Girard-Perregaux Vintage 1945 Large Date Moon-Phases
Girard-Perregaux reveals the complexity behind the dial, adding a level of mechanical involvement to an already dramatic timepiece. The movement's wheels and levers co-star with the large date and moon-phase displays to increase appreciation of the intricate inner engine.Too often, the fascinating interplay of components that power timepiece displays is hidden behind a dial. Girard-Perregaux draws the curtain back with a dial fashioned from clear, tinted sapphire. The result is a smoked-glass effect that reveals the caliber beneath and that shows off the applied Art Deco hour markers to great effect.The smoked sapphire dial highlights the displays while leaving the movement visible for all to see. Focusing front and center, the large date and moon-phase displays grab your attention. Like most big-dates, this one places the digits on two separate disks. Girard-Perregaux uses some clever engineering to minimize the two level effect that often plagues such displays. One disk is cle

Awesome trip to Switzerland/Tour of AP
Hi All, I wanted to share my experience from my recent trip to Switzerland with everyone and recommend if you have a chance to go, it is definitely a worthwhile trip for the WIS. I have a couple of additional threads on visiting Patek and AP but thought I would start a new one. This is extremely pic heavy so will post in several segments as I believe there is a limit to the number of pics I can post each time. This covers several days in Geneva, Zurich, back to Geneva, Le Brassus, and Le Locle. Day 1 (Geneva):I traveled from Paris to Geneva by train. That was a very pleasant ride in the morning. I would definitely recommend riding in first class. For not a lot more, you get breakfast and much more comfortable seats. It was also not crowded at all so I could move around the coach to get the best seat. Did a little sightseeing around Geneva/Lake Geneva and could already tell this was going to be an exciting trip.

Vintage Banana .....
I have started collecting vintage watches other than vintage rolex and vintage tudor for quite some time. Especially for vintage diver watches, I have just found these vintage diver watches are very interesting. I have bought this Japanese book and it is a very good reference for a wide variety of both vintage and contemporary diver watches. Other than that, .scubawatch.org is a very good reference as well.Since then, I have collected vintage Seiko divers 150m ref : 6105 8110, and 300m ref : 6159-7000 ; Eterna Kontiki Super ; Longines Nonius ref : 8225 ; and Tudor BC 7924.Seiko 150m (6105-8110)Seiko 300m (6159-7000)Eterna kontiki superLongines Nonius (8225)Tudor BC (7924)This time, I have found this vintage diver with exotic dial and iconic sword type military hands, omega seamaster 200 ref : 166.068 which was produced in around 1970. Because of colorful exotic dial with the yellow color as the key tone, it is also banana seamaster. [pic borrowed]In additional to its exotic dial

Opinion: Will I lose my watch's value if I add a custom dial?
I'm looking to update my 31mm DJ (78243) with a custom meteorite dial. So far all my Rolex have original dials but since my DJ is very simple and I want to add some sparkle in it, I thought I may add a different dial in it but not sure how much will it affect the value or looks. Other than cost and value, is there anything else I need to think before I go ahead and buy the dial.https://.ebay/itm/Rolex-midsi...gAAOSwk5FUtd27

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