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The essential accessories for summer looks

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Is a key accessories this summer and create outfits for all occasions, day or night, and so shine from head to toe. Are the main allies of any style. The effect can boost the image and define the style of the wearer. Bags , shoes, scarves, hats, jewelry, belts and sunglasses are the object of desire of trends in accessories for spring / summer 2011.

Play to create looks different combining these supplements with the fashion creations that win this season. The summer festival accessory invites us to enjoy a myriad of colors, shapes and textures.
The collections of accessories that set the trend this season. Gateway to the window, find the accessories that accompany us in the coming months.
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Chopard watches

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If there is a jewelry brand that is the weakness of celebrities and famous, that’s Chopard but the fact is that the company actually began as a company of watches founded in 1860 by Louis-Ulysse Chopard.

Chopard watches

Watches Chopard are also then part of French luxury and few have access and we have to say that their prices are quite high. From a 3.00o 0 4.000 euros, but the truth is that there are models invaluable as they have details of brilliant parts, such as diamonds.
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Cartier’s new watch blue balloon

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Cartier presents a new model shows steel, called Ballon Bleu. Available in 3 sizes, it is a beautiful jewel in the refined design, whose only flaw may be its price. But we can always dream before this jewel of watches and jewelry from the famous luxury brand.

The release of new models at Cartier is always an event, and despite slightly prohibitive price, we can not resist the desire to present it.

What strikes at first is his crown. It is decorated with a fluted crown and a blue stone. It is actually a synthetic spinel cabochon. The crown is inserted into a circular ring of steel which draws a nice view with the circle showing the date and the center of the dial axis of the needles.
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SIHH 2011: Audemars Piguet Millenary Minute Repeater with escapement AP

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Audemars Piguet will lead to SIHH 2011 the Millenary Minute RepeaterExpressed in the forms of collection of top brand and equipped by the Audemars Piguet escapement – Work of the branch design-Renaud Papi. The oval box with three-dimensional architecture has been chosen to watch the double escapement mechanism, double spiral as well as the hammers and stamps (gong) ring.

The new Millenary Minute Repeater adds a classic collection and architecture at the same time, which are already in place exceptional models as the Tradition of Excellence No. 5, MC12, The second death is the Carbon One. With their work hours, minutes, small seconds and minute repeater, as well as a charging system developed specifically for its hand-wound Caliber 2910, the Millenary Minute Repeater is a blend of craftsmanship, technology and innovative materials.

His case shows the titanium oval gold dial placed on the right side, the rest of the scene is dominated by the mechanism. AP escapement, the double helix, but also the hammer and ring tones are the main characters so one-piece three-dimensional “design concept of the House that the deeper you if you read the I did review the Millenary Carbon One.

The minute repeater complication and the oldest in existence. As early as the end of the fifteenth century there were pocket watches that sounded the hours to pass. The mechanisms of repetition quarters, with striking hours and quarters on request, appear at the end of the seventeenth century.
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Jean Dunand Tourbillon Orbital

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Jean Dunand Pieces Uniques Four words that mean: complicated watches in the observance of the strictest canons Art Deco. Earlier this year we reviewed Shabak a masterful interpretation of Christophe Claret repetitions of a minute. Jean Dunand also offers Tourbillon Orbital a stunning timepiece that features a tourbillon – a minute – that does a full orbit around itself in an hour with a power reserve indicator never seen before.

We do a quick passing. E ‘curious experience today as the classic tourbillon, although not for everyone, has become almost ordinary in high watchmaking: hence the efforts recently to make it even more special, more unique and imaginative. It ‘s the tourbillon of the third millennium to hit most of the fans who can afford it. But it does not seem to have come a long way over the centuries: when you think that Breguet invented it and applied it in his first pocket watches, he conceived it as the only mechanism that could tackle anything that would impair the accuracy of travel, often hiding. The tourbillon now almost able to “fly” out of the movement.

Wheels within wheels

Claret for the Tourbillon Orbital iO200 designed the Caliber, which took its name borrowed from the moon of Jupiter. The bridges with the tourbillon at the center are arranged in opposite position with respect to one another between two plates held together by ball bearings. The upper rotating plate is provided with an opening that reveals the regulatory mechanism: it has been positioned on the top to make it more visible.
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New collection of designer watches for Alessi Watches

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Inaugurated in 1985 by Italian architect Aldo Rossi, the collection of watches Alessi watches invites leading designers to revisit the form of one of the most common objects of everyday life. This season has been given carte blanche to the designer and interior designer Stefano Pirovano.

After experiencing explosive in the 1980 Swatch, the watch was returned to this small insignificant object, following the fashion of course, but does not create it. The learned hands-on while Alberto Alessi, known for his productions in the field of culinary arts, recently awarded the record straight, with brio and using the best designers.

“Design is one of artistic and poetic forms most typical of our times. We are the mediators between the contemporary creative expressions and dreams of the public.” says Alberto Alessi, director of the eponymous brand. Given his choice and his partners, he has not entirely lost his bet utopian. To him our kitchens have the fun and incredible juicer three feet from Philippe Starck , or the “pastapot” in which it is impossible to miss its Bolognese.

Founded in 1921, the company Alessi is indeed specialized in the manufacture of design , particularly kitchen utensils. Among them, pans, bottle openers and other pepper mills, fruit of a collaboration with internationally renowned designers like Philippe Starck and Richard Sapper. The family business is headquartered in Crusinallo, in northern Italy.
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