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Tournaire Expression Paris Watch
Jewelry and watch designer Philippe Tournaire has created some really interesting things. For me, he will be most famous for being the guy who turns architecture into rings. Really. Image a ring with a gold building on it - yup. Tournaire's newest creation combines this concept with a watch, but in a way that is just sort of weird. In fact, as hard as it may have been someone finally make the beautiful city of Paris kinda unattractive.To be fair I do like his basic watch designs. Even they have optional "architecture" around the side of the case. This one however has a thick frame of little carved buildings around the edge. A "revolution" around Paris you might say. Landmark buildings abound, as well as the Eiffel Tower of course. According to BusinessMontres, Tournaire is considering making timepieces like this for other cities. This is starting to remind me of the movie Inception - which I still don't quite understand. That is the other place I recall being able to turn a city around

Quiet here after Basel
I always forget how quiet the boards get after Basel. Posts really drop off around Spring/Summer. I'm guilty of not posting nearly as much as in the Winter. Maybe everyone is at the beach?Is it too soon to start talking about Basel 2010??

Pocket watch-to-wristie conversion
Just spied this interesting Hamilton Railroad Pocket watch on the swamp that has been re-cased and converted to a wristwatch:It's swamp item {deleted by mod}It has a nice 992B 21 jewel movement. Sweet.I've seen some of these conversions before from this seller and didn't care for them. But this one I like. At 49mm, it's a little on the large side for my small wrists. But I think it would wear like a traditional pilot watch, which tend to be about this size.And unlike some of his other pocketwatch-to-wristwatch conversions, this one is a straight up auction and doesn't have a ridiculus BIN price.Roger - If you're looking for a Christmas present for me, this one would be fine. Mark S.

ONLY in America versus ONLY in CHINA (Watch making)
Great and VERY interesting article. I posted a few points that are EXTREMELY interesting. Take time to read the whole article at the end:Lets discuss?He makes watches, about 1.5 million pieces a year. He makes sterling silver watches for the QVC home shopping network and watches with the famous crocodile emblem for Lacoste. He makes Juicy Couture¡¯s hot young line.Leung was wearing a great hulk of a watch called a Bonja. It¡¯s big in Gulf states, where it retails for about $4,000. Leung told me he¡¯s paid $200 for this model and that leaves him a comfortable margin. For Juicy Couture watches that retail in New York for $95, he gets eight dollars. He¡¯s still making money on that. In general he receives about 8 percent of the retail price, or about 40 bucks for a $495 Lacoste watch.The quality here is not Swiss, but it¡¯s high ¡ª ¡°we are at 85 to 90 percent of the quality of Swiss made,¡± said Matthew She, the general manager. As a longtime U.S. resident of southern China put it: ¡°Does Ameri

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