Panerai Luminor Marina Automatic

Arnold & Son’s HMS1 Collection Strives for Classical Elegance
Arnold & Son, the Swiss watch brand based in La Chaux-de-Fonds and named for 18th-century London watchmaker John Arnold, has released a new collection of elegantly simple watches called HMS1. The name harks back to John Arnold’s history as a supplier of marine chronometers to the British Royal Navy.The quartet of new watches includes two in stainless steel cases, with a white or anthracite dial ($9,885 and $10,095, respectively); one in an 18k rose gold case with an anthracite dial ($15,165); and one in an 18k white gold case with a silver-colored dial ($16,640). All the cases are 40 mm in diameter, water-resistant to 30 meters, and feature curved sapphire crystals with nonreflective coating on both sides as well as sapphire exhibition casebacks.The watches contain Arnold & Son’s in-house, hand-wound movement, Caliber A&S1001, which powers the hours, minutes and small seconds display at 6 ‘clock on the dial. The movement is only 2.7 mm thick, but incorpora

The Library: Resources & Gallery
This is the place to research and show off you goodies for othersto admireA library of Info and Photos!----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hamilton Watch Forum member and vintage Hamilton collector Tom Diss (Vintagehamiltons) has been generous enough to share pictures and descriptions of his collection with us. A list of these watches follows. Click on any link to be taken to the thread.Here are the Master HAMILTON LINKS:64028-4 Barrel Plain Barrel Engraved Boone Bowman Brooke Cabot Cambridge Carlisle Clark Coleman Converta II Cushion B Cushion Engraved Cushion Form Cushion WWII Custer Dixon Dodson Douglas Drake Endicott Ellsworth Gent's Wrist Watch Gladstone Grant Greenwich Hastings Heyward Judson K-454 Lincrest Lyndon Mason Medford Merritt Meteor Morley Mt. Vernon Oval Perry Rodney Ross Russell Rutledge Scott Sea-lectric II Sentinel Sherwood (Seneca) Sherwood N Sidney Square B Squa

Factoid of the Day 3-12-08
Omega man George Clooney is holding his sponsors' feet to the fire. He wants the brand - which is the official timekeeper of the China Olympics - to scold and prod the Communist regime into helping poor people in Sudan, which provides the Asian giant with oil.Good luck. Sounds to me like Clooney is looney.

NATO Straps Comfort - yes or no
I must be missing something? Maybe it has to be an ideal combination of casebody size, weight, height, strap length, material?I've been trying for several years now to wear a NATO strap throughout a workday on several of my watches. Seiko Monster, Ball Night Train, and today wearing on my friend's Sea Dweller 16600. Each and every time, the canvass material gives off a scratchy feeling. The buckle has to be pulled tight to bear the weight, which cuts my circulation and makes the material even more uncomfortable against my skin. If I wear it a notch loose, then I can¡¯t even swing my arm without it rotating and banging on that wrist bone that pops out.Typing is a strenuous activity and I can feel my veins flare up..I generally have to place it on the desktop several times a day to allow my pulse to calm down. I can only imagine wearing this in hot summer time heat and sweating with it on would be impossible to tolerate as well. So who can explain why this strap is considered "e

Moving to the Top of the List
Hi all,After I purchased a Rolex from an AD in NYC, I asked to be put on the wait list for a SS Ceramic Daytona. Anyways, I know the wait list isn't a real thing. If you spend $, you will get the watch and the faster you spend, the sooner you get it. Unfortunately, I am not rich enough to employ that strategy. My thought is that if I consistently follow up with the AD, then perhaps I can increase my odds of purchasing the Daytona at retail from an AD. Has anyone had luck using this strategy?