SLYDE Sport Watches With Matching "Engines" 2013
My experience with the SLYDE?watch last year was an instructive one. While I will readily profess the religion of the mechanical watch to anyone who will listen, I was surprised to discover that during the time I spent with a SLYDE on my wrist, I felt a tinge of the future, and possibly of watch-making itself.While we interact with electronic devices all the time, it seems strange that in the arena of wrist-watch appreciation, the emphasis is decidedly still on the mechanical side of things. Perhaps if the future is to be engaged properly, developments need to be made on?the digital side as well, for who knows what we as a race will evolve to be like further down the line. Without a doubt, at some point the world of Swiss watches and smartwatches will converge.SLYDE is interesting and is an interesting company, guided by a singular vision that in the current environment, could reasonably be deemed to be very bold. Viewed by many industry pundits as a worthwhile experiment in the concep

Piaget Creates Rare Beautiful Skeletonized Thin Mechanical Watch In The Altiplano Squelette
Skeletonized watches are popular right now, and named for the view (complete or partial) of the watch movement in the dial. Some skeletonized watches provide glimpses all the way through the watch, while others provide mere hints of the gears and mechanism which together power the watch. The reason skeletonized watches are popular is because they offer mechanical credibility. No one needs a mechanical watch, but its nice to know that your timepiece is a sophisticated piece of machinery, and there is no better way to show that than by actually showing you such machinery.The problem with many skeletonized watches is that they are limited by the actual mechanics of the watch. Meaning that gears, springs, and bridges must often be located in specific places to work. You cannot simply arrange them in an aesthetic manner all the time. Designers would love to arrange things with a sense of symmetry and style, but that requires significant complexity starting with the design of the movement. O

What's In A Name
Curious what others think, though it's ultimately an individual decision. I'm considering one more major Patek purchase for the year (5270). I have the option to buy new with my name on the papers or one version sealed with someone else's name or a third mint (obviously, again, with someone else's name). Essentially, the privilege of being the named owner will run me about $20k. Part of me thinks that's an absurd vanity, but part of me believes this will be an heirloom piece I'll someday hand down to my son or grandson (unborn as of yet), and I'd like to avoid the awkwardness of explaining why the family name isn't on the papers and also can't imagine missing the money that far down the road.What do people here feel?

Ref 2499
just in case you didn't catch this hodinkee article, i thought i'd post it here. pretty interesting how a few details can be the difference between $314,000 and $2,750,760 for the same reference.Yesterday in Geneva, Christie's watch department held its spring sale. It made over $32 million dollars, with four inidividual lots bringing in over $2 million each. The Breguet Resonance pocket watch that we showed you previously went for an amazing $4.68m, while the enamel Patek world timer that we showed you here went for over $2.9. But, one watch we didn't show you, a Patek Philippe 2499 in pink gold is the focus of this post, because it seems so simple, and yet it sold for over $2.7million. So, what made this 2499 so special when compared to, say, your average, run of the mill 2499 like this, also in yesterday's sale, that made only $314,000? The devil is in the details, my friends.What made this particular 2499 so valuable is a perfect storm of rare traits. First, is a 'first serie

That confusion over servicing intervals
It keeps coming back ; guys insisting Rolex recommends ten year servicing. But there is no such recommendation on any Rolex website I can find.The latest version is people quoting from some sales document marked 'for internal use only' .There are real experts on this forum. Can anyone produce a statement from Rolex quoting a set number of years between servicing? I think their position is ..,service when necessary. Am I wrong ?