Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore 26197ST.00.D305CR.01 Automatic Round Watch

Japanese Watches Test Marketable Features
One of the wonderful things about Japan is the wealth of gadgets and electronics they produce. There, they have a totally different mentality that the US when it comes to new technology or products. In Japan, it seems as though they release some items to market and watch and see what occurs. Sometimes things catch on, other times they don't, but they realize that markets are incredibly hard to gauge. The US on the other hand will take forever before releasing a product to make sure that marketing, advertising, and consumer opinion all align. And still the result is often unpredictable.Lucky for watch fans, Japan takes this same approach with the watches it makes. Japanese and European watches share very little in common. Other than accepting the quartz movement, there is probably little the Swiss or Germans took from the Japanese, but the same is not true in the reciprocal. Japanese designers and engineers are masters of borrowing styles, ideas, and implementation from other sources, a

Citizen Campanola Tonneau Perpetual Calendar On eBay: Ends Nov-18-07 19:00:00 PST
It is easy to love and admire Citizen watch company for all their other ventures, but the Campanola line is really the top of Citizen's game. A watch that combines the best computerized quartz movement Citizen can offer (hand assembled by the way), with highest level of watch craftsmanship available in Japan, results in a line of watches each stunning in their own way. None of the Campanola watches resemble anything out there, and Citizen has achieved the rare feat of being able to produce something unique yet classic looking at the same time.Here we have a Citizen Campanola Perpetual Calendar with the tonneau-shaped case. The tonneau shape is common among high luxury watches for the presence it makes along with the surface area within the case to house extra complications. Looking inside the face of this watch you see a dazzling array of dials and hands, each perfectly polished. I have mentioned in other articles and the review of the Citizen Campanola Grand Complication that I own, t

Wedding gift
Hi all,So for a wedding present, my future wife is planning to give me a very special watch. As such, I've been heavily dropping hints as to what I would like given her budget for me. My criteria are: dress watch, somewhat collectible (although resale value is a minor factor), and story (by which I mean which watch or watch company is a more interesting conversation piece).I've narrowed it down to the Breguet 5140BB, Breguet 5207BB or a Patek Philippe 5120G.The Breguets have a nice story to them but also have a somewhat dubious recent past. I'm afraid I don't know about Pateks very much except that they hold their value extremely well and is well respected.I'm leaning towards the 5140BB for aesthetic and cost reason but am a little unsure about Breguet's checkered history. Have they truly recovered from the mistakes of old?The Patek is very nice but it does break the bank by quite a bit. It's a very simple watch and visually I find the Breguets to be more interesting (I love the guill

Wrong date wheel... !
As some of you may have read on one of my previous posts, I recently acquired a Speedmaster Solar Impulse (HB-SIA). A beautiful and highly functional watch.But to my surprise, I noticed that the font on the date wheel, did not look anything like the pictures I had seen online. Not only that, I had read a comment in a popular watch blog about how nice it was that Omega had decided to use the same font on the date wheel as used everywhere else on the watch. Bam! That made me think that I might had a dud.(See first pic below, the 8 on the date is completely round, as opposed to the very angular numbers elsewhere on the watch.)I called Omega Customer Service to explain the situation, and at first, they basically thought I was nuts. HOW would Omega install the WRONG date wheel???? Impossible!!! After a heated conversation, and sending pictures of my watch vs the images on the Omega website, the service rep finally agreed to contact Bienne for their feedback.As I had hoped,

A lovely pair
I just couldn't decide between them....