, while we await Jaw's full report. As you all probably know the UTT uses the Duometre "dual wing" movement concept in which two barrels power respectively the going train and the complication. In this way, the power demands of the complication do not affect chronometry. Traditionally the wby Jack Forster - Jaeger-LeCoultre Antiquorum posts record results --would you believe a CHF 490,000 Rolex? - 7 months agoYou can't make this stuff up. PRESS RELEASE Geneva -- Antiquorum's November auction of "Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces," held on Sunday, November 11 at the Mandarin Oriental in Geneva, concluded with an outstanding result of CHF 8,631,137 and several lots selling for multiple times their original estimates. The top lot of the auction was unquestionably the extremely rare Rolex Siby Jack Forster - Prime Time Update: No comment from Patek Philippe at this time . . . - 7 months ago. . . unsurprisingly as this is very fresh news. --J.by Jack Forster - Prime Time I still can't believe . . . - 7 months ago. . . I actually had both on my wrist. Seeing them side by side was a treat, to put it mildly. --Jackby Jack Forster - Cartier Qatari Shiek Revealed As Graves Supercomplication Owner, Pledges Watch To Sothebys To Cover Debt - 7 months agoThis just in from Bloomberg, via our friends over at Hodinkee.com: the owner of the Patek Philippe Graves Supercomplication (yes, _that_ Graves super complication) just pledged the watch --the most expensive ever sold at auction --and other goods with a total value estimated at over $83 million, to cover his debt to Sotheby's. Bloomberg reports: "Sheik Saud Bin Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Thani, aby Jack Forster - Prime Time It was a pleasure
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