Cartier Yellow Gold Pasha Perpetual Calendar Diamond Watch

Scored a 16710a w/3186 movement..
After passively looking for a blue-black 16710 with a 3186 movement, I found a 16710A M-series at a Rolex AD located in Carmel, California. This was the only AD whom I called who knew of the 3186 movement in the classic 16710 case. I fitted my 16710A with a sapphire caseback in order to watch the Paracrom Blu hairspring. Changing the 24hour hand was smooth, just like the 3186 movement in my Rolex 116710. These 3186'ed 16710 watches have a A and B designation. "A" is for a Red-Black bezel and "B" is for Blue-Red.The image above shows the watch face with the Arabic II in the watch face, and the bottom pictures show the Paracrom Blu hairspring and balance through the sapphire caseback.This watch offers a classic, tool watch case, with forward thinking, modernized, movement. In my mind, this watch offers both classic and current Rolex style and technology. Now, the fun part; breaking it inThis watch is definitely a keeperBetter picts will be in the making.My apologies for the hastily take

An Afternoon with Farrell Gay at his Illinois Watch Museum
Hey guys!For nearly two months I knew that I would be going to the NAWCC National Convention in Kansas City. I knew that our route would take us through Springfield, Illinois where Farrell Gay's Illinois Watch Museum is located. I sent a couple of messages to Farrell through his web page but there were some routing issues and he did not get the messages. I then asked Greg for his help in contacting Farrell and after some doing we were able to speak with him and let him know that I planned on making a visit. He was EXTREMELY nice to me and Greg and I made plans to meet him at the convention in Kansas City on Thursday. About four hours into the "MART" section of the show I gave Farrell a call and we met up in a matter of minutes. We talked about watches for around 30 minutes and I then showed him my picture book with all of the Elgins and Walthams that I have restored. He took the time to go through every last page and asked many questions about what I had done with them, this was an inc

Brad Pitt Rocks a Panerai Radomir Black Seal
GQ recently called black on black watches a hot trend. What do you think? Here to stay?It must be hot right now if Pitt is a believer. He was seen wearing a Panerai Radomir Black Seal over the weekend. Full Blog Here.

321 + 861 + 1861
Got some a serious offer today to buy a pristine classic 321 Speedy from Japan while thinking to get the Meteorite dial (Soyuz) Speedy.Drooling...drooling...Torn...torn...torn...Currently own a classic 1969 861 Movement Speedy on a strap.Want to have all, but hard to explain myself or even to justify buying both 321 and the Meteorite Soyuz...Advise fellow Speedmasteristi...All inputs are appreciated.

Interesting how the 116719 has the old 3186 movement.
Just been admiring the White Gold Pepsi with a Blue dial and saw that it still had the 3186 movements fitted. Are we to take from that that they have used existing cases and supplemented them with the addition of a blue dial and are using up the older movement as this will fit with no messing around with the case?Obviously, the 116710LN, 116710BLNR and the 116713 and 116718 are all remaining with the 3186 movements too......... but for how long?