Watch Insider: 5 Pre-Basel Watches from Tissot, Longines, Bulgari, Maurice Lacroix, and Fr��d��rique Constant
The Baselworld watch fair is about a month away, but many watch brands have already sent previews of new timepieces that they will be launching at the fair. Click on the pictures below to read my posts (along with additional photos) on five new watches from Tissot, Longines, Bulgari, Maurice Lacroix, and Fr��d��rique Constant, all from my blog, Watch-Insider.  Tissot T-Race Touch AluminumLongines Column-Wheel Single Push-Piece ChronographBulgari Octo ChronographMaurice Lacroix Masterpiece GravityFr��d��rique Constant Classics Manufacture Worldtimer 

Autodromo Prototipo Watches: Modern With Retro Racing Style
The tie between wristwatches and automobiles has been well established on these pages. Often times, when a brand releases a "car" watch, it can be a somewhat tenuous tie, or it's just for a single model. With the folks over at Autodromo, however, cars are simply a way of life, and it informs each and every watch they create.Their latest models, the Prototipo and Prototipo Vic Elford, pay homage to auto racing of the 60's and 70's. This was a time when watches were truly a tool used in the cockpit of the car, allowing the driver to time laps with ease. This is done in much different ways these days of course, but that heritage lives on in this new line.For this lineup, Autodromo focused in on the Prototype Era of endurance racing (prototipo is Italian for prototype). To start with, this informed the case shape. The 42mm stainless steel case has smoothed out curves (and integrated lugs), which is intended to call to mind the curved bodies of the cars that were on the racetrack in the 196

Housed in the new Bell Ross Tutto Sport watch is a black dial
Housed in the new Bell Ross Tutto Sport watch is a black, white or silvered dial. It is equipped with oversized Roman numerals and hour-markers. The date indication appears in the aperture at 4 o'clock. Animating the functions is a Ronda 515 quartz movement.Keeping the new Bell Ross watch secured to the wearer's wrist is a black rubber strap. It can be also mounted on a steel or black PVD steel bracelet.

Incoming SMP 3570.50
I fell for Speedmasters via the great 9300. Maybe a little bit backwards, though who can say. But having the 9300 gave me the hankering for the classic 3570.50, so I picked one up this weekend from the master of Speedmasters Kringkily. Everything that everyone says about this watch us true, and it deserves the great reputation it has.

Patek 5065 Lume
Have this question I always wanted to ask. I have a 5065 acquired in 1999. 2nd version with the sapphire back.Sometime in 2005, the lume for the hands fell off. The hands are still intact. I sent it back to PP service center. They replaced the lume but they are brighter than the rest of the watch, i.e. the numbers and number indicators. Is this normal? My friend said that's cause they use a different luminance. Also I've never polished this watch before. And it is quite scruff up. Should I bother polishing it? I like it the way it is but some people do ask me why don't i polish it. Not sure if that's an insult.