Vacheron Constantin Sponsors NYC Power 100 Event
This past weekend, Vacheron Constantin sponsored The New York Observer’s Power 100 party, which recognizes the 100 most influential players in New York City’s real estate industry. The event was held at the 21 Club in midtown Manhattan. Among the hundreds of attendees were Mayor Michael Bloomberg (who dropped from No. 4 in 2009 to No. 9 this year), as well as The Related Companies L.P. CEO Stephen Ross (No. 1 on the list), state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, David Levinson of L&L Holding Co. (and the NY Yankees), and legal legend Jonathan Mechanic, chairman of Fried Frank’s real estate department. Below, Hugues de Pins, President of Vacheron Constantin North America (left), with Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer. Mr. de Pins with guests

My First Grail Watch: Chris Vail
Welcome back to an original watches-dealer feature, "My First Grail Watch." In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after. Today, we're speaking with?Chris Vail, the guy behind the Kickstarter darling, Lew & Huey.watches-dealer (ABTW):?Who are you, and what is your relationship to the watch industry?Chris Vail:?I own a micro-brand, Lew & Huey. I design and sell watches online. People either love what I do, or wish I'd fall into a tree-shredder. I think most of the industry would choose "shredder."ABTW: When did your fascination with watches start?Chris Vail:?Two years ago, when I stumbled on an online forum as I was looking for industry insights. I started off just thinking of them as a "product" like any other, very un-emotional about it. I ended up becoming as big a watch-geek as everyone else talking about watches online.ABTW: What was your first grail watch?Chris Vail:?I fell in love with the Omega Planet Ocea

Beware: Professionally faked sticker in a authentic warrantybook AP
Hello everybody,I was looking for a Rubberclad H-series in steel for some time. Came past one at Chrono24. Did contact the seller because the watch was a H serial(new type dial, the one I was looking for) with the serialnumber starting with a H (ofcourse). I did ask for a picture of the certificate/warrantybook with the numbers readable. The watch was dates 2008 . Asked the seller (store) how that's possible, seller responded that it is normal that a H series is dated 2008. He had sold a lot of H-series dated 2008-2009. I did't trust that so I did check the combination of warranty and casenumber on the Audemars Piguet website on the extend the warranty section . This works well if you want to check if the combination of the numbers in de books is OK. I first did check it out on a few other watches. If you try to extend the warranty of a watch with legit numbers the website says the warranty is already extended til xxxx OR if the previous owners never had extended the warranty:

ROO stopped
Just had my Royal Oak Offshore back from servicing with AP. Put it on the winder and went away for a couple of weeks. When I returned the watch had stopped and, since wearing it for a day, is still stopping. Can I manual wind this model? It doesn't sound or feel as though it does but I'm not sure. I've been moving it around on my wrist and it will start again but stops later. Any experience of this?

Should we wait to buy more Pateks?
-Any of you sitting back on purchases based on the economy and watch market?I ask because every few years I'm fortunate to travel to Asia and have built a relationship with a dealer. This means I can score a blue 5711 or a 15202st and buy new below what these sell for used in the USA. At the same time, I already have a couple of PP and so I wonder...Just curious,J