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Friday, August 30, 2013
Marina Bay Sands features three 55-story hotel towers which were topped out in July 2009. The three towers are connected by a 1 hectare (2.5 acres) skybridge on the roof, named Sands SkyPark. The SkyPark is home to the world's longest elevated swimming pool, with a 146-metre (478 ft) vanishing edge, perched 191 metres (626ft) above the ground. The pools are made up of 422,000 pounds of stainless steel and can hold 376,500 gallons (1424 cubic metres) of water.
By now, who doesn’t know the history of the OMEGA Speedmaster, perhaps the most famous and iconic chronograph, if not watch, in the world? But that Speedmaster that everyone knows as the Moonwatch started off as an automotive watch, built and named to capitalize on the growing interest in not only sports watches but sports cars in the late 1950s. Yes, the Speedmaster began life in 1957 in slightly different guise than the rugged, sober tool of Aldrin, Shepard and Grissom. The first version had more delicate hands, lacked the crown guards of the later versions and featured an engraved steel bezel rather than the black aluminum insert so commonly pictured on the Moonwatch. It was this first Speedmaster that OMEGA sought to emulate with this year’s Speedmaster ’57. For more see: http://gearpatrol.com/2013/08/06/time-on-our-hands-chronograph-shootout/4/
The Bahrain World Trade Center (also called Bahrain WTC or BWTC) is a 240-metre-high (787 ft), 50-floor, twin tower complex located in Manama, Bahrain. The two towers are linked via three skybridges, each holding a 225kW wind turbine, totalling to 675kW of wind power capacity. Each of these turbines measure 29 m (95 ft) in diameter, and is aligned north, which is the direction from which air from the Persian Gulf blows in. The sail-shaped buildings on either side are designed to funnel wind through the gap to provide accelerated wind passing through the turbines.
Girard-Perregaux is a company reborn. A proud watchmaking maison that can trace its history back to 1791, G-P has a long and storied legacy but struggled to find its feet after mechanical watches rebounded in the past two decades; meanwhile, its peers, Vacheron Constantin, Patek and Audemars Piguet, enjoyed more visibility and success. But recently the company has turned out some impressive timepieces, reinvented itself as a more youthful brand, and has set the industry on its ear with the introduction of not one but two breakthroughs in 2013: its first integrated manual wind in-house chronograph and the revolutionary Constant Escapement, which is arguably the most important watch of the year. But as sports watch guys we were happy to see the Hawk lineup refreshed with an updated Sea Hawk diver and the Hawk Chronograph. For more see: http://gearpatrol.com/2013/08/06/time-on-our-hands-chronograph-shootout/3/
The Bridge of Sighs is a skybridge located in Venice, northern Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone and has windows with stone bars. It passes over the Rio di Palazzo and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antoni Contino (whose uncle Antonio da Ponte had designed the Rialto Bridge), and was built in 1602.
The Stratos Flyback, which we took to calling “Felix” for brevity during our time with it, received a lot of attention last fall when it became the first watch to break the speed of sound, worn open to the elements on the wrist of its namesake Austrian daredevil when he leaped from a balloon and free fell 130,000 feet. So much is this chronograph tied to Baumgartner’s feat that the man’s visage is engraved on the caseback. But there is more to the watch than its 15 minutes of fame. It is, in fact, a direct descendant of Zenith’s El Primero movement, the first full-rotor integrated automatic chronograph. It can also track elapsed time down to 1/10th of a second. See: http://gearpatrol.com/2013/08/06/time-on-our-hands-chronograph-shootout/2/
The 220,000 square-meter (54.5 acres) Linked Hybrid complex includes eight towers linked by a ring of eight sky bridges housing a variety of public functions. The complex is located adjacent to the former city perimeter of Beijing.
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Panerai Luminor 1950 Regatta 3 Days Chrono Flyback Titanio: A 47-mm regatta-countdown chronograph in a titanium case
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Twisting high above Floral Street in London, the Bridge of Aspiration provides the dancers of the Royal Ballet School with a direct link to the Grade 1 listed Royal Opera House. The award-winning design addresses a series of complex contextual issues, and is legible both as a fully integrated component of the buildings it links, and as an independent architectural element.
Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch Dark Side of the Moon: A 44.25-mm ceramic case that is cut out (drilled and milled) from a full ceramic block, with a ceramic bezel and a ceramic dial. It contains Omega’s in-house Caliber 9300, with co-axial escapement and silicon balance spring.
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Peachtree Center is a neighborhood located in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the structures that make up the district were designed by Atlanta architect John C. Portman, Jr.
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Longines HydroConquest Chronograph: Longines Caliber L688 is a modified version of the Valjoux 7753, equipped with a column wheel and exclusively reserved for Longines.
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Kingdom Centre is a 99-storey, 302.3 m (992 ft) skyscraper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is the second tallest skyscraper in the country, and the world's third tallest building with a hole after the Shanghai World Financial Center and Tuntex Sky Tower.
Jaeger-LeCoultre Deep Sea Chronograph Cermet: This is a very good-looking, 44 mm chronograph powered by Jaeger-LeCoultre’s manufacture Caliber 758. The very light aluminum case is protected with an ultra-thin “Cermet” ceramic bezel.
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Enron Skybridge, USA This skybridge is located in Smith Street in Downtown Houston - the largest business district of Houston, Texas.
IWC Ingenieur Double Chronograph Titanium: With its split-seconds function, this 45-mm Ingenieur reflects the technical spirit of the collection. The 79420 caliber is based on the Valjoux 7750, years ago, IWC (specifically, Austrian movement developer Richard Habring, who worked there at the time) added the split-seconds mechanism to it and transformed it more or less to an in-house caliber.
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The Davenport Skybridge is a pedestrian cable-stayed bridge that spans River Drive (Highway 67) in downtown Davenport, Iowa. It connects LeClaire Park to a courtyard and parking ramp on 2nd Street, located right next to the River Music Experience. The bridge is 50 feet (15.5m) tall and 575 feet (175m) long, and was completed in 2005.
