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Ball Watches Get High (UP) With The New Engineer Master II Aviator GMT
Surprisingly, Ball Watch Co. is about to release a relatively straight-forward and simple watch. I am a big fan of the brand, but lately their new watches have been getting functionally (and cosmetically) more and more complex. I always have appreciated their simple masculine looks that weren't trying to hard to be something they were not.From the a mechanical thermometer, to complex chronographs, and multi-timezone laden watches; Ball does have some interesting offerings. Even the lauded Engineer Master line has been getting visually more complicated. Now Ball has changed directions a bit and taken a bit more of a conservative approach. This is the first watch I have seen from them that takes an aviation approach to styling, though it retains a distinctive "ball" character.Two major elements of the Ball Engineer Master II Aviator GMT that separate it from different aviator watches are the inclusion of the micro gas tubes and the large red GMT hand. As you likely know, the gas tubes ar

Rolex Warrantee
I just bought my first Rolex, a 16613 Submariner, two tone, with blue dial. What a beautiful watch!This is my question. I bought the watch at an official Rolex jeweler in Mazatlan Mexico. Spare me the jokes on buying a Rolex in Mexico. This is a real Rolex! However, since the watch came from Rolex's main Mexico affiliate in Mexico City, the warrantee is in Spanish. Does anyone have a copy of the warrantee in English, or know where I might find a copy?Thanks...

Question for the atomic watch crowd
Has the closure of NIST due to the American government shutdown affected your watch's ability to auto-sync to the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado?

Breitling Owners -- Help please
A friend just bought one of their non-chronograph COSC cert'd watches. Good looking I might add.Here's the issue, he says it's stopping on him all the time. I asked him if you wears it regularly. He claims to. A brief look at their website seems to show similar watches have about a 42 hr power reserve.These babies have power reserve issues?I told him to give it a good 40 turns Friday am, wear it all day and see how long it takes to stop over the weekend. He seems to think it defective, but I think it's too early to reach that conclusion. Any thoughts?

Why Does Patek Do This?
Just wondering something about Patek. I have nothing but respect for the brand and for what they have invented over the years in the world of horology, But something is really making me Most people would agree when you see pressure pins holding together a watch bracelet instead of threaded screws, this is a less expensive and easier way to manufacture a watch bracelet. Threading screws and polishing them takes time and more money as apposed to a pressure pin.For those of you who don't know what pressure pins are, They are long thin steel pins that are smooth and have no threading on them. These pins are then pressure pressed into a hole of equal size thus holding together bracelet links. All the fine watches I have owned over the years, none used pressure pins anywhere on the watch or bracelet.I have just started developing my taste for patek's less conservative line, the nautilus collection. I like sportier watches and less dressy watches.Now, one thing I have noticed on patek's brace