This was a limited edition model was introduced in Hong Kong at this year’s first Watches & Wonders exhibition. It comes with the full perpetual calendar works, including a moon-phase, leap year, day, outsize date, day/night indicator, and a month display, situated around the periphery of the dial with the current month marked by a small arrow at the 6 o’clock position.
Nothing said could really do this watch justice. It’s the perfect mix of technological brilliance and flawless design. Notice that nothing is overlapping here, which greatly enhances dial readability. Also, the hand-finished engraving is just beautiful. Probably my favorite watch to look at, in all honesty.
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This phase connects the nerve impulse (excitation) and the muscle action (contraction). At this point, the stimulus has traveled down the neuron to the motor end-plate, spreads along the sarcolemma and down the T-tubules, and has stimulated the sarcoplasmic reticulum to release calcium ions.
These calcium ions bind to the troponin molecules located on the actin, which opens up a binding site for the myosin cross-bridges to attach.
Note: Potential force production in the muscle depends directly on how many myosin cross-bridges are attached at any one moment
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Calcium is stored in the sarcoplasmic reticulum and very few – if any – myosin cross-bridges are bound to the actin filaments, which means there is little or no tension in the muscle.
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If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, then Patek is certainly a man’s closest companion. Tchaikovsky and Albert Einstein were some of the proud owners of a Patek Philippe watch. Patek’s regularly fetch close to a million dollars at auctions today.
The Patek Philippe museum is a pilgramage that every watch aficionado hopes to make in their life.
$11 million Patek watch.
The art deco style isn’t for everyone, but personally, I love it. The Gondolo is a beautiful demonstration of traditional styling mixed with the latest technological innovations. This bad boy has a power reserve of 8 days!
This Classique is a monument to stunning hand-finished quality. The date is displayed at 6 o’clock on a dial adorned with a sunburst guilloché motif, in which each of the rays corresponds to a date. The day of the week and leap-year indications appear opposite each other at 3:30 and 8:30 respectively. Via WCL:
