Applications Open for 2012 Rolex Awards
Rolex has announced the opening of applications to the 2012 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. The awards were established in 1976 to provide funding and recognition to individuals whose projects bring significant benefits to their communities and to the wider world. Five Laureates will be selected by an independent Jury of experts who will meet early in 2012. Each Laureate receives $100,000 to advance their project, plus appreciation and publicity for their work through international advertising campaigns. Each Laureate also receives a Rolex timepiece. As ever, we are seeking forward-looking men and women who are tackling the challenges of our age and who have innovative projects, said Rebecca Irvin, head of philanthropy at Rolex. We look forward to receiving many wonderful proposals from around the world. The Rolex Awards are open to anyone of any age or nationality whose groundbreaking projects are helping to expand the knowledge of our world and improve the quality of life on the plane

Marco sells watches from Bell and Ross
The below article was written by contributor Marco, who sells watches from Bell and Ross.Maintenant, most of the people who know of it know that the watch of Bell and Ross BR-01 was designed to look like instruments in aircraft cockpit namely the altimeter or other similar analog gauges. Aircraft require a lot of gadgets to run, however, so Bell & Ross took their idea of the Instrument and expanded to include other important Radar flight instrumentation. BR01 Radar will be produced in a limited edition of 500 pieces. It displays the time using three discs, each marked with a joyously colourful line with indicates a unit of time.

Let's get ready to rumble!
First time ever, weighing my watches, using da wife's food scale. Here is a head to head comparo: wearing red shoes in one corner, the FC Trulli coming in at a featherweight 108 grams. And standing at the opposite corner wearing shimmering gold shoes, the YG pre-C Sub weighing a super middle weight 178 grams (minus 2 links). I sure hope this scale is accurate.

Show me your Speedy Broad Arrows
Hi....am mainly a Rolex guy, but when I was a kid my dad was into Omega and that got me started on watches. Really want to add an Omega into my collection and love the look of the Broad Arrows. If you can post some pics and wrist shots I would be grateful as this will help me on my search....

BLNR Wallpaper
Was looking through the rolex website's wallpaper and there were no BLNR. I made some adjustments to the current BLRO instead Just sharing if anyone is interested. 1920x10801600x900