Panerai Luminor Panerai 8 Days GMT

New C & B Windsor on Magrette Regattare Bronze
I ordered one of the newest straps from Crown & Buckle, the Windsor, as I thought it would be a great complement to my Magrette Regattare Bronze. It's an extremely nice looking two-tone strap made of soft, supple leather and comes supplied with a brushed Pre-v buckle. To match the Regattare I replaced the buckle with a bronze buckle I had on hand. This was an easy task as the C & B buckle is affixed with a spring bar. I think the marriage of this strap to this watch is a great improvement over the original black strap supplied by Magrette, and provides the finishing touch needed. As always, the reasonable price of the product, and excellent customer service by Crown & Buckle is greatly appreciated.Enjoy the pictures.

Need some advice on the "T" watch...
What do people here think about the AP Royal Oak Extra Thin Tourbillon in stainless steel? I might get a pretty good offer from a local AD that I'm very close with. This will be my first ap tourbillon and something that I think will stand the test of time will be passed on to the next generation. However, I will need to let go of 2-3 AP's depending on which I let go. I don't wanna spend extra cash on it so the question is, which 2-3 would you let go if you were me to acquire this grail. This will be a keeper for sure. I presume keepers:- RO stainless steel skeleton perpetual calendar- RO 15305 rose gold open work- ROO RB2 ti The ones I could sacrifice:- RO 15202 rose gold- ROO jarno trulli- ROO QE2 diver- ROO ceramic diver- ROO Novelty navy 42mmSo if you were me, which 2-3 watches would you sacrifice or should I just enjoy my current collection and don't be silly.

Panerai as a beater?
Not as bad as the title.Newbie looking at buying a first Panerai watch. The one I am looking at is a Luminor, am I correct in thinking all luminor models have the crown lock? I believe from what I have read this aids water resistance?There are a confusion of model types, but the one I am after will just have second hand and date. To get back to the thread I have a simple Seiko 5 at the moment I wear most of the time. I am after a 'better' watch I can wear for work with an enhanced presence, but not over the top.The qualities I am after is to wear the watch basically 24 / 7 , in the sea / pool on holiday, and golf / low energy sports etc. Would the Panerai live like this? Not really bothered about picking up the odd scratch, and also planning to have it on a stainless bracelet for water purposes. Any advice before making the purchase would be appreciated.Toby.

Back from Basel - Impressions from my meeting with Rolex
Had the pleasure to sit down with Rolex today and also saw the CEO walk by!Some comments:- GMT feels a bit cheap on jubilee. Was also not impressed by the bezel colors.- To my surprise, I loved the everose GMT. Full and TT- Recently purchases WG GMT‘s can exchange their dial from black to the new blue one for free.- All new calibers will have a small crown between SWISS and MADE- Rainbow Daytonas and blinged-out Subs were nice to see but nothing spectacular.- Deepsea was great. Especially the one with the blue dial.- Tudor BB 58 is beautiful. Tudor GMT wasn‘t as great as expected. - Rolex itself said they are not really interested in selling SS watches as margins on PM models are, of course, much higher. Forgot to mention:- There will not be a SS watch of oysterflex. They said they want people to buy the more expensive one if they want oysterflex (upselling, they said)+ I got to see both DaytonaCs!! Sooo beautiful in person and my favorite Rolex watches.

1st Post, 1st (& 2nd) Rolex!
I¡¯ve had several pieces over the years, but I hadn¡¯t dove into Rolex because I just didn¡¯t want to. I like what I like and I really liked what I had, my favorite being an Omega PO 42mm LiquidMetal in full titanium. That is such a nice, nice watch. I have a 3 piece maximum rule because my 4th favorite rarely gets worn, but I decided to change things up. I just absolutely loved the GMT BLNR so I decided to pick one up after calling 10 AD¡¯s (most of them laughed when I asked if they had one in stock) and finally finding one. I couldn¡¯t have been more on the fence after I tried on a SubC once I got to the AD though, but I decided to stick with the Batman because it¡¯s just such a cool piece. Had it for 11 days but couldn¡¯t get that SubC out of my head so I sold my PO and picked one up. Im in now!