Cartier Santos W20042C4

Only Watch World Tour Runs August 30 – September 22
On September 23, the Principality of Monaco will stage the world-famous Only Watch charity watch auction. Under the High Patronage of HSH Prince Albert II, 40 unique timepieces will be sold by leading horological auction house Antiquorum. Leading up to the auction, the featured timepieces will be on tour, visiting many of the world’s leading collecting capitals. For this fourth edition of the auction, 40 of the most prestigious and innovative Swiss watchmakers have each created a unique and special timepiece:AUDEMARS PIGUET – BELL & ROSS ¨C BLU ¨C BLANCPAIN – BOVET FLEURIER – BREGUET – CELSIUS X VI II – CHANEL – CHAUMET – CHOPARD – CORUM ¨C CYRUS – DE BETHUNE – DELACOUR ¨C DEWITT – FRANCK MULLER – FREDERIQUE CONSTANT – GIRARD-PERREGAUX – GLASH¨¹TTE ORIGINAL – HARRY WINSTON – HERMES – HUBLOT – IKEPOD – JAQUET DROZ – LAURENT FERRIER – LOUIS VUITTON – MA

Introducing: The Grand Seiko Spring Drive 8 Day Power Reserve, A Rare Example Of Japanese Haute Horology From The Famed Micro Artist Studio
I think every hardcore watch nerd dreams of owning a piece hand-crafted by Seiko's Micro Artist Studio in Shiojiri, located in Japan's central Nagano region. The Micro Artist Studio is a tiny subset of the Seiko manufacture that is the absolute elite unit, responsible for hand-crafting not only the incredible Eichi II, but also the Credor Minute Repeater and Sonnerie. Today, for the first time, we saw a Grand Seiko that was given the Micro Artist treatment, and it did not disappoint. 1 OF 3 First, one must understand that the craftsman in the Micro Artist Studio are top, top tier. They are the group that visits no one short of Mr. Philippe Dufour with some regularity, and the group that Mr. Dufour to this day holds in extremely high regard. This is true high-end finishing of the highest order, an until now, this has been reserved for Credor product. I'd always wondered why we never saw an insanely high-end Grand Seiko, and now we have. 2 OF 3 Eve

A couple of reoccurring forum quirks/issues/problems
I've been having two intermittent problems of late with the forumFirst, I get a message that goes something like this every 10th post or so, "Your post have been saved and will appear when approved" or close to it.Second, for the last three days straight, the forum logs me out on my first visit. This happens on my Mac running OS 10.9 running the Mozilla browser Seamonkey (close cousin to Firefox) and on my iPhone using iOS 7. This one is kind of a pain, because like everyone else, I have so many passwords these days that the first time I tried to re-log in, I ran afoul of the forum's 5 try rule. Of course it was the 6th password I useCan we pass these on to the powers that write the code : )Thanks,Bryan

Recent delivery of 5711 in the U.S.?
Hi,Has anyone taken a delivery of 5711 steel, either blue or white dial, during the last few weeks in the U.S.? I am on the waitlist for both dials (preference for white) at 2 ADs and apparently they have not been given a white dial since March. Typically, both of them receive 3 white dials in a year. However, they are yet to receive their remaining 2 white dials for the year. It seems that Patek has really dried up 5711s in the U.S. Just checking whether it is a more widespread phenomenon. Thanks

dj 41 to dj2 slate dial
is there an noticeable difference between the 2 models?yes i know one is a 116 the other 126 but just looking at it, can one tell?