Besides some new watches, Longines released its first ever annual calendar watch in the form of the new Longines Master Collection Annual Calendar watch as well. The Master Collection houses some of Longines’ most traditional and complicated fake watches. Therefore, it should be natural that the Master Collection Annual Calendar is somewhat understated in its aesthetics. It comes in a 40mm wide stainless steel case with short and curved lugs. The entire case is polished for a dressier appearance. The crown at 3 o’clock has no crown protectors, so it is simple to reach and operate. Water resistance is only 30m, which isn’t ideal but is suitable for a watch of its type.
The Master Collection Annual Calendar comes in four variants. You can get it with a black stamped ‘barleycorn’ dial with Roman numerals or a blue dial with a sunray finish with 12 stick hour indices. There are also two silver options, both with stamped ‘barleycorn’ finishes but one with large Arabic numerals and the other has diamond hour indices. The model that we got to handle is the silver dial version with Arabic numerals and it comes with a brown alligator leather strap with a triple-folding clasp.
Due to the large Arabic hour numerals in black, this version is arguably the most striking. The use of large black Arabic hour numerals also means that the watch is very easy to read. This is aided by the elegant blued steel hour, minute, and seconds hands, which provide a brilliant contrast to the silver dial with ‘barleycorn’ decoration. The watch also has a wide chapter ring around the dial featuring a minute track that has every fifth minute marked, the Longines logo at 12 o’clock, and a simple line of text that reads ‘Annual Calendar’ at 6 o’clock.
You have two apertures for the month and date at 3 o’clock. Different from some other annual calendar watches, there’s no day indication. For those not familiar with the annual calendar, it is a complication invented by Patek Philippe in 1996 and it enables the watch to differentiate between months with 30 and 31 days and automatically compensate for it. This means watch owners need not adjust the replica watches for months with 30 days. However, it still needs user intervention when transitioning from February to March, therefore the name annual calendar – it requires the user to adjust the calendar just once every year.
The annual calendar indications on this watch are understated, and I would not be surprised if most onlookers mistaken it for a simple day and date complication. My only gripe is that in placing the annual calendar indications at 3 o’clock, the ‘3’ for the hour marker is slightly cut at the edges. The black dial version with Roman numerals suffers from this too.
The movement of this replica watch within is the new Longines Caliber L897.2, which is a heavily modified version of the ETA 2892 with an added annual calendar complication module. On the surface, it looks just like any other dressy watch with a day-date complication, but look closer still and you’ll find that that the two apertures where one would normally expect to find the day-date indications are actually for something much more complex – an annual calendar.
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Replica Watch Madness 2018 has officially unveiled recently. This year we took thirty-two watches, put them in head-to-head matchups and they will face off until there is an ultimate winner for three weeks. So, what’s going on with the winning watch?
For Matt, his ultimate winner was the replica OMEGA Speedmaster Racing watch. Its nostalgic feel traces back to the early days of the Speedmaster, before it ever went to the moon. This fake watch is a fan favorite and absolutely a strong contender to win it all.
Cameron is a man stood firmly behind his product, and his final pick was the Weiss Watch Company American Field Dial. This one may be a bit of a Cinderella story, but we like its chances. The Weiss is American-made is a modern beauty.
Our buddies over at Airows believe in doing life to the fullest. They are into cars, travel, design, gear, and adventure. There is no doubt that they are also seriously into popular replica watches. You can check out all their picks for the initial round of thirty-two together with their reasoning. Some of their options may surprise you. Who do they think will take it all? The replica Tudor is no longer just Rolex’s little brother. The Black Bay may be a sleeper pick, but it has serious legs.
Jay at Red Clay Soul is the quintessential southern sportsman, and his blog is full of products and places suitable for any gentleman below the Mason-Dixon. He celebrates the outdoors, good craftsmanship, and all things Americana. Recently he commemorated the birth of his son with a Tudor Black Bay. Therefore, we figured that would certainly be his ultimate pick in this year’s bracket. However, he surprised us.
