Personality Traits Shared By Watch Lovers
If you like watches enough, you enjoy talking about them. Chances are however that you know more people that don't care about them than those who suggest you go browse at a watch store. How is it that liking watches to us makes so much sense to us while the concept is lukewarm at best when mentioned to others?I've pondered this issue at some length and identified at least three areas of interest or personality traits that should exist in each watch lover. Those are appreciation of engineered utility, art appreciation, and the propensity to be a collector.You have to love machines and gadgets to like watches. They are the original gadget. A tiny machine you wear on your wrist always moving, that you need to keep alive. Be it by winding, wearing, to keep a battery within. You can constantly view it working as it tells you the time. A watch with additional complications will tell you much more than the time, but even when a watch only tells the time, you can appreciate a watch so much mor

Historical Perspectives: Bringing Method To Madness: PBS Explores The Way Timekeeping Impacted Moder
Think about this for a moment: before the 1880's, there were hundreds of time zones within the United States, with towns all across the country adhering to their own standard of "local time." This confusing system was a relic of an America before efficient transportation networks, when there wasn't much need for a centrally regulated, uniform system. The advancement of the railroad system in the late 1800's necessitated a change to a more standard system, and this short excerpt from the upcoming PBS series "How We Got to Now" demonstrates just how confusing things were before then �C and how essential timekeeping is to keep modern society up and running.

Speedmaster Back query
Any reason why the Speedmaster Pro has it's central disc made out of what appears to be an alloy of some sort while my other Speedmaster (Triple Date) has the same material (SS) for it's central disc as the rest of the case?

Online Videos in the new Christies "Watch Shop"
I read the two articles about Patek in Financial Times, 09/09/2014, page 6 of the Watches & Jewelry section. A small article announcing the opening of a new online used watch store at Christie's got my attention so I spent about an hour on it. The site offers great videos discussing various Pateks. Very informative. Go to .christies/watchshop. Enjoy!

New investments
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