Hands-On: With The Blancpain Villeret Tourbillon Squelette 8-Day In Platinum (PLUS: You're Invited To Celebrate Blancpain's New Boutique With Us!)
While perusing the wares of the brand new Blancpain boutique on Fifth Avenue a few weeks back, I stumbled across this guy here. It's called the VIlleret Tourbillon Squelette 8-Day, and while it was announced at BaselWorld 2014, there wasn't a lot of attention given to it �C most was offered to the awesome new in-house chronograph movement seen in the Bathyscaphe Chronograph. But this new tourbillon has a lot going for it. 2 OF 3 First, it employs Blancpain's excellent in-house 8-day self-winding tourbillon caliber 25, which is quite thin at 4.85mm in thickness. That's not only thin for a tourbillon, it's also very thin for a tourbillon with an 8-day power reserve. Second, the case is an absolutely perfect 37.5mm in diameter. Yes, that's 37.5mm and nobody is calling it a lady's watch. This is the size a watch like this should be. Second, this tourbillon offers a date function, and power reserve on the semi-skeletonized dial. 3 OF 3 It is indeed the dial here t

5524 or 5980?
Looking for a bit of help with my thought process. I’m considering trading my 5980 to get a 5524. I’ve loved the 5524 since it first came out but the 5980 would need to go, and I’m worried that I would end up regretting selling the 5980. What do you think - 5524 or 5980?

Easter in the Swiss Alps.
Sun's coming up over the 'Swiss Alps' (soon).HAPPY EASTER EVERYONEI'm just settling down with a nice alcoholic beverage to watch the Joshua - Parker confrontation, should be exciting!

6263 sigma back from service!
Just wanted to share a few pics of my 6263 sigma dial from 1973, picked it up from service today!

Done (again). A semi-permanent 6 watch rotation.
A couple years ago, I wrote about how my meteorite DD had turned me into a 1 watch guy. I lived every day with that watch for almost 2 years and sold off a bunch of watches I never wore. Then, I began to get the itch to add a yellow gold DD. The color was growing on me, and I thought it would be a nice change of pace to swap metal colors back and forth.Then we took the family to Hawaii for Christmas in ��16, and I realized I no longer owned a dive watch. I had to remedy that before we went off for beach time. And down the rabbit hole, I fell.Well, I've decided to forcibly limit myself to just the slots in my winder, so here is my completed 6 watch rotation, which I hope will remain stable for at least a year or two!Feel free to share thoughts about what could be improved, as long as it isn't to recommend a PP. For reasons not worth debating, I won't be adding a Patek any time soon.Thanks for reading!118239 36mm Day-Date in white gold with meteorite masterpiece dial118238 36mm Day-D