This year’s list of replica watches for sale are varied to say the least. There is a few something for everybody on this bracket and we are eager to see which watch will be the last one standing when it’s all over. Then, is there any idea of your picks?
The original Rolex Explorer replica watches can be regarded as the Rolex’s very first professional sports watch. Although these rugged timepieces were intended for professional use, they lacked any particular characteristics or complications that would make them specifically tailored to exploration or the outdoors. On the contrary, they were simply highly sustainable, self-winding fake watches that displayed nothing more than the time of day.
Rolex enlarged their Explorer line of watches with the launch of a special model. Rather than simply being a revised version of the existing Explorer watch, this model was a totally different timepiece.
Designed for speleologists exploring deep caverns below the surface of the earth, this watch was particularly engineered for those living and working for extended periods of time in low-light conditions. Besides, a large, bright orange, arrow-shaped, 24-hour hand was added to serve as a prominent AM/PM indicator, so that its users would not lose their sense of time after spending several days in total darkness.
To provide the extra functionality of a 24-hour hand and date complication, Rolex fitted the Explorer II 1655 with the same 26-jewel, COSC-rated, caliber 1575 movement that they used inside their GMT-Master line of watches. To protect the movement inside, the case of this popular replica watch for sale was full of a thick acrylic crystal and a screw-down and case-back, which provided its users with 100 meters of water resistance.
Because of the large, arrow-shaped, 24-hour hand of this fake watch, it earned the nickname, “Freccione” among many Italian dealers and collectors. Additionally, the watch also acquired the “Steve McQueen” nickname due to a Rolex advertising campaign that featured the popular Hollywood actor. However, it should be noted that no proof exists that McQueen ever actually owned or wore this particular model; instead most photographs show the actor wearing a rolex Submariner in his private life.
The latest new generation of Explorer II watches featured sapphire crystals and a handset that more closely resembled what Rolex was using on their GMT-Master II line of watches. What’s more, the special dial from the reference 1655 was discontinued and replaced by a one that only had 12-hour markings and more closely resembled the dials on the rest of Rolex’s other sport watch lines.
The replica watch is crucial because it was the very first Explorer II, and no other fake watch that Rolex has ever produced looks anything like it.
born together with another iwc big pilot, the replica big pilot watch in my hand originates from the same pilot watch aesthetic as the mark XVii, but it goes in a drastically different direction pretty quickly. it attracted my attention with the first look on the watch face- the perpetual calendar readouts make up three of the four sub dials, as well as an additional year register between 7 and 8 o’clock. the remaining sub dial houses a rather elaborate moon phase complication. of course, those other sub dials aren’t just simple readouts either – they’re hiding some other information.
with the sub dial at 9 o’clock, you have it indicating both the day of the week, and the small seconds. over at the 3 o’clock register, you have the day of the month indicated, as well as where you are in the 7-day power reserve that the calibre automatic movement affords. by comparison, the month indication down at 6 o’clock looks almost plain!
having so many complex various readouts, iwc asserts that these can all be easily adjusted via the large crown – and the perpetual calendar itself should require no intervention by a watchmaker until 2100, when the typical 4-year cycle of leap years is broken.
this model also contains references to the book. for the first one, take a closer look at that moon-phase complication – you’ll notice a small figure standing on the moon. flip the watch over, and you’ll see a medallion featuring the little prince mounted on the automatic rotor. You may also want to keep your eyes on the lookout for the other niceties in this movement, such as the Glucydur balance and breguet spring.
Given the number of complications in the movement, and the fact that the watch is called the big pilot, it should be no surprise that the red gold case comes in at 46mm, and is 16mm thick. it does carry forth the same midnight blue dial color that we saw in the mark XVii, but here the numerals, indices, and hands are gold plated, which gives an outlined shadow effect once the lume has been applied.
both replica watches attractive in their own right, the big pilot has the most ingenious references included in it, these pieces appeal to those who have a fond remembrance of the book from their youth, and have a love of adventure, and what the books represent.
