In Surprise Ruling, COMCO Halts Swatch Group Escapement Cuts
Switzerland's Competition Commission (COMCO) has ruled that it would be premature to allow the Swatch Group to reduce supplies of assortments (i.e. the regulating organ of a mechanical movement: escape wheel, pallet lever, balance wheel and balance spring) that it sells to Swiss watch brands outside the group. While favoring a continued reduction in supplies of mechanical watch movements, COMCO halted further cuts in assortments supplies. It rejected a proposed plan for a gradual reduction of both movements and assortments through 2021 and 2025 respectively. The surprise ruling is the latest development in a drama that has gripped the Swiss watch industry for two years. At issue is whether the Swatch Group, the world's largest watch company and the dominant supplier of mechanical movements and parts to Swiss watch brands, can legally reduce those supplies. In June 2011 the Swatch Group declared its intention to cut supplies and asked COMCO to investigate the matter. At Swatch's reque

MCT Sequential Two S200 Watch
For 2014 MCT has announced a brand new watch with the Sequential Two S200, a new round-cased timepiece that focuses on the brand's signature complication for displaying the time with a new micro-rotor-based automatic movement. MCT is a young brand with a rocky history, and we are glad to see them really back on their feet with talent behind the scenes.Originally debuted in 2009, the MCT Sequential One is still one of my favorite "modern watches" being designed by Denis Giguet. A few years after that, Giguet left MCT around the time that he debuted his Opus Eleven watch with Harry Winston (hands-on here). Where is Denis Giguet today in 2014? He actually works for Van Cleef & Arpels, of all places. Anyhow, in 2013, MCT came back on the scene under the design aegis of Fabrice Gonet, who redesigned the original Sequential One watch with the updated Sequential One S110, a revised version of the original with some new visual details. For 2014, we get an entirely new piece with the Sequen

Does this patek look fake ?
My friend posted it on his blog. But I suspect this watch is a fake.

On your birthday
There's nothing better than spending the night in with the family a Patek on the wrist and a wee dram Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone

Thanks for the advice (new watch alert)
Paid a visit to ben bridge timeworks today. Picked up my first, and hopefully not my last patek. Brand new 5167 with bracelet. Took lots of pics to document the event. I took the advice of many forum members and skipped over the bell and ross for my next piece. I still want one, but maybe as a christmas present. Forgive the crummy pics, ill post more pics when it gets some wrist time. And finally, on the wrist at home...but still has the plastic on it.