Movement Hands-On Series Episode 1: MB&F HM6 Space Pirate
With this?article, we are launching a new series of articles dedicated to?watch movements. In this irregular series, we will be looking at calibers that we consider to be?historically important, technically challenging and unique, or just quite simply fascinating. Today, we begin with a very close and detailed look at the?movement beating inside?the brand new?MB&F HM6 Space Pirate. We need to point out that in this series, all our attention will be dedicated to the movement (which we will always look at uncased,?and not through a sapphire case back),?and we will?not go into a detailed?discussion related to?the concept behind the watch in question �C as you will always be able to (re-)acquaint yourselves with it in our original hands-on articles. Without further ado, let's dive head first into the amazing world of MB&F movements and, more specifically, that of the MB&F HM6 Space Pirate.It is a?lesser known fact that inside every MB&F Horological Machine there is a bespoke

Chopard L.U.C Louis Ulysse Tribute Convertible Watch
The idea of taking a wrist watch and transforming it into a pocket is less common than the other way around. Having a piece that can go back and forth between wrist watch and pocket watch is much rarer still. Sure it is a novelty, but I think it is one that Chopard executes rather nicely in the case of their new L.U.C Louis Ulysse watch. L.U.C (I am just going to write LUC for brevity) labeled watches in the Chopard line as those that have their in-house made movements. At least this is my understanding. LUC might even stand for Louis Ulysse Chopard, not 100% clear on this. Well nevertheless, this piece is a direct tribute to the man.The watch begins with a new manually wound pocket watch movement. The movement design is actually apparently further intended to be used by watch making students at the Geneva Watchmaking school. The idea is that for the student's final projects, they will make one of these movement. Nothing created by mere students has been fitted into any of the 150 piec

luxurious Vacheron Constantin's Les Masques timepieces
What also distinguishes them is the laborious creation of each mask which requires about 100 hours. Masks each brings his own feelings for watches as the mask of the Japan comes from softness and serenity while that the mask of Mexico is considered a piece of a stack incense burner, this fragment is not so much one mask as a highly sensitive portrait.

Serial number Aqua Terra
Anyone know the manufacture date of an Aqua Terra with serial number 804xxxxx?

Leaving your watch at grey dealer
Hi all, Im thinking to trade in my DJII at a grey dealer. The DJ has a chipped bezel and crown because I dropped them months ago. The dealer said they can take it for a trade in, but before they can seal the deal and come up with a proper offer for the watch, they need to send it to their watch technician so they can determine how big is the damage and figure out how to polish the bezel etc, and they need around 5-7 days for this. The dealer basically leave it up to me and ask if I'm confident enough to leave my watch with them. So my question is basically what things should I take note before I leave my watch with them incase they're going to swap it etc with maybe a fake one. I do read on another forum that some people dealt with this particular grey dealer before and no problem. But you know, better be safe then sorry ..