2010年12月28日星期二

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Time is only measured in full secondsno fractions. The intece is not like any other stopwatch Ive used before. You use one button to start it, and another button to stop it, but there is no way to reset it. Instead of resetting it, you can Replica Omega 2365.75 Aqua Terra Ladies' Automatic Watch either restart it again at 0, or simply leave the stopwatch mode. It threw me off for a minute, but you can actually do all the same things with it that you can do with any other stopwatch, and in fact, one could argue that its more efficient since it saves you a step between resetting and restarting.Alarm. The YES watch contains a single standard daily alarm.

The one unique feature it has is a 10-minute snooze. The volume is adequate. I was thrown off by the fact that the alarm is not accessed by cycling through various modes as it would be on pretty much any other digital watch. When in time mode, you access the alarm feature with the upper left-hand button as opposed to navigating to it via the mode button on the bottom left. I think the idea is to make the Replica Omega 1136.76 Constellation Quadra Watch alarm quickly and conveniently accessible, which it certainly is, but it makes the watch slightly less intuitive for the first-time user.Sunrise alarm. The sunrise alarm will sound 30 minutes before sunrise, and right at sunrise. The tone is different from that of the daily alarm to make them easily distinguishable.

Solar noon indicator. Rotate the bezel so that the sun stone (the yellow jewel at the top of the bezel) is halfway between sunrise and sun set. When the 24-hour hand points to the sun stone, its solar noonpass. Not a magnetic Replica Omega 2908.50.91 Planet Ocean Watch compass like you might find on a Casio, Tissot, Timex, or Suunto, but on a sunny day, you can align the sun stone to solar noon, then point the 24-hour hand toward the sun. The moon stone (the blue jewel at the bottom of the bezel) will point north, and the sun stone will point south.

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Each are set by picking from a list of 583 cities around the world, or by specifying your longitude and latitude. You can maintain a third time zone by rotating the outer 24-hour bezel to compensate for the offset between the time indicated by the 24-hour hand, and your third time zone (much like a Rolex or Omega GMT watch). If you really need to, you can actually track a forth time zone by first setting your 24-hour hand to a third time zone (so that it is out of synch with the digital time), then setting the Replica Omega 3534.71 Speedmaster Watch 24-hour bezel to a fourth time zone. The celestial data will out of whack, though, but in a pinch, it will get you through. Anyway, without cheating, it easily supports three time zones.Sun and moon calculator. The YES watch can calculate sun and moon data for any location between the years 2000 and 2100. Simply select the location, year, month, and date, and the watch will give you day of year, longitude and latitude, sunrise, sunset, solar noon, moon illumination percentage, moon rise, moon set, date and time of the next new moon, and date and time of the next full moon.

Phase Elapsed Time (countdown timer). Rather than simply specifying a number of hours, minutes and seconds as you would with a standard countdown timer, the PET lets you specify a date (year, month, and day), and a time. The watch then counts down the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds to that event. For instance, as of the time of this writing, I know there are only 340 days, 22 minutes, and 51 Replica Omega 1211.30 Double Eagle Perpetual Watch seconds until Christmas, 2005. If you specify a date in the past, the time actually counts up rather than down. In other words, the watch indicates how much time has elapsed since a particular event. The documentation states that the PET feature is a NASA standard. Im not exactly sure what that means, but I certainly do see how it could be incredibly useful for counting down to a mission.Automatic daylight savings adjustment.

The digital portion of the watch will automatically adjust for daylight savings time based on your location and the date. This function can be manually overridden if youre in a location with non-standard DST rules. The instruction manual contains a chart outlining the DST rules the watch observes for specific locations, Replica Omega 1304.35 Constellation Watch so you can be sure if it will work for you or not. Unless you live a pretty exotic life, however, and frequent some pretty obscure areas of the globe, it will work just fine. (Note that the analog 24-hour hand will not automatically adjust, so remember to reset it manually.)Stopwatch. The YES watch contains a 24-hour stopwatch with a lap function.

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(Note: this review uses some terminology that may not be in all watch enthusiasts everyday vocabulary. The end of the review contains a short glossary of terms like solstice, equinox, solar noon, etc.)Features and Functions of the YES Zulu WatchDigital timekeeping. Although the YES watchs specialty is celestial timekeeping, of course it conveys standard hours, minutes and seconds, as well. The upper Replica Omega 4617.35.02 De Ville Prestige Watch portion of the watchs face is a dot matrix LCD which, in standard home mode, ticks off time just like any other digital watch.Analog timekeeping. Both in contrast to and complimenting the digital portion of the watch, YES watches have a single analog 24-hour hand powered by a Swiss-made quartz movement.

