Baume & Mercier Women's Ilea Watch

Fonderie 47 Inversion Principle Tourbillon Watch Is Part AK-47 Gun
It has been a few years now since I first sat down with co-founder of Fonderie 47 John Zapolski in San Francisco to discuss the interesting new brand concept. Without showing me any products at all, he excited me with a harrowing tale of traveling to Africa, and trying to acquire the first lot of AK-47 machine guns to go back to the United States in order to start production on the brand's set of "gun-based jewelry and watches." Of the more memorable parts of the story were how he and business partner Peter Thum needed to find a machinist in the middle of crap country who could cut apart the guns so that they could legally be imported.Peter and John were gonna throw high-brow charity events and sell the luxury items as feel-good stuff that was partially made from the metal of guns, the purchase of which, were to help fund the removal of guns from war-torn parts of Africa. It was a solid concept if they could get it off the ground. And thankfully moving forward they didn't need to go to

International Dial
I e-mailed John Holbrook several days ago to see if he had made his pilgramage to I.D. (as he said he was going to do several weeks ago).He said he has and will have an article about his visit (and hopefully photos too) in a couple of weeks.I'm very interested to see the I.D. set-up and equipment. They've done fine work on re-finishing many of my dials (as I know they have done for many others on this forum as well).Mark S.

Any photos of watches from 1962?
I'd love to have a watch from 1962, but for now will settle for photos. Any of you have one (or more)?

Maybe It's Just Me...
I dunno', maybe it's just me, and I don't know what, or if there are, the rules regarding the Buy/Sell forum. Also, I'd be real surprised if this hasn't been brought up before.I guess my question is regards to people who join WTF only to post in that forum. Has there ever been any consideration about requirements to post there, such as a minimum period of membership, or a minimum number of posts?While I'm completely hip to the concept of "caveat emptor", it would seem to me that such requirements would benefit the sellers, as well, as potential buyers would be more at ease spending, certainly with some recent listings, some rather significant amounts of money.I'm just rambling and, like I said, this has probably been discussed before. But "membership", to me, is just that; you join and participate.Thoughts?

Michael Schumacher, LE SpeedMaster 2003.
Hello, How much was this sold in it's days and how much would a used one be worth nowadays. No box, nor paper. Just the watch.