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Harry Winston Ocean GMT Traveler Watch

Here is another complex and beautiful limited edition watch from luxury watch and jewelry maker Harry Winston. The newest is this Ocean GMT Traveler watch that wants to excel at being the perfect two timezone watch. You have the main watch dial and another watch dial (on the left) that you can adjust to different timezone in one hour increments. A small window above the dial has the reference city that you can switch with the pusher at 10 o'clock. A simple to use and highly effective GMT traveler watch.

The watch is available in 18k rose or white gold in a 45mm wide case. There are versions with and without diamonds with a total of six limited edition variants of between 80 to 15 pieces per model (total of 200 for the line). The watch features an automatic tourbillon movement with the tourbillon cage serving as the seconds hand for the watch located at 6 o'clock. Detail rich, the Ocean GMT Traveler is a pure Harry Winston, combining style and function with a distinct emphasis on luxury that is easy to live with. The fitted strap is alligator and the dial enjoys Cotes de Geneve polishing that is something typically reserved for decoration on watch movements. Price will no doubt be in excess of $50,000 most likely, of course more for the diamond covered varieties.

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

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Vacation Like James Bond

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

The next best thing to being James Bond is living like him. No, we're not talking about facing off with bad guys and thwarting the plans of those bent on world domination (unless you really want to). We're talking about taking vacations in some of the spots around the world that were, in some way, touched by Bond. Forbes Traveler has picked out their top Bond vacation destinations and, as big James Bond fans, we're ready to pack our bags. The list includes:

The Fleming House in Jamaica, where Ian Fleming wrote 17 Bond novels.
James Bond Island in Thailand was made famous by The Man With The Golden Gun, but is just a hop, skip and a jump from where The Beach was filmed, too.
The Stoke Park Club in the UK was the location for many Bond scenes, both when Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan played Bond.
GoldenEye fans might jump at the chance to recreate the opening scene of the Bond film by taking a Bungee Jump from the Verzasca Dam in Switzerland -- the highest commercial bungee jump in the world,