World’s Most Expensive Watches

Chopard’s $25 million watch

Yes, you read that right: twenty-five million dollars. This gaudy timepiece by Chopard is adorned with three heart-shaped diamonds—a 15-carat pink diamond, a 12-carat blue diamond and an 11-carat white diamond. For good measure, they threw in 163 carats of white and yellow diamonds to bring the total to 201 carats of diamonds. The result is something that looks rather like a geode that’s been turned inside out and dipped in lemon Kool-Aid. Add to that the fact that the size of the watch’s face must make telling time into a fun game of Where’s Waldo and you’ll see that Chopard has truly created a recipe for success.

Of course, its $25 million price tag guarantees its place as the world’s most expensive watch for years to come.

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Vladimir Putin Hands Over Swiss Watch to Factory Worker

Recentry, Russia's Prime Minister Mr. Putin surprised the workers at the plant in the town of Tula, giving one of them his watch.

Dressed in blue uniform worker Victor Zagajewski came to Putin and asked him for anything in the memory. The Prime Minister, apparently, could not think of a suitable souvenir, so he quickly took off his black watch Blancpain worth around $9000, and gave it to the shaking Zagajewski.

"My father did not expect such a generous gift" - said Zagajewski's son Dmitry. "He just wanted to get something in memory of Putin".

"I've got a watch. Neither I nor my father is not going to wear them. Now this is a family heirloom" - he added. - Workers at the plant reacted to the story differently. Some greeted Victor and called him a hero. Others felt that it was a bad move.

As they say in today's Russia's newspapers, Zagajewski proudly told Putin that he has two sons and both are in Russia's army.

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Who Invented The Wrist Watch

In 1901 in Paris, one of the pioneers of aviation, the Brazilian pilot Alberto Santos-Dumont, circled around the Eiffel Tower on an airship. This event was celebrated in a restaurant. At the banquet, among other invitees, there was Louis Cartier, a close friend of the pilot. Santos-Dumont asked his friend to invent some device to track time during the flight. A regular pocket watch for such purposes was rather inconvenient, because pilots always had to keep their hands on the wheel. In order to know the time he always had to take his hands off the steering wheel and reach into his pocket, and it was quite problematic.

After three years, the watchmaker Cartier offered an alternative to his friend, watches on a leather strap with a lock, that had to be worn on the wrist. The first model of Cartier watches was named Santos. This was indeed a revolution not only in production hours, but in the fashion world. In fact, by that time there already existed wrist watches from Patek Philippe, but only for women, and they were more fashionable, beautiful and expensive accessories than a meters of time. For the men, if he wanted to know the time, he had to get the watch from his pocket. Santos-Dumont became a kind of walking advertisement for men's watches and thanks to him they have become so popular among men.

Model Cartier Santos became very popular. At that time, aviation was a fashionable and exotic hobby among the rich people. All that was associated with aircraft was doomed to success. At that time Santos-Dumont was elected as a kind of «sex symbol», and his style was a huge success: his watch, scarf, short boots and flight jackets were seen as a breath of modern times.

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10 Jokes About Watches

An old Italian Mafia Don is dying and he calls his grandson to his bed.
-"You lissin-a me. I wanna for you to taka my chrome plated 38 revolver so you will always remember me."
-"But grandpa, I really don"t like guns. How about you leave me your Rolex watch instead?"
-"Shuddup an lissin. Somma day you gonna runna da business, you gonna have a beautifula wife, lotsa money, a biga home and maybe a couple a bambinos. Somma day you gonna coma home and maybe find you wife inna bed with another man. Whadda you gonna do then......pointa to you watch and a say, TIME'S UP?"

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Some drunk guy is coming back home late at night. His watch rings 3 times.
-"I know that it’s 1am! Don’t have to repeat it 3 times!!!"

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-"Mr. Officer! The robbers have just token my Swiss watch!"
-"Why you didn’t cry and call the police?"
-"Am I crazy? I kept my mouth shut. I have golden tooth!"

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One boy got into hospital. The doctor asks him:"
-"Any complaints?"
-"Not at all. But my grandpa is complaining I ate his Rado."

