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Malaysian Reserve
5 days ago
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- Malaysian Reserve
CIGA design Sets Sail with Blue Planet II • Atlantic
The Atlantic Lives Within, Driving Forward the Spirit of Discovery and Connection The Legacy of the Atlantic, Captured in a Timepiece HONG KONG, June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Atlantic Ocean has long symbolized courage, ambition, and the pursuit of the unknown. It catalyzed the Age of Discovery, challenging explorers to cross uncharted waters and forever changing history. Dissolving boundaries and connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas, cultures met, ideas flowed, and countless souls pursued freedom. In June 2025, CIGA design , an independent GPHG Award-winning brand, honors this spirit with the Blue Planet II • Atlantic, a timepiece that embodies the Atlantic's enduring legacy. Crafting the Legacy The Blue Planet II • Atlantic features CIGA design's award-winning Asynchronous-Follow Movement Technology, inspired by ancient sundials and honored by the GPHG. A single compass hand indicates both hours and minutes, gliding across a dynamic minute dial and a stationary hour ring. With every 30° movement of the hour gear, the minute dial rotates 390°, creating a unique and intuitive expression of time in harmony with the globe's rhythm and ocean currents. Beneath a curved sapphire crystal, the CNC-engraved dial unfolds the vast contours of the Atlantic, intricately capturing the essence of diverse landscapes. From the rugged Rocky Mountains to the towering Andes, the deep Gulf of Mexico to the sun-drenched Mediterranean, each engraving reflects the distinct identity of its region. As night falls, luminous markers glisten like moonlight on the ocean's surface, while a refined strap offers effortless comfort, ensuring every journey is a seamless experience. A Story of Discovery, Connection, and Freedom The Blue Planet II • Atlantic is a living emblem of discovery, connection, and freedom. Discovery: The Atlantic inspired explorers to venture into the unknown, shaping the Age of Discovery and transforming human understanding. Connection: For centuries, the Atlantic has been a bridge between continents, uniting cultures and shaping global trade and identity. Freedom: The Atlantic represents a journey of liberation—where new beginnings are forged, and the spirit of resilience and hope endures. The Basics Case Size: 46mm (excluding crown)Watch Length: 220mmCase Thickness: 17.05mmCrown: 6.0mm diameter, CNC groovedStrap Width: 22.0mmStrap Material: FluororubberGlass: Sapphire glassWater Resistance: 3ATM Movement: Self-developed automatic Caliber CD-04-E featuring CIGA design's Asynchronous-follow Technology, operating at 21,600 vph with a 40-hour power reserve and an accuracy of -15/+30 seconds per day. Pricing： Steel: $1,199Titanium Alloy：$1,399 Pre-Launch Special: Steel: $1,049Titanium Alloy：$1,249 June 10th – June 24th Availability:Now available on the CIGA design official website and Amazon About Brand As a trailblazer in watch design and a recipient of the prestigious GPHG award, CIGA design has earned its place on the global stage of fine watchmaking. Driven by the proposition of 'Stand Out, By Design,' the brand is committed to originality, breaking through traditional boundaries to create designs that embody the spirit of the times and express the wearer's unique individuality.
