Archive for October, 2010

If a book costs you 20 dollars in a bookshop, you may buy it on line for 15 dollars, which means 25% discount. What if you buy 1000 such books? The money you save is considerable. However, in most cases you won’t buy 1000 same books.

However, if the value of a small item equals to that of 1000 books and you can enjoy such a discount on line, then you can save 5000 dollars. Isn’t it tempting?

This small item is called diamond.

An online diamond store has such a slogan on the title page “30%-70% discount of the same diamond in other noted jewelry shops”. What explosive news! Can you believe such nice discount? Can you rest assured when buying the luxury on line? Is the diamond quality guaranteed? So many questions trouble us and prevent us from take a brave step towards diamond online shopping. However, experts help us clear the air. Let’s have a look at their views.

Save “environmental costs”
Since diamond is a special luxury, to create an elegant and luxurious atmosphere, almost every diamond shop is located in the golden mile, spends a lot on decoration, possesses fairly high service quality and has more employees than customers. This is the traditional managing mode of diamond shops. In order to enlarge the brand influence, the shop often needs more expenditure to form the “scale effect”. In this way, the rent of the house, the decoration cost and the fee of the employees will finally lie on the customers. After all, the wool still comes from the sheep’s back.

However, selling diamond on line not only saves the shop cost, but also the decoration cost. Besides, since the employees are fewer, the manual cost can be saved a lot compared to a traditional shop.

Diamonds have “unified price”
Every jeweler has his own brand. Since the brand is different, the product can’t be the same. How can we speak of “30%-70% discount of the same diamond in other noted jewelry shops”?

In fact, every diamond has its invariable valuing standard, which is the often said “4C standard”-cut, color, clarity, and carat. Even without looking at the real object, you can evaluate a diamond according to the standard.

You can rest assured
The premise is that you choose a standard online shop. Online shopping has become a fashion trend. And Americans do love purchasing luxuries such as diamonds on line. Amazon.com has its transaction doubly increased annually since it enters the jewelry online shopping field. And the sellers are devoting themselves to best services to customers. And now you can rest assured and purchase your diamond on line.

Despite most online shops are trying their best to provide excellent services, you still need to pay much attention. Choose a reliable online shop and start your luxurious shopping journey!

A brand-new watch model, Chronospace, has been born in Breitling watch family. This is a solid-built, versatile, and reliable timepiece that will surely get the favor from all pilots. The new Breitling watch also comes with a novel design – the star-shaped bezel, that makes it more attractive.

As a long-established brand, Breiting has created a great number of nice timepieces for pilots, among which include not a few stellar models. The most famous model should be the Navitimer with a circular slide rule which makes it possible to do all important calculations required by airborne navigation.

Breiting has never walked away from its tradition. Instead, it keeps launching innovative watches to benefit the aviation. The Breitling watch makers apply the most advanced technology in Electronics Industry to create the Chronospace. And the watch comes out a stunningly useful model for pilots. Its functions include, but not limited to, perpetual calendar, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 24-hour military time, dual timezone display, alarm, countdown and 1/100th of a second chronograph. It is the brand’s Super-Quartz movement that provides the above mentioned functions. This chronometer-certified movement is ten times precise than ordinary quartz movement.

The large “3″ and “9″ Arabic numerals stand out of the dial together with the dot hour markers. To ensure good legibility all the day round, the hands and hour markers have been coated with luminescent materials, and the two LCD screens are fitted with NVG-compatible back-lighting system. The sophisticated slide rule, which is operated through the star-shaped bezel, is quite user-friendly and accurate. and the rear of the case is specially designed to enlarge the sound to decibels.

The case, crafted from stainless steel, is water resistant to 5 bars. It is fitted with saa leather strap, sapphire crystal at both sides. The watch comes with a wide range of straps as well, including a leather strap, a rubber strap and a steel bracelet.

Prestigious IWC Portuguese family is enriched by a new tourbillion watch- Portuguese Tourbillon Hand-Wound which shows up at the SIHH 2010 together with the IWC Potuguese Tourbillon Mystere Retrograde.With a hand-winding pocket movement, it represents a new tourbillon classic in this big family and is regarded as the diamond on the crown of the brand¡¯s horological crown. Also, it pays a tribute to the company founder F. A. Jones.

The new Tourbillon Hand-Wound watch inherits the refined face of Portuguese featuring nice feuille hands and railway-track chapter ring for minutes. The minute tourbillon at 9 o¡¯clock occupies nearly one third of the dial. Not only it reveals the horological nobility, but also it offers a clear view into the escapement of the movement. As we know, the tourbillon represents highest horological expertise and sophisticated watch taste. And there is a subdial at 6 o¡¯clock for seconds

In term of watch making technology, the Portuguese Tourbillon Hand-Wound carries on the tradition while having some innovations.Its mechanical IWC-manufactured 98900-calibre movement is revealed by the display case back of sapphire crystal. It is one of the best and most famous pocket watch movements on this planet, and it is the No.1 choice for large-sized watches. As far as I know, the first Portuguese watches dated back to 1930s already housed pocket watch movement. The movement inside this new IWC watch is the finest fusion of the tradition of the 98000-calibre family that has nealy 90 years history and the latest watchmaking technology. The three-quarter bridge of fine decoration is faithful to the design principle of the the earliest Jones calibres. The bridge for the minute tourbillon enhances the visual feast with a gold medallion. And the frequency of the movement has been increased 28,800vph-from the original 18,800vph.And the index-free balance oscillates four times every second as it rotates in the cage. Precision adjustment is carried out via four adjusting screws. The movement thus boosts great accuracy thanks to the faster frequency and improved escapement system.

