WatchTime’s June App Now Available
In this issue Joe Thompson profiles Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek, who is not happy with the current state of watch retailing in America, and he lets us know it. Our Baselworld roundup looks at new watches from the world’s largest watch show. We enlist a dive instructor to help us test four diver’s watches, and we test new models from Panerai and Seiko. We take a close-up look at Vacheron’s new World Time watch – the first ever to display all 37 of the world’s time zones. Plus iPad exclusives: 71 image galleries, 11 videos and 43 web links. Beyond enhanced content, WatchTime’s iPad app lets you search, navigate between pages quickly, display all pages as thumbnails, bookmark pages, read in landscape or portrait mode, zoom text and images, view pages as text only, and read online or off. Each issue is stored in your personal archive.Click here for a more complete description of this issue’s contents.Click here to download the WatchTime iPad app.Cl

Just in Time for the 500: TW Steel Launches Dario Franchitti Edition
Based on TW Steel's TECH design, the Dario Franchitti Edition was produced in collaboration with the two-time IndyCar Series Champion and 2007 Indianapolis 500 winner. The watch features blue, green and red highlights – Franchitti's helmet colors, reflecting the Scottish and Italian flags that symbolize his heritage. The red 10 represents Franchitti’s number during his 2009 IndyCar season and the green 2 and 7 represent the number 27 he wore during his 2007 Indy 500 win. Franchitti’s name appears in blue on the tachymeter ring while his logo, signature and title successes feature on the case-back.TW Steel celebrated the launch during qualifying weekend with a cocktail event in Indianapolis, where guests mingled with Franchitti, IndyCar star Scott Dixon, and IndyCar legend Arie Luyendyk.The watch is offered in 45mm and 48mm sizes and it will be available in mid-July with suggested retail prices of $850 (45mm) and $895 (48mm). Additional information appears below the im

Limes Launches New Website
Today German watch brand Limes announced the launch of their new web site. The brand has also refined their collection. All Limes watches feature German-made Ickler cases. The Pharo line of dress watches feature guilloch�� dials with hand-applied numbers and a variety of complications including large date, day-date, exposed balance, and power reserve. The Endurance line of sports watches include a range of models with 1000 meter water resistance, unidirectional scalloped bezels, screw-down crowns, and large luminous hands. All Limes watches use proven Swiss ETA movements.

Thomas Prescher Triple Axis Tourbillon Regulator Watch
So many axes! Triple the tourbillon fun with Thomas Prescher's ultra complex and hard to make Triple Axis Tourbillon Regulator watch. These timepieces are quite cool to watch in action and fun to wear. But sort of an "I buy Rolls Royce car for each person in the house keeping staff" type of fun. Pretty much Oprah and a handful of other people in the world can give Mr. Prescher a serious call to talk about having him make one for them. Prices all start at about $500,000 (and it comes in gold. white gold, or platinum - one for him, her, and the live-in watch butler).Read my article on the Thomas Prescher Triple Axis Tourbillon Regulator watch at Haute Living here.

Advantages of using an AD
Hello all. I placed an order with the nearest AD today for an 114060. I'm looking forward to the experience, and found it odd that (for this model), the price was the same as some well known non AD's. In one case, what I paid was slightly less than I found out there while looking.In any event I'm happy, and looking forward to it's arrival.