Omega De Ville Prestige Automatic Ref.45745000

Magrette Taniwha Engraved Gold Inlaid Watch
Before you is the latest limited edition watch from New Zealand watch maker Magrette. This is the first look at the now available Magrette Taniwha watch. Hours of hand engraving has gone into the beautiful fully decorated case, which has been taken up a step with gold inlay decoration. It is a long process with many steps to yield the final result. I personally love the Magrette engraved watches. Not only does no other watch company offer watches like this, but the engravings are beautiful. The designs have characters and scenes, with emotions and the high skill of the engraver.If you aren't the type of person who is used to wearing "decorated" things, I suggest trying it out. There is a special feeling of worth you get from it. Living in an industrialized world, we are so devoid of things hand decorated, or even decorated at all. We are used to things being just good enough, or often not even good enough at all. Having some decorated object adorn our outfits is quite the exotic treat

vintage omega advice
hi everyone,i've been stalking this forum for a while but finally thought i'd post. i'm a real newbie at all thisso please excuse my ignorance. :)i wanted to clean up my father's old omega watch that he got as a wedding gift from his parents. he took the band off and put it in a safety deposit box (thinking it was worth more than the watch) and the body itself has been in a drawer for basically all of the last 30 years. i put everything back together (he's working on finding the two curved pieces but assures me they are somewhere in the house).from what i've gathered, it's an automatic 14k gold plated geneve watch. so far, everything seems to work really nicely still. the main problem is a good amount of discoloration everywhere and a small scratch on the really thick crystal. i'm going to see if i can fix that up as well. lastly, the crown looks a bit beat up from being in a drawer for 30 years too. i don't have any tools to open up the case so when i do, i'll enter it into t

Method to your Madness
I pilfered this idea from Doug (BTW Doug, every time I try to type your name it comes out at Dough ) asking Joel what the method to his collecting is. I thought it would be a great idea for a thread. So naturally I steal the idea like a grown adult and ask everyone publicly; what are you doing with your collection? Maybe a picture of the majority of your collection and a brief paraphrase on what you're doing with it. Here is my most recent picture (missing about 12 pieces) of my collection.The method behind my madness left quantity and is now more about quality. Gruen is my favorite vintage and I love so many of their designs, so I collect them most heavily, but have really migrated to almost purely vintage. I haven't bought a modern watch in almost two quarters and haven't really found anything worth buying (that I can afford). So, I used to buy to have more pieces and found that was the biggest way for me to waste my time. I was just trying to get as many as possible without having a

AP bumblebee
sharing my bumblebee, great watch aftermarket strap painted carbonstyle and matching yellow accent

PAM 328 with P9000 movement no longer winding up automatically
Hi All,I posted a thread a few weeks ago saying that the watch wasn't winding when sitting on a winder. Now it seems like it may not be winding up even when on the wrist. I still seem to get around 3 days when I wind it manually but it doesn't seem to be winding up when on the wrist either. I actually haven't worn it for 3 days in a row to really test that theory out though. I know it is not the best thing to do but, just to see, when at a dead stop, I tried shaking it to see if the rotor movement alone could get it going but I couldn't get the second hand moving at all without manually winding. Has anyone had this issue. I have seen a couple of other posts on other forums with the same issue with the P9000 but didn't seem to get a resolution to the problem even after having it serviced. The watch is about 5 years old and could probably use a service anyway. I am wondering if I should drop $500 on the service (and whether or not that will even solve the problem) or just put it in t