Jacob & Co. Five Time Zone - 40mm, 2ct Bezel

Exotic Looks, Exotic Performance, Un-exotic PriceThe 2011 Lotus Evora
A few months ago I joined a group of journalists and pro driving instructors behind the wheels of several high-zoot sports cars at Laguna Seca racetrack, and on the 18 Mile Drive in Carmel, California. One stood out clearly from the rest ¨C the Lotus Evora. Let’s take a look.The younger among you may know Lotus only through the Elise ¨C a purpose-built track car that offers great fun in small doses, but you would not want to live with one every day. The Elise embodies Colin Chapman¡¯s twin virtues of simplicity and lightness, but these do not a comfortable car make. Modern niceties like sound insulation, suspension and storage space have been sacrificed at the altar of performance. The Evora, on the other hand, is a car made to live with.Where the Elise requires inelegant contortions to enter and exit, the Evora offers generous portals and slender sills. Once inside, dignity and spinal disks intact, words like spacious, comfortable, and even luxurious come to mind. The upscale surro

Illinois - Junk?
I mostly hang out in the Bulova/Accutron forum but I hope you will allow me to come here to pick your brains a bit. I went to an estate auction this AM and there must have been 1500 watches for sale, mostly junk. They were selling them by the box and I bought a box to get a Railroad Approved Accutron. There were some other Bulovas in the box as well as some Timexes, some Walthams, a Gruen, a Wittnauer, a Hamilton, a Croton etc but here's the one I'm wondering about. This illinois doesn't run and won't set, the crown can be wound off of it. Is it a escapee from the junk bin to which it should be returned or is it a candidate for resurrection. Any information will be appreciated.

All New Omega Planet Ocean GMT 8605
Saw this little beauty from Omega today. Thought of sharing this with you guys. EnjoyThey are launching it at Baselworld in April. More details coming.......

Ap roo ref. #26405ce.oo.a002ca.02
Hi everyone!I came across this forum while trying to find a few answers in regards to my recently purchased my first AP (only owned Rolexs so far) from an AD and couldn't find any answers on the web so was hoping I could get some from experienced AP owners on this forum.I was just wandering if it is normal for the the ROO minute and hour hands to feel loose or have play while adjusting the time as my Rolexs have little to no play while adjusting the time and if it is normal for the watch to continually wind the movement while screwing down the crown.I have sent AP an email for answers but they pretty much told me to take it to the AD again to ask and as I live in Taipei for work now and my Chinese sucks I think it would be much quicker asking here. Thanks!

233 "dot" not so rare...
In reading all the posts here about 233's, I very often see that the 233 dot models are harder and harder to find, that's the answer given most of the time to members thinking of buying a 233.But there not so hard to find, just taking a look on Chrono24 there's about 5-6 of them on sale, not new but in mint condition going around 7.000-8.000 euros, compared to the AD price of 10.900 euros for a new model it seems to me much more interesting to get a dot model, they're much cheaper, and as much as I like the AM/PM version, I wanted as my first Pam to buy the 335 in ceramic which has AM/PM, but the seller sold it the day before and proposed me the 233 dot, which I gladly purchased, if I should get a 4th Pam it would either be the 36 or the 335, I do prefer the 233 in it's dot version.Especially it's nicer IMO to have a model which is out of production than to pay a lot more for an actual production model, so for those thinking of buying a 233, the dot ones are still easy to get, so save