The Apple Watch: Pros and Cons
More than eleven years ago, after Bill Gates personally introduced Microsoft smartwatches at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I wrote a column in WatchTime entitled Honk If You Want a Computer On Your Wrist! The column asked the following simple question: Does anyone really want this contraption? My answer in the column, admittedly inelegantly stated, was Whaddya, stupid? Of course not! Forgive the immodesty, but I was right. Microsoft smartwatches, produced in conjunction with Citizen, Fossil, Suunto and Swatch, were all total flops. Since then, despite the arrival of various and sundry smartwatches (Pebble, i'm Watch, Martian, Galaxy Gear and more), very few people have shown any sign that they want a computer on the wrist.We are now arrived at what is surely the moment of truth for smartwatches. On Sept. 9 of last year, mighty Apple unveiled the Apple Watch, described by the New York Times as a miniature computer strapped around the wrist. Finally, once and for all,

Montblanc TimeWalker TwinFly Chronograph
Introduced at SIHH, this new chronograph from Montblanc incorporates some interesting features. The movement uses a column wheel and vertical clutch, and both the chronograph seconds and minute hands are mounted in the center. There is also a flyback function, a date window at 9 o'clock, and a second time zone with 24-hour display at 12 o’clock. The Calibre MB LL100’s vertical disk coupling helps the seconds hand start smoothly when the chronograph is activated, and it reduces friction and so prevents unnecessary wear when the chronograph function is allowed to run for lengthy intervals. The center-mounted chronograph seconds can be read on the quarter-seconds scale on the outermost periphery of the dial, and the sixty-minute track is a separate scale inside the hours-circle.Pressing the button at 4 o’clock while the chronograph is running causes both the central chronograph seconds hand and the red sixty-minute totalizer to fly back to their zero positions and, wit

TAG Heuer is awarded the Grand Prize for the watch...
The price is the last of several honours in the watch industry which received the Grand Carrera Calibre 36 RS Caliper chronograph TAG Heuer. In China, the Watch has won a "most successful Design Award 2008"; He has been also acclaimed at the Salon Internacional de Alta Relojeria 2008. Expressing of Mexico his pleasure by winning the top of the sports jury prize category, President and CEO of TAG Heuer Jean-Christophe Babin said: "this is the fifth time, TAG Heuer is awarded the Grand Prize for the watchbut each time is the first time! It is a great achievement for the people of TAG Heuer.

My daughter's favorite Omega
Maybe it has something to do with Snoopy?And looks pretty cool on the wrist too!Yeah.. just loving it!

Five Surprising Facts About Rolex
From Watchfinder & Co.Maybe less surprising for those of us here.