Cision Canada
5 days ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
CIGA design Sets Sail with Blue Planet II • Atlantic
The Atlantic Lives Within, Driving Forward the Spirit of Discovery and Connection The Legacy of the Atlantic, Captured in a Timepiece HONG KONG, June 18, 2025 /CNW/ -- The Atlantic Ocean has long symbolized courage, ambition, and the pursuit of the unknown. It catalyzed the Age of Discovery, challenging explorers to cross uncharted waters and forever changing history. Dissolving boundaries and connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas, cultures met, ideas flowed, and countless souls pursued freedom. In June 2025, CIGA design , an independent GPHG Award-winning brand, honors this spirit with the Blue Planet II • Atlantic, a timepiece that embodies the Atlantic's enduring legacy. Crafting the Legacy The Blue Planet II • Atlantic features CIGA design's award-winning Asynchronous-Follow Movement Technology, inspired by ancient sundials and honored by the GPHG. A single compass hand indicates both hours and minutes, gliding across a dynamic minute dial and a stationary hour ring. With every 30° movement of the hour gear, the minute dial rotates 390°, creating a unique and intuitive expression of time in harmony with the globe's rhythm and ocean currents. Beneath a curved sapphire crystal, the CNC-engraved dial unfolds the vast contours of the Atlantic, intricately capturing the essence of diverse landscapes. From the rugged Rocky Mountains to the towering Andes, the deep Gulf of Mexico to the sun-drenched Mediterranean, each engraving reflects the distinct identity of its region. As night falls, luminous markers glisten like moonlight on the ocean's surface, while a refined strap offers effortless comfort, ensuring every journey is a seamless experience. A Story of Discovery, Connection, and Freedom The Blue Planet II • Atlantic is a living emblem of discovery, connection, and freedom. Discovery: The Atlantic inspired explorers to venture into the unknown, shaping the Age of Discovery and transforming human understanding. Connection: For centuries, the Atlantic has been a bridge between continents, uniting cultures and shaping global trade and identity. Freedom: The Atlantic represents a journey of liberation—where new beginnings are forged, and the spirit of resilience and hope endures. The Basics Case Size: 46mm (excluding crown) Watch Length: 220mm Case Thickness: 17.05mm Crown: 6.0mm diameter, CNC grooved Strap Width: 22.0mm Strap Material: Fluororubber Glass: Sapphire glass Water Resistance: 3ATM Movement: Self-developed automatic Caliber CD-04-E featuring CIGA design's Asynchronous-follow Technology, operating at 21,600 vph with a 40-hour power reserve and an accuracy of -15/+30 seconds per day. Pricing ： Steel: $1,199 Titanium Alloy：$1,399 Pre-Launch Special: Steel: $1,049 Titanium Alloy：$1,249 June 10th - June 24th Availability: Now available on the CIGA design official website and Amazon About Brand As a trailblazer in watch design and a recipient of the prestigious GPHG award, CIGA design has earned its place on the global stage of fine watchmaking. Driven by the proposition of "Stand Out, By Design," the brand is committed to originality, breaking through traditional boundaries to create designs that embody the spirit of the times and express the wearer's unique individuality.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
CIGA design Sets Sail with Blue Planet II • Atlantic
The Atlantic Lives Within, Driving Forward the Spirit of Discovery and Connection The Legacy of the Atlantic, Captured in a Timepiece HONG KONG, June 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Atlantic Ocean has long symbolized courage, ambition, and the pursuit of the unknown. It catalyzed the Age of Discovery, challenging explorers to cross uncharted waters and forever changing history. Dissolving boundaries and connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas, cultures met, ideas flowed, and countless souls pursued freedom. In June 2025, CIGA design , an independent GPHG Award-winning brand, honors this spirit with the Blue Planet II • Atlantic, a timepiece that embodies the Atlantic's enduring legacy. Crafting the Legacy The Blue Planet II • Atlantic features CIGA design's award-winning Asynchronous-Follow Movement Technology, inspired by ancient sundials and honored by the GPHG. A single compass hand indicates both hours and minutes, gliding across a dynamic minute dial and a stationary hour ring. With every 30° movement of the hour gear, the minute dial rotates 390°, creating a unique and intuitive expression of time in harmony with the globe's rhythm and ocean currents. Beneath a curved sapphire crystal, the CNC-engraved dial unfolds the vast contours of the Atlantic, intricately capturing the essence of diverse landscapes. From the rugged Rocky Mountains to the towering Andes, the deep Gulf of Mexico to the sun-drenched Mediterranean, each