JeanRichard CARRE'

When is Sandow medias first edition of
The watch Journal coming out?

Lume shots of Skyhawk-AT, just for fun.
After drooling over everyone else's 'lume-shots' I decided to have a go myself. Slight twist here as I'm also activating the back-light.First attempttoo dark.Second attemptbetter, but camera was moving too much despite using a mini-tripod, because of the low shutter speed.And now, using the self-timer, got it right. Apart from my hand in the shot, that is!Enjoy!Incidentally, the watch has the Zagg Invisible-shield installed on the crystal. You can't tell, certainly not from that photo and not by eye either, unless you look at the reflection of a window in the crystal, for example. As it's a mineral crystal I am less worried about scratching it now, and it will wipe clean of any fingerprints / marks using a micro-fibre cloth.

Marginal Quality on the Low End ;)
Hey guys and gals,Thanks for all the great input on my first question thread, now I'm back for more! I still desperately want a Speedmaster but I just can't justify the prices I can find, so I have another round of questions:1. A lot of people at my work (more senior then I) wear Omegas/Rolexes. Is wearing a Seiko or other similar "budget" watch brand that resembles the expensive watches they can afford likely to alienate/provoke them, or am I overanalyzing? I'm specifically comparing the Speedmaster a manager wears to the Seiko black-on-black Chrono. 2. If I chose to go budget, what's the marginal difference between a Seiko, an Invicta, and a Citizen? My impression is that Seiko is unpretentious, Invicta is conciously a tribute brand, and Citizen is decent independent quality, is that all ffair?Thanks for your continued help (and let me know if you want to sell a timemaster ;) )RHoratio

I heard something scary today
There is a previous thread about buying a Panerai without papers. This is a quasi follow up to that. I went to my Rolex/Panerai AD and she told me a story about a fake Panerai that an individual brought in for service. It made it through. They received estimates back on the repair from the panerai service center. It wasn't until the the go ahead was given for repair and watch was disassembled did the repair center realize it was not genuine. It was a story that I heard first hand from a woman I've done business with for years who isn't given to exaggeration. I guess now more than ever it's buyer beware.Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk

First ever sighting?
The great actor Robert Culp in the absolutely brilliant 1960's TV series'I Spy' was the first person I ever noticed wearing, what I was later to discover, was a Rolex GMT. 'Till then I hadn't even heard of Rolex. Then, one Saturday afternoon in 1967, my young face pressed against the glass, I saw it, the GMT MASTER smiling at me from the local jewellers window, and I knew it was 'the one'.Leap forward to 1972, Bond St. London, and I slipped it nervously onto my wristand haven't stopped looking at a GMT face since................ Just to tell the time, obviously.What was your earliest Rolex 'sighting'?