Watch articles

The Panerai company produces elegant watches of high class. The Panerai designer's ideas are able to satisfy even the most capricious and demanding customers.

Some time ago Officine Panerai was not so well known around the world as now it is. An interesting fact is that the first Panerai timepieces had Rolex mechanisms inside. Today Panerai is one of the leading companies on the luxury market. These watches have become a symbol of masculinity and an object for cult.

IWC Shaffhausen means watches for real men. They say with proud that they would never produce watch collections for ladies. (even some rare timepieces for women are smaller versions of men's watches.)

The IWC manufacture was opened in the end of 1860-es by a Boston businessmen Florentine Ariosto Jones.

That time there was a lack of high quality watches on the USA market that just passed though the civil war.

Looking for professional watch makers who were ready to work for small wage, young Jones moved to small Swiss town Shaffhausen where a powerful watch guild was.

Jones transported mechanisms of local craftsmen to America. But when import laws changed it became unprofitable to do that. That was the way Jones decoded to found the first and single Swiss manufacture called International Watch Company Shaffhausen. An interesting fact is that they not occasionally used Shaffhausen in the company's name.

Hublot Watch Company was founded by Carlo Crocco in 1980-es. The first model of the company was a watch called Hublot. This is a model with a gold case and on a strap made of caoutchouc.

It was a very unusual thing for that time to have a watch in such a combination - precious metal and a rubber strap. And for 15 years period such a combination "caoutchouc and gold" was used and appropriate only for Hublot brand.

One of the most popular watch models from Hublot is called Big Bang. This watch is first of all related to the name Jean-Clode Biver.He is a watch maker who came to the company not so long time ago. Namely Biver made the company so successful.

Everybody wants to have Big Bang watch from Hublot. There are people who collect Big Bang collections. All Big Bang models are young, but they are already very well known and even are in the museum.

The history of Glashutte began in 1845. Since that old time watches of the brand has recommended itself as the most precise and high quality timepieces. The company's specialists pay a special attention to every watch detail.

Glashutte Original mechanical watches are an incarnation of well-being. These are real values among necessary objects for a modern person.

Every watch created by Glashutte Original watch manufacture is unique. All of them are extraordinary timepieces of original design.

The company creates watches in limited edition series that cost enormous prices.

Despite the fact that Frank Muller is a rather young company in the watch making industry, it is very respectable among Geneva watch makers.

Frank Muller is a real genius. He invents all his watches himself. In the beginning he thinks over every detail in his mind and then realizes it.

Being a passionate inventor, Muller has a number of patents in the watch mechanics sphere. Every year his workshop pleases its customers with a new master piece.

A watch from Frank Muller is a very accurate, practical but at the same time beautiful instrument that has its own character and history.

To have a Cartier watch on your wrist means to be rich and prosperous. There is probably no person in the world who does not like gorgeous Cartier timepieces.

The most famous among the first wrist watches became a watch-chronometer made in 1904 by Louis Cartier for the Brazil aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont and named in his honor. It was a very fruitful for Louis Cartier time . Alberto Santos-Dumont was a very good Cartier's friend. He complained that it was very uncomfortable using a pocket watch while flying the aircraft.

As a result Louis elaborated the first wrist watch Cartier with a simple geometric case and very avant-garde for that time leather strap. It was in 1904. Louis Cartier devoted it to Santos-Dumont.

Nowadays a lot of watch producers join their efforts with prestigious car manufactures and produce car-themed timepieces. This is a great way to win a lot of men's hearts as men adore both driving cool cars and owning stylish and reliable timekeeping devices. Tag Heuer for Mercedes Benz, Chopard Mille Miglia, Breitling for Bentley, Girard Perregaux Pour Ferrari and Porsche Design watch series are found on the list of most highly-demanded timekeepers based upon the alliance of a watchmaking brand and an automobile producer.

Porsche Design replica watches are closely related to the world of automobiles. These timepieces are aimed to attract the interest of enthusiastic lovers of car driving. Their characteristic design features correspond to the design of Porsche cars - so if you are a fan of Porsche, adore car racing or just like sporty styled items, Porsche replica are your right choice.

Franck Muller replica watches are based upon authentic brand's timepieces created by Franck Muller, a genius watchmaker who has been overwhelmed by passion for timekeeping devices from his childhood.

The Franck Muller Company is continuously led by innovative spirit of its founder. Franck Muller is universally known as 'Master of Complications' that may rightfully be completed by the title of 'Master of permanent innovation'.