Chopard Happy Sport II Round 36mm

Thompson Tells Watch-World War Stories at WatchTime New York Event
Veteran watch journalist Joe Thompson, editor-in-chief of WatchTime, entertained attendees at the WatchTime New York show last weekend with stories about his 38 years covering the watch industry.In a presentation called ¡°On My Watch: Four Decades Covering the Watch World,¡± Thompson said that he was fortunate to get to cover three revolutions: the quartz-watch revolution of the 1970s, the fashion-watch revolution that started with the Swatch watch in the 1980s, and, most importantly, the mechanical-watch counter-revolution, or renaissance, in the 1990s.Thompson began his presentation by declaring, ¡°The mechanical watch is doomed!¡± After a pause, he went on: ¡°If you were a young watch reporter in the late 1970s, you didn¡¯t know much, but you did know one thing. You knew that the trusty tick-tock, which had had a good 400-year run, was doomed. You knew that because everybody in the industry told you so.¡± Thompson said that for someone like him, the WTNY show, so full of mechanical watches

Patek Philippe Reference 130 Mono-Pusher Chronograph In Steel Sells For $5 Million, And Other Such S
What is there to say? After Aurel Bacs and the Phillips team proved that one of the least-cool watches in the world could indeed be cool on Saturday night with the Day-Date sale, expectations were high but tempered for Sunday night's Geneva Watch Auction: One, a multi-brand, multi-owner sale encompassing everything from modern, still-in-production JLC's to piece-unique vintage Pateks. The entire sale netted $25.2 million (combined with the Day-Date sale, the weekend pulled in over $31m), and four watches hammered over 1m CHF, including a stainless-steel Patek that brought down $5m on its own. Let's break the sale down for you. Stainless-Steel Patek Philippe Mono-Pusher Chronograph Becomes The Most Expensive Steel Ever Sold, And The Third Most Expensive Wristwatch Ever 1 OF 10 A few weeks back, I wrote a story that there were four watches in this sale that could, and should break $1m. As it would happen, four was indeed the number of pieces that broke th

TOURNEAU visit today
Was at royal maui today, sizing my new cockpit, and went next door to visit the Big T store while I was waiting. Nice stuff, there and the sales staff didnt "mob' me when i went in.. Had A couple of breguet marines, blancpain gold chrono, and IWC had a couple of ingenieurs One was white face with polished bracelet the other was black face with "dull" bracelet finish is that T i ? either way nice stuff..

Winding an automatic
What's better: to wind an auto by wearing it, or manually using the crown? Or is it the same? I don't intend on buying a winder.Thanx!

Ap diver
New to AP what sorts of discounts would be expected on a diver? How much are they? Sick of waiting for Rolex stock levels and stupid waiting listsAny recommendations for an AD in and around sheffield South Yorkshire Preferably want to buy new or nearly newThanks