Baselworld 2013: Breitling Emergency II
If you were an owner of the original Breitling Emergency watch, then you're?probably?the sort of person that engages in dangerous activities that leave you with a higher than normal chance of being stranded in the middle of nowhere. For the people that need this watch, and perhaps for others who live a normal lifestyle but are a little paranoid of "what if" scenarios,?Breitling has just come up with the Emergency II.The brand new Emergency II watch adds new features and at the same time takes away the perceived weaknesses of the original. You see, the original Emergency had a 121.5MHz transmitter that, when activated, had a range of??90 nautical miles (167?km) by search aircraft flying at 20,000 feet (6,000 m). This was assuming normal conditions, or basically flat terrain or calm seas. If you found yourself outside such conditions, then the range would be considerably shorter.Add to that the fact that the Emergency didn't have enough power to send the signal up to a satellite, but onl

Ginza Ceramic
Picked this up at the NY boutique after a client decided he didn't want the watch, wanted to share some pics. Definitely enjoying the watch.

Wrong date wheel... !
As some of you may have read on one of my previous posts, I recently acquired a Speedmaster Solar Impulse (HB-SIA). A beautiful and highly functional watch.But to my surprise, I noticed that the font on the date wheel, did not look anything like the pictures I had seen online. Not only that, I had read a comment in a popular watch blog about how nice it was that Omega had decided to use the same font on the date wheel as used everywhere else on the watch. Bam! That made me think that I might had a dud.(See first pic below, the 8 on the date is completely round, as opposed to the very angular numbers elsewhere on the watch.)I called Omega Customer Service to explain the situation, and at first, they basically thought I was nuts. HOW would Omega install the WRONG date wheel???? Impossible!!! After a heated conversation, and sending pictures of my watch vs the images on the Omega website, the service rep finally agreed to contact Bienne for their feedback.As I had hoped,

Speedy Tuesday
I saw this in my RSS feed today, looks like a great time with some amazing Omegas!.hodinkee/blog/photo-r...r-get-together

Oyster Quartz ?
I am thinking about a Quartz. Tell me the good and bad, and whatmodels to look for.