Inside The Restoration Of A World War II Hamilton 37500 Cockpit Clock
New York City based-watchmaker Aaron Berlow specializes in restoration of vintage timepieces. Enjoy this fascinating look at the restoration of an important World War II timepiece, told from a watchmaker's perspective. War has a way of making things hard to get, and when it came to getting precision time instruments from Switzerland, one can imagine the priority the United States placed on that. As a result, the U.S. Government set about creating military specifications for timepieces. One of these specifications called for the development and manufacture of the Hamilton/Elgin 37500 aircraft clock, also known as the AN-5741-1. 1 OF 8 Before the American entry into WWII, planes were equipped with the LeCoultre Elapsed Time clock named the “Chronoflite.” Beautiful in its own right, this clock was quickly made obsolete because of a lack of spare parts, and movements. As war efforts ramped up, both Hamilton and Elgin factories devoted all their producti

The First Watches To Account For Leap Seconds, From Hoptroff London
The calendar complication is one of the more commonly seen complications in mechanical wristwatches. One thing they don't do is keep track of leap years where an extra day is added to February. To correctly show February's leap day, you would need a perpetual calendar complication in your watch, which is comparatively much more complicated, and much more expensive than a normal calendar complication. Beyond leap days and years, there are leap seconds. Leap seconds are applied to coordinated universal time on an occasional basis, to account for a small irregularity in the Earth's orbit. What if you wanted to take the accuracy of your watch one step further, and keep track of leap seconds? Then, you definitely need a Hoptroff watch. 1 OF 1 Hoptroff makes hyper-accurate wristwatches, using both mechatronic quartz (1 second per year accuracy) and atomic (1 second per millenium accuracy) movements. Hoptroff has announced that on June 30th at 23:59:59 GMT, their wat

Breitling Aerospace titanium
HelloI've just seen a picture of this watch and I would like hear some opinions about it. I've never owned a Breitling before so I don't know much about them.Are discounts available at UK ADs on these watches?Thanks

The coolest strap ever! + Deployant
Finally got these from the NYC boutique. Excellent service and venue., and gifted a travel case and the lifetime magazine. Very happy with the rallye strap- changed the look of the watch completely. The curved ends bring a sporty style to it. The deployant clasp is well worth the money. Very well made and super comfortable. Happy to recommend this combo to any Speedmaster owner.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Patek aligator strap
I got a new strap from my local Patek hq today.Very stiff still and priced to sell!Problem i discovered later was the print 'geneve' underside is very faint, almost missing, on a brand new strap no doubt.I sent them a pic via email indicating this immediately upon discovering this flaw. Yes i should have checked before i paid but i let that slipped.The hq sales personnel replied and said 'i know the print is faint but the strap is brand new'The strap is not cheap. Who else can i escalate this to?