Landmark Lower Manhattan Clock Tower Saved From Condo Conversion
Last October HODINKEE featured a guest editorial from Mr. Troy Torrison, board member of the Tribeca Trust, describing the struggle (and lawsuit) to save a landmark clock in New York City. The clock in question is perched atop the New York Life Insurance Company's former headquarters at 346 Broadway in Lower Manhattan, which is being converted to "luxury condominium residences." The clock tower contains valuable square footage occupied by a large mechanical movement that the developers wanted to remove. They argued that the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission should not be able to grant landmark status to a mechanical clock movement, but Justice Kotler of the New York State Supreme Court disagreed. 1 OF 2 346 Broadway in New York City. A recent New York Times article discusses the decision by Justice Kotler in detail, laying out her arguments: "There can be no dispute that the internal mechanism by which the clock operates is a significant portio

New RO chrono teaser on AP Facebook page?
Audemars Piguet Facebook page just posted a teaser video with this copy:Coming soon. A novelty from Le Brassushttps://.facebook/audemarspig...WSFEED&fref=nfIt is clearly a chrono RO, but it is little strange to announce new chrono and the SIHH RO novelties just hit ADs and boutiques...

Why no "Fat" Spring bars on Omega dive watches
Omega has a history of producing dive watches that is on a par with Rolex, I have often wondered why they didn't use fat spring bars on their professional watches. Rolex and Seiko felt the need, but not Omega.How much weaker are the standard spring bars? Is there any need for fat ones?

Unconfirmed Rumor: Ref. 5235G Black Dial
I can't confirm, but I think the subject line should start a nice little discussion here. Thanks for the support, and if you can give me pointers on how best to use this forum let me know i'm a newbie, as I'm sure you can tell. JZ

PAM292 Lug Replacement - Help
Hey Folks,So I purchased my first PAM last month and absolutely love it.Only issue is that I replaced the strap and when installing the new strap I noticed the 4 rubber ends (specifically the area that inserts into the case) are pretty mangled, loose and/or torn up.One rubber end was so loose and mangled it actually got stuck in the case and i had to pull it out with tweezers, the others are kind of bunched up and they protrude from the case when installed.I'm definitely less concerned about cosmetics here and more concerned about the function and reliability of the lugs, but being a brand new watch, I also want it to look exactly as it was meant to look.OK so moving forward, I called Panerai NYC and asked if they could sent me replacement lugs. I told them even though the watch is under warranty I would simply buy them to speed the process.They told me no matter what, I need to ship them my entire watch so they can examine it and order the parts after they fill out the proper forms a