Maurice Lacroix Fiaba Diamond

Breitling Chronomat Airborne Watch
Breitling is well known for producing some of the most coveted and most used professional pilot watches. Go to any airshow and you are sure to see pilot enthusiasts and ex- and current pilots themselves wearing the brand's watches.For their 100th anniversary in 1984, Breitling introduced what is now the flagship model of the Breitling collection: the Chronomat. The model has quickly grown into the brand's most popular and mainstream model. The Chronomat is a sturdy and distinctive professional chronograph with a distinguishing tri-compax dial, with large lumed baton hands and markers, as well as screw-down pushers and distinctive domed screw-down crown. The watch is also water resistant to 500 meters.To celebrate 30 years since the release of the Chronomat, Breitling introduces at Baselworld 2014 a new Chronomat model with vintage inspired touches, the Breitling Chronomat Airborne. Like the other Chronomat models, the new Airborne comes in two main sizes, 41 mm and 44 mm diameter. Like

Astronaut Mark Kelly Interview: "Watches Are Necessary In My Profession"
Mark Kelly probably started to get annoyed as I shot questions at him while we were stuck in the backseat of a van. I've learned the hard way that not everyone wants to talk about work all the time. He was a good sport though, and even agreed to speak with me again. How do you stop asking questions to an astronaut? A famous one at that. Interesting trivia: Mark not only has an identical brother, but his twin, Scott, is also an astronaut.The good news in light of my pestering fanboy questions is that Mr. Kelly is a watch guy. Perhaps not in the way many of us are (with our intimate awareness of many brands and models), but he is the type of guy many of the watches we like are said to be designed for. For Mark, watches are tools. Essential tools, but also ones that can look good while doing their job.Mark Kelly has a few points of fame. In the last few years he has been in the news because of his wife, Congresswoman Representative Gabby Giffords. A rather remarkable lady, Giffords bravel

Jean Dunand Shabaka Watch
It isn't still a new release, but it is still darn good. The Shabaka watch by Jean Dunand is a special style of watch that takes a bit from the world of art deco (look up artist Jean Dunand and you'll understand), and what feels like British mod artists in the early 1980s would have come up with if commissions to make a space ship (but a watch) designed by the ancient Egyptians. All that and a bag of tricks (the movement) as dreamed up and manufactured by Christophe Claret. The Egyptian theme is no accident either. The watch is intentionally done in this manner. The name "Shabaka" even refers to one of the Egyptian pharaohs who lived around 700 BC.The Shabaka watch starts with a specially made Christophe Claret Calibre CLA88QPRM manually-wound movement. Complications are plentiful including a perpetual calendar three cylinder displays. The dial shows the time, day, date, month, leap year, and moon phase. This might be the first appearance of the cylinder style information window. This

New 2254.50 pic . . . .
Sorry it took so long, and appy-polly-logies for the quality, but here's my new SMP.I'm going to say the pic clarity/composition is questionable because I couldn't stand not having it on and hurried things along so I could get it back on my wrist . . .

Where have all the Wakmanns gone?
Doesn't anyone collect Wakmanns? I love my Wakmann. It has a day and month window, a date arrow and three stropwatch windows. It measures a nice big 70mm and accuracy that compares well with my Omega.Anyone out there?Art KramerWW II B-26 Bombardier.