Happy Anniversary to my PO LM LE!
A year ago, I traded for my Liquidmetal and bought a TT GMTIIc:After spending six weeks at RSC-Dallas, the GMTIIc soon departed the collection and was eventually replaced by a GMT Master II 16710.But the LM is still around and continues to grow fonder in my heart:The cal 2500C movement has been rock solid with awesome accuracy. I am not the least bit tempted by the 2011 POs.Fr. John†

Thoughts on PAM 312 or 372
I know they are totally different watches but I'm going back and forth between these two.I have tried both on and even thought the 372 is 47mm, it felt just as comfortable if not more comfortable than the 312 case due to the thickness/height.The manual wind also seems a little more solid than the p.9000?For people that have had both. What do you think? It will be my only Panerai for the time being. I like the simplicity of the 372 but do you find it to be too big for an everyday watch?Thanks for helping me make up my mind!

Panerai 512 strap questions
22mm?Tubes?I have now sold both of my Luminor and Radiomir because I've decided that they are just too large to be comfortable. The 42mm PAM512 appeals for several reasons: size, first and foremost, but I also like the lugs which should make strap changes quicker and more secure. It would be perfect (for me) if it did away with the sub-seconds dial and brought back the conical Radiomir crown. Anyway, now I have a jones for a new watch...L

The Panerai look......Why sometimes you can't see the forest through the trees.
I must confess, for years I couldn't see any appeal of the Panetai style. They looked too plain and that strange Luminor crown lock. I was wearing mainly Rolex and dive watches with turntable bezels or three dial chronographs. Fast forward 10 years and one day I saw the Panerai on the silver screen and thought that design was really functional looking and not too bad. In fact, that dial was so simply clean, almost like a minimalist painting. The less is more couldn't ring more true. It was like the first time when you understood what art could be. A few years went by and Rolex was releasing more busy dials with gratuitous wording every where they could put it. Breitling was even worse. They looked busy and cluttered up like a billboard. That's when I had a moment of clarity and remembered that Panerai on the silver screen. I actually dug out the old Eraser DVD to view the watch on my 70 flat screen. Pausing the watch, I studied the design and thought it was pure genius

Don't Buy A Gold Sub (like the 116619)!!!
Started out as a perfectly happy owner of a Sub-C.Watch for everything. Gym, or riding dirt bikes in random Asian jungles, paragliding in Nepal, 4AM in seedy strip clubs in Bangkok, afterparties in Budapest. Normal life and all. You name it, a plain black steel sub blends right in. Nobody notices. And you're not going to break it. (and if you do, so what ... laser welding & parts available for everything quite easily)But then one starts thinking (bad move as usual). What about something just a little ... nicer? More unique? A little more ... pop?Read up on options that would suit the lifestyle. Ruling out anything without crown guards, basically. GMT would be nice, lot of time zone changes. Or Sub just because. Poked the head in the door at various dealer in Hong Kong. BLRO eliminated, the black dial just didn't really do it in person. The rose gold Daytona though, chocolate dial. Wow. But that's a little too fancy for border crossings in Burma. Or anywhere.Then s