Audemars Piguet Jules Audemars Minute Repeater Men's Watch 26002BCOOD002CR05

Fatherland: From WWI to Retirement.
This watch seemed to take an inordinate amount of research time. It is a Swiss WWI trench watch with the rare design of an integrated shrapnel guard where usually the guard is held in place by the strap, and not, like on this piece where it is integrated into the bezel.Patria is a Latin word cognate with the Greek πατρίς (patris), both of which derive from the word for ¡°father¡±, or ¡°fatherland¡±

Heuer dial came today!
It's in very nice shape, but definitely not NOS like the seller told me. Unfortunately, New Old Stock is a common exaggeration that people seem to think is synonymous with near mint. Anyway, you can see a few tiny marks on the subdials but that's not problem and pretty much won't be seen by the naked eye on the watch when finished.A little shot with the compressed air will blow off the particles and the lume is nicely aged. It was a little pricy, but cheaper than the price of the redial at the expensive restoration place. When it comes to finding these parts, there seems to be only a couple sources and they know they have you over a barrel. I guess I can't complain - supply & demand, right? With the new dial & bezel insert this is shaping up to be a potentially good looking result.

Need help with watch strap
I'm going on a trip in about a week, and I want a new brown strap for my watch to match my shoes and belt. I plan on buying a higher quality strap in the future, but for now I'm going to pick something up cheap at my local watch dealer. What color and texture should I get to complement this watch? Dark brown? Medium brown? Alligator? Regular leather?Here's my watch:Thanks.

New regulation for bloggers
I don't know if you've seen this discussion started by WTF's owner John/JBHII so here's the links to the threads:Rolex Forum, part 1Rolex Forum, part 2There were identical first posts and ensuing discussions in the Community Forum also:Community Forum, part 1Community Forum, part 2Well, it looks like the first step has been taken by the FTC to force some ethics into the blogosphere:news.ca.msn/top-stories/m...entid=22069691It remains to be seen how the new rules will be enforced, but I'm curious to see how it affects bloggers and what the next move will be.

Rolex submariner ceramic green hulk
Hi allI just bought my hulk few days ago from a dealer It's very nice and I heard from many guys or some forum it's going to discontinuedBut I think it's haven't confirm or announce by Rolex itself isn't it?