The Gagarin Tourbillon Watch
Ironically enough I was just thinking about BLU, and what ever happened to it? The cool high-end brand did some neat stuff with dials, but I haven't heard anything about them in at least a year or two. Well now I know. BLU's Bernhard Lederer is (BLU = Bernhard Lederer Universe) is on to other projects, and this is it - The Gagarin Tourbillon.To remind you, I last wrote about BLU here (about two years ago). Anyhow, on to The Gagarin Tourbillon. Yes, this watch is an homage to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. He was blasted into orbit via the Russian Vostok-1 rocket (Vostok is also the name of a watch brand but little coincidence!), and then orbited around a bit before coming back down. The Gagarin Tourbillon tries to memorialize this with a tourbillon that acts as a satellite around the dial of the watch. It travels over city names and places like the original satellite did. The tourbillon is a one minute tourbillon, and it revolves around the dial once each 108 minutes. Why 108 mi

Autodromo Prototipo Brian Redman LE Gallery
Just about a month ago, we announced the release of the Autdromo Prototipo Brian Redman LE; you can check that out here. Well, in the last couple of weeks I've had the chance to spend some time with both the steel and gold plated models, and boy can I tell you, they're nice. Now, we've actually talked about the Prototipos many times before, which includes an in-depth review of them, so I'm not going to go through them again. Rather, today I'm just going to share with you a gallery of pictures I took. But rest assure, my thoughts haven't changed since the review though these new models do offer a slightly different twist on the theme.The build and finish quality is the same, they exude 70's style and simply a joy to wear. The biggest difference is the addition of gold plating for 100 of the 500 watches. I was surprised by how much I liked it. I'm not a gold guy, and have never been drawn to gold sport watches, but it worked. The gold was less blingy than expected, with almost a champagn

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Speedmaster Mitsukoshi Conversion
I recently cracked the crystal on my 3570.50, and took the opportunity to do a mitsuskoshi conversion. Dial and hands all genuine OEM from Otto Frei. I am really happy with how it came out.Only probably: I do miss my standard issue Speedmaster, and so am thinking I will need to pick up another somewhere along the line.A big shout-out and thank you to that great trf member kauebm for guiding me through the process of sourcing the right parts.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Daytona 116509 Random Slate Dial... Blue Lume?
I'm not sure this watch even exists?Did Rolex ever make a Daytona 116509 Slate dial with Blue Lume?Did Rolex make a Daytona 116519 Slate Dial with Blue Lume?I have searched, but need some help if it is out there.If you have a Daytona Slate Dial with Blue Lume please share information on your watch.Regards,Scott