神秘野性的蛇年蛇造型珠宝

神秘野性的蛇年蛇造型珠宝

　　新年就要到来，THOMAS SABO推出蛇年珠宝配饰。融合古老神话的精髓，THOMAS SABO特别将蛇形图案融入饰品的设计中。蛇形携载着力量，闪耀着野性、迷人、充满诱惑的神秘魅力，同时也不乏优雅与精致。2013年，这些魅力非凡的配饰可以打造出性感迷人的时尚装扮，同时也将带来力量与好运。

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顶级翡翠珠宝展京城亮相

顶级翡翠珠宝展京城亮相

　　近日,一年一度的顶级翡翠珠宝展在蓝色港湾每克拉美旗舰店开幕.在本次翡翠展上,来自缅北的奢华翠宝吸引着众多翡翠藏家和爱好者.本次翡翠珠宝展将持续到2月3日.

　　翡翠,被称为玉器之王,无论是其色泽还是硬度,都远远超出传统玉器之上,其晶莹的色泽已经被现在越来越多的人所喜爱.据悉,本次展品来自缅北的翡翠矿区,其质地细腻纯净无瑕疵,颜色为纯正、明亮、浓郁、均匀的翠绿色在光的照射下呈透明状,是翡翠中的极品.

　　在现场,记者看到多件种水俱佳、各具特色的展品.纯正质地的翡翠手镯,玉质密致、晶莹剔透.作品雕工精美,打磨光滑细致,通体带着几许稳重与洒脱.翡翠挂件散发出古朴华贵的韵味,沉稳含蓄的独特气质,更是令人爱慕不已.顶级翡翠观音王透过精湛的切割技术,与花蕊中的碧玺宝石光芒交相辉映,如真似幻.

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Learning To Tell the Time Would Have Been So Much Easier With a One-Handed Watch

Andrew Liszewski

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Even though most of us grew up in a time when digital watches were the norm, learning how to read an analog clock face is a handy skill that would have been far easier to master were there only one moving hand like on these lovely Defakto watches.

These beautifully minimalist timepieces combine the hour and minute hands into a single sweeping arm that makes a full rotation twice a day. Because the hand ticks forward every five minutes, you can still get a fairly accurate sense of the time at a quick glance. It's probably not for those with a strong prescription, but for those of us keen on simpler designs it's $340 well spent. Unless, of course, you're completely dependent on a digital display.

[Defakto via Coudal Partners]

Learning To Tell the Time Would Have Been So Much Easier With a One-Handed Watch

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How Humans Kept Time At the Olympics Before Machines Did All the Work

Mario Aguilar

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In 2009, Usain Bolt "shattered" Tyson Gay's world record in the 100-meter dash by a whopping .11 seconds. How do we know that? Because an ultra-precise, automated timekeeping machine told us so. It didn't used to be that way.

Olympic officials wisely relinquished control over the clock long ago, but once upon a time a guy held a stopwatch in his hand and started and stopped it to the best of his ability. Omega has been the official timekeeper for the Olympics since 1932, and the Olympic Pocket Watch 1932 above is a replica of the watch used that year. It keeps the regular time of day, and has a built-in stopwatch operated by the start and stop pushers on top.

The gorgeous pocket chronograph looks nothing like the big digital readouts we see in London, but don't let its old style fool you. The movement is very precise. It's just that humans suck at using it. [Omega via Christies via Business Insider]

How Humans Kept Time At the Olympics Before Machines Did All the Work

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Watch Made From Mount Everest Rock Is Still Cheaper Than Climbing It Yourself

Andrew Liszewski

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You might scoff at spending almost seventeen grand on a relatively boring watch that's crafted from a chunk of rock brought down from Everest's summit. But when you consider an expedition up the world's tallest mountain can cost as much as $83,000, this timepiece actually becomes a slightly more affordable way to visit the top of the world. Kind of.

Handcrafted in Nepal, the chunk of Everest used in Kobold's Himalaya Everest Edition watch was actually brought down the mountain by watchmaker Michael Kobold and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes back in 2009. But it took two years for a German company to cut and polish the rock into the seven millimeter thick discs used as the watches' faces to ensure they were all structurally sound and wouldn't crack. So if you and 24 others have always fantasized about visiting Everest but don't like the cold or risking your life, with this timepiece you can have the mountain brought to you.

