A. Lange & Sohne Grande Lange 1 Luminous Watch
It is the heat of the night, and you are having an expensive watch wearing worthy good time. You go to look are your luxury timepiece in the dim lighting on the patio of that bar you like, and low and behold those lustrous gold holds show no luster in the dark. Time to rethink your evening timepiece selection, or you could instead seek out the relatively few high-luxury watches with luminant applied to them. While not a big deal for a Seiko, a lume covered German A. Lange & Sohne is a rarity. Here is their newest one, called the Grande Lange 1 Luminous. Larger Grande Lange 1 case (as opposed to the smaller standard Lange 1). Black dial, and just the right shade of retro green for the richly applied lume that makes up the hour markers and is all over the hands. A cool sporty Lange watch. Though, to actually refer to it as a sport watch, your idea of sports involves playing?? lawn croquet at night.Read more about the Grande Lange 1 Luminous watch in my article about it over at Haute

A Week On The Wrist: The IWC Mark XVIII
The first time I ever read anything about the IWC Mark series, it was thanks to (of course) everyone's favorite non-watchmaker watch writer, the inimitable Walt Odets, who in his series, "Tweaking The Mark XII" called that particular Mark "every non-pilot's favorite pilot's watch." (I call Mr. Odets a non-watchmaker but of course, while he might not be a card-carrying full time professional, he obviously is a guy who knows his way around a movement, to put it mildly.) I wasn't so much interested in the Mark XII as I was interested in what you'd do to tweak a movement so as to wring the best possible precision out of it, at least at first, but like many, I gradually began to find the simplicity, clarity, legibility, and history of the Mark XII irresistible and like many, I've followed the evolution of the Mark series ever since then with avid interest. 1 OF 6 2 OF 6 Overall, the Mark XVIII is one of those watches that you can simply wear every day, without taking an

Navitimer Bracelet
Does anyone have any good links or references for a place to pick up a Navitimer bracelet for my D23322? I have called some ADs but most only carry extra leather straps which my watch is currently on. I know I have to go two tone and they are a little difficult to track down.

CK2998 or Official Timekeeper
Saw both of these at a boutique recently and liked both of them, but for different reasons. They are obviously very different watches, but if you could only get one, which one would you get? The CK 2998 is a bit more eye-catching, and has a beautiful dark blue panda dial. It is also a bit more versatile, especially if you get a couple of different straps and Natos, but I have a few casual watches in my rotation already. The Official Timekeeper is in gold, and clearly a dress watch (which I currently do not have). It is also about double the price of the CK, but at 188 pieces total, it is much more limited, and has a very interesting manual wind co-axial chronometer movement. It hasn't really gotten much attention, which might actually be a good thing, but I'm not sure about the red Omega logo.

So... now with the 5905
Where does the 5980 stand? I think this was the reason they discontinued the 5980. What does the future hold for this classic first in house chrono? Steel watches have hold up their value in the past. Or too many floating around?What do you guys think?