The Lange & Sohne’s watch will be available at the Dubai store with a retail price of 1.2 million euros (or about $1.75 million).

On August 28th, Jean-Claude Biver unveiled in front of the Old Trafford stadium the biggest clock ever built by Hublot.

It was specially created for the reigning English champions, and, at a height of 10 metres, designed to take pride of place in front of the legendary stadium.

The clock was unveiled in the presence of Sir Alex Ferguson and the Manchester United players.

Luxury Swiss watch and jewellery maker Chopard has just taken a substantial order from Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

The order was for 250 limited edition watches valued at around 8 million Swiss Francs ($7.5 million).

They should each have the likeness of Colonel Gaddafi on them in some form and were ordered to celebrate his 40th anniversary of being in office.

Mary J Blige and Gucci have teamed up to create a limited edition watch that will benefit Blige’s charity Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now.

Last year Gucci teamed up with Rihanna for their tattoo heart collection to benefit UNICEF.

The limited edition timepiece is a variation of the much hyped ‘Twirl” watch.

For 2009, Piaget has created a new watch concept entirely in keeping with previous extravagant collections: the Limelight Twice.

This is a truly original watch featuring an asymmetric design.

The design brief called for it to be endowed with a dual nature, that is capable of showing itself demure or extrovert according to one’s mood.