BEST FROM: watches-dealer & Friends August 14, 2015
Headlining this time's round-up is an article that answers a question that we get asked very often: What watch should I buy? In an attempt to answer this question, Ariel has compiled a list of 10 watches that he loves and thinks can be recommended to anyone.In addition to this, we visit the home of a collector whose collection can be best described as stupendous. Apart from checking out his collection of extremely rare and beautiful watches, we also find out the story of how he got into watch collecting, what drives him and how he decides which watches to collect.To round things off, we take a look at the global watch phenomenon that is Daniel Wellington. In a short span of just a few years, Daniel Wellington is now a $200 million business, and they sold over a million watches in the past?year. Find out what gave birth to the brand and how they did it.1. 10 Watches Recommended For Anyone According To Ariel AdamsAs watch journalists, a question that we are often asked by other friends

Editorial: Personal Thoughts On The Phillips Start-Stop-Reset Steel Chronographs Sale
The art of the thematic watch sale is a delicate one, indeed. In the modern era, the benchmark by which all other thematic sales are measured is that of the Christie's-under-Aurel-Bacs Lesson One: Daytona sale, where 50 watches sold, 50 records were set, and the final sale brought in a mind-blowing four times the high estimate. I was in the audience, and the room was really, truly electric – and not just electric for a watch auction, which as you may know, means very little, but like, actually exciting. This sale was crazy, and the results were mind-blowing – the reverberations of which we still feel today in the current Daytona market, two and a half years later. Since then, we've seen other thematic sales both by Christie's – Patek 175 and Speedmaster NYC, and another by Bacs in the Glamorous Day-Date sale at his new home, Phillips – but none seemed to capture the same excitement with watch fans, or bidders. I could hypothesize about

Thinking of getting my first Breitling
What do you guys think of this piece? I can get this 50% off retail new in the box. I was wondering what you guys thought of it being rose gold?

popped into the AD and found these for sale
the 59601a has a tax free price of $51500 NZ dollars which i thought was pretty good buying!!

Grail Arrival
5980/1A (to cut to the chase!)After 30 years of collecting, and several years of lusting, I am left with two watches that belonged to each of my Grandfathers, one that belonged to the priest that married my wife and I, a 40th birthday present from my wife, and finally this:This is the ONE. I will probably rotate 3 of the other 4 watches on rare occasions (the 32mm Elgin military doesn't keep good time). But with these exceptions, this will be my daily, my week-ended, my dress-up, my dress-down...you get the idea!The Aquanaut and Calatrava (and most of what little watch fund cash I had) have been traded for my dream watch. Lots of Rolexes have come and gone, none remain. Omegas and (don't judge!) Wittnauers too (vintage Wittnauer is my favorite budget Swiss watch when I go through that phase).Hard to believe I finally made my goal. For a guy who constantly ribs other members about what's next, it's odd to feel there is no next. A temporary situation to be sure!Thanks to all for letting