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Inside The Manufacture: A HODINKEE Reader Recounts His Visit To Piaget: Say Hello To Our Contest Win
My wife and I would like to thank Piaget and HODINKEE for our trip to Switzerland to visit Piaget, and to see its manufacture in La Cote aux Fees, and its headquarters in Geneva.Here are a few of my thoughts:Proud of being Piaget and taking pride in one's work: When I was listening to Yves Bornard (who's been with the company for 40+ years!) talk about the history of Piaget I could see his glowing pride. When the watchmakers showed us what they are working on, I too could see their pride in being Piaget, and how proud they are with their work. Yves takes out an employee log book from the 1940s. It is old, and its pages are yellow, and falling apart. How many companies can show visitors something like that today?Bao and Yves in discussionWhat it means to be true manufacture. One of the things that stuck with me, and help me get a clearer picture of what it means to be a manufacture was Yves explaining the importance of having the movements assembled up in the Jura Mountains where it is

Tissot Lume?
I'm looking at possibly picking up a Tissot T-Sport PRC200 for casual wear and was wondering what you Tissot owners thought of its Lume. I can't find anything online when I search it that gives me a really good idea of how bright it is and how long it will last. Example: If I go to a dark concert for 3 hours, will the lume last all the way through it? Or perhaps even longer? I know my Bulova lasts a good few hours, and I have an Invicta that will maybe last 2 hours if I'm lucky. Anybody got experience with this?

A little fun
I can't resist a good cause, and this was from the Goodwill website. It keeps time second for second with my Breitling so that's COSC specs even though it's in obvious need of a service. You can see a discoloration where the serial number is which my watchmaker thinks should be easy to remove. I've been noticing a few pocketwatches and stopwatches that caught my fancy so I said why not? I wound it fully at 1:00 this afternoon to check the reserve. I'm digging the blued hands, and the audible tick.

Question for the SD 16600 lovers......
I¡¯m currently looking at two seadwellers for sale, model 16600. Both are A serial numbers, one is a Swiss only dial and one is a Swiss made dial. I just want to be sure that the inserts are original on both. The Swiss only Dial has a pointed 4 insert, which is different than all A-serial pieces I have seen. They all seem to come with a flat 4 insert, which is the insert that is on the Swiss made piece for sale. I prefer the Swiss only watch because it is a complete set, but I¡¯m concerned that it may be a service insert. Sorry I can¡¯t post any pictures as both watches are currently for sale and I don¡¯t want to violate the sellers in any way. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Weighing a Rolex (Part II?) to verify authenticity
While trying to figure out if a 1985 Rolex DateJust (model 16013) with Jubilee bracelet is (1) real and (2) legit, I saw the How much does it weigh? thread here but, alas, it is closed.I'm convinced it is real, based on numerous sites' information about this model/date Rolex. In pursuit of total verification of that I weighed the watch on a kitchen scale that seems to be fairly accurate and got 104 grams across multiple weighings.So...for those of you in the know of such things, does this make sense? The above-mentioned thread has a range of weights for different watches and this SEEMS to be in the ball park; I wasn't able to find a thread (minimal searching) about this particular model's weight.Any feedback w.r.t. this weight is appreciated.