I’m out for the week in Warsaw, Poland. I’ll be back on the 3rd and hopefully I’ll be able to solve all of the problems we’re having with the site including those crappy ads that pop up entirely too much. I’m not getting much cash out of them and they are seriously annoying. Anyway, happy watch hunting. What did you all get for Christmas?
Are you guys having trouble with the forums?
From my collection: a quartz Glycine Airman GMT 2000 circa 1980. Perfect condition. Nice lume. Rarely worn. $200 or trade. Email me at john at wristwatchreview dot com.
Please consider picking this up. I’d prefer one of you guys to have it than sell it on eBay.
SOLD!
Chuck Maddox tears into a WatchUSeek fop Thomas in an excoriation of Omega. An example of Watch snobbery vs. realism at its best.
and I should know better than most of you.
Laughable!
However, if knowledge/experience is directly related to amount of stupidity exhibited he may have a case.
Chuck Maddox’s Watch Blog: Hard to pick a title for this entry…
The kooks over at the Rolex Forum let a Bahn run over a fake Rolex. The results are quite striking.
R-L-X Haupt-Forum | Die Bahn kommt!! (viel Bilder) [Das Rolex Forum]
Nice new Seiko caught over on WatchReport.
The SBHL003 is an interesting new addition to Seiko’s Ignition line. There are two things which differentiate it from other Seiko Ignitions. First, while the watch uses a classic analog display to present the time, the inner dial is an LCD used for timing and alarm features. Second, the stopwatch has a very precise resolution of 1/1,000th of a second (like the Seiko Sportura SNJ005 and the TAG Heuer Microtimer).
The Seiko Ignition SBHL003 [Watch Report]
Balance cocks are the little pices that fit over the balance wheel to keep them in place. They sometimes look like little chickens, or coqs, and have absolutely nothing to do with what’s going through your filthy dirty mind. Fascination has a huge article on the them, explaining that they were once so beautiful people actually wore them as jewelry. Stupid people.
Balance-cocks and watch keys [fascination]
I’ve created a forum for you guys to ask questions and talk about watches. I haven’t quite figured things out in terms of programming, but it looks solid enough. Please give it a try and let me know if there are any problems in the code.
Never mind the 1.9 miilion you could spend on a Patek, here on eBay, you could buy piece of history. That’s right, a launch watch for the Nintendo Wii. According to the auctioner only 200 of these bad boys were ever made (read rebadged) and could be yours for a paltry 60 quid.
Notwithstanding the allure of this “sports-style stainless steel quartz, with second hand, rotating bezel and magnified date.” I would rather have a wiimote on my wrist than this.
Go get yourself a piece of Nintendo kitsch here
Another day, another fancy pants watch from TokyoFlash. Man, this one is a peach.
The Biohazard watch uses an advanced color LCD display to simulate the effect you might see on Mr Spocks tri-corder or in many Science Fiction films. The readout, in fact, tells the time by counting the colored segments.
A press of the button sends the watch into scan mode and the various panels & readouts animate as if scanning the area for life forms. After a few seconds the results display the time, but the animation sequence can be skipped if desired with a second press of the button.
A recent watch sale at Christie’s in Geneva netted a total of $15.6 million dollars, with the number one item, “a gold 1925 Patek Philippe “Grogan” single-button split-second chronograph, made for a left-handed wearer.” going for a hefty $1.9 million. This is reportedly the highest price for a watch at a Christie’s auction. The runner up, “The James Schulz platinum single-button chronograph features a minute-repeating calendar.” went for a mere $1.09 million.
The record for the most expensive watch ever goes to another Patek, a hair over $11 million ($11,003,500 to be precise). That one was sold by Sotheby’s in 1999. And you can’t have that one either.
Christie’s sale info [From Chad]
Most expensive watches
Deatails of the lot from Christie’s
Not necessarily new to our dear readers, but interesting non the less, is the Monaco V4 belt driven watch. One of 4 TH concept watches, the belt driven watch uses a mechanism that uses “an oscillating linear weight that falls back and forth within the central shaft – transmitting the energy to the four ball bearing barrels”. To fully grok what they are talking about head on over to Tag’s website and check out their video to show just how clever they are here.
This seems the most innovative of their 4 concept watches and one I would be interested in seeing how it felt on the wrist.
From Watchismo Times LINK
Oyez Oyez! All hands to the Swatch Group Sample sale next week. If you are out of town, move to New York because you won’t get deals like this anywhere else. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
SAMPLE SALE: SWISS WATCHES
50% to 70% off Top Brands, December 8, 9
Metropolitan Pavilion, 123 West 18th Street @ 6th Ave.
In this first of many, we will show you beautiful close ups of internal mechanisms that truly show the artistry at work in fine watches. Today the platinum 012 Tourbillon watch from Richard Mille.
