A. Lange & S?hne Names BMW’s Wilhelm Schmid CEO
German watchmaker A. Lange & S?hne has appointed Wilhelm Schmid as Chief Executive Officer effective January, 2011. Schmid, 47, a German national, has held several positions in marketing and sales over the last eight years for BMW. Since 2007, he has been responsible for sales and marketing for BMW South Africa. As CEO, Schmidt will be entrusted with further developing the Lange brand and its operations.

Colt Chronograph Bracelet
I'm looking for a replacement bracelet for my Colt Chrono, it shows a reference number on the bracelet of 861a but I cannot find this anywhere. What professional series bracelet would work?

Omega and Phelps
Here is an interesting article that appeared in the Washington Post about Omega's work as timer of the Olympics and specifically how they determined that Phelps won yesterday's 100 m butterfly by just .01 of a second. It's about a lot more than just marketing for Omega....Omega President Has Faith in MachinesThe president of Omega was just another agape Olympic viewer who couldn't tell with his own eyes whether Michael Phelps touched the wall first in the 100-meter butterfly.Stephen Urquhart was watching the race in a corporate entertainment suite full of clients when Phelps took one last half-stroke and hit the Omega-installed electronic touch pad in the wall of the pool at the Water Cube, just ahead of Milo Cavic of Serbia.Almost immediately, the official result giving Phelps first place by a hundredth of a second flashed on to the large scoreboard. But it took an official review of Omega's electronic sensor and digital video data, following a protest from the Serbian delegation, to

Birth Date Watches
I am also a member of the Omega Forum and on there the members seem to like to collect watches from their year of birth.Do Rolex members do the same or is it a general watch thing. Any opinions or comments please, but not too nasty.

I did it!!!
This Yatchmaster totally grabbed my attention this morning. Wife was very supportive of the idea so I went for it!!! One more addition to my small collection. Im new to this forum so Im not sure if Im posting this in the right spot!Im happy and blessed!