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Backes & Strauss, a watch company of the Franck Muller Watchland Group, has shown a new timepiece which will be officially launched in October 2010. The Backes & Strauss 1609 AD watch is offered in two sizes, in an edition of 219 pieces each. To feature cases in various colors of 18K gold and set with varying combination of diamonds, the Backes & Strauss 1609 AD watch showcases an original and luxurious moon phase indicator, which presents a representation of a 17star constellation, depicted in round brilliant diamonds. The name of the timepiece pays tribute to English astronomer Thomas Harriett, whose drawings of the moon preceded those of Galileo Galilei. Established in 1789, Backes & Strauss is famed for being the world's oldest diamond company. Jewelry by the company was featured at the Great Exhibition of 1851, and in 1878, the Backes & Strauss hallmark was registered in London's Goldsmiths Hall. The year 2006 saw the first Backes & Strauss timepieces debuted. Each collection offered by the brand draws some inspiration from Regency architecture, and every model is characterized by a diamond set into the winding crown. The manufacture and assembly of each watch is undertaken in the workshops of Franck Muller's Watchland, ensuring an extremely high standard of watchmaking expertise and exclusive mechanical design. Swiss luxurious watchmaker Blancpain celebrates the exciting underwater realm by having an unique new publication collection, the "Editions Fifty Fathoms", which showcases the exceptional function of fifty of your world's most celebrated maritime photographers, like Ernest H. Brooks II, Udo Kefrig, Helmut Horn, Burt Jones and Maurine Shimlock. Offered in an especially prime quality format that has a high-class printing course of action on extrathick pages, the Editions Blancpain Fifty Fathoms publications element quite a few symbolic creation factors which hyperlink it to your well-known Blancpain timepiece which shares its title. By way of example, the fifty ambigu pages which comprise the version evoke the depth score from the first Fifty Fathoms observe, though the width of every open up ambigu web page is particularly the width comparable to a single fathom. The Blancpain Editions Fifty Fathoms publications can be found in several restricted version teams. Collection one is limited to an version of fifty copies, and accompanies a specific version with the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms look at. one,829 copies from the 2nd sequence can be found solely from Blancpain boutiques during the globe, which has a ultimate one,000 copies of your 3rd collection getting supplied by way of the world wide web. Every publication is individually numbered.