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An impressive turnout of 120 participants enjoyed an excellent golfing day at the Golf Club Lavaux situated in a picturesque location, near the city of Lausanne. Participants included numerous professionals and prominent local personalities - and the Club was very proud that Mr Urquhart (OMEGA President) and Mr Schreve (Retail Manager Swatch Group & Tourbillon Boutiques) were also able to be present at the prize-giving ceremony. Sunny weather conditions made for a wonderful competition which culminated in a prize-giving ceremony, aperitif and Barbeque attended by Stephen Urquhart and Frederik Schreve. The overall standard of play was superb.Mr Frederik Schreve, Retail Manager of the Swatch Group & Tourbillon Boutiques was very pleased with the success of the event. He said, “I am totally taken aback by the fact that this tournament was such a tremendous hit. The level of the tournament was excellent and I felt the positive spirit of the golfers – and that’s exactly what Tourbillon Boutique stands for! The ambience was relaxed and the participants enjoyed a great day of golf with perfect weather conditions. This event gave us a terrific possibility to deepen our local contacts and to create new opportunities for the Tourbillon Boutique in Lausanne.”The seventh round of the OMEGA Double Eagle Trophies will take place on 25 July at the Golf Club Domaine Impérial de Gland and will be co-organised by OMEGA and watch retailer Zbinden Geneva:Results:Winner of 0.0 -15.0 Hcp. / brutto / Strokeplay 1.David Sifonios, Golf Club LavauxWinner of 0.0 -15.0 Hcp. / netto / Strokeplay 1. Maxime Merz, Golf Club LavauxWinner of 15.1 – 36.0 Hcp. / netto / Stableford 1. Adrien Alberini, Golf Club LavauxWinner Juniors of 0.0 – 36.0 Hcp. / netto / Stableford 1. Sébastien Scharl., Golf Glub Lavaux

Audemars Piguet Millenary 4101 AutomaticThe new Audemars Piguet Millenary 4101 automatic watch was officially presented a couple of weeks ago at the SIHH 2011 and immediately became a new icon of the Swiss brand.Just like it was done with the recently presented Piaget Emperador Coussin Tourbillon Ultra-Thin and the gorgeous De Bethune DB28 in titanium, the new Audemars Piguet Millenary 4101 takes the idea of a skeletonized watch and, literally, turns it inside out.The main idea behind the whole concept of skeletonization is to show off the inner workings of a mechanical movement.The result is a beautifully crafted (in most cases, but not always) display, which is a real pleasure to admire, but (again, in most cases, but not always) a real pain to look at when all you need is to find out what time it is now.Millenary’s signature off-centered main dial that takes less than half of the real estate of the huge 47 x 42 mm oval-shaped case, was the best candidate to make a skeleton watch, which is both beautiful and, at the same time, absolutely legible.As you can see on the pictures, AP’s engineers reworked the automatic movement in such a way, that its regulating organ that comprises the balance, lever and escapement is moved to the periphery of the caliber and, judging by the looks of it, is positioned right in the F1 focus of the oval.It is anchored to the movement with a massive-looking bridge, which (like the rest of the 12 visible bridges) is decorated with horizontal Cotes de Geneva stripes.The main hours and minutes display is done in two solid metal parts and, decorated with applied Roman numerals, is perfectly legible, although the leaf-shaped hands would look even better if they were not skeletonized, but simply covered with some Superluminova.As usual, the result is a finely crafted, well-balanced and, let me admit that, highly desirable watch that can prove a huge success, if Audemars Piguet will manage to find the point of intersection of the supply and demand curves.