An Insurance Provider's List Of The Top 20 Watches Of All Time
If you happen to stumble upon the website MoneySupermarketwatches-dealer you probably won't think it has anything to do with watches. It doesn't, acting as a sort of aggregator for insurance providers for its audience. However, one of their marketing people (Karl) is a pretty serious watch lover (and proud watches-dealer reader). As a way of trying to tie together what his employer does with his love of watches, he came up with his own list of the top 20 watches everas a way of lightly suggesting "you might want to think about getting your timepiece collection insured."While every "top watches" list is going to be subjective, we felt that there was a lot of merit to his list; representing an interesting collection of pieces over time, as well as a range of styles, values, and feature sets. In a nutshell, this is a well-rounded list from someone who has clearly given this a lot of thought. An watches-dealer top 20 watches of all time list would likely vary, but some of these watches wou

Orbita Sparta 1 Tesla Watch Winder Review
My journey through the interesting (and necessary) world of watch winders continues. Here is another impressive and relatively reasonably priced watch winder from American based Orbita. By the way, please be sure to enter to win a similar Orbita watch winder of your own during the rest of January 2010 here. If you are reading this and the giveaway has ended, you should still take a good look at Orbita for your watch winder needs, and this Sparta 1 Tesla is a solid option. For the novices out there, recall that watch winders are a convenient companion for automatic watches - but have no effect on manually wound movements. This might seem obvious to most of my readers, but for newer watch lovers this is an important distinction.The Sparta 1?Tesla features the same winding system as the Orbita Sparta 1 Mini that I reviewed here. But the style and packaging of the Tesla is more luxurious, as well as modular. While the Sparta 1 Mini was a smaller unit, the Sparta 1?Tesla is a bit larger and

Paid much more attention to the sailing yacht from Panerai
CEO Panerai and avid yachtsman Angelo Bonati just spent the past two-and-a-half years overseeing a restore full of the Eilean (see above), a beautiful two masts 72-ft Bermuda ketch originally designed and built in 1936 by the legendary site of Fife in Scotland. When Bonati has acquired the elegant yacht, whose design was inspired by the class America's Cup racers j of the 1930s, in 2006, it was a mastless wreck, rust. He hired specialist naval restoration Italian Enrico Zacagni to undertake the task extremely expensive and careful of 40,000 hours.

Omega Boutique
I just wanted to share a positive experience I had at an omega boutique this afternoon. I walked in and the place was empty so as expected I was greeted right away and asked if I was looking for anything in particular. I was actually interested in seeing the PO liquid metal 42mm titanium which they had in stock. As I started talking to the guy it turns out he was the tech and not a salesman so he was very knowledgeable about everything and very helpful. He must have showed me 10+ watches with no pressure to buy. After a few min the sales guys came out from the back (guessing they were on break) and joined in on the conversation we were having. I must have spent an hour talking to these guys about omega movements and new omega releases this yr. The tech proceeds to show me the speedmaster mark II re issue and I must say that I really liked the racing dial in person. I told the guy that I had just seen an original for sale here on TRF and that if I went and bought it it would be their fa

London Panerai Boutique
Anyone else receive an email from Panerai announcing a new London Boutique?Business must be good. I hope the new two-story space includes a mini museum.