The popularity of the watchphone concept

Both the Maurice Lacroix watches and mobile phone industry enjoy strong development in this digital world, which arouses the concept of combining the two and it makes the watchphone being produced.The concept of the watchphone has had limited success in recent times, despite LG's best efforts to bring the communicative technology to the consumer's wrist.And yet one of the more upmarket companies is combining them the other way, instead creating a mobile phone with a watch built into the front face of the clamshell design.Such is the way with the Remontage Papillon, which has been created by French company CELSIUS X VI II. It is a tourbillon mobile phone that has introduced the mechanical movement of Audemars Piguet watches and takes its inspiration from the high-end sector of the Breguet watches market.Using 547 mechanical parts and a tourbillon in the middle, the mechanical timepiece is priced at $275,000 (￡181,500) and will be officially presented at Baselworld in Switzerland this month.Baselworld 2010 will observe its grand opening on March 18th and runs through until March 25th, and it is believed that the activity will attract over 2,000 companies from the luxury industry to present their new products and innovations, meanwhile, the purchasers of such products will also gather there.