Cartier Santos

a holiday ditty from a Rolex fanboy
(sing to the tune of I love Paris in the Springtime)I love Rolex in the springtimeI love Rolex in the fallI love Rolex in the winter when it drizzlesI love Rolex in the summer when it sizzlesI love Rolex every moment, every moment of the yearI love Rolex, why, oh why do I love RolexBecause my Rolex is dear(thanks to Nat King Cole)

amateur me.
hope you guys like them both. i will try to take better pic of the sub. but really.....feels like i got a bargain of a lifetime. hope my third rolex will not compete with another artwork. am considering explorer 39 mm. vs a 41 mm datejust.

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

Misleading Stauer ad
I was reading my latest copy of Archeology Magazine and came across a full page ad for a limited edition Stauer Meisterzeit automatic watch. Archeology is a great magazine, and unless you are into watches, you probably would not catch the blatant and misleading aspect of the ad.So here's the ad:Note the mention of the "$31 million" worth of Swiss machinery, which would intimate to me that this was a Swiss watch. Then, look at the back of the watch I circled.Here is a close-up of the watch in the ad:Once again, in the highlighted area, there is no writing.If you go to Stauer's website, which sort of looks and works amateurish, you can find the Midnight Meisterzeit watch and peruse photos of it. In fact, it seems to me, the same exact photo found in the ad is at the Stauer website, except for one detail. See the circled area.It seems whoever made the ad, purposefully Photoshopped out the "China move" embossed on the back of the case. (Shouldn't it read China movement anyway?"China M

How..how does it look??
I wanted to try on the 392 but the store dont carry new pams, since they just took this 90 in...Please let me know if its too big on me? Does the 392 wears even bigger?Thank you!!