To start the countdown to a regatta (in which perfect timing is crucial, with all boats required to line up behind an imaginary line without crossing it), the owner pushes an orange push-button at 4 o’clock to move the central orange chronograph minute hand back, one minute at a time, until it is at the correct position in relation to the length of the countdown. (AT SIHH 2017, the brand took its support of sailing sports to the next level, becoming Official Timekeeper of the America’s Cup.) that The Panerai Luminor 1950 Regatta 3 Days Chrono Flyback Titanio (PAM00526) has a lightweight, brushed titanium case, 47 mm in diameter, and is outfitted with Panerai’s in-house Caliber P.9100/R, which powers not only a flyback chronograph but a user-friendly regatta countdown function. Panerai is much better known for making watches for use underwater rather than above the waves, but the Swiss-Florentine brand began sponsoring the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge in 2005 and introduced its first dedicated yachting watch at SIHH 2013. Panerai Luminor 1950 Regatta 3 Days Chrono Flyback Titanio The Corum Admiral’s Cup AC-One 45 Tides has the collection’s hallmark 12-sided case, which is made of titanium coated with blue PVD and measures 45 mm in diameter, and comes on a vulcanized blue rubber strap. Meanwhile, the 9 o’clock display tells the wearer if tides are rising or falling. A subdial at 6 o’clock tells when the next two tides will occur. (Tides, of course, are affected by the moon’s relation to the earth and sun.) A hand on the subdial at 12 o’clock indicates the tidal coefficient, or range between high and low tides. This watch’s movement, Caliber CO 277 - which Corum spent three years working with the Astronomic Observatory of Geneva and French Navy’s oceanographic institute to create - contains a mechanical complication that is eminently useful for someone piloting a boat: a moon-phase-like function that informs the wearer of how strong and how high the tides are, and when high and low tide will next occur. Numerous variations on the Corum Admiral’s Cup have been introduced over the years, including the Corum Admiral’s Cup AC-One 45 Tides. The Admiral’s Cup has since grown to become an entire collection, one of Corum’s core pillars. Still, as Finley stressed, “even if they do get away, where do they go and how do these people manage to upkeep their boats when they don’t have access to those services?”Īdriana Belmonte is a reporter and editor covering politics and health care policy for Yahoo Finance.Corum has been making watches for yachtsmen since 1960, when it debuted the first Corum Admiral’s Cup watch, named after and inspired by the famous yacht race of the same name. The caveat, though, is that the person controlling the yacht can turn off its tracking system if it wants to stay private. Several websites enable users to track the movements of yachts, such as and. “A number of them seem to be going to the Maldives or to the Seychelles or are already over in the Arabian Sea near Dubai.” “Viktor Vekselberg, who is under sanctions in the United States, his yacht is currently in Palma de Mallorca here in Spain, but a lot of the other yachts have left and have started heading to various different places,” Finley said.

REUTERS/Donat Sorokin/TASS/Host Photo Agency/Pool Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia, June 2, 2017. Viktor Vekselberg attends a session of the St.

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