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Richard Mille RM017 Tourbillon Extra Flat Watch

I was asked a while ago about the future potential of "ultra thin" tourbillon watches. I said that while I am sure a few would come out here and there, I didn't see it having lots of legs with collectors. That will be tested in 2011 and 2012 and brands begin to offer thinner tourbillon movements based on the "thin watch kick" that we are currently experiencing. It also makes sense because there really aren't too many more places we can go with tourbillons aside from flat. Part of the problem is that tourbillons require a certain amount of room as it is, and making them too flat starts to take away from the visual appeal of them in my opinion. Regardless, Richard Mille is about to release their own "ultra thin" tourbillon. What other case to put it in than their rectangular shaped "Extra-Flat" RM017.

The case is 8.70mm thick, so Richard Mille needed to develop a think tourbillon movement to place inside of it. They did, and the movement uses titanium plates which makes for an interesting look. It manually wound has about 70 hours of power reserve. There is a power reserve indicator on the dial, as well as a "function selector." Rather than pull the crown out, you press it in like a button to selection functions such as "set, wind, etc..." Trust that being Richard Mille, there will be a number of beautifully complex features in the movement that help justify the price.

The watch case itself is 38mm wide and almost 50mm tall. Here it is done in 18k rose gold with titanium. The case is really quite comfortable and comes with a rubber strap. I love the caseback window done in a tonneau shape to recall the case shape of most of Richard Mille's other timepieces. The RM017 Tourbillon Extra Flat will be limited to 50 pieces and available sometime next year.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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"Beatles Flat" For Sale

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Just a week ago, we mentioned the opening of the Beatles hotel in Liverpool, for those with more cash and a deeper case of Beatlemania you can own a flat once rented by the Beatles in London for £1.75 million (around $3.415 million). The top floor property on Green Street, Mayfair is notable because it is the only home in which all four Beatles lived together. The four shared the property for a few months in the autumn of 1963. An early publicity photo of the Beatles peering over a banister was taken at the top of the property's communal stairwell. The property is now a two-bedroom apartment that includes a large living area, master bedroom and guest bedroom and it doesn't look anything like it did when the Beatles lived there.

[Thanks, Lana]

Gallery: Beatles Flat

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Pucci Vivara Flat Shoulder Bag, Handbag of the Day

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This Pucci Flat Shoulder Bag is a great casual handbag. The Vivara-print design has soothing blues rolling across a soft terrycloth fabric in wavelike patterns. Polished, crescent-shaped silver discs hold the white leather trim together with the white leather shoulder straps, which, of course, have a few metal studs. The classic flat shape of the bag makes it very easy to carry under your arm and the soft leather makes it exceptionally comfortable. Price: $750.

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Brad Pitt Doesn't Like Paris Apartment

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Brad Pitt isn’t thrilled with his living situation. While the source of the information, namely a café worker near Pitt’s Paris apartment, might not be the mostly likely candidate for Brad’s confidence, the reasons he cites are certainly valid. According to him, Pitt doesn’t like the high-rise building he shares with Angelina Jolie and their children because there is not enough space for the kids to play. He wants a yard. He wants quiet. He wants to leave Paris. Maybe Brangelina will reconsider the house in Normandy that they were looking into a few months ago, which would certainly offer the growing family more room.

Reports say that the apartment is only 1,300-sq. feet and the building has a “sickly, cabbage type smell.” The high rise is plain and utilitarian, and though it has a view of the Eiffel Tower, it is surrounded by fast food restaurants and is near a noisy metro station. No wonder he wants to leave.

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