A period of ‘hands-on’ institution ensued.A round dial stays inside a tonneau shaped case, whereas the bezel brings both forms together in eye-catching union. The whole dial is a sea of black, red and white detail. The colourway coalesces wonderfully with everything living in harmony.The hour and second display can be found on a small dial at 3 o’clock. The hour and minute hands are partly open-worked and possess glowing tips. The palms functioned with a blend of applied Arabic numerals and batons that, once again, feature luminescent therapy. The employed indexes sit on a snailed hour track. At the core of the screen is a diamond-like theme, adding texture to proceedings.At 9 o’clock, there is an altimeter fashion date screen. The scale of the numerals ensures excellent legibility. Adjacent the date screen is a small running moments screen which shows smatterings of red and black via a crescent shaped aperture.Two chronograph registers sit string on a north-south axis. A 30-minute chronograph enroll resides under noon. It includes a rotating disk and a static needle to indicate the elapsed time. The chronograph enroll is appropriately tagged ‘Minutes Counter’ onto a silver coloured ring. A 12-hour chronograph register is positioned over 6 o’clock, sharing the same design as its sibling and comprising text saying ‘Hours Counter’.Cyrus has given a unique dial layout but with impressive legibility. Moreover, there’s a ubiquitous sense of quality, perfectly illustrated with the various screws affixing the silver-work framing the chronograph registers and the hour track. Really, everything seems solidly built.
We love the ONLY WATCH auction that takes place every other year in Monaco for the support of charity. Why do we love it? Well a range of participating watch brands produce totally unique watches that are auctioned off for charity (Monegasque Association against Muscular Dystrophy). The pieces are sometimes mere color variations on existing models, and sometimes they are radically new models that are production concepts or signs of things to come. In any event, they are all one-off pieces (with the exception of models that are “#1” in a limited edition). The brands do it for the massive media exposure and marketing opportunity.
UPDATE: See the aBlogtoWatch full list of Only Watch 2013 Watches.
2013 is the 5th edition of the Only Watch (administered and operated by auctioneer Antiquorum) auction and it will take place later in 2013 on September 28th. The participating brands will slowly release their Only Watch pieces until then. While more brands may be added later, here are the companies that we expect to see interesting timepieces from over the next several months:
- Backes & Strauss
- Bell & Ross
- Blancpain
- Breguet
- Chanel
- Chopard
- ChronoSwiss
- Christophe Claret
- Corum
- Cyrus
- deLaCour
- De Bethune
- DeWitt
- Franck Muller
- Frédérique Constant
- Girard Perregaux
- Glasshütte Original
- Harry Winston
- Heritage Watch Manufactory
- Hublot, Ikepod
- Jaquet Droz
- Ladoire
- Laurent Ferrier
- Louis Vuitton
- Manufacture Royale
- Maurice Lacroix
- Montblanc
- Patek Philippe
- Piaget
- Richard Mille
- Roger Dubuis
- Armin Strom
- Ulysse Nardin
- Vacheron Constantin
- Van Cleef & Arpels
- Vulcain
- Zenith
That is a huge number of brands and you can compare them to the all the pieces from the Only Watch 2011 auction. We look forward to sharing with you the auction pieces as they trickle out leading up to the event in September of 2013. onlywatch.com
This is a timepiece for the serious collector, in my own opinion, and also the story behind the motion inside of the Cyrus Watches Plan Les Ouates Replica Klepcys Alarm watch is, in various ways, just as intriguing as the watch. To fully enjoy the Cyrus Klepcys Alarm watch which debuted this year at 2015, you also ought to understand what businesses are related to Cyrus, in addition to another watch that contained exactly the exact same motion this season, and that signifies the Cyrus Klepcys Alarm has to be a restricted edition.The people who have Cyrus also own Chronode – a business that designs watch motions, run by Jean-Francois Mojon. We’ve featured and often celebrated the work of Jean-Francois Mojon over the years, and in a sense, he is a portion of Cyrus given how tightly they operate together from a proximity and business perspective. One of Chronode’s clients is Hublot, and in 2015, Hublot introduced the Big Bang Alarm Repeater watch collection which also contains this base movement.Hublot allowed Cyrus to produce some movements for itself, and also their agreement permits Cyrus to create just 30 watches complete with this motion. For that reason, the Cyrus Klepcys Alarm watch is restricted to just 30 pieces. Such arrangements are comparatively common in the opinion market. The Swiss watchmaking area has ever been comparatively temperate with firms working together with and for each other all the time. It’s frequently true that larger watch companies work with others to supply not only parts but entire movement concepts that they together become intriguing products. The result is a cooperative, yet still obviously brand-defined and separated business.