The fake Rolex Deepsea D Blue Dial watch has a gradient showing the decent of James Cameron’s submersible. This behemoth of a watch, the biggest in the Rolex fleet, is a totally impressive piece of engineering and the D-Blue edition is set for future classic status.
One of the trickiest Rolexes to quantify ever since its releasing, the Milgauss is technically a sports watch, seeing as it’s housed in an Oyster case, but a sports watch aimed at scientists.
Its releasing in 2007 with that watch, after the name was discontinued in 1988, retained the Milgauss’s USP—its resistance to magnetic fields by encasing the movement in a soft iron Faraday cage.
The watch’s name originates from the French phrase mille gauss, meaning 1000 gauss. Gauss is the measure of magnetic flux density, which is the thing that powered the Delorean in Back to The Future. But whatever they are, the Milgauss is impervious to 1000 of them.
Although the new generation was originally only available with a black or white dial, they remain among the most colorful of the brand’s sports offerings. The minute track and hour markers are accented in a vivid orange, as is the name under the 12 o’clock position and the second hand, fashioned into the shape of a lightning bolt in a fit of uncharacteristic replica Rolex whimsy.
For the 50th anniversary edition, the brand launched a new version, representing ‘glace verte’, to stand for the green tint on the watch’s sapphire crystal, using a process so complicated that even Rolex haven’t bothered patenting it.
They upped the color stakes even more by releasing the Z Blue in 2004, an identical watch to the anniversary model but with an electric blue Rolex dial (what else?).
What had been the dark horse of the Rolex range and a struggler regarding to sales found a strong audience beyond the laboratory. Still very much the odd one out in the sports range, it’s that exact quality, coupled with its bold scheme of contrasting colors, that has won it its laurels. Where Submariners and GMT-Masters are obvious choices for those seeking out the ultimate tool watch, the quirks of the Milgauss make it a much more special piece.
More data that reports of the Swiss watch industry’s death at the hands of Apple were premature: Nick Hayek, chief executive of the Watch Group, has just declared that sales this summer have accelerated at a “spectacular” rate. Hayek says the Financial Times that the Watch Group, which was facing gloomy forecasts fair recently, returned to profitable growth in the first half of the year.
The “most competitive growth” among the company’s portfolio of brands has come from Omega and Blancpain, he notes. What’s more, the Watch Group owns Breguet, Harry Winston, and Glashütte Original, among others. As the FT notes, not all the industry’s woes were brought on by the smartwatch assault; heavy overstocking in Hong Kong, sluggish global economic growth, and “shifts in consumer and tourist spending patterns” were to blame as well.
In June, the Swiss watch industry federation this week reported that exports were 5.3 percent higher than a year earlier — the second consecutive month showing a meaningful year-on-year growth. Despite the Apple Watch replica almost beating every Swiss watch company, there is a recent change in sales. “The acceleration between the first and second quarters was spectacular,” Hayek notes. He expects fake Watch Group’s net sales to grow at a year-on-year rate of 7 percent to 9 percent in the second half of the year. “In July, our factories are at maximum capacity because the demand coming from our own brands is so strong. At some factories we’re already at the limit.” Watch also makes watch components for third parties.
Different from the rival Richemont, Watch refrained from laying off employees in the wake of last year’s downturn, which now looks like a smart move, as it enables them to handle the uptick in need. “If volumes come back and your machines are running at full capacity, then, of course, you add to your margins,” Hayek tells the Financial Times. Investing in the Watch Group’s top-end watches is probably a good idea. But their stock may be an even better bet. The replica Watch’s share price has risen more than 40 percent over the past year. However, not everyone is as sanguine.
This time, I’ve decided to feature some rare vintage replica watches that we seldom see in this column. It begins with an oversized sector dial Longines, and consists of a fair share of chronographs as well, from the unusual Speedmaster “Holy Grail” to a colorful Breitling Top Time.
