Personal Review of Ulysse Nardin Circus Minute Repeater Watch (335 words)

Ulysse Nardin watches have gained much attention in past few years via the huge success of their Maxi Marine Diver collection. Thanks to MMD, other watch lines from this brand is known to more people as well. Ulysse Nardin owes this success to their faithful to the brand¡¯s tradition and features. And Ulysse Nardin is also known as a major watch maker that still produce high quality that udibly chimes the hours, quarters, and often minutes. Even in today¡¯s slow economy, this brand does not stop making minute repeater watches.

Ulysse Nardin Jaquemart Circus Minute Repeater, for example, is their latest offering in this field. This complicated mechanical watch with aesthetically beautiful appearance is born with the irresistible charm of the minute repeater-the queen of haute horlogerie complications. Powered by a hand-wound mechanical movement, the new Ulysse Nardin watch marks the the hours, the quarter hours, the individual minutes via different notes that offer beautiful melody to the wearer.

Made from an entire piece of black onyx, the dial of the watch has carved a group of lifelike performers in either white gold or yellow gold. The dial is thus not just a tell-telling platform but also a circus stage. The performers will do their job each time the minute repeater slide is pushed. The monkey is responsible for the the hour chimes. At every hour, it snatches the balls juggled by the clown. The tamer whips to indicate every the quarter hour. And the tiger moves at every new minute. The bear bows to the ballerina when the repeater mechanism is activated. So this watch in fact present an audio & visual feast to its owner. How interesting and amazing it is.

Ulysse Nardin just made 30 pieces of the Circus Minute Repeater watch which is completed by a matching black alligator leather strap. The price tag of this extraordinary watch reaches $250,000.00. Few people on this planet can afford indeed. To launch it in an highly exclusive limited edition is a safe solution.