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Urwerk Encourages Obsessive Accuracy Tinkering With EMC Watch Movement
Pretty soon, high-end Geneva-based watch maker Urwerk, will release a watch that includes their new EMC mechanical movement - a mechanism that will no doubt appear ironic and perhaps insane to those not acquainted with the passions that drive the mechanical watch industry. In short, the EMC blurs the lines between mechanical and quartz timing regulation in an amusingly obsessive way that points to the sheer limits of how much your average watch aficionado is willing to endure. Urwerk calls the EMC the first "mechanical smart watch movement," so let's find out what it is all about.A little background info first so that you'll understand all of this. Mechanical watches are "regulated" to be as accurate as possible. Depending on the movement, there are a few variables that involve playing with the hairspring in order to make the watch have the best "rate results." The hard part is regulating the watch so that it is satisfactorily accurate not just sitting down on a table, but sitting upsi

Finally part of Omega
Well, it truly has been a while. I remember my last post had to do with my invicta and how the bezel had come off. Now I am back to post on some greats news, at least for me. I have always been a great admirer of Omega and although my family is a Rolex family and love them to death, I never quite found myself falling in love with Rolex. Granted, Rolex's are beautiful especially the submariner which was the one that I was looking for. Nevertheless, my heart truly was with Omega and the seamaster line. I just got off a cruise and this time I had planned, like my father did many many years ago, to go to St. Thomas and purchase an Omega. I went with the intention of looking for both the Seamaster 300m and the Rolex Submariner. I always steered away from the Planet Oceanmy true lovebecause I felt the price was to much. Well, when I walked in to see how much the submariner was I was I reconsidered and although I would have paid what they were asking for, I then realized, holding the Rolex,

What's on your wrist this THURS ??
....after a long break I am going with my trusted 'Vintage Pepsi".

A Dream Come True. At Le Brassus
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1366975160.133108.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1366975169.515447.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1366975179.432408.jpgSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk. Watches are the new currency!

Hodinkee review of the new Speedmaster
Great week-on-the-wrist review.hodinkee/blog/2012/1/...chronogra.htmlIf there is one Omega I am getting this year, it is this one (unless I cannot get the crazy Ploprof out my head...)