engraving reflects the distinct identity of its region. As night falls, luminous markers glisten like moonlight on the ocean's surface, while a refined strap offers effortless comfort, ensuring every journey is a seamless experience. A Story of Discovery, Connection, and Freedom The Blue Planet II • Atlantic is a living emblem of discovery, connection, and freedom. Discovery: The Atlantic inspired explorers to venture into the unknown, shaping the Age of Discovery and transforming human understanding. Connection: For centuries, the Atlantic has been a bridge between continents, uniting cultures and shaping global trade and identity. Freedom: The Atlantic represents a journey of liberation—where new beginnings are forged, and the spirit of resilience and hope endures. The Basics Case Size: 46mm (excluding crown)Watch Length: 220mmCase Thickness: 17.05mmCrown: 6.0mm diameter, CNC groovedStrap Width: 22.0mmStrap Material: FluororubberGlass: Sapphire glassWater Resistance: 3ATM Movement: Self-developed automatic Caliber CD-04-E featuring CIGA design's Asynchronous-follow Technology, operating at 21,600 vph with a 40-hour power reserve and an accuracy of -15/+30 seconds per day. Pricing： Steel: $1,199Titanium Alloy：$1,399 Pre-Launch Special: Steel: $1,049Titanium Alloy：$1,249 June 10th - June 24th Availability:Now available on the CIGA design official website and Amazon About Brand As a trailblazer in watch design and a recipient of the prestigious GPHG award, CIGA design has earned its place on the global stage of fine watchmaking. Driven by the proposition of "Stand Out, By Design," the brand is committed to originality, breaking through traditional boundaries to create designs that embody the spirit of the times and express the wearer's unique individuality. View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE CIGA Design Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Mint
14-06-2025
- General
- Mint
If you like minimalist wristwatches, then you should know about the watch inspired by the Bauhaus school of design
I am part of a generation that has seen the advance of technology change the world radically, especially in communications. Just 40 years ago, it was difficult to get a landline phone connection, and if you did, calling people up was a ritual that involved speaking with switchboard operators. Between my high school years and early 30s, a span of just 15 years, we went from the novelty of wireless 'brick phones" to the call-and-text-only feature phones to the earliest smartphones, a positively dizzying pace of change. As a natural progression, it was inevitable that smart devices would take up residence on our wrists (as they soon will around our necks, in our glasses, and who knows where else) and start challenging the hegemony of wristwatches, these quaint circular throwbacks that do nothing else but tell the time. But these holdouts from the vanishing analogue world have been surprisingly resilient. Why is this so, I have often wondered. One answer could be that wristwatches have a simplicity and single-minded focus on doing just one thing consistently. In doing so, they perform an invaluable function of focusing our brains. We quickly glance at our wrists when we need to tell the time. For a fleeting collection of moments each day, when we are telling the time, it is the only data that our minds are consuming—in those moments, the constant hum of digital distraction briefly takes a backseat. Also Read 5 legendary wristwatches that went to space For that simplicity to win out, it must be allied with good design. Of course, wristwatches are noted for their refined design language, and there is even an annual industry award—the Le Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève or GPHG—for the best-designed watches in different categories. Feting watch design makes sense because the need for clean, clutter-free design has been paramount since the beginning of wristwatches in the 1920s and 30s. In part, this is because 20th-century wars needed them. The first wristwatches were improvised pocket watches strapped on the wrists by soldiers in the First World War. By the time the next World War rolled around, wristwatches had become the de facto method of daily timekeeping, and brands had developed watches for every combat situation. From field watches for the army to aviation watches for the air force, wristwatch design allied durability, water resistance, and legibility into an unbeatable combination. During the economic boom of the 1950s and 60s, a new type of wristwatch came to the fore—dressy timepieces that would be perfect for the office worker. Also Read 8 best GMT and Worldtimer watches for globetrotters this summer The buzzwords for this paradigm change were simplicity and minimalism. Watch dials started reflecting both of these attributes and clean time-only dials became the bread-and-butter of the industry. At the most, watches would make space for a date complication, but