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Luxe City Guides White Tiger Travel Chest

Filed under: Handbags, Luxury Travel & Hotels

Luxe City Guides and Shanghai Tang are celebrating the Year of the Tiger by coming together to launch this limited edition White Tiger Chest. Each chest is skillfully and carefully handmade in maple and ebony veneer maquetry with a lining of luxe kumquat silk. The exterior features a white tiger print under many layers of ultra-high gloss lacquer for extra radiance, a red Chinese "Tiger" character lock escutcheon with key, chrome fittings, and drop-leaf construction. Only 70 collector's chests will be sold, each individually engraved and numbered and each stocked with 30 Luxe City Guides. $1500

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Angular Momentum Year Of The Tiger Watch

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Timepieces / Watches

Year of the Tiger, that sound promising - so let's hope it works out nicely for us. For the significant population of watch lovers who take the Chinese calendar more seriously than us Americans, Angular Momentum has released a new Verre Eglomise style timepiece with a beautiful hand-painted tiger on the dial. Verre Eglomise watches use a special type of enameling which is painted on the back of a sapphire crystal. Once the tiny painting is perfected, it is baked and set forever.

The painted image is of a roaring tiger, perhaps a signal of what this year is going to be like. The watch itself is just over 39mm wide in 18k pink gold - using an Angular Momentum Time Gallery style case. The piece is artistic, though masculine. Inside the watch is a Swiss automatic mechanical movement. Like many Angular Momentum Verre Eglomise watches, time is told on a disc that appears in a window through the dial. The disc makes a full turn each 12 hours. I would imagine lots of men will see this watch and not consider themselves candidates to wear it, but I think art watches like this are due for a golden age.

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

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