Breitling Chronomat B01 Stainless Steel Polished Bezel

Watch Insider: 5 Pre-Basel Watches from Tissot, Longines, Bulgari, Maurice Lacroix, and Fr¨¦d¨¦rique Constant
The Baselworld watch fair is about a month away, but many watch brands have already sent previews of new timepieces that they will be launching at the fair. Click on the pictures below to read my posts (along with additional photos) on five new watches from Tissot, Longines, Bulgari, Maurice Lacroix, and Fr¨¦d¨¦rique Constant, all from my blog, Watch-Insider.  Tissot T-Race Touch AluminumLongines Column-Wheel Single Push-Piece ChronographBulgari Octo ChronographMaurice Lacroix Masterpiece GravityFr¨¦d¨¦rique Constant Classics Manufacture Worldtimer 

A little surgery to make a Frankenstein into a Lord Elgin Continental
A couple weeks ago, I posted about a Lord Elgin I got for $45. The case was alright, but the dial looked pretty good to me.Genejockey proceeded to tell me that it was a Continental and that the one I had had the wrong crystal, an improper redial, with the wrong fonts, wrong Elgin symbol, wrong crosshairs, and the 23 jewels was in the wrong spot. It was also missing the black enamel around the metal part of the dial. Besides that, it was pefect!Here's the offending piece Hey, at least it had the right movement.Well I found a donor on the bay last week. The case was beat up, the crystal was scruffed (so I tracked down a NOS crystalmore on this disaster later), and the dial was so-so.First step, I painted the dial with black enamel. That is easier said than done. As I thought, the donor's enamel was flaking, but it did show the ridges. I tried several times to duplicate this, but to no avail. My solution was to pour the paint on the outer dial and let it flow completely around. I

Need help finding my first Swiss auto, any suggestions???
OK, I¡¯m finally ready to step up to my first automatic movement and I¡¯ve been searching for something in the sub $500 price range. I¡¯ve been looking online and searching the forums and have somewhat narrowed my choices down to two. I am considering either the Accutron VX-200 series or maybe even a Victorinox Swiss Army Ambassador series. I like the ¡°day¡± feature of the Ambassadors but if the Accutron is a better quality piece I could live without it. I am also still open to suggestions. I¡¯ve been looking for a while now and even with all the research I¡¯ve done there are still many brands or models I haven¡¯t seen yet. My main criteria is Swiss made, SS w/metal band, skeleton back, nothing that looks too outrageous. Also I am not looking for any Invictas. Not that they aren¡¯t good watches (I have a Speedy Reserve) but I don¡¯t want to deal with any service issues, so I guess you could also say that CS is a factor for me as well. I read this forum all the time and it seems almost

Just One More (incomeing)
Just a update the Bucherer seller fail to tell me the watch needed work (don't run) deal fell though. So I had replace that transaction with this Eterna Matic with a Cal. 1412UD. Don't want to look it up but is there a good book on vintage watches. Here's the seller pic's.

Ap royal oak hk
Can anybody advise on buying a rubber or leather strap in Hong Kong??The one came with was too big need a small. ThanksIMG_4629.JPG