Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Gran Sport

New Panerai Strap and Buckle
After a doctor's appointment last Friday morning. Found myself on the LV strip headed toward Cesar's Forum shops. The home, among others, of Panerai. Since I purchased my Radiomir Black Seal a little more than a week ago, I wanted a different strap and buckle. The manual states that the wear on the strap is normally caused by the tang buckle. I was shown a a variety of straps, calf skin or alligator, and colors. I finally chose a light tan alligator strap. Next the buckle. A double folding clasp. The saleswoman was patient and answered all my questions. The folding clasp is recommended by Panerai in their manual. So now I have two straps; black calfskin and a tang buckle, along with my alligator strap and double locking buckle. I was in and out in about 45 minutes.Before Saturday's shopping rush of visitors and Touristas. The new alligator tan strap and buckle in place.

Suppose the Zombie apocalypse occurred, which watch would you wear
For fun, assuming a scenario like The Walking Dead, you are one against a million zombies and you get to choose one and only one watch. Which would it be? This would has to be from your current collection. with a take on Rumsfeld's line, "you face the zombie apocalypse with the watch you have, not the watch you want."Here are the perimeters:-You are not part of Sheriff Rick's group, thus your chance of survival has just increased by 250%-You have a safe hideout, or adequate transporation-You have adequate food and supplies-You have a copious amount of ammo-you are smarter than dead peopleConsidering that the industrial world has just collapsed and the internet along with it, I'd take this Revue Thommen to keep track of days and months. I know which months have 31 days, but ultimately I'd off a day on leap years, but still, I'd have a good sense of the months and years as they went by. Additionally, it might be useful to know when the moon would light the way. While it is a dress w

"All purpose" watches 38-40 mm
Depending on how much my bonus is and how much gets eaten up by "honey dos" first, I am thinking my watch for the year will be as described above. It would likely replace the Ball Fireman I in the rotation.I have tried on, and pretty much fallen in love with the 38.5 mm AquaTerra, in blue. I would like to see the new annual calendar version in the flesh, but it doesn't look as pretty as the regular date ones in pictures.I also really like the 39 mm Explorer I, and would like to own a Rolex you don't see every day.What else should I consider? Vintage is a possibility also, especially a birth-year model (1971).

Font used by Patek for it's logo: Monotype Grotesque Regular
[I searched the forum, but it looks like this hasn't been covered before]Seeing the new PP book with the font so largely printed got me wondering what the font was... A quick Google search provided the answer: Monotype Grotesque Regular. The best links are on Wikipedia Foundry was an American company that developed a machine for typesetting, and Grotesque is one the fonts that was produced there, around 1926. It did not do as well as other Monotype fonts like Futura and Gill Sans, which had a cleaner look.Perhaps someone can identify the first use of this font by PP?J

I caved....
Was trying to hold out for my AD but David had this one available and couldn't contain myself. Had to go to Fedex myself as we have some snow here today and there was a delivery exception, trucks were delayed and I was having none of that.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk