Bell & Ross Phantom Black Dial Ceramic Mens Watch BRS-BLC-PH/SBR

breitling galactic chronograph II
Questions, I was wondering about anyones impression of breitling galactic chronograph II. Outside of the bezez, it doesn't look much diferent than the chronomat evolution (I actually prefer the evolution bezel) and is there a big difference between the two watches? Also does anyone know what the retail price of the breitling galactic chronograph II? Thanks!

Old bulova can someone ID this watch
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Incoming! (no, it's not deja vu)
This just in - a 1953 LeCoultre Powermatic:I forgot how hard it is to shoot black dials under crystals with no AR coating. Anyway, it's the original black dial and it's in pretty good shape. This was the first automatic watch with a power reserve when it was released in the late 40's. And of course, it's a 14ct case because I love gold!Black dialed vintage watches are my weakness, especially when they're bumpers.

Photographing Time
I know everyone's saying " if there's no pics then it's not true". There is a short story called "Augie Wren's Christmas Story" written by Paul Auster. Awesome story which they made into a movie called "Smoke" in 1995( one of my all time favorites). In it Augie stands at a street corner every morning at precisely the same time and takes one snapshot of the same corner building and the intersection every day for many many years. To the untrained eye it is thousands of the same picture yet if you took the time and carefully studied it you'd see a thousand differences, and this he called his life's work (photographing both Human time And Natural time). Kinda relates to WIS and how nonWIS might look at them and wonder "what is so interesting about staring at the inner workings of a time piece, they're all the same"? The short story is also on Audio, you can find it in the Internet, check it out when you have a chance. Also on YouTube under "Smoke the movie".

Omega Speedmaster GSOTM chipped lug
My Omega Speedmaster Grey side of the moon watch fell from a short distance onto a hard floor and the bottom crown/pusher side lug got chipped as you can see in the following pictures. I brought the watch to the Omega service center in NYC and they advised me that the only option is to replace the entire case at a cost of roughly $7000. I obviously didn't choose that option because that is pretty much the cost to replace the entire watch.They stated that the couldn't confirm whether the watch was structurally sound due to the proximity of where the chip occurred to where the spring bar inserts into the case. Mechanically they stated the watch was 0.5 seconds a day fast. With that accuracy I could only assume the fall if anything improved the accuracy since that is better than I could have hoped for on any timepiece.What I am left with is a mechanically sound, structurally uncertain watch with a noticeable chip to the naked eye. I could live with the chip as a battle wound if I kne