Girard Perregaux "Chronograph" Stahl/18K/750 , Gewicht 51,3 g

Artya Son Of A Gun Watches Use Real Bullets
Yvan Arpa's newest concept for his Artya brand is combining bullets and watches. The result will be a new series of strictly piece unique watches that somehow combine guns and timepieces. This one (called the Sun of a Gun) literally takes bullets and sticks them in the dial and the rotor. I am sort of surprised nothing like this has been done before. Maybe people are gun shy?According to Artya the first piece in the Time Shot (eventually called Son of a Gun) collection was commissioned by a collector. In a sense, the concept is a metaphor for what time is - a killer. There are a whole range of such "morbid" watches. A good example are those from Mr. Jones Watches that have hands which literally remind you that you will die. Nothing more uplifting that remembering that time is running out for you each time you check to see if your meeting is about to start. I suppose that type of messaging is good for the perpetually unmotivated who need some extra help to get stuff done.Using the stand

Bring a Loupe: Chronometers And Chronographs From Rolex, Vacheron Constantin, Universal Geneve, And Many Others
The watches you see today in Bring A Loupe don't joke around. You can expect to find the aptly named Chronometre Royal from Vacheron Constantin with all its original chronometer certificates. No less precise is the Zenith 40T, a testimony of this manufacture's ability to reach extreme precision. We also bring you a full set Daytona, and a far-from-perfect Universal Geneve Uni-Compax. This is your Bring A Loupe for April 1, 2016. A Zenith Chronometre With Caliber 40T 1 OF 11 The dial of this Zenith reveals so much about this chronometer, even quoting the name of its caliber 40T in a very interesting script above the seconds sub-register. Zenith boasts incredible credentials when it comes to chronometer movements, its caliber 135 notably winning the chronometer competition from the Neuchatel Observatory for nothing less than 5 years in a row, from 1950 to 1954. The 40T is of smaller dimensions but displays the same level of quality and precision, through a simple ye

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Superocean Crown?
looked down at my superocean yesterday, and the crown was gone! i looked everywhere for it, cant find it. any ideas on what size these things use? do i have to send it to an AD to be fixed? i googled a little and it seems that they can be quite expensive to replace by an authorized service center. i can find genuine crowns on ebay, but am not sure of the size (does anyone have one that they can measure?). any help would be greatly appreciated!

Is Christie's clueless?
.christies/lotfinder/a...41bcbc&page=14Christie's is supposed to be one of the top auction houses in the world, but when they describe a Speedy Moon watch as both automatic (the Calibre 861 is even mentioned) and featuring a date, you have to wonder. I don't believe you have to be an expert to see there's no date window!If they can be so wrong on one of the most popular and famous chronographs in the world, what else have they missed . . .