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Seiko Active Matrix EPD e-Ink: The Digital Watch Is Back In Style
The digital watch is back. Seiko's new Active Matrix EPD watch will get you excited about non analog quartz timepieces once again. Digital has been here all along you say? Yea, that is true, but no self-respecting watch lover would wear one unless doing the laundry, mowing the lawn, or engaging in some other highly pedestrian activity. Go to any country that is "watch civilized" (sorry fellow Americans, that doesn't include the US at this point), and wear a digital watch in a business meeting or with a suit. Sure that was OK in the 1980s, but that was 20-30 years ago. This new product from Seiko reintroduces you the hassle free lifestyle of the digital watch in a polished, and highly functional little package. The holy trinity here is a great display, always accurate time, and a battery that does not need changing. Read on for all that it does below.Seiko more or less invented the formal digital watch in the late 1970s. You know, decent looking metal case and bracelet matched with and

14mm straps Ho!
I strapped up a few of my smaller sized cases with finds from Ebay. 99% of the narrow straps found there are for Ladies watches and only 6 ? in long which just doesn¡¯t cut the mustard if I plan on wearing many of my Bulovas and some Elgins and Walthams. Here¡¯s an example of a Lord Elgin from 1945. It has a 21j 559 and the star on the dial indicates it¡¯s ¡°timed to the stars¡±.Next is a little freckle faced Bulova made in 1949.It¡¯s running a 17j 10BM movement and has a touch of engraving on the bezel that I need to pick out with some enamel.Third has a 1933 Sapphire filled Waltham . This is the 15j movement in the ¡° Jewel¡± family of 6/0¡¯s. I think this is a jobber case but the rose gold and copper dial are very attractive. I haven¡¯t seen enough 30¡¯s Waltham cases to know if they signed all of their factory watches. 6/0 jobber cases are fairly common.Joel

American Standard Watch Company?
American Standard Watch Company? We all know that Bulova purchased the American Standard Watch Case company which housed their designs and movements from the 20's through to the point that Bulova stopped using the "American Standard" moniker and started using the standard "Bulova Watch Company" stamped inside the case. Here's my question: Having collected Bulova and Westfields (a subsidiary of Bulova Watch Co.) I've never before seen a movement, for either company, actually stamped "American Standard Watch Company" on the movement. Scouring the internet, the only thing I could find was a legal document from January of 1956 that specifically shows both the "American Standard Watch Company" and "American Standard Watch Case Company" used in conjunction with each other. Here is the header to that document to the document I found: 229 F.2d 672 56-1 USTC P 9270 AMERICAN STANDARD WATCH CO., Inc., Patitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent. AMERI

Don't want to insult a friend..
Image1461414355.134168.jpgImage1461414367.056420.jpgImage1461414380.812819.jpgWe were talking watches yesterday and one of my friends pulled out his offshore.Now I don't want to insult him and because I am not 100 % sure I was hoping that one of you guys could help me out here.Or this is a very special piece..Or it's not even worth looking at it..The pushers, the 2 and 3...??My alarm bells are ringing..CAN SOMEONE HELP ME OUT HERE?He's not trying to sell me the watch or something like that and this friend has many good high end watches so to have a fake one is not his style. Therefore I am confused. Maybe he got ripped off. Also a pic of my 2014 Navy.I am getting the 44mm steel/ceramic soon :-)Love AP!Cheers!Verzonden vanaf mijn iPhone met behulp van Tapatalk

AP Ceramic Diver or New Rolex Yacht-Master
What do you guys think? If you get to have one which one would it be? ImageUploadedByTapatalk1434777441.340453.jpg