[Kobold via Born Rich]

Watch Made From Mount Everest Rock Is Still Cheaper Than Climbing It Yourself

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This Stealthly Analog Smartwatch Can Be Your Little Secret

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Smartwatches can have some pretty useful functionality, but maybe you don't want to broadcast to the world that you're wearing one, or maybe you just prefer good old-fashioned analog. The Citizen Eco-Drive Proximity was made with you in mind.

The Proximity, while appearing to be a somewhat regular watch, actually has some small words written around its rim, words like "Mail" and "Call." Whenever your phone goes off, the second hand discretely jumps over to point at the relevant word, without affecting the time-keeping of the piece at large.

It's a neat idea, but there are a few downsides. It's only for iPhone, and iPhone 4S or newer at that and it's not particularly cheap either at $550. Granted it's also just a nice watch, so that's what you're really paying for. After all, it's a smartwatch that can't even tell you who is calling, but that's your trade-off for stealth, I suppose. It'll be going on sale later this fall. [A Blog To Read via Engadget]

This Stealthly Analog Smartwatch Can Be Your Little Secret

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Average Day Watch Reveals How You Waste Your Life

Andrew Liszewski

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The Average Day Watch does a lot more than just let you keep track of how long you've been sprawled out on the couch watching TV. It actually has the potential to improve your life, shaming you into physical activity or other pursuits by breaking down how the rest of civilization spends their days.

It turns out that the average human doesn't spend 21 hours in bed, and that 15 hour TV marathons aren't the norm. The revelations are as surprising as they are disappointing, particularly a generous section titled 'Social Life' which probably has nothing to do with Twitter or Facebook. For $230 it's a harsh dose of reality in a stylish timepiece, but where's the section for commenting on expensive and stupid watch designs on your favorite blog? [UncommonGoods]

Average Day Watch Reveals How You Waste Your Life

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This Vintage Soviet Space Watch Is the Ultimate in Cosmonaut Style

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With the demise of NASA's shuttle program, one of the best ways to get to space today is a $63 million seat on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Show the Cosmonauts how happy you are to come aboard by arriving to the launchpad wearing this beautiful vintage watch, which celebrates the achievements of the Soviet space program.

This fine 1979 timepiece is available at Bureau of Trade for $70. The watch is known as "Lunokhod," which means "moon walker." The Russians might be touchy about the fact that their countrymen have never successfully set foot on the lunar surface. Try to steer the conversation toward that other Moonwalker, Michael Jackson. Or, just use the watch as a stylish way to count down the seconds until you can catch a ride on SpaceX instead.

This Vintage Soviet Space Watch Is the Ultimate in Cosmonaut Style

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Sometimes Watch: Awesome Accessory, Subpar at Telling Time

Leslie Horn

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I don't wear a watch. I never have. If I did it would be more or less as a bracelet, but I dig the Sometimes Watch because it's just so simple and cool.

Bright colors remind you of the Swatch you might have worn in grade school, but its pared down to give it an air of sophistication. Buy it for $140 at the MoMA store, which by the way has a ton of really awesome stuff. This watch won't give you a super accurate read on the time, but it's a sweet little accessory. [MoMA]

Sometimes Watch: Awesome Accessory, Subpar at Telling Time

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You Don't Need a PhD in Astronomy To Decipher This Satellite Watch

Andrew Liszewski

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It's still going to take some practice to be able to read the time at a glance, but Mr. Jones' new Satellite watch doesn't look as complicated as Tokyo Flash's latest efforts. And astronomy enthusiasts will appreciate its use of hour and minute markers that look like orbiting celestial bodies.

Instead of an LCD display or even numbers, the $195 Satellite's black watch face simply has a pair of spheres that reveal a series of colored dots as they orbit around its center. The colors follow a six hour pattern so eventually you'll be able to accurately estimate the time with a quick peek. But since the watch represents an entire 24 hours, it might be hard for some wearers to get used to the six o'clock mark actually denoting midnight.

[Watchismo via Ubergizmo]

You Don't Need a PhD in Astronomy To Decipher This Satellite Watch

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This Sleek Clock Let's You Count Down to Some Terrifyingly Ambiguous Events

Eric Limer

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No matter what's going on in your life today, there's always something else around the bend, something to anticipate or dread. This countdown clock helps you keep your hopeful sights on the former. Or the latter if you're a masochist.

