Bremont Lightweight E-Type Chronometer Watch In Collaboration With Jaguar Cars
Is the car industry borrowing a page from the high-end watch industry playbook? For 2014, Jaguar will be literally reproducing six "copies" of its iconic Lightweight E-Type race cars built in the mid 1960s. In essence, the plan is sort of romantic if it were not so darn expensive, and along for the ride is English watch maker Bremont with some limited edition watches. The first of the new Jaguar Lightweight E-Type cars will be debuted at the Pebble Beach 2014 Concours d Elegance auto show event. Each of the six cars is claimed to be priced at around $1,680,000.Between 1963 and 1964 Jaguar was supposed to build 18 of the "Lightweight" E-Type cars but it only ended up building 12 of them. In order to be lighter than the standard E-Types these special E-Type models were produced from aluminum and had a range of other minor techniques designed to save weight. All of this was for on-track racing performance. For 2014 Jaguar will complete the original 18 E-Types with six more cars that follo

What It's Like To Make A Watch
Sitting on the watchmaker's bench, two things became apparent; that finger condoms (cots) choke the blood out of my fingers and looking through a loupe with just one eye gives you no depth perception when you need it most. For several days I took instruction from a master watchmaker while I and an watches-dealer reader were guests of Frederique Constant in Geneva putting together our first watch movement. It was a thrilling experience, and one that few people will ever receive, even if they pay for it. Unless they go to a watch making school that is.Technical Director and watchmaker Pim Koeslag is Dutch, and so is Peter Stas, who is the founder of Frederique Constant (with his wife Aletta). The manufacture which also houses sister brand Alpina is nestled (quite literally in the middle) of several famous manufactures in Geneva including Piaget, Vacheron Constantin, Rolex, and Patek Philippe. Pim started working with Peter when Frederique Constant was getting serious about making in-hous

Best performing Nautilus by 2022?
I know some will say that watches are not investments and appreciating them is not a monetary concern- and they would all be very right.....Nonetheless, of the in-production Nautilus range which one will see the greatest percentage money appreciation from current price today and 5 years time. (ps. by current price I don't mean retail, I mean the price you'd have to pay to get one today- the chrono24 price if you will, e.g. ?30,000 GBP for a steel 5711 blue NOT ?18,030) If you consider everything:-1. waiting lists for new ones2. big/small watches gaining/losing appeal3. gold and rose gold gaining/losing appeal4. chance of any of them being discontinued 5. estimated production numbers per year per model6. (and others)I own a blue 5711/a but my own winner would be the 5712 in steel for the following reasons:-1. when it comes to nautiluses and sports watches generally steel always outperforms gold.2. its been in production for as long as any other watch in the current range and may well ge

Annual calendar enters October...
Yesterday was then end of my first 30-day month with the Nautilus Annual Calendar. I was both curious to see the gears grind away and also wondered if an old dog (me) could learn a new trick - make a time-lapse video of the event. I'm fascinated with time-lapse but don't have the right software tools so I resorted to the manual crowbar method...At 11:40 I found that the watch had already staged Sep 31st ;) in prep for the big 10/1. It took until 1 am for the date wheel to get perfectly aligned and I had lost patience at 12:45. Day of week clicked right in at 11:59. OK, well, whatever...The video is small and a bit jerky from embedding here and is better viewed on Youtube and even better yet on my machine. It's a bit crude but the soundtrack softens the blow (Lucky Thompson, anyone?).If I ever do this again (not likely) I'm gonna reset the watch and do it during the day!

My new GMT-MASTER 16700 "R" Serial
(Trying this again...)HelloI am new to the forums and just wanted to share my first ever Rolex and also to say hello. So... Hello! ;)I picked this up yesterday and just wanted to share and perhaps even get some knowledgable opinions on this particular piece in regards to authenticity, condition, etc.From my research it looks as though it was probably made in 1988 and most likely has had its indices and hands replaced but i am a major noob in regards to these things.Any and all comments are welcome, and hello again ;)