Richemont Announces Deal to Acquire Online Luxury Retailer Net-a-Porter.com
Compagnie Financi��re Richemont SA has announced that it will acquire online luxury retailer Net-a-Porter. Richemont purchased a 33% interest in Net-a-Porter in 2002, and in this deal Richemont will acquire the remaining shares. The transaction values Net-a-Porter at about $530 million. Net-a-porter sells expensive women’s clothes and accessories, offering collections from more than 300 leading designers. Net-a-porter was founded in 2000 by former fashion journalist Natalie Massenet, who will continue as executive chairwoman. The company delivers goods to 170 countries, and has been profitable since 2004. Net-a-Porter has over 600 employees with principal operation centers in London and New York. Last June, the company reported profits of $18.3 million on sales of $147.6 million for the year to January 31, 2009.Net-a-Porter founder Natalie MassenetAnalysts see Richemont’s move as an acknowledgment that consumers will buy very expensive goods online. Whether we will see Riche

New Pro Diver III strap and deployant
Woohoo, my new Pro Diver III rubber strap and deployant was just delivered for my Superocean. Here are two pictures from when I purchased it, at a presale event.Sizing on my Steelfish, love the micro adjustment in the clasp for added comfort.The Breitling Diver Pro III rubber strap was introduced in 2013 and marks the return to the raised hershey style lettering that made the original Diver Pro strap so iconic and popular. The new raised letter is different, however, and has the complete Breitling text on each side of the strap, with the last 4 letters LING being recessed rather than raised.Introduced at the same time with this strap was the new Blacksteel Deployant Buckle.Going to give a rubber strap a try after my reluctance on previous watches, the cost of entry on this piece was very low to test out. And I feel this will be a great combo for the beach in the future as I can take my bergeron tool with me to change from the bracelet.

Why does Omega produce a lot of Special/Limited Edition watches?
I'm looking for a Speedmaster and after some research I've realized there are a lot of choices. I guess it's nice to have the variety.

All?!?!
Have mine on order! A 42mm ok bracelet with black ceramic bezel and orange 3,6,9. I cannot wait! I have been seeing people post pictures of their new 8500 series PO's throughout the board but was hoping to get a thread going to group them all.

speedy legend 3559.32 vs 3506.31
exactly what this the difference between these two models? is it just the year released?thanks.