Hands-On: With The Blancpain Villeret Tourbillon Squelette 8-Day In Platinum (PLUS: You're Invit
While perusing the wares of the brand new Blancpain boutique on Fifth Avenue a few weeks back, I stumbled across this guy here. It's called the VIlleret Tourbillon Squelette 8-Day, and while it was announced at BaselWorld 2014, there wasn't a lot of attention given to it �C most was offered to the awesome new in-house chronograph movement seen in the Bathyscaphe Chronograph. But this new tourbillon has a lot going for it. 2 OF 3 First, it employs Blancpain's excellent in-house 8-day self-winding tourbillon caliber 25, which is quite thin at 4.85mm in thickness. That's not only thin for a tourbillon, it's also very thin for a tourbillon with an 8-day power reserve. Second, the case is an absolutely perfect 37.5mm in diameter. Yes, that's 37.5mm and nobody is calling it a lady's watch. This is the size a watch like this should be. Second, this tourbillon offers a date function, and power reserve on the semi-skeletonized dial. 3 OF 3 It is indeed the dial here t

Lunch With My AP
Lunch today at my favourite sashimi restaurant.

SS RO - which parts are made of precious metal?
So I will soon be posting an incoming thread and will finally be joining the AP club in about a week's time In the meantime I have gone into extreme AP WIS mode So I've been wondering about which parts of the steel ROs are made of precious metals or other exotic materialsAFAIK the bezel/case screws are made of white gold?How about hour markers? White gold as well, like Rolex?Movement rotor is made of 22K gold?Please correct/add as necessary

White gold 6265 Daytona
This is being auctioned off by Phillips. Pinions are like wrist watches��everyone's watch shows a different time from others, but everyone believes that their time is correct.

San Francisco Rolex Service Center
FYI. Just spoke with the San Francisco Rolex Service Center (unofficial) and they indicated that they no longer do warranty work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk