Seiko Solar Silver Dial Gold-tone Ladies Watch SUT158

8 Things to Know About the Christophe Claret Allegro
At #baselworld 2015, Christophe Claret¡¯s headliner was the Allegro, a new minute repeater watch that boasts very fine craftsmanship and an extremely eye-catching movement. Here¡¯s what you need to know about the Le Locle brand¡¯s latest in order to stay up to date.  1. It comes from a very musical family.Watchmaker Christophe Claret has always been fond of minute repeaters; in fact, the first watch movement Claret designed, in 1989, was a minute repeater. The Allegro follows in this heritage. It is the third musical watch in the brand¡¯s Traditional Complications collection, following after the Adagio and Soprano models. However, it has a movement entirely its own. Caliber ALG89 is a manually wound caliber 34 mm in diameter. It has a grand total of 520 components. It beats at 21,600 vph.  2. The Allegro uses a smoked sapphire dial to highlight the workings of the repeater.A darkened, translucent dial offers many advantages for watch designers. In some sense, it¡¯s a happy medium

PVD Application To Spruce Up A Watch
This article was contributed by Marco at Matt Baily, a Canadian watch retailer. My thanks to him. See the article below:Perhaps your collection has reached its threshold but you still want to add to it, or maybe you want to find a watch that is unique without having to participate in the Only Watch auction this month. A solution to both these dilemmas is becoming more and more popular. Using one of several processes, you can change the color of your favorite watches to create brand new styles.Although many treatments and colors are available, PVD is most often used to blacken watches. Physical vapor deposit (PVD) applies a thin layer of metallic particles to the watch surface to achieve the color change. Because the particles are so evenly distributed, the finish of your timepiece remains the same as before the process. In the past few years we noticed a few small companies emerging, who did nothing but blacken Rolex watches and resell them. We even spotted John Meyer wearing a PVDed G

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What have you done to me? Just picked up an automatic Lord Elgin
I just picked up this Lord Elgin, 25 jewels, 10k rolled gold on eBay. It looks like it is in pretty good shape. I think it was Genejockey's blog where I saw a Lord Elgin and I just had to have one. Thanks a lot!Of course pics when it gets here and you guys can tell me what I just bought.In the meantime, here is pic from the auction.Screen Shot 2013-09-15 at 4.44.35 PM.jpg

First time Panerai - strap advice
Spent a couple of months searching for the perfect watch for summer. Out on the boat and by the beach most weekends so was searching for a rubber strap watch which looked good and was nice and solid so I wasn't too precious about it.Panerai caught my eye! Then I saw this beauty with no complications which I wanted so I can just chuck it on, set the time and go.Problem is I didn't think it looked that great on the rubber, so now it's on the leather and looks awesome. But how well will the leather stand up to getting wet? Are there any rubberised composite leather type straps available for this watch? Would consider using one of those to get the functionality whilst keeping this look.Thanks for any advice and I will carry on enjoying the watch!