Swiss Watch Magazine 'Montres Passion' Crowns Two Piaget Watches As Watches Of the Year
It is nice to have your tastes validated, especially by people with such legendary priss a Swiss watch magazines. The magazine Montres Passion once again released the results of their annual Watch of the Year Award (2008) giving actual trophy awards to several watches in a few categories. However, the title of "watch of the year" and "best ladies' watch" were both awarded to Piaget watches. Both watches that I like a lot; the Piaget Altiplano Petit Seconds (aka the Piaget Altiplano Eccentric Small Seconds), and the ladies' Piaget Magic Hours.The criteria for the two watches was very different. Men's watches are judged based on style, mechanics, and practicality. While ladies' watches are judged based on use of materials, beauty, and uniqueness. For example, I don't think that any man's watch with a quartz movement would make it anywhere near "watch of the year" but that is ok for a ladies' watch.I wrote about the Piaget Altiplano Petit Seconds watch when it first came out a while ago.

Boutique Pricing
Are Omega Boutiques offering any sort of discount on the Speedy Pro hesalite in bracelet? I'm looking to pick one up soon and would prefer to buy at a boutique. Just wanted to hear what types of discounts or freebies people have gotten recently. Thanks for your input!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It was a Tuesday
My Omega Archive extract arrived yesterday and I took some time today to frame it.Omega customer service is really top notch I have to say. Hit a little speed bump and Omega USA sorted it no problem. Really fine folks over there, and I couldn't be happier. Ariel Morel from OmegaUSCS took good care of me. I've just purchased an Omega Aqua Terra so it seems maybe there is a trend developing here.I think the extract adds a little color to the history of this old 30.

Why do I like this watch so much? (Speedy content)
I have no idea why I like this watch so much?- It has no date.- Movement doesn't hack.- Winding is not-so-easy because the crown doesn't stick out very much.- Its not very water resistant. - No applied indices.- No white gold or polished hands.Why? :)

The Explorer II 16570-3186 Is it considered rare?
I've been offered a white explorer II 16570 with a 3186 movt and the jeweler explained to me that it is a special watch coz it was produced in limited numbers and it have the engraved bezel. I declined the offer coz I'm not a big fan of the Exp-II. After getting back home and reading about it, i started thinking that I might buy it as an investment if it's gonna be considered rare in a few years. What do you guys know about this specific model? Icould it be a good catch?