The Portuguese Tourbillon Hand-Wound is presented on a 18 carat red gold case that is 43.1 wide and 11mm thick. And it delivers 54 hours power reserves. Surprisingly, this exceptional timepiece does not come in very small numbers. It is limited to 500 pieces instead.

Compared to those top luxury watch brands like Rolex, Omega, Cartier, Patek Philippe or others, De Witt seems to be young boy. It began to produce watches in 1804. However, there is a long time when the brand is not so familiar to the public. Until 2003, the company started to flourish and firstly presented many excellent timepieces at the Basel World Watch. From that time on, De Witt began to be known for many people. Even in current society full of reproduction horologes, replica De Witt watches are also highly sought after by those who want to experience the superiority of original De Witte timekeepers but always restricted by their limited bank account. They are nice collection with distinctive design, high quality and perfect performance.

Today, we will focus our topic on the specially selected replica De Witt Academia chronograph. My first impression towards this reproduction is dynamic and mechanical. It has a round case done in stainless steel but displays the nice contrast between steel and 18k gold. The white Tuxedo dial is accented by Arabic and Roman numeral markers except the subdials at 3 and 6 o¡¯clock. The calibrations in red in the inner circle make the exact time readable. You can operate the chronograph via the pushers at 2 and 4 for start/stop and reset. Beating inside is a precise Asia Valjoux 7750 self-winding movement. It is faced with anti-reflective sapphire crystal glass. The imitation watch is finished with high quality genuine rubber strap in black with deployment buckle. It has a strong waterproof function, making it available for water activities.

In my opinion, this replica De Witt Academia watch is especially suitable for those young men who love horologes with mechanical beauty or those sportsmen. It is really cool to wear such a timepiece on the wrist. The point is that it is just sold at 345 US dollars. Even everyone is affordable for it.

2010 Mother¡¯s day is around the corner! It is a special day that each child should keep in mind. It is also the common birthday for the global mothers. Mothers have contributed a lot to all of us. Now, it is our turn for contribution. You have no need to pay a lot of money of buying a luxury gift for your mother. However, you must arrange a surprise. Actually there are lots of ways to show your love to her. You may sing her a song, cook a meal or write her a card with what you want to say to her. In my opinion, buying her an Omega watches is the best option.

In my eyes, Omega watches are the most elegant high-end timepieces, especially suitable for women. These branded watches can perfectly accentuate the femininity and the generosity of the mother. However, each original Omega watch is sold at hefty price which is usually far beyond the reach of most people. In that case, I suggest buying the replica Omega watch having the same appearance with the genuine one, similar high quality and approximate functions. But these imitations are only sold at several hundred. Due to the affordability and the reliability, these replicas are well received by the global people.

There are various kinds of replica Omega watches in current market. You can choose the style based on your own need or the personality of your mother. Suppose your mother is a person who likes magnificence as well as beauty, and then the replica Omega Constellation collection is better. The unique design is strong enough to show her distinction. And the synthetic diamonds to some extent pop out her magnificence and beauty. Suppose you mother likes casual style, then you choose one of simple design and excellent functions. Whatever style you will finally choose, make sure to buy from trustworthy retailers to ensure the final quality.

Omega Replica watches, the Avatar of elegance and beauty, are the must-have accessories in daily life.

As the society and fashion develop, wristwatch has become the must-have accessory for people in their daily chic look. It says a lot about one’s personality, fashion taste, social status or personal identification. And wearing an original Swiss watch can make you stand out of the crowd. Everything about designer watches is good expect the astronomical prices which are far beyond the financial capability of the ordinary people. Thanks to the emergence of replica watches, the rule, watch replicas only belonging to the rich, has been broken. The common people are offered a good chance to experience the luxury at lower costs. High quality replica timepieces are crafted with great accuracy. They look as identical as the original pieces that only the eagle eyes can make out the difference of these two versions.

We can not deny that luxury watches are especially made for the rich to flaunt their social status. It can greatly show their self-importance. Thus, millionaires and successful men can not help sacrificing a large amount of money on these luxury timepieces. However, the number of rich population takes a small proportion. Most people are unaffordable for luxury watches. Seeing the fierce demand, many watch manufacturers began to create replica watches with the purpose to make great profits. These imitations are the exact copies of the genuine timepieces with every detail 100% mirrored. Besides, they come with great durability and excellent performance. All in all, everything is fine with replica watches except one deficiency. Namely, doing business with these imitations is considered a form of stealing because replica watches borrow the copyrighted design of the authentic designer timepieces. Then, whether they are worthy of buying or not depends on different person.

There is an overwhelming number of sites online offering replica watches, which makes it difficult to decide which one is trustworthy. And it will directly influence the quality of the timepiece that you are about to buy. Therefore, you should collect as much information as possible about the dealer before placing an order. The effective way is to check its customer satisfaction. You can judge its credit standing based on the feedback of its done consumers, including the positive and negative ones. Then you decide whether to make a deal or not. You should also be noticed that the cheapest does not mean the best. Confronting such a large market of imitation watches, you are prone to get cheated by the cunning business strategy. The fake watches sold at too much cheaper prices always come with inferior quality and easily get broken. High quality replica watches usually cost you a few hundred dollars which guarantee the function and longevity.