Event Recap: Blancpain Watches At Tourbillon Store In San Francisco
The Blancpain Fifty Fathoms is an iconic watch. Don't believe me? Well, do a little research on Google and you should quickly find three key attributes justifying the icon status: 1) it's one of the original dive watches that one could take 100s of meters under water without fear of damage; 2) it's the first watch to include a unidirectional rotating bezel that allows quick timing of your dive; and 3) it's one of the first watches to include enough luminescent material on its dial and bezel to make it readable at diving depths or in murky waters.It is therefore not surprising that Blancpain owns some of the original patents around diving watches, and famous pioneer divers, such as Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his team, wore Blancpain when they helped popularize the sport in the ?early 1950's.However, while innovation alone would assure Blancpain its place in the annals of watchmaking, after all, dive watches are some of the most popular models (even today, when most dive watches hardly se

Bumblebee on yellow rubber
Well here she is in her brand new bathing suit!

Am I the only one?
....who finds it odd that AP doesn't offer a 42mm ROO in RG with a ceramic bezel? It seems like such an obvious winner for those of us who think the 44mm RG novelty is too big but find the rubber clad bezel lacking lustre. Those two models should mate.

Nautilus - manual winding when fully wound
Quick random question - for those with a Nautilus, when it's fully wound and you try and manual wind it does it wind freely (though disengaged) or do you meet resistance?Many thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Amazing Accuracy for my Patek Philippe Collection
There is a lot of talk about the accuracy of these watches more so in the Rolex section. CSOC specs +6 to -4 seconds per day. I was told(sales) that since the PP are hand made to a very high standard that their accuracy is higher than most. On my 5980's, I run the chrono starting at noon and check with time.is over several days and weeks and both of my 5980's are within 2-3 seconds of correct time over a month. Amazing to me and quite impressive! Any others have similar results?