WATCH GIVEAWAY: Claude Bernard Chronograph Automatic
This month on watches-dealer, you have a chance to win a Claude Bernard Chronograph Automatic timepiece, which is an elegant and attractive bi-compax chronograph. Who wears a chronograph dress watch? The concept is a relatively modern phenomenon which developed as historic sport watches simply became dressier over time. Originally, all chronograph watches were tools meant for timing events and activities, but later became lifestyle objects. Today, there are sporty chronograph watches and even sportier ones. The Chronograph Automatic by Swiss Claude Bernard has an understated elegance but also a clean modern design.At 42mm wide, the steel case is PVD coated with a rose gold tone or offered in polished steel and contains a mechanical Swiss Sellita SW200 automatic movement with a chronograph module. A unique design feature is the date window which is located under the 12 o'clock hour indicator. The rear of the watch has a sapphire crystal display back. Claude Bernard offers the Chronograp

Bring a Loupe: An Untouched Omega Speedmaster, An Unusual Breitling, And Other Interesting Finds (In
This week, you followed all the exciting SIHH novelties live from Geneva; today, Bring A Loupe returns with some really gorgeous vintage watches – or vintage-inspired, in the case of my favorite Grand Seiko. You will notably discover how a Speedmaster looked when it was sold in 1971, and admire a nicely preserved Movado. I have also found an intriguing bullhead watch from Breitling, and a not-so-great medical chronograph from Universal Geneve. This is your Bring A Loupe for January 22, 2016. An Omega Speedmaster Reference 145.022, NOS From 1971 1 OF 14 Finding an untouched example is a recurrent fantasy for watch collectors – probably not as frequent as a time-travel machine to stock up on vintage references, but not far off. Here, this Omega Speedmaster reference 145.022 follows this time-capsule logic: it was purchased in the UK back in 1971 and left in the box since, to the point that the bracelet links are imprinted on the watch holder. As you would

How to determine if a 15400 is fake?
Just wondering what are the key things to look at when purchasing a used 15400 to determine if its real or not? Are there things that are very obvious?

Another Speedy and Houston Connection Thread
I didn't want to barge into the other Speedy and Houston thread, so I thought I would start my own. If you are a WIS you might find this interesting.If you read my Speedy and Archive Question thread you know something about my 105.012-65.003. But here is my Houston connection.So the guy I bought the watch from says he bought the watch from the daughter of the original owner after the original owner passed away. She says her father bought it new at the same store in Houston where the astronauts got their watches (Corrigans?) right around the time of the Gemini space flights. He lived in Houston for 30 years, moved to London for about twenty years (where it might have gotten it's .003 movement) and then back to Houston before he passed away. My seller lived in Houston and bought it from the daughter in Houston. After I bought the watch I texted the seller. Knowing the watch did not have box or papers, but knowing the watch would come in a box with a return address from Houston, I asked

New Submariner keeps stopping
I purchased a new Submariner in early December of 2011. It is my everyday watch. Since that time it has quit running on 4 different occasions. After the first time I simply reset the time and it worked fine for several weeks. After it quit the second time I notified the store where I purchased it. Since I was in Arizona at the time they gave me the name of another store (within their chain) that I could take it. The watchmaker kept it for about a week and it worked perfectly. He said he could send it to the factory or I could take it and see if it happens again. It stopped again and I'm just waiting to get home so I can return to the place of purchase. My questions are, has anyone experienced this problem and since it is virtualy new is there some type of lemon law?