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The 10 Most Legendary Watches Part 5

The 10 Most Legendary Watches Part 5

(9) Patek Philippe Calatrava
Founded in 1830, Norbert de Patek Patek, Czapek & Co with former partner Franciszek Czapek, who was a master watchmaker. In 1844, during a visit to an exhibition in Paris, Jean Adrien Philippe Patek met the French language is a watchmaker, was a very fine pocket watch and could be resolved by the trunk with a crown placed. Define the following year, Patek Philippe and he left in 1851, Patek Czapek and changed the name of the firm Patek Philippe & Co as head coach and watchmaker Philippe watches was on innovation, invention of the responsible for incentives slides system development has led to automatic watches. Customers watch Patek are surprising: Queen Victoria, Pope Pius IX, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, J. P. Morgan, Clark Gable, Duke Ellington and Andy Warhol.
Originally conceived in 1932, is the classic round wristwatch Calatrava in the ornate cross that allowed the company symbol of Patek Philippe. The improvement is to mediate and control the design of classic Calatrava too the power of discretion and modesty, Patek Philippe, keep at the forefront of Calatrava watch is on sale now for better planning of the company. Considered by many as a standard signature Patek Philippe, the elegance of line around the prisoner is expressed through subtle changes in the full range of products. No fewer than 30 different models with different ring tones, hands and fingers to give character and individuality of each piece. Each piece has a duration of up to nine months to complete, strictly limited in number, but to ensure a consistent quality. Elegance is the refuge of Calatrava and brand owners with a different flavor to any environment in subtle ways.
Price: 6,000 pounds (9,000 euros or $ 12,000 RSP)

(10) Rolex Daytona
Rolex 1908 by Mr. Hans Wilsdorf, a German before Bavaria, founded in London. Initially, the company was named Wilsdorf Davis was Wilsdorf founded the company with his brother. Wilsdorf was a perfectionist who improved the standards of the round the clock, trying to movements smaller and more precise, the style and fashion watches larger pocket watches to smaller more practical. Wilsdorf recognized two major requirements for watches: keep time accurately and reliably. Wilsdorf developed a crown and a screw mechanism Casebook that revolutionized the watch industry with the first water resistant watch. In 1931, the Rolex Rotor - a semicircular plate of metal invented by gravity, move freely to wind the clock. Thus, the Rolex Perpetual (born in automatically). Since then, Rolex has always produced its own movements, which separates it from many other popular brands mechanics. Since the only chronograph in the Rolex line saw the Rolex Daytona, or not adequately Daytona Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph, designed in 1976. The Rolex Daytona was named in honor of the runners who competed in the famous race track in Florida, USA, and estimated that the vote on the easy to read. Rolex Daytona and have a special relationship is benefited by the International Speedway opened in 1959, sharing a single concern with the subtleties of the second division time. Daytona Paul Newman had a special dedicated to him, as he helped make famous worldwide-the-clock as an actor. The movement is automatic movement, ie selfwinding, and automatic has a power reserve of 72 hours and the frequency of 28,600 alternations per hour. The Daytona is water resistant to 330 meters / 100 feet deep sapphire crystal is virtually unbreakable. The Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona is 13 mm thick and 42 mm in diameter with the crown.

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