The Cuban leader Fidel Castro, a revolutionary Che Gevara, politicians Winston Churchill and Bill Clinton, writers Somerset Maugham and Mark Twain, the actor and the political figure Arnold Schwarzenegger – these names are well-known and these figures are best known to the world for their political, social, literary and other achievements. Moreover, the abovementioned people highly esteem cigar smoking and, thus, they come as people who own the greatest number of tools and accessories so requisite for this leisurely process and among others there are cigar lighters.
In the light of a variety and availability of glass items, glass ware is still appreciated by plenty people, especially when it comes to cut glass. The cut glass produces a long, lingering and musical tune when you put your finger at the cut-glass edge. So, in Japan the craftsmen make unique musical instruments. A crystal violin, completely transparent, is estimated for fifty thousand USD. Crystal glass tableware is not so much expensive though it is able to produce the charming, unique and so brittle music providing it is properly cared.
Wealthy persons are mostly known for their fortune only. However, despite they make billions, these people possess some personal features that attract people when estimating them. While Warren shovels up money, he has to do with quite conflicting image he created: he is known to be the proved miser and at the same time he privately donates huge amounts for charity purposes.
There is a
British legend according to which King Charles II trying to escape from his
pursuers, holed up in the hollow of a huge oak-tree. Since that time oak-trees have
become a symbol of royal court, a regal tree. That is why the name of the tree was
given to the most prominent ships of the British Royal Navy. The watches which became
a standard of Audemars Piguet were awarded the name «Royal Oak». The watch had
an octagonal-shaped case with eight hexagonal screw bolts resembling sea gun
port. The «Royal Oak» collection was elegant and manly at the same time, and
turned out to be one of the most famous watch collections in the world,
virtually a trademark of Audemars Piguet Watch Company.
The collection
included several absolutely different watches like «Royal Oak Jubilee» with an ultra-thin
self-winding mechanism, «Royal Oak Offshore» with a self-winding mechanism with
21-carat golden rotor, «Royal Oak Offshore» (striking) using case elements of
non-polished metal, which distinguished it from the classic «Royal Oak» watch, and
this item features collision-protecting synthetic laying and a magniglass
allowing to discern dials indicating the date and other information.
Well, let's
put aside the old legends when new ones appear. In fact, the "Royal Oak
Offshore» collection was created specifically for the Terminator II: Judgment Day
and Terminator III: Machines ‘Revolt, and after the pictures had a huge
box-office success the watch workshop released extra models bearing the engraved
signature of ‘iron Arnie' on the cap. By the way, Arnold Schwarzenegger has remained
a dedicated fan of Audemars Piguet for many years.
But let's
return to the beginning, when Jules-Louis Audemars and Edward-Auguste Piguet have
founded the Audemars Piguet Company and decided that the former would be a
manufacturing director and the latter - a manager. Today, this division of power
is still preserved by the families owing the company. Today, almost a century afterwards,
the situation is the same. To the present day, the company adheres to the philosophy
of its founders: only by using latest industrial methods high quality in
manufacturing of unique chronometers can be achieved.
From the time
of the foundation, the Audemars Piguet Company has been a pioneer in the sphere
of high-precision watch manufacturing. All its products are hand-made on the
factory in Le Brassus (about 15.000 items a year) in line with the traditional
designs typical of this trademark. The watches are made of high-quality materials.
And the specific feature of Audemars Piguet watches is their ultra-thin clock
mechanism speaking for the high technical level and the compactness of the
watches. In 1925, masters of the company were the first to make the thinnest pocket
watch (1.32 mm
thin), in 1946 - the thinnest wristwatch with the 1.64 mm thin mechanism, and
in 1967- the thinnest self-winding clock mechanism (2.45 mm) with 21-carat
golden rotor.
In 1992, the
Audemars Piguet Company created a new collection of chronographs, «Triple
Complication», with the hand-built self-winding mechanism, 52 diamonds and 18-carat
golden rotor placed in the 8.55
mm thin case. The watches of this collection remain one of
the most functional watches in the world as they have 20 various functions,
day, date, month and lunar phase indicators, hand-built clock mechanism of 600 elements,
a perpetual almanac automatically monitoring usual and leap years.
However high
achievements in accuracy, reliability and thinness of Audemars Piguet watches might
be, one should not forget about beautiful classical models for men and
intricate designs of stylish watches for ladies. Audemars Piguet ladies' watch
collections are intended for women looking for rare and discreetly
sophisticated timepieces. Tourbillons and chronographs, precious metals and
sparkling diamonds united in delighting these feminine devotees of the watch
making art. Leather straps of various designs would adorn the wrist of any
noble lady. And high quality of the watches allows a business lady to always be
in time.
Lingerie for women was just the plain underwear until the 20th century when it became the mean self-expression, as the subject of esthetic admiration. A piece of lingerie seen in between the women wear looked quite shocking to be shame and no one thought of designing luxury items based on lingerie, leaving alone works of art. Today every woman dreams of having a pair, or even more, of luxury and high quality lingerie to associate with sexuality, sensibility and attraction with male.
Today the knitwear is presented in so many styles and
it is so popular that no single autumn and spring collections can do without
hosiery. Knit
women's coats are offered in classic, sporty, romantic, vintage, casual and
ethnic styles. The demand for knit coats
grows in line with the more increasing range of color and texture of woolen
yarn as merino wool, angora, alpaca, Kashmir. Globally known brands launch knit
coats for women in their latest collections and most celebrities today appear
wearing knitwear for many occasions and that's hard to picture that some time
back it was something different.
First established in 1860, Chopard is one of the reputed watch and jewelry houses producing incredibly beautiful, fascinating jewelry items and watches of dream. The house also launched a number of celebrated fragrances as Casmir, Wish, Madness and Infiniment. Despite the long and solid history of the brand, it appeared only recently in the market of fragrances with the first fragrance Chopard launched only in 1992. Six years later, in 1996, the Chopard House presented its Mira-Bai, the fragrance which is still in favor among women keen on oriental scents. Mira-Bai shows no intentions to compete with such a fashion-setter in the sphere of oriental compositions as Guerlain Shalimar, though the fragrance by Chopard takes its niche among the classic perfumes in the market of oriental perfume.
Perfume launched y the Japanese brands or the one inspired by the Japanese culture is something so special in the international market of perfume. Unlike the other fragrances produced in bulk, such perfume with the traces of Japanese inspiration and life surely exert attention and this is reasonable: it is not only the perfume to market and ear money but the whole philosophy, covert but absolute. So, most perfume launched by the famous Japanese culture followers take their niches in the global market, like Kenzo and Issey Miyake. Issey Miyake launched the genially iconic fragrance of the 90s with such a simple and unpretentious name as Issey Miyake L'Eau D'Issey.
