Baume & Mercier Diamant Lady

Two New Rolex Watches, Some Gifts And A Knife
As the thread title suggests, I got two new Rolex watches...I flipped my DSSD and GMT II 16760.During my 20 years of owning Rolex watches, I've never owned a Rolex Explorer II, but have often been eying it; especially the white dialled example.I love it for it's classic and stealthy, understated appearance. It is also a VERY comfortable watch to wear!So let's see some pics:Look at this elegant, slim case profile! As you can see, it's an M-series:Which let me to ask my AD if it has the Cal. 3186 updated mvt. with the Parachrom Bleu hairspring inside...."Nah, I don't think so!", he replied.I was pretty sure it MUST have it, though, and asked him to open the watch and let us have a look:One of the female sales' assistants was wearing a Sea-DwellerI couldn't help commenting on how great it looked on her! I then asked if they could get me a V-serial Sea-Dweller, but got a quick reply "No, sorry, we can order them anymore and we don't have a V-serial in stock". :Cursing:The female sales' ass

Odd Lot of Elgins
This week a lot of 4 Elgins came up on Ebay. One of them caught my eye. It is the same case shape as one of the solid gold Lord Elgins. I set up a snipe and won the lot, then waited impatiently for the watches to arrive. They arrived Thursday night. I pulled out the one I'd thought might be gold.No, the watch in question is NOT gold. But it IS a mystery!The lug was almost falling off when it arrived, and fell off completely when I tried to remove the bracelet. But the lugs are MALE, requiring FEMALE springbars! I don't know when those stopped being used, but it seems to me these may be pretty late for them. The broken lug is also bent. I'd like to fix it, but i don't know how yet.The caseback is stamped "Cased and Timed by Elgin National Watch Co.; Swiss; Acier Staybrite" - well, actually, it says 'GASED' "Acier Staybrite" is a form of stainless used in watches. I know that Omega used it. I think it's an authentic Elgin case.The style of the dial matches the age of the

Seiko 5 Lume
Do Seiko 5 watches happen to wear Seiko's Lumibrite lume?

Serial Numbers
Hi AllI am new to this site and new to watch collecting, having purchased a longines silver arrow i just wondered if someone could tell me how the serial numbering works. 11141585 is the number on my watch could someone tell me the year and any other information this may give, also the number on the inner case is 9106-1 and the movement is Calibre 23 ZSD. Any help would be mutch appreciated.Thanks Lloyd

Roof terrace Daniele in Venice
As I've seen it in bond, the tourist, etc i had to visit for myself..... very special Good opportunity to do some watch spotting and guy on next table was wearing this....Ohhhhh to be so lucky