LIP Watch Exhibition July 2008 New York City

The 141 year old French watch brand LIP is reintroducing some of the most important wristwatches - a series from the early 1970s that remains as visionary today as when first unveiled almost four decades ago. These timepieces were created from a melting pot of Pan European industrial, architectural, interior and graphic designers, all given carte blanche by LIP to create some of the most original watches ever produced.

Of the seven original designers between 1969 and 1976, Roger Tallon has made the most lasting impact. A true renaissance man of the mid-century. Tallon's contributions to the Modern era include the Teleavia, the earliest portable television, the world's first Helicoid staircase (part of the Museum of Modern Art collection), and the ultra modern French high speed TGV trains. His asymmetric Mach 2000 series has since become an icon for LIP with their unmistakable primary colored spherical pushers and crowns.

The legacy of LIP evolves today in the hands of talented new designers like Prisca Briquet who are writing the next chapter of watch design in horological history.

For the first time ever, LIP watches are available in the United States - offered at various Barneys New York locations and exclusively online at www.watchismo.com

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[BLANCPAIN1775]

BUY VINTAGE , THE ORIGINAL !!

I  have 45 originals vintages lip ( mechanical , automatic and "éléctronic" )

i MEET SOME YEARS AGO ON AUCTION IN PARIS THE "brat" pia maria coustans who robber the watch to people to make his famous book

SHE SAID AT THAT TIME , i want to make a book of lip , do you want to give to me and also i will give you back .

Actually , she sale all her colection in auctions in paris and i said to her she was a robber ( she doesn't answer )

so long §§

[sqd8r]

thx, I'm debating between the aeronef all black or dark master with multi-coloured knobs,