Glimpse Into The Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Gen��ve 2009 Video
Us poorly situated Americans oft not get to enjoy such events as the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Gen��ve 2009. High-brow and ritzy, it is one of the most notable watch awards around. Here you have a viewing room (that is quite well executed), showing the guests views of the watches up for consideration. I like that no watch is given any higher level of importance in comparison to any other watch, and that they are each on spinning stand, so that you can see the entire watch.The award show came and went, and the winners were announced (see link below for more on that as well the and video below). In the video above you can hear a bit about the criteria for choosing nominees. They take this stuff quite seriously, as they should. The list of winners is quite interesting. The big boys of watch making get most of the attention. This also includes the so called independent watch makers that are well-funded in comparison to less well-funded indy watch makers. The politics behind the award are a

Introducing: The Omega Grey Side Of The Moon 'Meteorite,' The Most Exciting Grey Has Ever Been
How many sides does a sphere have? Luckily for OMEGA's marketing department, the answer is: an infinite number. After visits to the Dark, the Grey, and the White Side of the moon, the Swiss giant invites us to discover one we didn't even know existed: the Meteorite side.Modeled after other Speedmaster Co-Axial chronographs, the new GSOTM is the latest two-register, with small seconds at 9 o'clock, a 60-minute and 12-hour recorder at 3 o'clock, and a date window at 6 o'clock. Again, it is presented in a brushed and polished case measuring 44.25 mm across and 16.14 mm tall. But the watch looks a whole lot different from its predecessor. 1 OF 3 A follow up to the Grey Side Of The Moon, the "Meteorite" borrows only the original's grey ceramic case, ditching the sand-blasted platinum dial meant to romantically mirror the Moon's surface, for one that actually orbited our planet before crash landing into it.Meteorite dials seem to divide opinion. They are the marmite of the watc

Strange Bump in the Road.
Traded the 5970R for a 5204p. Price included delivery to the airport. Specifically bought an unsealed watch as I have a weird phobia about unsealing a watch (I have lots of issues )Watch arrives on time: check!Complete: check!Unsealed and ready to go: not! Many thanks to Ken, nycbrose, myopicoog and el1125 for the helpful advice. I'll eventually work up the nerve to cut it.

Anyone visit the Turks and Caicos AD: Jai's?
I'm in Turks and Caicos with the wife for a little vacation, and noticed there is an AD here by the name of Jai's. Will likely make it over there later this week, but curious if anyone here has visited them before and how their selection was.

What would you do with a WG Pepsi if it were discontinued?
Putting a different spin on the blro discontinuation threads here.Let's say you own a WG Pepsi and Rolex does discontinue it come Basel 2018. What would you do with your BLRO? Would you automatically stash it in the safe waiting for the value to increase? Continue wearing it as usual?Wear it less frequently?My concern is that there is going to be one part that is going to be a problem to replace if it discontinued- the bicolor (blue/red, purple/cranberry) ceramic bezel, just like the original GMT with the bakelite bezel. Here's an interesting quote from Rolex in the WatchTime review of the WG Pepsi: Here is some text from the official Rolex press release that we hope will help you to fully understand how difficult the process of creating a two-tone Cerachrom bezel is:The name Cerachrom derives from a contraction of the word ceramic juxtaposed with the suffix chrom from the ancient Greek word for colour . The range of available shades for ceramic is however restricted by its