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BaselWorld 2009 ruled by new Tag Heuer Monaco Watches
Tag Heuer has the best story to tell at the BaselWorld 2009. The Swiss Sports and High-tech inspired watch maker celebrates the Monaco watch's 40th birthday.
As you most likely know Steve McQueen wore the first Monaco in the classic movie Le Mans from 1970. Tag Heuer unveiled the square chronograph a year earlier in 1969. Now 40 years later Tag Heuer unveiled four new Tag Heuer Monaco Watches with one being a concept watch dubbed Monaco 24 (photo) at the BaselWorld 2009.
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Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
BaselWorld 2008 Highlights
Our watch news site Wrist Dreams takes a look back at the BaselWorld 2008 and features the watches that made the biggest impression.
This year Wrist Dreams saw a stronger trend towards very technical and futuristic styled watches. The color black is part of the new trend as it underlines the technical and sometimes minimalist look.
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Posted on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Hamilton Code Breaker Watch unveiled the BaselWorld 2008
Hamilton introduced the perfect luxury watch for geeks and sci-fi fans at the BaselWorld 2008. The Hamilton Code Breaker has a square case and a cool design with great level of detail.
Hamilton has a long-standing relationship with the science fiction movie genre, dating back to 1968. A desk clock was featured in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Posted on Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
The new Dream Watches from BaselWorld 2008
The largest watch trade show on the planet opened its doors officially today in Basel, Switzerland. Our watch news site Wrist Dreams has already covered lots of new timepieces that have been announced at BaselWorld 2008.
Tag Heuer dazzles again with a new concept watch design pushing the limits of mechanical watch technology. At the BaselWorld 2008 Tag Heuer unveiled the Tag Heuer CARRERA Calibre 36 RS Caliper Concept Chrono.
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Posted on Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:59:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Weekly Top 10: New AMD Phenom X4 and X3, PS3 firmware 2.20, BaselWorld Previews
AMD introduced this week
several new CPUs.Samsung
introduced the Anycall
Haptic touchscreen phone featuring 22 vibrations that raised a lot
of interest this week.
Sony released the new
PS3 2.20 firmware bringing BD-Live to the PS3. The first Blu-ray
movies to support BD-Live are schedule to be released on April 8th. The
6th Day and
Walk Hard will be two of the first Blu-ray titles that feature
BD-Live.
Our Watch News site Wrist Dreams
features already several Luxury watches that will be presented at the
BaselWorld 2008.
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Posted on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
BaselWorld 2008: Zenith Defy Xtreme Zero-G Tourbillon
Our watch news site Wrist Dreams reports that Zenith will exhibit a new over the top wristwatch with the gravity defying Defy Xtreme Zero-G Tourbillon at the BaselWorld 2008.
ZENITH has devised a Zero-G (zero gravity) system. The gyroscope cage Tourbillon comprises an escapement mounted on cardan joints rather like marine chronometers. The instrument, which is sensitive to changes of position, is kept in a constant horizontal position, thereby ensuring optimal amplitude for the spiral balance-wheel.
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Posted on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
The Watches from BaselWorld 2007
We just published over 150 photos showing the most exciting watches from BaseWorld 2007 on our Watch site Wrist Dreams.
See the gallery now to see some of the most exciting timepieces exhibited at the BaselWorld 2007.
The gallery features watches from Omega, Tag Heuer, Citizen, Seiko, Bell&Ross, Tissot and Porsche to name a few.
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Posted on Sun, 20 May 2007 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Seiko E-Ink Watch Photos from BaselWorld 2007
Yesterday our watch news site Wrist Dreams published the Booth Tour of the BaselWorld 2007. Today the first watch photos from the Swiss watch fair are online.
First off are shots from the new Seiko Electronic Ink Watch for women from Seiko, which is on display at BaselWorld 2007.
The ink display is encased under a 360-degree continuous sapphire crystal.
The new Seiko E-Ink watch will sell for about $2,000 later this year.
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Posted on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:29:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
BaselWorld 2007 Booth Tour
We just published photos from our BaselWorld 2007 visit on Wrist Dreams.
The first photo gallery features the impressive booths at the BaselWorld. Most of them are 2 stories high and built to impress.
Some of the highlights in the BaselWorld booth gallery are the futuristic Tag Heuer booth, Mark Ecko Poker-room and the Dolce & Gabbana Disco Booth.
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Posted on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
I4U Gadget Flyer: BaselWorld : clix2 : HD-A20 : Spi-dog
The new !
Last week in review:
The BaselWorld 2007 Watch Trade-show is happening right now. If you are
into watches, visit our Watch site
Wrist Dreams for the latest
news and
watches from BaselWorld.
Apple officially delayed
OS X Leopard until October.
Find more Top Technology stories from last week below.
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Posted on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
BaselWorld 2007 Watch News and Photo Gallery
Update 2008:
BaselWorld 2008 News
The largest watch trade-show is taking place in Basel. Our Wrist Dreams watch news site already covered serveral new exciting watch releases.
Update:
The Big BaselWorld Booth Tour
We already features the new futuristic Seiko Ink watch. Fashion Designer Marc Ecko presents a limited luxury timepiece called Eckomatic LE.
Swiss Glycine has a great new pilot watch with multi-time zone display called AIRMAN 7 Plaza Mayor.
Formula One racing is a favorite sport amongst watchmakers. Jacques Lemans introduced at the BaselWorld the UTC F1.
See more new watches from the BaselWorld 2007 in this photo gallery on Wrist Dreams.
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Posted on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
First BaselWorld Highlight: New Seiko e-ink Bracelet
As reported earlier BaselWorld opened. Seiko delivers the first highlight with a new e-ink watch design.
In December 2005 Seiko showed the Spectrum e-ink watch concept the first time.
The new bracelet style watch using the high contrast e-ink technology is supposed to appeal to women. It has two display modes.
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Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:37:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
BaselWorld 2007 Opens and the Hunt for Fakes is On
BaselWorld 2007, the largest watch trade-show opens today to the public in Basel, Switzerland.
Like any other trade-show the BaselWorld is a great place for companies to hunt down copycats. We reported in March that Victorinox cleaned out some USB Knife knock-offs at CeBit 2007 for instance.
The most common cases at the BaselWorld are vendors who show watches that are too close in the design to major luxury brand watches.
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Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:41:31 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Tag Heuer Calibre 360 LS Concept Chronograph at BaselWorld 2006
The most important Wristwatch Tradeshow started yesterday in Switzerland - The BaselWorld 2006.
Every year Tag Heuer shows of amazing chronograph concept watches. This year it is the Tag Heuer Calibre 360 LS (Linear Second).
The Monaco Calibre 360 LS features a 1/100th chronograph counter, a 15 minute counter, a 100 minute power reserve indicator and a linear second indicator.
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Posted on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:43:46 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
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