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A new Maison des Fondateurs for Audemars Piguet

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The original building is to be juxtaposed with a new building in the form of an overlapping spiral

Audemars Piguet has chosen the BIG architectural firm to extend its historic buildings and house its new museum, which will also be called the “Maison des Fondateurs”. BIG has returned to the origins of Audemars Piguet as inspiration for the project, and the new 2,400sqm (25,800 sq ft) building will be naturally integrated into the magnificent Vallée de Joux landscape.

Audemars Piguet, only fine cheap Rolex Replica watchmaking brand still in the hands of its founding families, inaugurated its first Museum in 1992 in the original Audemars family home, and later expanded it to the whole house in 2004. Its collection includes more than 1,300 timepieces that are part of the brand’s heritage and span 250 years of history.

In 2014, the museum enters a new, transformative phase to become the future Audemars Piguet Maison des Fondateurs. It will incorporate exhibition spaces (where nearly 400 Replica Watches UK will be on display) together with workshops, reception and meeting areas, and professionally conserved archives.

The original building, dating from 1868, is to be juxtaposed with a radically contemporary structure designed to welcome customers as well as partners, craftsmen and all the brand’s stakeholders. In order to achieve this, BIG has conceived a new building in the form of an overlapping spiral that will relate the story of Audemars Piguet to visitors through a dynamic interweaving of past and present.

Jasmine Audemars, president of the Audemars Piguet Board of Directors, says: “We’re thrilled to announce the start of our new project for the Maison des Fondateurs. As a place to share our passion for fake watchmaking and a new emblem for Audemars Piguet, the Maison des Fondateurs will symbolise not only the brand’s profound attachment to its origins, but also its independent and avant-garde spirit.”

Bjarke Ingels, BIG founder, gives some insight into the ideas behind the design: “Breitling Replica Watchmaking like architecture is the art and science of invigorating inanimate matter with intelligence and performance. It is the art of imbuing metals and minerals with energy, movement, intelligence and measure – to bring it to life in the form of telling time. For the Maison des Fondateurs we have attempted to completely integrate the geometry and the performance, the form and the function, the space and the structure, the interior and the exterior in a symbiotic hole”.

An architectural competition was held for this ambitious project in which five Swiss and international firms, selected for their creativity and sensitivity to the environment, were invited to participate.

Montblanc TimeWalker Extreme Chronograph DLC

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— The TimeWalker collection celebrates its 10th anniversary with this new black chronograph.

Montblanc TimeWalker Extreme Chronograph DLC ref.111197

With the debut of the TimeWalker Collection in 2004, Montblanc launched a new family of Rolex Replica watches For Sale and simultaneously defined a new design vocabulary. Its salient features include architectonic lines, 43-millimetre case, narrow bezel and elegantly skeletonised horns, a large, planar dial, Arabic numerals  and lancet-shaped hands. Now Montblanc kicks off the second decade of this iconographic Replica Watches line with the presentation of the new TimeWalker Extreme Chronograph DLC.

A “DLC” (for the “diamond-like carbon” material) treatment ensures that the toughness of the stainless steel case’s surface has been increased to the utmost. Miniscule glass spherules are blasted under high pressure to give the steel a microscopic texture to which the DLC coating can almost inseparably adhere, thus producing a fine matte finish on the surface. The same process is used on the other stainless steel components: i.e. the crown, the chronograph’s buttons, the midnight-black pronged buckle, and the screwed back with its pane of sapphire crystal. The colour of the diamond-like carbon coating is described as “Black 4”, which stands for “very black”.

The window in the case back offers a clear view of the automatic mechanical Calibre MB 4810/507, equipped with an integrated chronograph function. It ticks at a steady pace of 28,800 semi-oscillations per hour (4 Hz), so the chronograph’s elapsed-second hand advances in eighth-of-a-second increments.

 

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TimeWalker Extreme Chronograph DLC: masculine technology and sporty elegance.
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The black stage set of the new TimeWalker chronograph´s case continues on the large planar dial. The various displays of this UK Fake Watches‘ face are presented on different levels. Wholly dedicated to time measurement, this no-frills landscape is an excellent example of attention to legibility. It’s accentuated by a set of anthracite-grey ruthenium-coloured hands that clearly contrast with the midnightblack background. Five of the hands have the typical lancet shape and are inset with Superluminova; the chronograph’s elapsed-seconds hand is counterweighted and culminates in a red tip.

The black wristband of the TimeWalker Extreme Chronograph DLC makes an exceptionally technical and sportily elegant impression. It deserves special attention because of the complexity of its material combination and manufacturing process. The strap’s inlay is made of black “Vulcarboné” rubber.

Breakage-resistant twine in a colour that matches the leather’s hue is used to sew the cowhide to the upper surface of the rubber “soul”. This innovative leather treatment leads to high-performance material with special shielding properties providing extra protection for the leather against abrasion, water, and fire. This high-tech wristband is secured by a black stainless steel pronged buckle which, like the other stainless steel parts, is micro-bead blasted and coated with a layer of Black 4 DLC.

The new Montblanc TimeWalker Extreme Chronograph DLC will become available in autumn 2014 Swiss Replica Watches.