Archive for October, 2009

Worldwide Advertising Campaign to Celebrate Omega Co-Axial 10th Anniversary

October 17th, 2009

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Recently,Omega launched a worldwide advertising campaign to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the amazing Co-Axial escapement technology at London’s Saatchi Gallery, of which the global ceremony will be inaugurated on the 19th of October.

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George Clooney and Cindy Crawford, two representatives of Omega’s superexcellent ambassadors, joined the celebration, while photographs of Omega’s standout spokespersons, including the two, showing, holding or wearing the loupes favoured by watchmanufacturers, were limelighted in the advertising campaign. References both to the ambassadors professional accomplishments and to Omega’s Co-Axial calibres were on record in the best-designed photographs.

For George Clooney, the larger-than-life picture features his prominent performing career as a superstar as well as a reference to the fact that his father has been a long-time Omega wearer, “It runs in the family”. This prestigious guest came directly to ceremony at the reputable gallery from the premiere of an animated film based on Roald Dahl’s book, named Fantastic Mr. Fox. Clooney’s voice along with those of Meryl Streep and Bill Murray makes it worth expecting.

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The escapement is called “the core of the mechanical watch”, which maintains the oscillations of the balance. That is to say, the escapement stands for the watch’s regulating mechanism. The Co-Axial escapement is the first practical new watch escapement in the world. This advanced technology was introduced in 1999, ten years ago. The Co-Axial escapement brings better reliability as well as longer service intervals and a reduced need for lubrication to the mechanical watch.

Regarding the worldwide worldwide advertising campaign, Omega president Stephen Urquhart said,”The Co-Axial has been a turning point for us. It has given substance to our message. Creating a campaign around the quality of Omega’s Co-Axial movements using these pictures of our brand ambassadors is an innovative and eye-catching way to communicate how proud we are that the calibres have been so well received and how confident we are about the role they will play in Omega’s future.” Yes, Co-Axial has been a turning point for Omega, at a large perspective, for the whole industry.

Celebration of The 120th Birthday of Longines Logo

October 15th, 2009

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Longines released two new limited editions of Longines Heritage Retrograde in the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the registration of its orginal logo. This logo is still valid today and has became the identification and characteristic of the products of the famous St.Imier watch manufacturer. The well-known winged hourglass and the distinguishing name Longines make up this factory mark, the oldest trademark still used in the international registers kept by the World Intellctual Property Organisation(WIPO).

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In 1867 the Longines factory was founded by Ernest Francillon and named Longines, the local name of the site of this new factory. The original group was constituted by the outworkers with new manufacturing technology in Ernest Francillon trading office. Ernest Francillon adopted the winged hourglass to represent his factory as a symbol, which has been continually used by Longines for the intervening 120 years.

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The distinguishing logo, the winged hourglass,was to serve to identify the Longines’ s products, while it quickly made fakers hard to exist because of this unique factory mark. This logo represents not only a brand name, but also the history and development of the Longines brand which makes the company continues to use it to this day.

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To celebrate the 120th birthday of this significant logo, Longines has organised a exhibition at the Cité du Temps in Geneva, showing people the creation, symbol and development of the Longines over the past 120 years. And a study about the history and the challenges of creating the Longines brand related to the registration of the original logo was released by Longines. As the main attraction of the celebration, Longines has created two new limited editions of the Longines Heritage Retrograde, each of which is limited to 120 pieces standing for the 120th birthday of the legendary logo.

New Swatch Chrono Automatic Collection Is Coming

October 13th, 2009

Five new availble Swatch Chrono Automatic watches will be released in the coming Swatch Chrono Automatic Collection. The new scratch resistant technology and accurate timing applied to the five new models bring you a brandly new modern feeling and security.

The movement is provided by a Swiss automatic Calibre C01.211 self-winding one. This fifteen-jewel,3Hz movement with a 46 hour power reserve unveils that the five new Swatch Chrono Automatic watches are not situated as some kind of medium-sized timepieces. This five new models have a common water resistance to 30m and the new rugged copy-mirror bezel leading a better scatch resistance. The design of three additional dial plates with six hands could be nothing new,while the 24-hour scale on the on the outer ring, to some extent, brings a fresh sensation. The model with a deep blue face in the picture below is Blunge (SVGK400G), which has a price of $380, while the plastic model sell for $370, a very competitive price for an automatic chromoneter watch.

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OK, in the last place,let’s introduce the five new members of Swatch Chrono Automatic watches:Right Track (SVGB400), Silver Class (SVGK401G), Simply Pure (SVGK402), Sign In The Sky (SVGK403), and Blunge (SVGK400G). The aggressive price and fashion design could be the primary features arousing watch-changing desire.


Why Is It To Be Limited

October 12th, 2009

When it comes to Omega Seamaster,almost everyone will say it is the James Bond series.Of course ,it is the 007 movies who bring Omega Seamaster to the world stage,while its exquisite look and artistic quality hold the favour tightly of those watch-fans.

Recently,two new members of Omega Seamaster have been released,to which the label “Limited” was attached— Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Liquidmetal and Omega Seamaster Vancouver 2010 Olympics Watch.

Liquidmetal,to which a special process has been applied to make not only scratch resistant but corrosion resistant too,will be released with only 1948 pieces.And the number 1948 represents the year that the Seamaster was first released. Liquidmetal’s morion bezel was very impressive when integrated with the black mirror face.

Circulation of Omega Seamaster Vancouver 2010 Olympics Watch will be a little larger than that of the Liquidmetal—2010 pieces which represents the year of the next Winter Olympic Games which will be held in Canada.It is seemed that this watch handle the theme of Olympics and the country of Canada well,which has a unique snow-white face with a Canadian flag maple leaf red bezel.And the engraved caseback with the symbol for the Canadian event and the special “Olympic rings” seconds hand reveal the popular saying”No Olympics would be complete without a limited edition timepiece by Omega”.