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Girard-Perregaux Unveils Le Corbusier Trilogy of Limited-Edition WatchessharetweetshareLa Chaux-de-Fonds, in the Swiss Jura, is among the most cradle of a good watchmaking, but it is even the birthplace of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known extensively as Le Corbusier womens watch , one of several titans of modern architecture and style. Now, Girard-Perregaux, a watch brand headquartered in La Chaux-de-Fonds and long connected with Le Corbusier's estate, has released a trilogy of replica watches with designs according to his work. watches The Girard-Perregaux Le Corbusier Trilogy pays tribute for the three cities most for this artist's career: La Chaux-de-Fonds, where he spent his youth and trained being a sculptor and engraver at the town's School of Art; Paris, where he adopted his nom d'artiste and introduced the general public to his pioneering furniture designs; and Marseille, where he did his most significant late architectural work with his signature medium, reinforced concrete. The model chosen for that three replica watches each confined to only five pieces is Girard-Perregaux's Vintage 1945, named for the year that Le Corbusier published certainly one of his most well-known works, Les Trois Établissements Humains (The Three Human Establishments) and conceived his Modulor proportion scale.The Vintage 1945 Le Corbusier La Chaux-de-Fonds takes since it's inspiration the artist's early act as a sculptor and engraver. The dial is a miniaturized, faithful reproduction of 1 of his early works in a bas-relief of mother-of-pearl. Each dial which requires meticulous be employed in design, sculpting, polishing and varnishing uses a few days to produce. The truth is within rose gold. The value is $53,200. (Click on photos for bigger images.)Vintage 1945 Le Corbusier La Chaux-de-FondsCharles-Edouard Jeanneret's iconic furniture designs which used a then-unprecedented mixture of steel, tanned leather and rawhide give you the inspiration to the Vintage 1945 Le Corbusier Paris. The watch carries a steel case as well as a cowhide strap that evokes the design of a Le Corbusier chaise lounge. The hand-engraved metal dial illustrates the designer's Modulor system of human proportion, using the human scale of the male figure, the so-called "Golden Mean" as well as the applied thought of light. The price is $21,300.Vintage 1945 Le Corbusier ParisMarseille may be the city where Le Corbusier created his most vital postwar structure, the highly influential Cite Radieuse ("Radiant City"), a 12-story housing unit produced from rough-cast reinforced concrete. For your Vintage 1945 Le Corbusier Marseille watch, Girard-Perregaux created a real concrete dial, which required 72 hours to pour, dry and painstakingly hand-finish. Obviously, concrete can be as rare a material in watchmaking now as it is at building construction way back in Le Corbusier's day. The watch carries a steel case and expenses $31,900.Vintage 1945 Le Corbusier MarseillesAll the Le Corbusier replica watches contain Girard-Perregaux's GP3300-0078 movement, with 26 jewels, a frequency of 28,800 vph, and also a power reserve for at least 46 hours. The Vintage 1945 cases measure 36.20 mm by 35.25 mm, with sapphire crystals front and rear, and they are water-resistant to 30 meters.Receive all the news, rolex submariner green features and reviews from WatchTime free of charge! Sign as much as our free weekly newsletter and get all the news brought to your inbox.sharetweetshare replica antique wrist watches
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