Baselworld 2012, the annual eight-day extravaganza in Basel, Switzerland, spotlighting what’s next in the watch world recently came to a close. The huge crowds Replica Antix Sunglasses, packed booths and congenial attitudes were overwhelming evidence of a luxury market that is back and booming.
Gifted artisans have met the challenges of a world demanding innovation with timepieces that are forward thinking and precise, while still grounded in historic craftsmanship. The market has also become better balanced between the practical — good for those who simply want a good watch — and the playful, where the collectors cheap Coach outlet buy, that tribe of moneyed men that is often invoked while viewing the highest of the haute horlogerie, continue to desire their expensive, tricky toys.
There were a number of compelling timekeeping trends that emerged. In this first entry of a short series, the focus will be on the chronograph function — in other words, a stopwatch — which was the complication that cropped up everywhere. First invented in the early 19th century in order to measure the duration of horse races, the timer emerged as a useful function on watches for those in the military cheap monster beats headphones, aviation and other vocations in order to calculate speed or distance. Now the chronograph is being featured in watches based on those worn by bomber pilots in World War II, diving watches, regatta timers with state-of-the-art movements and on timepieces looking for a little extra kick.
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