Tourneau Trains Students for Careers in Watchmaking
When the average person thinks watchmaker , they picture an older man in a white lab coat working in the mountains of Switzerland. Watch retailer Tourneau is challenging that image with a program that gives disadvantaged kids in New York City a chance at a watchmaking career. Company executives gathered recently to recognize the program's newest group of graduates.Launched last year, the Tourneau Watchmaker Program was the brainchild of Terry Irby, a soft-spoken watchmaker who manages Tourneau's service center, which is located in Long Island City in the borough of Queens, New York. Facing an ever-increasing number of watches needing service (currently about 600 per week), Irby needed to expand his staff �C not an easy task in the United States, where qualified watchmakers are in high demand.Irby's idea was simple �C partner with the Manhattan Comprehensive Night and Day School, also known as CDI, an institution that helps teens who are no longer in school get back on the right path. CD

Rating Watch Brands’ Digital IQ, From Genius to Feeble
TAG Heuer has been awarded first place in the “Watches” category of the “Digital IQ Index: Ranking the Digital Competence of Luxury Brands”, a survey conducted by the Luxury Lab of New York University’s Stern School of Business. The Digital IQ Index ranks brands as Genius, Gifted, Average, Challenged and Feeble based on their digital competence. Apple finished first overall with a Digital IQ of 170. TAG Heuer finished in 8th position with a Genius-level rating of 141. TAG was the only watch brand to receive a Genius rating. Tiffany and Rolex tied with IQs of 129, placing them in the Gifted group along with Cartier (124). Hublot, Movado and Omega scored in the Average range, while IWC, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Vacheron Constantin, and Harry Winston were found to be “Challenged”. Franck Muller and Bulova fell into the Feeble category.The study measured the Digital IQ of 109 luxury brands in 11 categories, across 15 dimen

New AP advice
I'm planning to buy a new AP and I can't really decide which one to go with. I have narrowed it to 6 models. I will be using it both daily and for special occasions which makes it a hard choice for me which one to go with. I have a fairly small wrist so the 44mm's are out of question. Any advice appreciated The models are:Royal Oak rose gold chronograph with croco strap either black or white dialRoyal Oak steel openworked self windingRoyal Oak QE II TitaniumRoyal Oak Tribute to ItalyRoyal Oak Leo Messi steel

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