Movement is the automatic Switzerland internal IWC calibre 51614 Pellaton system with a 7-day power reserve.
Limited to 250 pieces, Watches IWC Big pilots will be available exclusively to shops of the IWC in Los Angles and Las Vegas. Movement is the automatic Switzerland internal IWC calibre 51614 Pellaton system with a 7-day power reserve. The display of the Big Watch perpetual calendar Limited Edition 2010 pilot moon phase deviates from the actual state of the Moon by only 12 seconds at each lunar period. In other words, the divergence is equivalent to a day in the years 577.

SS DeVille Co-Axial Chronometer
I was set on getting a Datejust II and walked past an Omega AD when this watch caught my eye. I brought my wife in and she picked herself a DeVille Prestige co-axial with a mother of pearl face. Both watches are all stainless and I think are a pretty classical design. I've done some post purchase searching and find absolutely nothing on these watches. Did I just buy two dead models or are we just that much ahead of the curve?

Awesome !
Well, I set out with Mrs Van D this afternoon to the Singapore Panerai boutique, deposits paid on a 533 and 312. Have I brought those two watches home tonight? Er, no. So what did I come with? Read on........

372 plexi shot
How can you not like that .... And if you like vintage rolex ... How can you not appreciate this?

Rolex - keep cutting supply of sports models please!! (What say you?)
Is any one else happy that Rolex has cut supply on sports models? Or in the alternative, if given the choice between unlimited supply of sports models and what's most probably manufactured scarcity, is anyone else happy about the scarcity?I actually like that Rolex is forward-thinking in order to keep value in the brand. I like that they're taking (what they feel to be) affirmative steps to ensure value retention in an uncertain mechanical watch future landscape. If they didn't do that, I'd imagine that it would be easy to be blindsided. Don't believe me, go back thirty years and tell Sears and Kmart and Blockbuster that they wouldn't be on top in their respective industries. We hear a lot from the people who are salty because they can't find a Daytona or a 116610lv or a blnr. They're perpetually on the cusp of leaving the brand for Omega or Iwc. But I think that there are folks that think that Rolex' strategy is a good one. Any thoughts from that camp?