Baselworld 2015: Blancpain Villeret Grand Date (Updated with Live Photos)
At Baselworld 2015, Blancpain adds a new watch to the Villeret Collection: the Blancpain Villeret Grand Date. It will be the first big-date watch in the Villeret line, and it recasts a caliber that Blancpain presented in 2005.The Grand Date is built on Caliber 6950, an automatic movement that is 32 mm wide and 4.75 mm thick. The 6950 has two mainspring barrels for a 72-hour power reserve. The movement has 285 components, among them 35 jewels. The big-date mechanism is designed to shift instantly at midnight. Caliber 6950 has a free-sprung Glucydur balance wheel and gold screws for fine adjustment. The balance spring is made of silicon.The dial has a subtle sense of depth. Rose-gold hands for the hour, minutes and seconds sit atop a silvered opaline dial. The hour and minutes hands are thickest at the middle, where they bear luminous material, before tapering out. The applied Roman numeral indexes for the hours emerge from the dial to give a greater three-dimensionality. The two windows

A Buffet of Lobsters & Nice Watches
Enjoyed a great dinner with my family and a great friend Free-flow of lobsters and other delicious food kept us busy the whole night, all with the company of some fine watches and soulful topics... e.g. What's common between lobster and AP? The answer: They are both... devine, best of class, great in all variety and sizes, expensive, and most importantly... they make people happy, and want more!Enjoy your weekend!

Lume of my ROC
The lume is not very strong or lasting, but that's not the main strength of the ROC anyway. The key thing is... The ROC looks great when the lume is illuminating :)

5131P coming in a few days??
Well I was dinner last night with some serious collectors after the Sothebys preview and I have it on good authority the 5131P is on the way with N Pole map(as I suggested to Geneva last year) and also it will come with a bracelet so it will be heavy and most likely retail around 140-150K??? For those who love snow so much this could be the one for them also.. How accurate this info and the other stuff I heard is anyone's guess but if true some interesting things on the way in Basel and later in the year.. Time will tell so dont shoot the messenger.Here is a shot of all our pieces together..

Bhindi Jewelers @ Glendale Galleria, SoCal
Although they didn't have any Basel steel, they had a ND Submariner, every Milgauss varietal, two DeepSea SDs, a bunch of SS and TT DJ41s and some of my personal favorites in the running for WATCH Number TWWWOOOOO... Naturally his salesmanship crept around spouting about, buy now before the price increases. But I'll see him soon enough, anyway.These were absolute STUNNERS in the skin. The RG is not loud as you would think for a gold watch; and I LOVE the weight. I am also a fan of the WG DD with the blue dial; but I already have a white metal covered.. and oooohhh man that Daytona blue was tempting.I might add they had a champagne w/diamond OF Daytona as well.