My First Grail Watch: Stephen Forsey Of Greubel Forsey
Welcome back to an original watches-dealer feature, "My First Grail Watch." In this series, we ask prominent people in the watch industry about the first timepiece that they lusted after. Today, we're speaking with Stephen Forsey, co-founder of independent brand Greubel Forsey.watches-dealer (ABTW): Who are you, and what is your relationship to the watch industry?Stephen Forsey: Born in St. Albans, England, I inherited my passion for the intricacies of mechanics from my father. From 1987, I specialized in antique watch restoration, which led to a position as head of Asprey's prestigious watch restoration department, and then furthered my horological education at WOSTEP in Switzerland.In 1992, I joined Robert Greubel's team at Renaud & Papi, where I worked on the most complicated mechanical movements. ?Then, in 1999, I chose to become independent. In 2001, together with Robert Greubel, I founded CompliTime SA, a company whose goal is to create and develop complicated mechanisms for

Historical Perspectives: Your Complete Guide To The Watches Of United States Presidents
On this President’s Day, we thought we would pull together as comprehensive a list as we can of US presidential watches. We're talking all the way from Washington to Obama, from Timexes to a Patek Philippe. Some loved watches and others simply wore them out of necessity. You might be surprised with what some of our presidents had sitting in their pockets and on their wrists. We hope you enjoy it. George Washington (1st President) President Washington owned a Swiss pocketwatch by an unknown maker (later gifting it to a friend), a Jean-Antoine Lépine pocketwatch, and a James McCabe pocketwatch.Unknown Swiss Quarter Repeater Pocketwatch 2 OF 111 Photo from NAWCC. Washington acquired a gold pocketwatch with a quarter repeater (it can chime the time down to 15 minute increments), presumably in 1775, and it is believed to be of Swiss origin as the case has a Neuchâtel hallmark. On the inside movement cover is the engraving: "1775

Planning to buy used Submariner 14060 - what to look for?
Hi guys, this is my first post but I've been reading the forum for a while.I'm on the market for a used 14060M and I was wondering what to look for when checking used 14060M and what questions to ask the dealer. Also what came originally with that model (box, paperwork etc)?

Sea Dweller randomly stopped running... then was fine...?
Something odd happened tonight.I was getting dressed for the evening and I when I looked at my watch at around 6:18 it was still at 6, almost like my minute hand stopped but the second hand was still running.When I looked at the watch it was at 6 and it clearly wasn't stuck, it advanced to 6:01 as I watched it. I've been wearing it all day so I don't see how it wouldn't have been wound, but that's the only answer, right? That the reserve ran out?It's a 1999 sea dweller that I got back last week from a service when it was corrected from running almost +15s a day down to +3 a day. It's been running good and keeping great time since. Anyone have any thoughts? Should I just not worry about it?

16710 Pepsi Date After Service
An issue I wanted to run by the TRF community, hopefully you guys can provide some guidance! I bought a 16710 off the forum about 4 years ago. Had always been one of my grail watches. Earlier this year I noticed it stopped keeping time well and late this summer it fully stopped. I sent it to the RSC for a service, they looked at it and said it'd just be a typical service, nothing extra or out of the ordinary was wrong.Got it back about 6 weeks ago and notice now that the date window changes like an ETA movement...at about 10PM it starts moving and finally clicks over at about 11:30PM.Have any of you experienced this before? It's obviously under warranty so I assume there's no charge to fix this right? And anyone who's experienced, is this an easy/short fix? I'd like to have the watch for the holidays.Thanks!