Vacheron Constantin Historiques 1921 Wins Montres Passion Watch of the Year
The Swiss watch magazine Montres Passion selected the Vacheron Constantin Historiques American 1921 as Watch of the Year for 2009. Vacheron also won the award in 2007 for its Patrimony Contemporary Retrograde Date and Day. Vacheron Constantin CEO Juan-Carlos Torres accepted the prize on October 28 at the Geneva Intercontinental Hotel before an audience of more than 500 people. The Historiques American 1921 model is inspired by an avant-garde cushion-shaped watch with the crown at 1 o’clock that was created for an American client during the 1920s. The modern version is 18k pink gold and measures 40mm in diameter. It is powered by Vacheron’s recently-developed manual-winding manufacture 4400 movement bearing the Hallmark of Geneva.

Christopher Ward C9 5 Day Small-Second Chronometer Watch
Christopher Ward is nothing if not ambitious when it comes to their flagship pieces. From the C9 Jumping Hour to the C900 Single Pusher Chronograph, and now, the new Christopher Ward C9 5 Day Small-Second Chronometer, CW has seen their partnership with Johannes Jahnke give birth to a number of innovative and appealing pieces. With this new C9 model, Christopher Ward is mixing traditional British marine chronometer aesthetics with an appropriately romantic hand-wound caliber - all for a price that may surprise you.One year after the release of the automatic calibre SH21 in the C9 5 Day Automatic, Christopher Ward has expanded the C9 5 Day line up with a new and somewhat more classic Christopher Ward C9 5 Day Small-Second Chronometer. This new hand-wound model has a 40mm hand-finished steel case that is 12.2 mm thick, with anti-reflective sapphire crystals front and back. The metal dial is white with black roman numeral markers and a railway minute scale. Completed with blued steel hands

Undecided, more opinions please
Well last week I asked for opinions wheather I should flip my ROC and Explorer II for a 15202 and many of you chimed in, which I really appreciated. After reading your comments and doing some meditation I decided that at this moment in time, the 15202 is not worth over $20k to me, hopefully when I get richer it will 😁.Well that being said, since the Explorer II was not really being worn that much and kind of lost the love for it, I sold it to a friend of mine, and decided to use the funds towards an AP steel diver. Well now I would like your opinion on the following question. What makes more sense in my collection? ROC and Diver? Or RO 15400 and Diver?Other than those two watches I also have a SubC. So if I keep the ROC I feel I'll be missing a dressier piece. And the RO although by no means is the same watch as the Jumbo, does share a very similar look. So option 1?Or 2?

Omega speedmaster broad arrow advice
Hi everyone I'm looking for some guidance and hoping that you can help. I have always been a rolex man, I started with a datejust and have recently acquired a new GMT IIc which is awesome. I'm really attracted to the history that is associated with these iconic time pieces and like the thought of owning a piece of history and appreciate the precision engineering that goes Into to making these watches. My long term goal is to collect an example of each of the iconic watch styles. I've decided that it's a chronograph that is next on my list of acquisitions. I naturally turned to look at Daytona's but have not really found them very appealing and the lack of a date display has pretty much ruled this out as a choice. I have therefore turned to Omega which also has it's fair share of iconic pieces and been surprising impressed.I really like the speedmaster but particularly the broad arrow variants and wanted some info, thoughts, advice and possible pictures about the watch around, ? though

Critical dissection of some Patek Basel 2017 Releases
I thought I'd share my views. Please take with a grain of salt and please chime in one way or another. 1.5131P – The highly anticipated worldtimer to complete the foursome of the collectible enamel worldtimers. I like the idea of the map layout, but will all the white/snow on the dial affect the contrast with the hands making it less legible? I think I prefer the R and the J that have a certain warmth. And why did Patek have to go with a bracelet? I saw online that this will now weigh close to half a pound! Totally unnecessary…. 5131_1P_001.png2.5960G – While the watch looks more appealing than the silver dialed steel counterpart, this is a very strange move that may hurt the value of the 5960P with blue dial which was rarer than the grey dialed 5960P. Patek probably could care less, but a nod to your loyal collector base would be nice by not reissuing essentially the same dial in a white gold case. Now that we are on topic, a few big collectors are quite upset that