Top-quality replica Longines with Sector Dial
Before recently coming back into vogue on modern wristwatches, Sector dials enjoyed their heyday in the 1930s. This configuration, favored by Rolex replica and Longines, offers outstanding legibility and a very pleasing look. This explains how this very watch reached three times its high estimate at auction back in 2015. Its special case size needs to be pointed outstanding at 37mm, it is definitely oversized for a 1930s wristwatch.
The interesting thing is that it features soldered lugs as frequently seen on many military timepieces. From the Longines archives, we know that it was delivered to Longines’s agent in Poland in March 1938. As expected with a snap caseback, the dial shows a bit of aging, but the attractive second and hour rings are well preserved. The contrast between the blued handset and the red second’s hand on the two-tone sector dial is to be the winning argument of this rare Longines.
Here, the “Holy Grail” comes on the correct bracelet, this replica watch used in the 1980s and resembling some extent to the Rolex President bracelet. The painted indexes on the dial show the light patina that we were expecting from a watch of that period, but the thickness and length of the minute and hour’s hands likely indicate that those are replacement parts.
The other is the replica Rolex Holy Grail
There are many reasons to love vintage Movado chronographs. First, their movements M90 and M95 (two- and three-register) are in-house and quirky: they start and stop with the lower pusher and are reset with the upper one, the opposite of most other chronographs.
Here, this chronograph comes with a nice brushed dial, which tritium lume allows the date to the 1960s. The tritium shows the same patina on the hands and the dial, which is always a reassuring sign. The seller mentions some lume loss on the dial, and a couple of dings on the case, most notably on the bezel and the upper left lug. The “Sub-Sea” engravings on the caseback confirm the original waterproof of the Borgel case.
IWC is updating its Da Vinci family in 2017, including a return to the real round case which popularized this line back in the 1980s. The Da Vinci Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph Watch is the flagship model for the redesigned collection, which combines a flying tourbillon with hacking mechanism, a chronograph and a retrograde date.
The designers in the factory set the tourbillon cage on the initial fourth wheel whilst the small seconds sub-dial was stepped into a central seconds. The flying tourbillon makes a complete rotation every minute, thus meaning the tourbillon bridge can function well as a seconds hand too. To unite these three complications for the very first time, the replica IWC redesigned the model.
You could notice that a fully fledged tourbillon was integrated to replace the small seconds counter at the 6 o’clock position. The hour and minute chronograph indications stay on the top of the dial at the 12 o’clock position. The chronograph with a flyback function can record elapsed-time intervals up to 11 hours and 59 minutes. In addition, the central chronograph seconds hand can measure stopped times with high precision up to 1/4-second. The chronograph can be set via two golden push-pieces set on either side of the crown. There is a retrograde date indication as well which describes a gentle arc on the left-hand side of the dial. The date hand jumps back to 1 after the 31st of the month automatically.
The pallet and escape wheel are manufactured from diamond-coated silicon which offers a decent 68 hours of power reserve when fully charged. This quite hard material has a good sliding property which could help reduce friction. It operates at the rapid frequency of 28,800 alternations per hour (4 Hz).
The fake IWC Da Vinci Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph with this model is styled and sized to make a great impression on potential customers. The 18-carat red gold case measures 44mm in diameter and 17mm in thickness. The gorgeous case is shielded with sapphire crystals and constructed to offer water proof up to 30 meters (100 feet).
There is an arched sapphire glass from the front side, together with antireflective coating on both sides, while form the rear there is see-through sapphire-glass back which offers a look at the impeccable IWC-manufactured caliber with its solid red gold rotor.
The new Da Vinci Tourbillon Retrograde Chronograph replica watch comes with the movable horns which ensure that the Santoni alligator leather band fits perfectly on the wrist. The dark brown leather strap is secured with a red gold folding clasp.
Audemars Piguet replica watch has launched some great images of the new Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph Watch which will be officially unveiled at the upcoming Watches & Wonders exhibition in Hong Kong. This new model combines an unusual chronograph-tourbillon mechanism crafted from Renaud & Papi which has a carbon composite case.
