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 Seven watches continue the competition for the 2013 Best Grande Complication Watch title. At the pre-selected list of the year's best creations that the jury of the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve has just announced, there are Patek Philippe Nautilus Replica, A. Lange & Sohne 1815 Rattrapante Perpetual Calendar watch, Bulgari's Comedia Dell Arte, Audemars Piguet Tradition Minute Repeater Tourbillon Chronograph, Hublot MP-05 LaFerrari, Chopard L.U.C Perpetual T and De Bethune DB16 Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon. After The 13th GPHG Awards Ceremony to be held in Geneva, on November 15, we will know which one of these great timepieces will inherit the title from the last year's winner - Patek Philippe Nautilus Replica's Invention Piece 2 Quadruple Tourbillon watch. Patek Philippe Nautilus Replica WatchOnce again, the name of this innovative watchmaker found its place in the top of the haute horology. This year, Patek Philippe Nautilus Replica is competing with its highly complicated GTM Asymetrique which was introduced for the first time in 2011. Unlike the first model that came in white gold,Rolex Replica Watches the newest version is crafted in red gold 5N and features anthracite plates and a bridge with a galvanic treatment. Other characteristics of two versions are pretty much similar, including the same mechanism. The most impressive element of this masterpiece with a multi-leveled construction is an amazing three-dimensional, rotating terrestrial globe offering a truly original view of time all over the world. Located at the 8 o'clock position, this titanium globe completes the anti-clockwise revolution (the direction of the earth's rotation) in 24 hours, providing a unique way of displaying different time zones. Being secured at just one end of its rotational axis (the South Pole), the globe shows the position of continents in real time, complemented with a day-and-night indicator on the equatorial chapter ring. Almost complete globe is visible in every moment, thanks to the sapphire crystal case-back and the sides of the case. One of the brand's major patented inventions, the 25deg inclined Tourbillon 24 Secondes is placed at the 5 o'clock position. It is a part of the specially developed GMT hand-winding mechanism,IWC Portuguese Replica built of 436 parts, including 87 components of the super-light tourbillon cage (just 0.36 grams). Thanks to two coaxial mainspring barrels, it ensures 72 hours of power reserve. Besides its technical perfection, this mechanism is also an aesthetical masterpiece, characteristic by its hand-finished, frosted, spotted, beveled, straight-grained, matt lapped and flat black polished plates and bridges. Patek Philippe Nautilus Replica watch features an 18 karat gold dial with an hour and minute dial placed at the 1 o'clock position, together with a petit small seconds dial placed at its 3 o'clock position. Right below a small seconds dial, there is a power reserve-indicator. Finally, the second time-zone sub-dial takes the 10 o'clock position. The red gold case has the diameter of 43.50mm and it is 16.14mm thick and it comes attached to a hand-sewn black alligator leather strap. This extraordinary timepiece has a breathtaking price of CHF 525,000.
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