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The earth Presentation of Haute Horlogerie (WPHH) has occur and gone for 2008, leaving in its wake an remarkable document of attendance in site visitors and press about the earlier yr, amounting to above fifteen %. More than the study course of seven times, above six,800 website visitors and six hundred journalists from round the planet had been welcomed to Watchlandthe picturesque headquarters with the Franck Muller Team, and its 9 brand names. The manufacturers within the team are: Franck Muller Geneve, Pierre Kunz, Rodolphe, ECW, Barthelay, Martin Braun, Pierre Michel Golay, Christian Huygens, and Backes & Strauss. Business for the team across its range has been remarkable. Franck Muller sales have increased by double digits, as have the sales in the Rodolphe brand. Pierre Michel Golay and Christian Huygens, recent additions to the Franck Muller Team, had been both very well received in their first WPHH participation. Pierre Kunz's sales have also grown, with ECW and Barthelay taking active steps to enhance their development. A highlight with the event was an April 9th gala dinner attended by more than 1,400 VIP guests, including actor Stephen Baldwin, football goalkeeper Pascal Zuberbuhler, and Dr. Christian Luscher in the Geneva University Hospital. A performance by famed salsero Yuri Buenaventura kept guests entertained through the training course in the grand evening. A specialist in producing highend pilot's and army timepieces, Bell & Ross takes great pride in announcing its new Vintage Original BR 126 Chronograph watch, a worthy addition to the remarkable Vintage BR 126 line.Developed with aviators in mind, the new Bell & Ross watch is set in a 41 mm stainless steel case, which demonstrates satinfinished surface. Roundshaped, it incorporates an imposing bezel, also manufactured from stainless steel. The bezel forms an elegant frame around an appealing dial, dressed in beige. It lends the timepiece a special vintage look of the models from the 1940s. The display is equipped with black hourmarkers and two extralarge numerals at 6 and 12 o'clock. Traveling over them are white steel hour and minutes hands, outlined in black. The seconds hand is completely black. The dial of the new Bell & Ross watch also comprises a 30minute chronograph totalizer located at 9 o'clock. It is visually balanced by the small seconds counter at 3 o'clock. The date indication appears in a small round aperture, nestled between 4 and 5 o'clock. Protecting the dial is a convex antiglare sapphire crystal. The functions mentioned are brought to life by a Swissmade selfwinding ETA 2894 movement. Artfully set with 37 jewels, the mechanism runs at the rate of 28,800 vibrations per hour and provides a 47hour power reserve. Keeping the Bell & Ross Vintage Original BR 126 Chronograph watch secured to the wearer's wrist is a brown leather strap. It is capable of withstanding water pressures down to 100 meters. A combination of retrothemed exterior and cuttingedge technology, the Bell & Ross watch will be enthusiastically received by knowledgeable public.