This fake watch is a member of the iconic Royal Oak Offshore luxury sports watch collection by Audemars Piguet. It is a supersized successor of the original Royal Oak from 1972. The Royal Oak Offshore is born 21 years later, in 1993, followed by its many versions and special limited editions acquired some of a cult among Audemars Piguet fans. This year’s novelty boasts recognizable Royal Oak Offshore strongbox case, octagonal bezel and “Tapisserie” pattern.
The Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph is manufactured with the latest Caliber 2897 automatic mechanical movement which has been specially made for this model. The exceptional self-winding movement characterized a tourbillion and a column-wheel chronograph and has the beating rate of 21,600 semi-oscillations per hour (3Hz).
Thanks to a peripheral oscillating weight mounted on ball bearings, the automatic winding is achieved a lot. A striking tourbillion complication can be seen through a cut-out on the dial side at the 6 o’clock position.
The movement consists of 335 individual parts, each beveled, polished, chamfered and decorated entirely by hand. All movement parts are well decorated and boast the high level of finish expected from replica watches for men. The movement provides at least 65 hours of power reserve.
The exquiste mechanism is housed in a forged carbon case, with black ceramic bezel, crown, and push pieces, as well as titanium push-piece guards. Its sturdy case measures 44mm in diameter and 14mm in thickness.
A dark-colored dial features a signature Audemars Piguet’s “Mega Tapisserie” motif and offers a high level of legibility. Apart from a tourbillon aperture, there is also a small seconds counter at the 9 o’clock position, and a 30-minute chrono counter which is placed at the 3 o’clock position.
A modern, sleek black look of the new Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon is complemented with a black rubber strap, ending with a titanium pin buckle. The Watches & Wonders exhibition is held by the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH) and stands for the most significant event of this kind in Asia. This year, the invite-only event for thousands of collectors and fine watchmaking admirers will be held for the second time soon.
As the newest edition on the Baselworld, a 50th anniversary edition has been brought out by Rolex Replica of its renowned Sea-Dweller, include the well-known red text. In spite of the predictable shortage of the new model, not all of the retro tweaks pleased diehard Rolex fans, for who the innovative Double Red Sea-Dweller keeps a holy grail. Now London’s prominent Project X Designs has make known their own tribute to the 1967 original with those purists in mind.
That represents a momentous premium over the new Sea-Dweller, which assuming you can get hold of one. For all of its good-looking appearance, some would say Rolex Replica went a bit away modernizing the new 43mm Sea-Dweller, particularly with an extra a “Cyclops” date lens, which many think ruins the model’s streamlined look.
There is no controversial cyclops lens on the Project X version, one suggestion that it is actually made to narrowly look like the initial prototype Sea-Dwellers known variously as the “Single Red”, the “MK0”, “MK1” and “Patent Pending”, which can command a high price on the unusual occasions when they surface at auction. Project X’s piece is at the basis of the ceramic bezel Sea-Dweller, the reigning Sea-Dweller model previous to replica Rolex’s update. It is restricted to just 67 examples in honor of the original debut year. Other evidences as to its stimulation comprise the extra-large word DATE in respect to the first time a Rolex dive watch had featured this complication; the vintage patinated style of 5 minute markers; and visible lug holes on the case sides.
In the end, the words ‘OYSTER GAS ESCAPE VALVE’ & ‘PATENT PENDING’ is in the back case, font and location of the original vintage ‘Single Red’ Sea-Dweller finished with a black enamel bezel, and the sole restricted version number for each replica Rolex watch is written follows the below format: ‘1.67’ It’s not the first time Project X, whose blacked-out replica watches have been spotted on the wrists of Kanye West and Daniel Craig, which has created a “heritage” edition of a well-known Rolex model. Actually it predicted another excellent Rolex design, the new cerachrome Daytona is with a limited edition version which integrated a number of the prominent “Paul Newman” dues to boot. Keep an eye on these guys.