Omega Seamaster

Watch What-If Piaget Altiplano 43 Automatic
"Watch What-If" is a special column on aBlogtoReadwatches-dealer that asks the playful question "what if an iconic watch you know and love was offered in a different style?" The idea embraces a good timepiece's core design and has fun by offering new colors and material concepts to stimulate your senses. These ideas may be provocative, artistic, or just plain silly. This is about fun, Photoshop, and the celebration of wrist watch design and experimentation. The original design we work off will always be at the bottom of the article. The designs are brought to life by Beau Hudspeth who does the artwork and concepting after he and I choose the models and styles to focus on. These special design experiments are extremely time consuming and labor intensive but we hope you enjoy the results. Ideas and comments are more than welcome. Enough response may even lead to a round two of design of the same watch - so please comment below. You are also encouraged to suggest watches that make it into

What am I ?
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Incoming!! My Fav so far!!
I finally managed to get my hands on one of my most sought after watch, the Omega Seamaster GMT (2538.20.00) - the Great White!! After drooling at its pictures in the Omega forum for a few months and then again in AtlantaDave's recent 'Incoming' post, I made up my mind to get one, no matter what it took.It took a dozen phone calls, and a lot of watch hunting and I finally managed to locate one, about an Hour's drive from my work place.After a brief showmanship, on behalf of the sales guy, I put it on my wrist and immediately fell in love with it. I didn't get too much of a discount, since the guy knew it was difficult to obtain one, but I was pretty content with the price I paid in the end (Rs 80,000 or $1700). I even got an additional 2 yr warranty on it :)Unfortunately, on reaching home at 2am, I couldn't, for the life of me, find the camera, so I had to make do with my cell phone. So without further delay, here are a couple of quick shots. Better shots to follow soon!!

New member with old Patek
Hello all. I have what I think is a Calatrava. This was my Grandfathers watch which was a gift to him from my Grandmother in 1968. I was hoping that some of the folks here can tell me a little more about this watch. I want to have it restored because the crystal has a tendency to pop loose but not off. I'm not the type that will take the back off to look for serial numbers and the like, I just don't trust myself to do that to this watch. It runs like a champ. The picture of the back shows the reflection of the camera lens so that's why you see lettering. I'm not the best picture taker eitherOriginal receipt:The watch:

Daytona Chrono Question
I may possibly buy a Daytona. One hesitancy is I love watching the 2nd hand sweep the face on my other watches. Obviously you don't get this on the Daytona unless you have the Chrono running all the time. Is there any problem letting the chrono run all the time? Does anyone else do that?