Tourneau’s Howard Levitt to Step Down as CEO
Tourneau, LLC has announced that Howard R. Levitt has decided to step down as Chief Executive Officer at the end of 2009. Mr. Levitt will continue to serve on the company's Board, and he will continue as CEO until a new leader is selected. The company's Board, with the participation of Mr. Levitt, will identify his successor in the coming months. Robert J. Wexler, Tourneau's Chairman of the Board, said, We would like to thank Howard for the significant contributions he has made to Tourneau over the last 18 years. He has been instrumental in the company's growth and we look forward to his continued participation on the Board. Howard Levitt said, I have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of growing the company into a leader in fine watch retailing. We have a great team in place and the company is well positioned for the future. Established in 1900, Tourneau distributes and retails many leading brands, including Rolex, Patek Philippe, Cartier, Omega, Breitling, Tag Heuer, Audemars Piguet,

Bremont Supermarine 500 Watch: First Diver For Young Brand
Emerging British luxury watch maker Bremont recently announced their first diver's watch. This is an important occasion for each ��active' watch brand. Having at least one solid diving watch is a positional and status signifier. Sort of like saying that the company is not serious about its theme unless it has a functional diving watch. Though the brand is based in England, all watches are produced in their atelier in Biel-Bienne Switzerland.While I feel that some of the current Bremont watches are bland looking (though pleasing and functional), the new Supermarine 500 does not come across that way. Sometimes you want a diving watch to be more conservative looking and focus on doing its job well rather than being too avant garde. That is why diving watches are important �� the watch lover community evaluates them to see how well a given watch maker is able to represent the genre.Bremont focuses on flying and aviator inspired watch designs, having a diving watch that fits into that look is

Recent-ish Breguet watches UTS
The above shows is the most recent-ish watches UTS adventure power reserve. UTS is a hardcore tool watch in Germany, with a very dedicated team shop and a small volume of watches every year. It is rare that they release a completely new product, and for the world of Basel, it is all that they have done. Adventure power reserve does not really seem like any other thing in their line.

trading my Dblue for a 15400ST black
Hello Guys I am currently thinking about trading my Rolex DBLUE james Cameron for an AP 15400 black new, good or bad trade according to you ? Laurent

Patek 5575 Auction Prices
See the prices are slowly coming down. Sotheby's auction at the price at around $130 000 including buyers premium in April 2015 and Aniquorum just sold in December for just under $100 000. Not sure what the sellers premiums are but I guess the sellers would clear around $72 000. That's roughly a 50% flip! Come on PP make us a non 175 Anniversary in 5575 so us mere mortals have a chance of wearing one!