SIHH: IWC Portuguese Hand-Wound
For IWC, 2010 is the Year of the Portuguese and fans of the brand will be happy to read that the manufacture is offering two beautifully simple 44mm models in stainless steel cases, each with an original pocket watch movement of the type that the first pocket watch-style wristwatch appeared with seventy years ago. Two models are available. The first is stainless steel with a black dial, rhodium-plated Arabic numerals and the characteristic feuille hands with a silver-plated seconds subdial featuring a distinctive 60 in signal red. Its sibling model with a silver-plated dial and rose gold-plated indices and hands stands out with its seconds subdial in light gray, also with a small red 60 . Features common to both are the typical chapter ring in the traditional railwaytrack style and, as the drive mechanism, the IWC-manufactured 98295 caliber with stylistic echoes of the first Jones movements, such as the nickel-silver three-quarter bridge and the elongated index to facilitate preci

Watch What-If: Hamilton Ventura XXL
"Watch What-If" is a special column on aBlogtoReadwatches-dealer that asks the playful question "what if an iconic watch you know and love was offered in a different style?" The idea embraces a good timepiece's core design and has fun by offering new colors and material concepts to stimulate your senses. These ideas may be provocative, artistic, or just plain silly. This is about fun, Photoshop, and the celebration of wrist watch design and experimentation. The original design we work off of will always be at the bottom of the article. The designs are brought to life by Beau Hudspeth who does the artwork and concepting after he and I choose the models and styles to focus on. These "special design experiments" are extremely time consuming and labor intensive but we hope you enjoy the results. Ideas and comments are more than welcome. Enough response may even lead to a round two of design of the same watch - so please comment below. You are also encouraged to suggest the watches that sho

Couldn��t resist ... 15202
Been on the list for a 15400st for a while in London, but when I popped in and they had the 15202 I tried it on and immediately traded by Rolex Deep Blue + cash for this beauty!Apols for photo quality.... what a classy watch. Love it.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Vintage SM 300 prices
I��m totally out of touch with the cost of this hobby but yesterday I glide into Jaceks site for a little browse around and saw a very nice SM 300 and was shocked at the 17K + price tag. My own SM 300 is not in the same league as Jaceks but anyone care to enlighten me about todays price levels?

New Rolex Air King vs Omega 300 coaxial
I know I know it's like comparing apples to oranges, but here is the thing. I bought one for my birthday and the other one was a present from my in laws .I don't need both, I know this is Rolex forum :) , but I still want second opinion.I like the look of vintage omega tribute slightly more, but airking is beyond comfortable, the only thing that bothers me is the busy dial, or specifically goofy choice to include double digit numbers , sigh 😔 Please share your thoughtsPics are coming