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Watches & Politics Collide In The 2009 A. Lange & Sohne Lange 1 Time Zone Watch

You could probably look at the dial of this beautiful Lange 1 Time Zone watch and not identify anything out of the ordinary. You'd see the two watch faces, the larger showing local time, and the smaller one displaying the time of one of 24 other time zones. You'd see the day and night indicators nicely integrated into each watch face, and you'd also notice A. Lange & Sohne's iconic Out-Size Date window as well as "up" - "down" power reserve meter. Well there is something different about this world time watch.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a decision in 2007 that literally took Venezuela off the map, the GMT watch reference city map that is. One of his less popular decisions was to give Venezuela its own time zone that is 30 minutes earlier that it used to be. For this reason, the capital city of Venezuela, Caracas, could no longer serve as a reference city for that particular time zone between New York City and Rio de Janeiro. Thus, the new reference city for this time zone has been chosen by A. Lange & Sohne to be Santiago, Chile. Frankly, I think Santiago has a nicer sounding name than Caracas, so this is a good thing.

This also points to the fact that watch makers are obsessed with details and keeping current on world events, with A. Lange & Sohne taking the lead, at least when it comes to time zones. Other facts about this Lange 1 Time Zone watch include the fact that the 42mm wide case is constructed from 18k pink gold. The movement is the carefully made in-house Lange L031.1 manually-wound movement with a 72 hour power reserve. The dial is a solid grayed silver, and the strap is brown crocodile.

Ariel Adams publishes the watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

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Charriol Kucha Watch

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Meow! The Charriol Kucha watch is designed for women with a love of feline style. The word Kucha is Swahili for claws and it has diamond set claws curving over the stainless steel case. The watch has four dial variations with matching straps: panther, tiger, white or pink mother of pearl. It sells for $1.340 and was chosen as the ladies watch of the year for 2005 by Swiss watch magazines Montres Passion and Uhren Welt. I wonder what watches it beat out since this particular style isn't quite working for me.

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Sarpaneva Loise II Watch

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Time Zone has a picture of the latest watch from Sarpaneva of Finland. It's the Loiste II a new version of their Loiste watch which has a unique look that is model on the design of a motorcycle kick start piston. This watch uses a automatic ETA caliber 2824-A2 movement and shows the hours, minutes, seconds, and moonphase. It measures 37mm and is done in a premium hardened stainless steel with a gold-plated brass dial and sapphire crystal.

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Andersen Geneve Grande Jour et Nuit Watch

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Andersen Geneve makes watches that are always high on beauty but low on readability. For this year's Baselworld show, Sven Andersen is breaking out the Grande Jour et Nuit, a new version of the original which debuted six years ago. It has a hand-wound caliber A573 (base Frederic Piguet) movement. According to Time Zone, the hour hand points to the day with its longer end and the night with its short end and jumps to the following hour when the minute hand has performed a full revolution of the dial. It comes in 18K white or rose gold, measures 44mm and has double sapphire crystals. The dial is 22kt blue gold with tapasserie finish. It's lovely but I have no idea what time it is showing.

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