Day: July 11, 2011
The 2011 SEIKO Premier collection
Premier is SEIKO’s leading dress watch collection and has been a consistent and significant success worldwide for many years, first in Europe but now all over the world. Its appeal lies in the synthesis of the modern with the classical. The exterior design is inspired by the architecture of classical times, but with the addition of touches from the world of modern buildings. Similarly, the duality of Premier is expressed in the movements within. The Premier range includes both traditional mechanical calibers and also the very latest Kinetic movements. In every sense, where classicism and modernity meet, there lies the essence of SEIKO Premier.
A new look
For 2011, the collection offers a new interpretation of this classic and modern duality. The cases are slightly more rounded, the dials are more textured, the crowns are new and the bracelet links are slightly smaller, to give a softer fit on the wrist. The change from 2010 is subtle, but evident at first glance. The new Premier is more classic in its look and softer in its feel.
A new movement
For 2011, a new automatic movement has been created for Premier. It is a 24-jewel 21,600 vph* caliber with a power reserve of 41 hours. The heart of the movement with its gold plated balance wheel is visible through the dial at the nine o’clock position, and the whole movement, with its specially engraved rotor, can be seen through the case back. The three time-of-day hands are complemented by a 24-hour hand set into a subdial at the 11 o’clock position. The movement is both automatic and hand-winding. This new caliber 4R39 is an important addition to SEIKO’s suite of mechanical movements and will become a mainstay of the Premier collection in the coming years.
Contact Details
For more information phone SEIKO Australia on 1300 300 776 or visit www.seiko.com.au
Define Watches is proud to introduce to Australia the Sinn 757 series
Sinn has established a global reputation for manufacturing functional time pieces and special instruments of the highest technical excellence.
The 757 series is one of Sinn’s most robust and complete model ranges for serious sports people, pilots and travellers. The various models in the 757 series include all of Sinn’s technologies including: tegimented steel hardening, nickel free case back, magnetic field protection, anti-reflective sapphire glass, screw down, Sinn special oil filling which provides protection between -45 to +80 degrees C, water and pressure resistance to 20bar/200m and security against low pressure at high altitudes. Plus, the added benefit and functionality of a second time zone for frequent travellers. The 757 series incorporates good looks, functionality and reliability into one timepiece.
Model: 757.020
Duochronograph with black hard coating
This black hard coating is applied using the PVD method and has an unbeatable advantage compared to conventional colored coatings: it never cracks or peels off! The prerequisite for this is the TEGIMENT® technology developed by SINN, with which the stainless steel of the case and of the rotating bezel are hardened to 1,500 Vickers. The black hard coating in this outstanding quality can be achieved only in combination with the TEGIMENT® technology. Thus SINN offers these successful models not only in the accustomed, unsurpassable quality and equipped with patented SINN technology, but also in a new, attractive design.
For more information: phone (07) 3395 7728 or visit www.definewatches.com.au
Pocket watch sells for US$1.8m
HRW calls for Zimbabwe diamonds boycott
“Miners, retailers, and consumers have relied on the Kimberley Process to stop blood diamonds from being sold, but with Chairman Yamba’s decision, the KP has betrayed their trust,” he said.
“Governments and companies should ignore his decision unless they want to make blood diamonds available to consumers and ruin the credibility of the Kimberly Process as well.”
Diamond exports from Marange have been suspended since June 2009 because of police and military abuses in the minefields, including killings, beatings, forced labor and diamond smuggling.
Human Rights Watch urged the KP governments to suspend diamond sales from Marange until the dispute is resolved, asked retailers to explicitly refuse Marange diamonds, and urged consumers to ask retailers whether Marange diamonds are sold in those stores.
“The KP desperately needed to reform to ban the sale of all blood diamonds, not just some,” Ganesan said. “But the chairman chose profits over rights and might have ruined the KP in the process.
“Consumers aren’t going to care whether it is blood shed by governments or rebels since the diamonds are tainted either way.”