The 24-hour hand makes one full revolution per day, indicating the time in both 12 and 24 hour formats, and also indicating the suns current position in the sky, which brings me to my favorite feature of the YES watch:Solar time. The digital and analog portions of the YES watch collaborate to convey solar time. Below the dot matrix LCD, the YES watch contains a sort of pie chart consisting of a bunch of thin LCD slices representing 15 minute intervals which divide the watch face very intuitively into day Replica Omega 2221.80 Seamaster Watch and night. As you change the watchs location, or as the year progress, the LCD changes to represent the appropriate day/night ratio so that it is accurate anywhere in the world, anytime of the year (up to the year 2100). When the 24-hour hand reaches the first shaded LCD segment, the sun is setting, and as it moves out of the shaded portion of the watch face, the sun is rising.

A quick glance at the watch indicates how much light you have left in the day, or how much darkness is left in the night.Lunar time. The YES watchs outer LCD ring indicates the time the moon rises and sets, similar to the way solar time is indicated.Lunar phase. The YES watch contains a small circular LCD which waxes and wanes along with the moon. A quick glance at the watch will let you know how Replica Omega 95 1476.79 Constellation Iris Watch much of the moon is currently illuminated.Date. Press the upper right-hand button and see the month, date, and the day of week.Multiple time zones. You can use the YES watch to officially keep track of three different time zones, though it occurred to me that you can eke out a fourth if you really need to. The digital portion of the watch supports two time profiles: home and away.

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They are technically impressive, classy watches, and I think the Navigator 3000 is a great addition.Features of the Navigator 3000 include:Tactile crystal to navigate through five modes and multiple time zones.World time (150 countries or cities).Countdown timer.Stopwatch.Two programmable alarms Replica Omega 1511.51 Double Eagle Perpetual Watch and five alarm melodies.Multiple date formats.Backlight to illuminate the LCD.The target market for this watch is obviously the traveling business executive, but Id argue it packs a little something for everyone. It will be available in four different styles (the one pictured here is my favorite), and will probably go for between $400 and $600, though dont hold anyone to that number. Stay tuned for a detailed review as soon as I can get my hands on one.

Its not unusual to see cool new features and functionality packed into digital watches these days: MP3 players, infrared remote controls, cameras, compasses, flashlights, PDAs. Telling time has even become secondary for many watches by companies like Casio, Timex, Suunto, Fossil, and dozens of small new high-tech Replica Omega 2922.80.91 Seamaster Watch manufacturers. What is unusual, however, is to see a new and innovative high-tech watch whose primary function is not only to tell time, but to do so in traditional and even ancient ways.

The YES Zulu watch combines fine Swiss quartz movements with Japanese microchips and complex algorithms to provide the most complete and comprehensive picture of time that I have ever seen in a watch.The YES watch philosophy is that time is more than just 365 days in a year, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute. Although that is how most of us experience time day to dayand indeed, YES watches do capture the concept perfectly wellthere are other cycles and rhythms Replica Omega 951158.75 Constellation Watch that play very important roles in our lives, whether we choose to acknowledge them or not. Most notably, sunrise and sunset, moon rise and moon set, solar noon, high and low tide, and lunar phasesall of which (and more) the YES watch captures and conveys.

2010年12月27日星期一

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A reader sent me this screen capture, taken from the Top Gear Australia television show, and asked if I could identify the watch.I cannot identify it, but I am sure there is a reader out there that can.Do you know what watch brand and/or model Corum Bubble Mid-Size Chronograph Series Men's this is?If you know please email me: editor-at-professionalwatches-dot-com.Answer: Philip Stein Prestige Chronograph (Retail is about $2000. )Thanks to Ariel Adams, for identifying the watch.

Corum introduced their newest Admiral's Cup wristwatch in Basel, this past March.The Admiral's Cup Black Challenge 44 is one of the nicer designs I have seen from Corum in recent years.The 44 mm stainless steel case with black PVD coating is Corum 285-150-20-0F01FA50R Men's watch smaller than the Challenge 48 models, but that is a good thing.What is lacks in width it definitely makes up for in height.The case is nice and tall.

It runs at 4 Hz (28,800 vph), has 27 jewels and a power reserver of 48 hours.The movement has been customized by Corum and includes an oscillating weight engraved with the brand name.Hours are displayed on by the central hands.Seconds are displayed by the small seconds subdial at 9 o'clock.For the chronograph, up to Corum 285-150-20-0F03FB50R Men's watch 30 minutes are displayed at 3 o'clock, up to 12 hours are displayed at 6 o'clock and the chronograph seconds are displayed by the central seconds hand.

