Speake-Marin Marin 1 Watch Hands-On
Peter Speake-Marin is a highly noteworthy independent watch maker who has his hands in many interesting watches out there. Most important of course is his own brand, Speake-Marin. 2010 sees a new model, and most importantly a new movement - the Speake-Marin in-house made SM2 automatic. The movement is really beautiful. You can see it through the new Marin 1 watch caseback - being able to appreciate not only Speake-Marin's attention to detail and decoration, but also how beautifully it is made. The hallmark of a true luxury movement is that it looks beautiful from a quality standpoint, and that the actually design of it is made with form and function in mind. The automatic rotor has a hidden weight on the bottom so that seeing it from the top makes it look symmetrical. The design (which is carried over to other parts of the movement) of the rotor is very cool looking, like a mixture of classic floral decoration and tribal style tattoos.The SM2 automatic movement took Speake-Marin a few

The Longines Master Collection Retrograde stands out for the clarity of its dial
Dancing in harmony, the seven hands trace out a graceful ballet, making this timepiece a captivating article to own.The Longines Master Collection Retrograde stands out for the clarity of its dial and is available in one version with the four retrograde functions (day, date, seconds, second time zone on a 24-hour scale), which are housed in a stainless steel or rose gold case with a transparent sapphire cristal case back.

Service Recall - still not right, what to do
I went in to the watch shop here in Melbourne Australia to pick up my RG 44mm 26400 H serial. It has the problem a few of you have also had being the minute hand advances (wiggles) about 20 - 30secs when the chrono is started or reset. The watch shop in Melbourne is the only place here who sell AP and they simply charged me about $300 USD to transport the watch to AP service Sydney Australia acting as the middle man. I went to pick it up yesterday and they explained to me that 'its better' and the way the movement is made it is normal for it to do it a little bit. Im not believing this for a $40k plus watch and don't see it happening on other ROO who share the same movement. I forgot to mention the watch is under warranty so the only cost to me is the postage. i am not satisfied with the fix and have told my watch shop to discuss it further with AP Sydney. My research and some of you on here with the same issue have had the movement fixed so mine should be as well. My question is what

Patina...or trash?
So would this be considered patina or trash? Not mine, found it trolling eBay. I'm looking for a birth year watch.

Question about 5711
When I wind the crown to restart the power reserve it feels kind of gritty. Same feel when I screwed down the crown (so as to make it water resistant).On the other hand, setting the time and date feels smooth.Is this normal? I'm not sure as this is my first Patek . My Omega doesn't behave like this (all smooth).