IWC Da Vinci Kurt Klaus IW376204 Midsize 44x59mm Automatic Watch

Vacheron Constantin M¨¦tiers d¡¯Art Savoirs Enlumin¨¦s Watches With 'Illuminated' Dials
The Vacheron Constantin M¨¦tiers d¡¯Art Savoirs Enlumin¨¦s Watches are raising the in-house bar for one of horology's most respected players. In the past, the Vacheron Constantin?M¨¦tiers d¡¯Art watches have impressed with their stunning visuals and their stubborn insistence on maintaining the craft skills of yore. Grand Feu enamel, precious gems, hand-engraving, and guilloche patterns?have illuminated dials that often stick in your mind's eye. When it comes to?illumination, however, it is the latest range from Vacheron Constantin that takes things to a new level. The?Vacheron Constantin M¨¦tiers d¡¯Art Savoirs Enlumin¨¦s watches with "illuminated" dials take their design cues from the Aberdeen Beastiary ¨C a 12th century text that contains a wide range of human knowledge and beliefs from the period.Effectively a device to represent an entire paragraph, an illumination in this sense is an image placed at the beginning of a body of text. These are most often seen in historical documents and were

HourTime Show Watch Podcast Episode 172: A Diver But Not For Diving
Watch buyers without deep pockets get our tips as we recap on the watches-dealer article, "7 Ways To Survive As a Watch Lover On A Budget." John and I have each used all of those tips ourselves. We also talk about DeBethune's first diver's watch, the 300 meter water resistant DB28 Grand Sport. Last, we ponder who buys (and why) highly limited edition, hand-engraved, and complicated interesting oddities like the Zenith Academy Christoph Colomb Hurricane II.Listen to the HourTime Show Watch Podcast Episode 172 here.Direct MP3 download here.

Strange day today (caution small rant ahead)
I was thinking of selling my speedy to try and make ends meet. Earlier I had accidentally nudged the watch off the sidetable beside my bed. Not realizing anything was wrong I carefully cleaned the watch and packed in its original packaging.During the drive to the shop I was feeling really upset as I was going to have to part with my much loved watch.When I got to the shop the watch wasn't functioning correctly and shortly after it stopped completely. Long story short I couldn't sell it. I think the watch is telling me it doesn't want to be sold. Now I think I'm looking at a steep bill to put things right, which is really not what I want to deal with right now.I am happy that a decision has sort of been decided for me to keep the watch but I'm back at square one with regard my original problem

Some nice Limited Editions posted lately...here's another!
Some very nice Limited Edition Breits have been posted up recently. This is the 500 piece Chronomat USAF (there is also a 50 piece version as well, which I've never seen a pic of)Thanks for looking!

007 Ltd Edition Bond Omega
I had a look at the bond 007 Lts Edition watch today, must say I like it.There are 100007 made for worldwide distribution, do we think that they will be a collectors item with that number or will it be a dead duck??Thoughts and experience????