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The 21 jewel manually wound movement runs at 21,600 vph (or 3Hz).The movement is nicely decorated, including bridges with C?tes de Genève, and is visible through the sapphire exhibition back.The strap is dark brown alligator, with scaly Corum 396-250-20-B100FM30R Men's watch squares and features an ardillón buckle (tang) in 18-carat pink gold with engraved Phi symbol.Only 20 timepieces will be available worldwide.Reference M0A08802.Retail is $30,000.

The Chronoswiss Tachoscope was developed in conjunction with Audi Design, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Audi.To power this exclusive timepiece is the Chronoswiss C. 125 movement.The same in-house movement that powers their Chronoscope wristwatch.The self-winding Chronoswiss Caliber C. 125 represents a Corum 039-250-20-0f02eb30r Men's watch refined incarnation of the classic Enicar 165 caliber, which Chronoswiss has modified for its purposes; these include the implementation of a regulator hour display, a sophisticated mono-pusher activation for all of the chronograph functions, and a column wheel to govern the chronograph start-stop-return sequence.

The case comes in either platinum or 18k gold.The platinum version comes with a enamel dial and the gold version comes with a silver dial.Both Corum 082-150-20-0F06FA80R Men's watch versions feature a sporty Audi designed dial, including the Audi logo at 3 o'clock. Only 100 numbered pieces will be available worldwide (65 in gold / 35 in platinum). The Black Challenge comes in either a white or black dial, both look very classy. Inside is a self-winding chronograph, Caliber CO753, COSC-certified movement.

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The finishing touch to the evening was La Perla's presentation of stunning swimwear on models poolside. TheAudemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Montauk Highway men's watch features a stainless steel case with black rubber crown Corum 163-150-20-B100FZ30R Men's watch and pushers. The dial features an Off-White "Méga Tapisserie" guillochepattern, brown counters, blue numerals and a blue tachymeter scale.The bracelet is a brown "Hornback" crocodile strap with a stainless steel AP folding clasp.Inside is the in-house Caliber AP 3126/2840 based on the 3120.Water-resistance is 100 meters.Limited edition of 300 numbered pieces.Retail is $20,500.

Baume & Mercier recently unveiled a new limited edition Monopusher Chronograph.The "monopusher" design allows you to start, stop and reset the Corum 163-250-20-0F01EB30R Men's watch chronograph with just one button.The pusher is integrated into the crown, offering a sleek appearance.For reference, German manufacture Chronoswiss is probably the best known manufacture of monopusher chronographs, here is one. Partygoers also enjoyed a gourmet barbecue prepared by Surf Lodge Executive Chef,

The dial of the new model features a silver guilloche finish and two counters: small seconds at 9 o'clock and chronograph minutes at 3 o'clock.Chronograph seconds are displayed on the central seconds hand.Hours and minutes are displayed on the Corum 163-150-20-B100EB30R Men's watch central hands.Inside the 41 mm x 9. 6 mm 18k pink gold case is a Lajoux-Perret Caliber 5000 movement. Sam Talbot while dancing to the beat of DJ Cassidy.

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An open date wheel at the top of the dial indicates the numerical day of the month.Below are two chronograph counters, one for chronograph seconds and one for chronograph minutes.The central hands indicate hours and minutes. The Corum 285-180-20-0F71EB40R Men's watch chronograph function is controlled by a classic column-wheel, with a vertical, almost wear-free disc clutch.As a result, the chronograph function can remain permanently switched on.The best part about this chronograph, is that it only utilizes one pusher.

And instead of engineering the pusher into the crown, like this one and this one, a separate pusher at 8 o'clock is used for start, stop and resetting of the chronograph.The first press starts the second disc, the second press stops the measured time, Corum 285-180-20-0F71FM40R Men's watch which can then be read from the second disc and the 30-minute counter. The third press resets the two discs to zero and prepares the watch for the next time measurement. The Montblanc Star Nicolas Rieussec Monopusher Chronograph is available in limited edition, in either 18k white, yellow or red gold and 950 platinum.

Last month Audemars Piguet and London Jewelers celebrated the launch of the limited edition Royal Oak Offshore Montauk Highway; the newest AP watch designed and named for the stretch of highway that links New Yorkers with the sun, surf and sea of the Hamptons.Guests such as Steve Kasuba, Kelly Killoren Bensimon, Cinema Corum 082-157-47-0F01-BATS Men's watch Society's Andrew Saffir, and Vertu's Arnaud De Schuytter, joined Audemars Piguet CEO Francois-Henry Bennahmias and London Jewelers' Mark & Candy Udell at the beautiful home of Drew Aaron and model wife Hana Soukupova to admire the 300 piece collection featuring a unique color combination of light blue and brown accents.