Longines "6 Tacche" original Vintage 1958 Etched Dial - 37mm

The Value Proposition: The Meistersinger Salthora Meta Jump-Hour ¨C Single Handed Serenity
There are a lot of different ways to start a watch company. You can scour history books for the name of a distinguished watchmaker to appropriate (hurry though, the pool of respectable ones is shrinking fast.) You can come up with some exotic mechanism that has a lot of novelty appeal, but which may or may not actually hold anyone's interest after the first five minutes have passed. You can resurrect one of the casualties of the Quartz Crisis, and trade on borrowed good will created by a company that sold its last watch before the 1969 Astron was a gleam in Seiko's eye. 1 OF 5 Or, you can do something that's pretty rare: create interesting, well-thought-out designs that actually appeal to your customer's intelligence, instead of playing on their ignorance. (It is said that a fool and his money are soon parted, but building a business empire on this cynical truism seems a spiritually debased way to make a living.) In this small, elite group of firms is cult

New Preik Caseback on my GMT-T
Hi All,Thomas Preik updated his sapphire caseback such that a standard Rolex caseback tool works with it during installation.This is the new caseback on my GMT 16710-TAs usual, I have posted the installation experience on both the 16710-T and the 116710-C and my thoughts on the caseback at Minus4Plus6 - Installing a Sapphire Watch Caseback-Sheldon

This or that
I am very close to purchasing this model but unsure which color. The bulk of my collection are black dials so I was thinking of going with the blue to mix things up a bit. What do you think? Is it too much blue? Would I get tired of it quickly? Should I stick with the traditonal black dial?orOr what about this idea. A little photoshop experiment. Get the blue dial and change the blue strap for the black strap. Your thoughts???

I think I caught the AP bug
Got my first AP ROO panda on a bracelet and now I'm already thinking about trading my 116613 for the AP diver. I just love the way the AP looks. Am I nuts? Would you guys do that?

In doubt about new PO C size....
First off: I'm recently converted I own and use a Rolex Explorer II - but I've falled in love with the new PO C. Partly because I'd like a bit more eyecatching everyday watch (I will keep the Rolex for more formal occasions) and partly because I find the Omega amazing!My question for you fellow watch-lovers is: Do you think it's alright to wear a 45,5 if you you're slim and your wrist isn't very sturdy? I'm not a small guy - 183cm - just not bigboned The watch I'll be buying:23230465101001-40.jpgMy arm with current watch:Explorer.jpgAnd my arm with old version PO C when I tried it in store:PO1.jpgI found the old version PO C to look great on my arm in the shop. And the new PO (found in other shop - just didn't take picture) looked even smaller actually. I guess it was due to the matt finish. Any critique - also negative - is welcome. I'd guess I'm not the first one to make this consideration before buying