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In 1997, Patek Philippe introduced the Aquanaut collection, marking a departure from their traditional dress watches. The Aquanaut was designed as a luxury sports watch for a younger generation of watch enthusiasts, featuring a contemporary and sporty aesthetic alongside the refined craftsmanship that Patek Philippe is known for.
E-mail spam was a widely used means of advertising to potential customers of replica watches, though e-mail providers have been cracking down in recent years. The auction website eBay was previously known to have many listings for fake watches. Search engines have been increasingly pressured to remove search results of websites that sell fakes.
The Holy Trinity, also known as The Big Three, is the name given in horology to three of the most famous and prestigious luxury watch brands in the world. [1] The watch brands are Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and Vacheron Constantin.
The Patek Philippe Calibre 89 is a commemorative pocket watch created in 1989, to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary.Declared by Patek Philippe as "the most complicated watch in the world" at the time of creation, it has 33 complications, weighs 1.1 kg, exhibits 24 hands and has 1,728 components in total, including a thermometer, and a star chart.
Audemars Piguet Holding SA (French pronunciation: [odmaʁ piɡɛ]) is a Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches, headquartered in Le Brassus, Switzerland. [2] [3] The company was founded by Jules Louis Audemars and Edward Auguste Piguet in the Vallée de Joux in 1875, acquiring the name Audemars Piguet & Cie in 1881.
The term aquanaut derives from the Latin word aqua ("water") plus the Greek nautes ("sailor"), by analogy to the similar construction "astronaut".The word is used to describe a person who stays underwater, breathing at the ambient pressure for long enough for the concentration of the inert components of the breathing gas dissolved in the body tissues to reach equilibrium, in a state known as ...
Kyanite also shows a parting on {001} at an angle of about 85 degrees to the long axis of the crystal. [7] Cleavage surfaces typically display a pearly luster. The crystals are slightly flexible. [6] Kyanite's elongated, columnar crystals are usually a good first indication of the mineral, as well as its color (when the specimen is blue).