UTS Celebrates 10 Years With Special Watches
Since 1998, mechanical engineer Nicolaus Spinner and business partner Stephen Newman have focused on building quality tool watches for professionals. UTS Watches are all exclusive designs, the cases are manufactured in-house, and each watch is assembled near Munich by their designer. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, UTS presents an updated look for their 500M and 1000M Divers. The watches feature new limited edition bezels and deep black Galvanic dials. The 500M is tested to 1,000 meters and 1,000M, with sapphire display back (the only one of its kind), is tested to 1,500 meters. Both models measure 43mm in diameter and 14mm in height and feature Swiss ETA movements.

Baselworld 2013: Breitling Emergency II
If you were an owner of the original Breitling Emergency watch, then you're?probably?the sort of person that engages in dangerous activities that leave you with a higher than normal chance of being stranded in the middle of nowhere. For the people that need this watch, and perhaps for others who live a normal lifestyle but are a little paranoid of "what if" scenarios,?Breitling has just come up with the Emergency II.The brand new Emergency II watch adds new features and at the same time takes away the perceived weaknesses of the original. You see, the original Emergency had a 121.5MHz transmitter that, when activated, had a range of??90 nautical miles (167?km) by search aircraft flying at 20,000 feet (6,000 m). This was assuming normal conditions, or basically flat terrain or calm seas. If you found yourself outside such conditions, then the range would be considerably shorter.Add to that the fact that the Emergency didn't have enough power to send the signal up to a satellite, but onl

Incoming...or so I thought?!
FedEx knocked at my door this morning and delivered a box that a jeweler's box from AP generally gets delivered in.instant...i thought did I do a deal drunk on TRF yesterday? ...then thought no...did I get my repair back from clearwater after only a week?.... and that was a definite no...so I couldn't figure it out, but I didn't want to open it quite yet. but then I did. and look what arrived! given that I've already sent two watches to Clearwater (one for repair, one for 3rd year warranty validation) and they never once sent either back in a box, Betsy promised me that she would send me one once they came back in stock.well, they kept to their word, and without warning one arrived! Looking forward to taking it with me on my next trip so that I don't need to leave my watch resting on a hotel nightstand!

Nice!
Thank god AP offers this 37 mm RO. As much as I love the blue dials, the larger 39 - 41 mm models are just too much for my wrist, size wise. This will have to do. Of course, if they bring this out in blue, I really am going to be in trouble . . .

Last week in Whistler...
Wore the Daytona to the slopes...sharing a few photosHad a sunny day on Monday and rest of the week was snowy..but a great time with fresh powder...Atop Little Whistler Hut..Looking at BlackcombAt the base gondola...