Swatch Celebrates The 2010 Vancouver Olympics: Happy Games, Sporty Friends, & To The Top Watches
Fun watches for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics from Swiss Swatch. These seasonal watches are pretty neat - for the occasion. Here is a mini review of the trio. Each has a function aside from being Olympics related, that is except the "Sporty Friends" watch, which has an image of the Vancouver Olympics cartoon mascots. Back to that in a moment. By the way, this month I am giving one of each of these watches away on Luxistwatches-dealer. Once a week until they are all handed out. To enter you can look for the giveaway posts here at my Luxist page.The three watches aren't a limited edition as far as I know, but are likely only part of a special production for this season and after that will end. So they are good thing to get if these winter Olympics games is special to you. Prices are quite reasonable at between $55 - $110 dollars each.Most mainstream of the three is the Swatch "To the Top" watch, that is 41mm wide in plastic (these are Swatches, they are most all in plastic). It has

Modifying Speedmaster?
I'm thinking about doing it.. although I know many people think it is sort of sacrilege.I would like to buy a panda dial (Mitsukoshi) and change the sweeping seconds hand and minute & hour hands to black.All sold online by Ofrei (if I can'y post the name let me know and I will edit, or any mod can go ahead on delete it).Any watchmaker could do it.Would you do it? Any pics of such a mod?

5980 from 2008 ...should I be concerned ?
I'm being offered a stainless 5980, papers dated 2008. The watch is in nice shape but has never been serviced. Being a Patek NOOB, I have some concerns....1. Will the watch be needing service soon ?2. Any major changes between 2008 and the last year of production (2013 or 2014 I believe) ?Anything I should look for ? or is it better to try and find a newer one ? Thanks very much for the feedback.

A one less seen... PAM498
Have been in Vegas for the last few days and noticed that they had a PAM498 Fu 1950 case at Tesorini inside the Bellagio... Thought it was odd as I thought this watch was only available in the Asia market and would think it has been sold out for a while at only 1000 pieces. Anyways, was able to persuade my old man to finally join the Panerai family by acquiring this pretty unique piece. Goes well with him and his old Chinese ways lol. Here's a photo of this beauty,

The Submariner Owners Thread...
Well...in light of these threads popping up, I thought I would start one for the classic Rolex we all love...THE Rolex Submariner5508, 5512, 5513, 14060, 14060M...Post your pics, your love...your questions and comments here.Personally, I would love to see some Subs on leather...I did attempt a search for a similar thread and could not find one, so my apologies in advance if one already exists.My 14060M: