Breitling Montbrilliant 01 Silver Dial Chronograph Automatic Men's Watch AB013112-G709SS

Found a Vintage Seiko in my Bins Last Night.....................
Hey guys!I found this Vintage Seiko in my bins last night, hoping you guys can tell me more about it....................Looks like it's from the 1970's perhaps ? ? ?It has this funky 9 sided crystal that is pretty scratched up but the rest of the watch is in fair condition.PLUS, it's running and keeping time too boot!I found a used leather 18mm brown Alligator band in another bin so I installed it just to wear it for awhile today.This watch probably came with a metal band I would imagine ? ? ? ? ?It's a 21 jewel automatic with a day/date feature, the day featured has two options, one in English and one in some other language. It has a brown/golden two tone dial.I searched hundreds of Seikos on the bay last night and I could NOT find another identical watch that has this brown/golden dial, nothing even close.Anybody know anything about this old Seiko ? ? ? ? ?I see that some vintage Seikos are worth a few bucks but most are pretty cheap to obtain.

Ball or Longines??
As I couldn¡¯t decide whether to put this in the Ball forum or the Longines forum, I decided to try here. If any of our excellent mods thinks this belongs elsewhere, please move it as needed.I¡¯ve had my WAD (Watch Acquisition Disease) in remission for the past 4 or 5 months and hoped to be able to keep it in check. Vain hope, and I¡¯ve had a nasty relapse in the last couple of weeks! I¡¯ve never been one to ask ¡°help me decide¡±, but I¡¯ve been chewing on this non-stop for a week and need to make a decision...I¡¯ve wanted something along the visual lines of the Rolex Explorer I for quite a while. Normally, I¡¯d be the first one to say ¡°then get one and be done with it¡±, but I¡¯m just not ready to drop that much coin. I could, but something in my psyche just won¡¯t let me do it yet.My AD of choice will give me a good price on either of these watches, but having not seen either one in person, I just can¡¯t decide. I'd really like to hear opinions and thoughts on these two pieces.My thanks and

Renato Vulcan Rootbeer
One of Renato's most captivating designs, ever! Brilliant silver-tone stainless steel covered in raised Claus de Paris texture constructs the round case. A dual-curved Swiss made sapphire crystal with six layers of anti-reflective coating exists within the textured bezel while a single hexagonal screw appears at each corner of the 14mm thick case.The round, Claus de Paris textured, four-component, stamped satin dial, in your choice of salmon or chocolate brown, features ten functional hexagonal screws and displays silver-tone white luminous Arabic numerals at 8:00 and 12:00 and silver-tone white luminous index markers at all remaining hour positions. Sunken sub dials are stationed near 2:00, 6:00 and 10:00 with a date window conveniently located at 4:00. Silver-tone white luminous hour, minute, chronograph and sub dial hands deliver the time.A massive silver-tone stainless steel bracelet executed in a combination of smooth links and Claus de Paris textured links tapers to 26mm and secu

What are your feelings on "recased" pocket watches?
I've seen several extremely nice older pocket watch movements re-cased as wrist watchesusually coming from the Ukraine through eBay. Aside from the often absurd sizes (often 50+mm), I think many of them look pretty good. I've been looking at some smaller ones - under 45mm, but not too many pocket watch movements can be put into such a wrist watch case, so they're harder to find. Anyone here have any experience with any of them? I don't have any real issues with the idea of a re-cased watch, as long as it looks reasonable, and hopefully was done to a loose movement, or severely worn/damaged watch. What say ye all?

IWC BP vs PAM 233
Hi TRF,I am blessed to have an opportunity to acquire another piece. I am on the fence between acquiring the 2016 IWC Big Pilot (5009 with the number 9) or PAM 233 (am/pm). Here are my current humble collection to give you an idea of what I currently have: Black face SS Daytona, Yachtmaster, SubC, PAM 425 and PAM 557. I love both of them equally and acquiring both is not an option. Thanks TRF for your invaluable inputs.