The World's Most Expensive Watches Book Party Photos
Overlooking Los Angeles at the historic Chateau Marmont Hotel, guests celebrated The World's Most Expensive Watches book launch in an event that I was honored to host in collaboration with party sponsor Hublot watches. I'd like to reiterate my words from the event, and say thank you to the many wonderful people who not only attended the launch, but who helped make the event a success.The World's Most Expensive Watches book first became available for sale in late September, and people have been buying it on Amazonwatches-dealer and local book stores in both English and French. Being my first book, I was really curious to see what would happen and how people would react. My goal was to create something that had appeal not only to existing watch lovers, but to "regular people," who were not yet familiar with the world of fascinating horological items. It has been truly humbling to watch people who don't know about watches flip through the pages of the book and peruse the 102 included time

Hands-On: With The Montblanc Villeret ExoTourbillon Rattrapante (Live Pics)
This week thanks to Montblanc North America, we had two pretty spectacular timepieces from the very highest end of the Montblanc horological ecosystem in the office. On Monday, we went hands on with the Montblanc Collection Villeret Tourbillon Cylindrique Geosphères Vasco da Gama, with its combination of a very artistically done world time/GMT function and a very large, 18,000 vph tourbillon with a cylindrical hairspring, and we talked about the relationship between navigation at sea, the marine chronometer, and the development and purpose of the cyclindrical hairspring. Today, we’re going to go hands on with another very technically unusual Montblanc watch: the Villeret ExoTourbillon Rattrapante. This isn’t a completely new watch, of course – it was originally unveiled back in 2013 – but that was at Watches and Wonders in Hong Kong, and while we’ve seen the watch “in the metal” once or twice in the interim, this was really our first cha

Finally I did it too
My first Patek. Aquanaut 5167. What a wonderful and comfy watch! It is a ding magnet though! I'd call it a ghost watch as you can barely feel it on your wrist. My first Patek, but I don't think it will be my last.

Patek owners I need you help
Today coming out of the mall I found an envelope on the floor with this inside, I'm not sure if it is original or not. If it is original then I got lucky..

47mm???
After selling my 510 a few years ago, the Panerai bug has bit me again as my small collection is begging for one. In all seriousness, I am missing the versatility that a Panerai brings (with its strap changes) and generally just the clean and unmistakable look of Panerai. I always thought a 44 was too big but realized that after owning a 510, you either go big or go home with a Panerai...within reason of course. I was (and still am) pretty close to pulling the trigger on the 533 - love the look of the ecru dial, appreciate the technical complications, etc. A lot of love for the 233 on the forum and don't get me wrong, love it too...but just felt a little 'cold' and more tool watch oriented after trying it on a few times. And I think I like having that extra 3 or 9 on the dial. That said, I recently tried on the 422. Never really considered it due to the size. And wow...blown away at how much I loved it on the wrist. The hands, the dial, the manual movement, the PR on the back...just ti