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2 policemen are talking. One noticed that the second one is wearing a golden “Corum” watch.
-"Wow. Got paycheck?"
-"Kind of..."
-"Oh, you locked up some Mafia Don?"
-"No, I let him go…"

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If you want to check if this Swiss watch is not fake…just drop it on the floor at the store. If it’s real, the shop assistant should die from a heart attack.

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2 "New Russians" talking.
-"I’ve bought my watch for 9 grands."
-"I’ve bought mine for 10 grands. Your watch is running late!"

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I’ve switched my watch to summer time….but summer didn’t come.

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Attention!
There are a lot of fake Chinese watches in Europe and USA nowadays.
They are decent quality and expensive. Made in Switzerland…

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When you are buying a Swiss watch you understand, that time – is money.

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Tissot PRC 200 Series Men's Watch T17.1.526.52 Stainless steel case. Black leather strap. Black chronograph dial. Chronometer (add and split) time, tachometer, and date at 4 o'clock position. Yellow accent hands. Arabic numeral hour markers. Screw-down crown. Quartz movement. Water resistant at 200 meters (660 feet)...

Fortis IQ Series Men's Watch 596.18.61L Automatic ETA 2824-2. Date indication. 25 jewels. Incabloc shock absorber. PVD stainless steel case. Screwdown steel caseback. Sapphire crystal. 200m water resistant. Green dial with chalk mathematical figures. Black pilot leather strap. PVD stainless steel buckle. 40mm case. Drawings and hands coasted with white Superluminova. Rolf Sachs design...

Jacob & Co Five Time Zone Diamond Mens Watch JC-2 Quartz movement. Fixed bezel. Scratch Resistant Sapphire crystal. Solid back case. Water Resistant: 100m/330ft. Case Diameter: 47mm. Case Thickness: 13.25mm. 2 Year Warranty.The watch comes with an easily interchangeable (screw-on) solid steel bezel or a bezel set with approximately 3.25 carats of VS quality diamonds...

14K White Gold Men's 5.80 ct Diamond Chain A look of dignified elegance from the designers at Aqua Master, this Gold Diamond Bullet Chain can make anyone feel like absolute royalty. Exquisite bezel-set diamonds set in 14K White Gold, totalling approximately 5.80 carats total weight diamonds. The necklace weighs approximately 86.60 grams, and is 30 inches long with 6 mm width...

Swiss Army Renegade Men's Watch 24228 Made in Switzerland with precision Swiss analog quartz movement. Easy-to-read analog dial with bold markings on black background. Sweep second hand with luminous ball. Scratch-resistant, hardened mineral crystal. Individually tested to be water-resistant to 5 ATM (50 meters/166 feet). Synthetic case. Luminous hands, numbers and hour markers. Date. Waterproof Arnitel strap perforated for breathability, buckle with Swiss Army Brand insignia. Swiss Army Brand insignia at 12 o'clock...

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Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting, and to honor and commemorate fathers and forefathers. Father's Day is celebrated on a variety of dates worldwide and typically involves gift-giving, special dinners to fathers, and family-oriented activities.

The first observance of Father's Day is believed to have been held on July 5, 1908 in a church located in Fairmont, West Virginia, by Dr. Robert Webb of West Virginia at the Central United Methodist Church of Fairmont.

Sonora Smart Dodd of Washington thought independently of the holiday one Sunday in 1909 while listening to a Mother's Day sermon at the Central Methodist Episcopal Church at Spokane, and she arranged a tribute for her father on June 19, 1910. She was the first to solicit the idea of having an official Father's Day observance to honor all fathers.

It took many years to make the holiday official. In spite of support from the YWCA, the YMCA and churches, it ran the risk of disappearing from the calendar. Where Mother's Day was met with enthusiasm, Father's Day was met with laughter. The holiday was gathering attention slowly, but for the wrong reasons. It was the target of much satire, parody and derision, including jokes from the local newspaper Spokesman-Review. Many people saw it as just the first step in filling the calendar with mindless promotions like "Grandparents' Day", "Professional Secretaries' Day", etc., all the way down to "National Clean Your Desk Day."

A bill was introduced in 1913, US President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea in 1924,[citation needed] and a national committee was formed in the 1930s by trade groups in order to legitimize the holiday.[5]. It was made a federal holiday when President Lyndon Johnson issued a proclamation in 1966.

US Father's Day is Sunday, June 21 2009.
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Luxury display boxes, travel cases and watch winders!

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