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The Forbidden City and the Palace Museum Lying at the heart of China's capital city, Beijing, the 720,000 square-metre Forbidden City is considered the largest and most splendid palace in the world.Formerly carefully guarded, this palace has now open to the public and welcomes around 8 million visitors each year.Within its walls, the replica Omega 1376.75 WoMen's watch 160,000 square-metre Palace Museum faithfully preserves over 1,500,000 works of art and objets d'art.The Watch and Clock Hall houses one of the largest collections of mechanical timepieces, comprising over 1000 models from the 18th and 19th centuries - but no modern wristwatch up until now! A worthy ambassador of the art of watch, Blancpain has been entrusted with the immense privilege of exhibiting the first and only modern wristwatch there.

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Hodinkee in Zenith Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 3:28PM Tucked away in a seemingly remote wooded part of Japan, near the town of Morioka, sits a world-class Corum 137-424-47-0026 EB34 WoMen's watch facility that has been quietly producing some of the world’s finest mechanical watches for over 70 years.Called the Shizukuishi Watch Studio (check out a movie about this studio here), the workshop is distinctly different from any other watch atelier in Europe.

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