The Mr. Jones countdown clock, aside from being a rather spiffy looking analogue clock on its own, has its own, built-in countdown mechanism that can support a wait of up to 999 days. When it comes to what you're counting down to, the clock comes with a built-in list including specific holidays to more vague goals like "Freedom" and "The party" to ones that can be construed as more terrifyingly forboding, like "They arrive" or "It's over."

If you need a classy countdown clock to remind you how long til "It's over" whatever "it" may be, the Mr. Jones clock is available now for $124. You could always just keep count in your head or on paper for free, but there's something fun about the idea of having one of these on your desk and responding with a dead-eyed stare whenever friends and coworkers ask you who "they" are and why they're coming. [Watchismo]

This Sleek Clock Let's You Count Down to Some Terrifyingly Ambiguous Events

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Would You Wear a Google Smartwatch That Looked Like This?

Eric Limer

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Whatever your opinion on the whole smartwatch thing is, don't worry/get excited; this isn't real. This is just a concept design called "Google Time" by Adrian Maciburko. That said, they look kind of, well, nice.

Of course for a smartwatch to be any good it'd also have to work well, unlike some others we've seen. But Google Now, with its attempts (and reasonable success) at getting to know you better than you know yourself, you could get something that's actually interesting. So what do you say, would you be at all interested in a Google Smartwatch like this? You know, if it actually existed. [Adrian Maciburko via The Next Web]

Would You Wear a Google Smartwatch That Looked Like This?

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Ticking Teeth Skull Watch Walks the Line Between Clever and Morbid

Andrew Liszewski

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Skull-based accessories are usually only popular with a certain demographic who've embraced the morbid side of life. But damned if this Last Laugh watch from Mr. Jones hasn't crossed the border into mainstream territories with a clever mechanism that shows the hour and minutes on the skull's teeth.

Powered by an automatic mechanical movement that basically means just wearing the watch keeps it wound, the Last Laugh is a little pricey at $260 for what is essentially a clever sight gag. But there are plenty of timepiece collectors out there (and well-heeled goths) who will no doubt snatch it up in droves. [Watchismo via Holycool]

Ticking Teeth Skull Watch Walks the Line Between Clever and Morbid

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Garmin Approach S2 Straps 30,000 Golf Courses To Your Wrist

Andrew Liszewski

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If there's one sport that's managed to spawn an entire industry of bizarre gadgets promising to improve a player's game, it's golf. But Garmin's new Approach S2 watch manages to shine in a sea of mediocrity, providing a genuinely useful tool to golfers with a library of over 30,000 course layouts from around the world, available without the need for a mobile data connection.

At just 1.8 ounces the Approach S2 is lighter than carrying a dedicated GPS unit, or even relying on your phone. And during a round it uses GPS to measure the distance of a shot, as well as the yardage to the hole. It's also got a pedometer if you're curious how many steps you took from the green to your golf cart and back, a simple digital score card, and will drop in March for $250. [Garmin]

Garmin Approach S2 Straps 30,000 Golf Courses To Your Wrist

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Simple Science Lets This Gorgeous Dive Watch Track Your Depth

Andrew Liszewski

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Oris' new Aquis Depth Gauge might not be the first watch to let a diver track the depth of their underwater excursions, but it takes a unique approach to that functionality.

Instead of relying on electronics and sensors that can add bulk to a watch, the Aquis Depth Gauge features a thicker sapphire crystal with an air channel milled into the side that runs almost all the way around the dial. At the twelve o'clock position there's a small hole which lets water in when the diver gets deep enough for the surrounding pressure to compress the air in the channel. And using the numbers printed around the dial, they're able to read their depth by simply finding the spot where the water meets the air inside.

Known as a capillary depth gauge it's supposedly incredibly accurate, and there's absolutely no lag when taking a reading as it's perpetually being updated. However, it is lacking one important feature: the ability to remember what the diver's deepest depth was which is important to know when calculating a safe speed of ascent. So even if it does come in a badass waterproof briefcase full of tools and swappable straps, it's still kind of a bummer that Oris is asking $3,570 for a diving watch that might still require a separate piece of hardware.

[Oris via Perpetuelle]

Simple Science Lets This Gorgeous Dive Watch Track Your Depth

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