anything else was too much. With this simplicity came a new focus on watch case design, with several original design thinkers making an effort to make the wristwatch into a work of industrial art that would reflect the radical new ideas sweeping through the design world. Many iconic wristwatches developed in those decades still rule the market (at least their modern versions do), be it a Rolex Submariner or an Omega Seamaster, or flagship models from IWC, Longines, and Breitling. One watch that comes directly from the world of art and design is the Junghans Max Bill. Its story begins not on the wrist but in the kitchen. In the late 1950s, Swiss designer Max Bill—already a leading figure of post-war modernism and a graduate from the modernist Bauhaus school of design—created a sleek kitchen clock with a built-in timer for the German watchmaker Junghans. It is an elegant object with clean, minimalist lines, and it quietly embodied the Bauhaus ideal: form following function with clarity and grace. For Bill, timekeeping was not just a mechanical concern but a philosophical one. His lifelong fascination with time—nurtured early on by a watchmaker grandfather—would soon evolve into one of the most enduring collaborations in modern horology. Also Read 5 wristwatch YouTube channels every horology enthusiast should follow Bill was a polymath equally at ease as a painter, sculptor, architect, and designer. He was fascinated with time, which he inherited perhaps from his grandfather, a watchmaker. 'Little things? Maybe. I believe that our lives depend on little things," he once said. 'And a lot of that time, the watch measures for us. That's why I'm so obsessed with making beautiful, precise timepieces." A post shared by @dshx_pictures Following the clock's success, Junghans invited Bill to translate that ethos onto the wrist. He agreed—on one condition: he would not follow fashion but create something original. He was only interested in design that was stripped of trends and was informed instead by utility and elegance. The first Junghans Max Bill watches appeared in 1961 as a perfect circle of form and function. The visual language is instantly recognisable: a watch that is nearly all-dial, with slender, squared lugs; delicate lines for the minute tracks, thin lume-filled hands; Roman numerals as hour markers, in a font that Bill designed, that seem to float above an uncluttered dial. Whether quartz or mechanical, hand-wound or solar-powered, the watch remains deeply rooted in Bill's Bauhaus ideal: beauty as an aspect of function, but never its master. And yet, it's more than Bauhaus purity. The Max Bill doesn't just sit on your wrist—it teaches you to see. A product of industrial design that's earned its place in New York's Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) permanent collection, the Junghans is the Platonic ideal of the wristwatch. It is a design that demonstrates that restraint can be radical and that utility can be lyrical. It's a watch that tells the time, and makes a significant but subtle statement while doing so. Handwound is a monthly column on watches and watchmaking. Also Read 6 things to keep in mind while buying a wristwatch
Tatler Asia
07-05-2025
- Business
- Tatler Asia
World Watch Day: Horology celebrates global recognition on October 10, 2025
Behind this initiative stands an unprecedented coalition of horology's most influential institutions. The founding members—including the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, Foundation of Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), and Horological Society of New York—have created a dedicated non-profit to coordinate what promises to be an annual celebration of considerable magnitude. "The global watchmaking community has never been more connected," observes Serge Maillard, publisher of Europa Star. "One thing was still missing: a day to celebrate watchmaking worldwide, with no entry barriers." Raymond Loretan, president of GPHG, puts it succinctly: "GPHG's mission is to honour and highlight the creativity and excellence of contemporary watchmaking each year. We're proud to take part in the creation of World Watch Day—a unifying celebration of the Twelfth Art." Read more: IWC's CEO Christoph Grainger-Herr on winning the top prize at GPHG 2024 When October 10 arrives, expect a 24-hour celebration that follows the sun, starting in the East and concluding in the West. The day will explore watchmaking through multiple lenses—cultural, scientific, economic, artistic—with participation from media outlets, associations, collectors' clubs, and content creators worldwide. "World Watch Day is more than just a date—it's a tribute to everything that makes watchmaking extraordinary," explains Marc André Deschoux, founder of Horopedia Foundation. "It's about the hands that shape each piece, the knowledge passed down from generation to generation, and the urgency we feel to preserve this legacy." More details at
