FHH Introduces the Watch Tablet Sales Tool
Fine watch aficionados often lament that they know more about the timepieces in the case than the sales associates behind the counter. The Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie (FHH) addresses this issue with the Watch Tablet, a thin touchscreen tablet PC that puts vast amounts of watch-related information at the associates’ fingertips. The Watch Tablet contains information on many topics, including 29 FHH partner brands, watchmaking and gemology, manufacturing and craftsmanship, and watch movements and complications. All content is interactive and much of it is illustrated with animation. The Watch Tablet is updated regularly via the FHH's secure content management system. You can learn more at HauteHorlogerie.org.

What Is Seiko Kinetic Direct Drive? An Evolved Quartz Kinetic Movement; The Answer Is Here
We are lucky that Seiko spends as much time as they do in the lab dreaming up new movements. In fact, Seiko watches now come in at least five different movement flavors. You can get a traditional quartz movement, an automatic mechanical movement, a quartz Kinetic movement, a quartz Kinetic Direct Drive movement, and a quartz regulated Spring Drive mechanical movement. Seiko's dream seems to be combining the best of both worlds in terms of quartz and mechanical movements. Arguably the Spring Drive embodies this dream as it looks like an automatic mechanical movement, but has the accuracy of a quartz movement.Before coming out with the Spring Drive movement, Seiko created the Kinetic movement. The idea was simple. Take the rotor from an automatic mechanical movement, and instead of having it wind a main spring, have it charge a battery. This relieved the owner of ever having to replace the watch battery, and gave them the accuracy of a quartz movement. The Kinetic movement was very succe

Help deciding on an AP Chrono
Gentlemen, I’m thinking of purchasing a new AP steel Chrono. I’ve been out of the AP brand for about 10 years. Had a couple of RO Chrono years ago. What all steel model would y’all recommend? I don’t care for straps or rubber. All steel Chrono with a nice looking dial (blue preferably) around 20k+-. Thoughts? Thanks in advance!

Nothing like cigars, APs and great friends!
Great night so far. ImageUploadedByTapatalk1365045592.587235.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1365045607.999437.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1365045630.799087.jpgSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk. Watches are the new currency!

About threads of depreciation
I would like to clarify something about the issue of depreciation of watches. I am a private. There is always a great depreciation because the only way we have to sell a watch is to a gray dealer and of course the price we are going to get is much lower than normal. I tried many times to sell my watches that were of great reputation (a Rolex 16610 and a Panerai) and I could never do it because people do not know me and who was going to send me an important amount of money in advance? In all my notices I offered the option of doing the business face to face but it could only interest people who live in my city and that is more difficult.Now the same thing happens to me with a watch that I have and I do not bother to publish it.I clarify that I have always bought an official dealer ... I guess it is different from buying used and can get a good price. But luck depends on that.Regards.