Jewelry, watches, fashion,
cosmetics
Welcome to this online store where you can find quality
watches, apparel and beauty articles from famous producents for a good prize. Pleace click on the banners to learn more or order. First on this page are presented some good sources of jewelry artworks, watches and apparel. After that there is an exhibition of some selected products from these sources. Further down there is an article about properties, advantages and disadvantages with mechanical and digital watches and the competition between these technologies.
Good sites to buy jewelry and watches
SuperJeweler - Fine jewelry of high quality
- The specialities of this shop are all kind diamond jewelry, wedding rings and engagement rings. But you will find all types of jewelry with all kinds of noble stones and metals: Rings, earrings, pendants, necklaces, bracelets made of wihit gold, yellow gold, silver, platina, titanium, opals, emeralds rubys, sapphires, rock crystal, amethysts, citrines, peridotes, garnets, agathes and more.
Forzieri - Artistic Italian and European jewelry, fashion, watches and decore objects
- Here you can find jewelry, fashion, watches, bags, shoes, decore objects and several other things of high artistic value. You find artistic objects from famous Italian and European houses, and a lot of fine artworks from smaller producents and individual artists which posess a highly skilled craftmansship. A speciality is all things made of Murano glass.
Please click here to enter the shop -Forzieri.com
For people in America, please click here to enter the shop - Forzieri.com United States
Titanium Kay - Jewelry made of robust materials
- Jewelry made of extra rough and though noble metals, suited for people of
action, like tungsten, zirconium, carbon fiber, titanium, wolfram,
stailess steel or ceramic materials containing these elements like
tungsten carbide. You also find jewelry of these materials combined or combined
with yellow gold, silver or diamonds.
Princton Watches - Quality watches, many for greatly discounted prizes
- In this store you can find many quality watch brands for a good prize, like:
Citizen watches (Citizen Eco Drive watches and more), Seiko watches (Seiko
kinetic watches, Seiko automatic watches, and more), Movado watches, Luminox
watches (Luminox Navy SEAL watches and more), and Invicta watches. Please go through this banner to browse the whole shop:
Good sites for styly fashion for men and women and quality cosmetics
Perry Ellis - Urban style apparel for men and women
Cubavera - Elegant Latino style fashion for both sexes
Penguin - Casual and freetime style apparel for men and women
Rafaella - Beautiful apparel for women for every day life
StrawberryNET - Famous quality cosmetics for good prizes - also a lot of skin-care products to help against acne and other skin problems
- For men and women. Worldwide shipping. All cosmetic preparations from each producent.
A few producent examples: Anna Sui, Biotherm , Borghese , Bvlgari , Carita ,
Cellex-C, Chanel, Christian Dior , Clarins, Clinique, Darphin , Decleor ,
Dermalogica , Estee Lauder , Guerlain, Guinot.
Fine examples of jewelry and artworks from the inventories
Exmples of quality watches for
men and women from the stores listed above and other good sources
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To read about the competition between electronics and mechanics in watch design, and the future development of watches, please scroll down
Technical watch concepts explained
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The run between mechanic and electronic watch design
For many centuries clocks and watches were typically mechanic devices. Mechanically stored energy was transmitted to accurately paced movements, and ultimately indicated by pointers on a face by means of a series of interlocking gears and pedulums.
The electronic technology entered into the design of some few watches and clocks a long time ago when the mechanical energy source began to be replaced by batteries and electric motors.
Then in the 1970es the fully digital watches were introduced to the maked, even though the invention was much older. The reason for bringing this kind of watch on the market exactly at that time, was that by now the digital curcuit technology was so far developed that all logical functions and monitor function could be made into the size of a watch, and that it was even possible to build even more function into a watch with digital technology than with the contemporary mechanic technology. The digital technology could also be made more accurate.
The digital watches were introduced to the market mainly by japanese manufacturers, and they nearly managed to compete the European and especially Swiss menchanical watch manufacturers out of market.
However, the manufactorers of mechanical watches were not willing to give up, and they began an ambitious research program to develop the mechanical technology to give the same accuracy as the digital one. After some years, they could bring watches out on the market with the following adventages: Great accuracy, optimum robustness, independence of bateries that must be replaced or recharged and with traditional indicator faces that in many ways is more practical than digitally indicated figures.
For some years the following situation have existed: If you wanted a watch with great realiability, robustness, longevity, independence of batteries and accuracy, the you should buy a mechanic watch. If you wanted a watch with a lot of logical functions, a digital watch is the answar.
However, the digital technology has also evolved. For example is it by now possible to integrate solar panels into a digital watch, and a digital watch can by now have integrated a radio resceiver that resceives exact timing information from external sources. The digital technology has also become very cheap. However, digital technology is still far less robust than high quality mechanic technology, and is outdated very fast.
Also mechanic technology is evolving. Microelectronics has long been available. Now also micromechanics is an existing concept, and even molecular mechanics is being developed. Soon many logical functions that by now only can be achieved through microelectronics can be integreted into a mechanic clockwork.
The future of high quality watches will probably be a combination of mechanics and electronics. The watch will have a major mechanic part that performs the basic timing logic and monitor function, and that can work independently of any electronics.
The mechanics part of the watch will be of an material and artistic quality that is not possible to achieve by electronic components.
They will have a electronic part that can resceive timing and other information through a radio resceiver, perform all types of advanced logical functions and adjust the mechanical part with exact timing information. This digical unit can easily be replaces and updated when becessary. If the electronic part brake, then the mechanic part still wil work, and if the mechanic part breaks, the electronic part will also still be working.
Already now you find units with external design as a watch that also have cellphone capabilities, and the development in the future will integrate steadily more communication, measurement and computing capabilities in watchformated units togeather with the timing capabilities.
The future high end watches will probably also integrate all kind of physical measurements and physical allarms, for example measurement of temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, radioactivity, content of gasses in the air, earth magetism, compass direction and probably many more things.
Future high end watches are also likely to intergrate measurements of vital parameters of the person that wears it, like pulse, temperature, skin resistance, blood oxygen, blood carbon dioxid content. They will also likely have intergrated the possibility of sending wireless allarms based on these measurements or on environmental measurements to centrals of many kind for people wanting to have those possibilities. They will further likely have possibilities of wiroless tracking of persons for those wanting these possibilities.
All the described functions of future watches are allready or will be functions also of the cell-phone. One may wander what will be the trade-off between the watches and the cell-phones. Probably all functions that one have to look at with a quick glance, for example during sport activities will be integrated in the watch.
Functions that need greater and more advanced user interfaces will be the natural realm of the cellphone. However, there will be situations where it is practical to also have cellphone capabilities in the watch, and basic cellphone functionality will also probably be integreted in some advanced watches.
The problem with integrating everything possible in the watch is not communication, measurement, computation or dataste. The problem is the user interface, since many advanced functions need a big and complicated user interface.