HOW TO ENTER THE COMPETITION!
Jean Lassaussois and Frank sans C give you a few advice not to have bad surprises on vacation with your watches. A programme to watch before hitting the road or taking off!
It is good to give advice, but if we also see watches, it is better! Therefore, here are the information regarding the watches showed in this very educational programme. A selection made by Jean Lassaussois of Les Montres – Les Bijoux boutique in Paris.
HOW TO ENTER THE COMPETITION!
A small summer competition to win one of the five magnificent silver bracelets: the good idea of Jean Lassaussois for the Frank Sans C’s community! To enter you need to subscribe the Instagram @jean.lassaussois and @fd.lifestyle accounts, then to make a comment on the @jean.lassaussois account by tagging a friend. The drawing lots will be done among the competitors! Your move!
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THE 10 ADVICES TO FOLLOW ON VACATION
1 – Make a professional check the water-resistance of your watch to avoid problems while going to swim or diving.
2 – Check the water-resistance of your watch. Be careful 1 ATH equals 10 m. So, 10 ATH equals 100 m. Do not scuba dive either extreme water sports with a watch water-resistant to less than 150 m.
3 – Rinse your watch with freshwater after going to swim in the sea or in a swimming pool. And, after going to the beach because the sand like the salt and the chlorine are also enemies of the watch.
4 – Make sure the chrono pushbuttons and the winding crown are properly pushed or screwed down before going to swim.
5 – Avoid going to swim with a leather strap
6 – Check the condition of the clasp or your folding clasp before departure.
7 – Do not leave the watch in full sunlight. It is bad for the mechanical watches’ oils and the battery in quartz watches.
8 –Keep your watches safe before going on vacation. A safe at your home is good, a safe in your bank is better!
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9 – Never put watches in the hold luggage! They are sometimes searched by malevolent people and even sometimes lost by the airline!
10 – Take with you the receipt of the watch or the warranty card to cross the borders. Otherwise, take a picture with your mobile phone.
Longines – The Longines Legend Diver Watch
Inspired by the Super-Compressor piece from 1959, The Longines Legend Diver Watch, launched in 2007, continues this inheritance of sport and dive watches started from 1937 with the launch of a chronograph equipped with water-resistant pushbuttons. Longines continues to maintain a very particular relation with water by offering new versions of this watch with subtly vintage design. The steel piece of 42 mm-diameter, water-resistant to 300 m and put on a NATO strap, features an ash grey dial changing in an interesting gradation. This instrument is equipped with a rotating bezel put under the domed sapphire crystal that is possible to activate through the crown put at 2 o’clock. The very balanced whole, reminiscent of the brand’s success, is powered by a mechanical self-winding calibre L888.5 that is impossible to see through the case back, because the very balanced whole is screwed down and full of a relief representation of a frogman. We notice that this piece offered has also a sand beige variation and a 36 mm-diameter with a self-winding calibre L592.5 and colourful dials including strong royal blue and burgundy.
Price: €2240
Breitling – SuperOcean II 36
To make the first SuperOcean, the Breitling’s designers removed all the unnecessary features that did not meet divers’ biological needs. Still today, this philosophy is found in the development of these 36 mm-diameter steel versions of the SuperOcean thatunder its harmonious and balanced aspect, is a simple and efficient tool. Water-resistant to 300 m, the instrument, here showed with dial and white rubber strap, is equipped with a unidirectional rotating bezel with ceramic insert to resist to scratches, ultra-legible hour markers in the dark and automatic Breitling calibre 17 COSC-certified chronometer. Closed on the wrist thanks to a folding clasp, this outdoor watch found the right balance to be as at ease to do sport with as to be at work with after vacation.
PRICE: €3,600
Tudor – Black Bay Fifty-Eight Navy Blue Soft Touch
Within the Tudor Black Bay line, the Fifty-Eight « Navy Blue » Soft Touch pieceshould particularly attract: the enthusiasts having thin wrists, the passionate about « vintage » timepieces or the athletes who like the compact watches. To meet these consumers’ expectations and remain as closely as possible to measurements of the first dive watch launched by the brand in 1958, the 316L stainless steel 39 mm-diameter case is water-resistant to 200 m of this reference. Equipped with a unidirectional rotating bezel with blue anodised aluminium insert, it is adorned with a slightly domed dial of the same colour and « Snowflake » hands, hallmark of the Tudor dive watches since 1969. Graphic and refined, it is powered by the manufacture calibre MT5402 with silicon balance spring, 70 hours of power reserve and COSC-certified chronometer. Here offered on a blue « soft Touch » strap with folding clasp, it also has a five-year guarantee.
Price: €3,250
Chanel J12 White Ceramic 33 mm
It does not seem like it under its polished highly resistant white ceramic adornments, but the new Chanel J12 33 mm, designed by Arnaud Chastaingt, reaches a new milestone in the history of this iconic watch. First piece with this diameter to be equipped with a mechanical self-winding movement within the collection, it represented a true technical challenge and embodies as such the expression of the Maison’s watchmaking savoir-faire. Powered by the calibre 12.2 COSC-certified chronometer made by Kenissi the Swiss manufacture whose Chanel is co-owner, this watch, water-resistant to 200 m features a unidirectional rotating bezel with white ceramic insert. Coming with a strap of the same material, a guarantee to remain over the years beautiful as the first day.
Price: €6,600
Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Chronographe Flyback Quantième Complet
Impressive on the wrist with its 45 mm-diameter, this steel chronograph is the direct heir of the first dive watch launched in 1953 by Blancpain at group of the French National Navy’s combat swimmers’ request. Robust and hard-wearing with its steel case water-resistant to 300 m, its unidirectional rotating bezel with sapphire insert and its protected pushbuttons, this instrument has a mechanical self-winding calibreequipped with many useful functionalities. In daily life, its owner will like the transparent case back that allows to see the finishes of the movement and the display of the calendar by hand, and the protected indication of the moon phases in aperture.And in action, the athlete attentive to his performances will use the chronograph function on 12 hours with flyback that allows to stop a measurement and start immediately a new one with an only one pressure on the push-button at 4 o’clock. To wear here on a hard-wearing canvas strap, this instrument highly legible in the dark thanks to its luminescent hour markers.
Price: €24,210
TAG Heuer Formula 1 chronograph
The Formula 1 collection has a special place in the history of TAG Heuer since its launch in 1986. Original and closely linked to the car industry, considered today as a watchmaking symbol of the 80’s, the Formula 1 chronograph is part of the timeless timepieces designed to support its owner in all adventures of life. Reliable and robust, it has a steel case of 43 mm-diameter able to support a pressure equals to a pressure to 200 meters and a PVD coated fixed bezel, engraved with a tachymeter scale, car industry dictates. It is powered by a Swiss quartz calibre that the case back fully engraved with a chequered flag does not allow to see. But it does not matter, because it is efficient, it gives time with accuracy and allows to measure actions to the 1/10th of a second. Designed for action, this instrument is worn on a flexible steel bracelet closed by a safety folding clasp including an extension to wear it on a driver race suit.
Price: €2,050
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