IWC Big Ingenieur Riserva ref 5005

Winner Announced: TW Steel Canteen Automatic Watch Giveaway
Congrats to Steve B. from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, who is the lucky winner of our recent TW Steel Canteen Automatic watch giveaway. Wear it in good health! Thank you to everyone who entered, and don't miss our current giveaway for a chance to win a Lew & Huey Acionna Automatic watch on watches-dealer here.

Bianci Ladies Watches Make For Decent Gifts
We get a lot of requests to write about "more affordable" watches - which is tough as we are such high-brow snobs. Having said that, watches-dealer is produced by regular people whose budgets are probably closer to beer than champagne much of the time. So, here are a couple of watches from Bianci.You'll find these watches at various stores online often for discounts compared to the "retail prices." Each of these watches retails for somewhere in the $400 range, but are less when you look around for them online. These are decent timepieces and they are also fashionable. Bianci's best designs are for women, while they also have a men's collection.Buying watches as gifts for women is hard when you don't have Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, or Rolex amounts of money to spend. Your typical department store fare is often generic looking or boring, and worse, you can get a woman a gift that a few of her friends already have. I am pretty sure they hate that sort of thing.These two watches are

Our Ms. Murino,
:) looks great dressed in those high fashion dresses and diamond encrusted Broad Arrows as we have seen recently but.if dressed in more everyday attire such as comfortable jeans type outfit,what Omega would you LIKE to see her in?looking forward to seeing your suggestions...diver88

Fake Panerai 111?
Hi guysI am very new to watch ownership - a friend gave me his Panerai 111 for Xmas, and it was given to him by someone overseas. I went to look for the serial number to give to my insurance agent, and there IS NO SERIAL NUMBER ON THE BACK (see attached pics).Any advice? Is it defintiely a fake? Did Panerai every make any without serial numbers on the back, and if so, where would the serial numbers be located? I can't find one anywhere.It seems like a quality watch though, and forgetting a serial number seems to me to be a mistake that a copier wouldn't make...Would appreciate all advice.Aussie Phil Pleasanton CA

Outrageous service at watch dealer today.
So the crystal on my 16233 is crooked for whatever reason, and in order to save money I decide to go to a jeweler/watchmaker chain in my city. I ask the service if it was possible for them to straighten the crystal so I hand her the watch. It is a 16233 with a Preik caseback installed. First thing she tells me This watch is a fake. I literally told her 4 times that its an original and she still didn't believe me and even went as far as telling me that they would have to keep the watch and demolish it if it was indeed a fake. In the end she ended up telling me to go to the AD and have it straightened there as they don't work on rolexes anyways and send them to the AD. After all that I wasn't going to leave the watch there anyways. Do you have any similar or funny stories to tell? I was really surprised to be treated that way. Must be because im 20 years old and she couldn't believe I would own a real Rolex. Little does she know I come from a family of watchmakers and watch enthusiasts.