Last year, he collaborated with another independent watchmaker, the British-born Peter Speake-Marin, to create Immortality, a one-of-a-kind timepiece with a hand-engraved solid silver dial featuring a stylized dragon.
Another Cartier model — one of four timepieces from the brand this year that exemplify how the artistic crafts can be adapted to suit the constraints of a wristwatch dial — features a mosaic of gemstones, including Kalahari jasper, chocolate obsidian and pink opal, to form a horse image on the dial of the Santos-Dumont XL watch.
The dial featured a celebratory red "10" at the 10 o'clock position to symbolize the anniversary.
The Guilloché dial features a futuristic-looking hexagonal pattern (that is actually shaped like part of the movement) that is not too messy to render the hands illegible.
The U.S. market, for example, and particularly the market there for ladies watches, is friendly to dials featuring diamond hour indicators.
Talk story about a telephone company service called Dial-A-Joke featuring Henny Youngman telling seven jokes for one message unit.
The New Yorker, April 22 , 1974P. 33 Talk story about a telephone company service called Dial-A-Joke featuring Henny Youngman telling seven jokes for one message unit.
By Anthony Hiss The New Yorker, April 22 , 1974P. 33 Talk story about a telephone company service called Dial-A-Joke featuring Henny Youngman telling seven jokes for one message unit.
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Its lacquered dial features stripes that resemble the car's signature grille; the retro dial displays read like dashboard gauges.
The plain, almost austerely simple dial features just the word Reverso, without the usual Jaeger-LeCoultre logo, an elegant nod to the original design.
