Grieb & Benzinger Blue Merit Customized A. Lange & Sohne Tourbillon Pour Le Merite Watch
There are certain things one simply doesn't do with valuable watches. Some of those things include underwater diving with a minute repeater and taking apart and modifying a limited edition early A. Lange & Sohne Tourbillon. However, if you must do the latter, it might as well be done tastefully, and by a fellow German company - which is precisely the situation with the one-of-a-kind Blue Merit watch by Grieb & Benzinger.Typically the boys at Grieb & Benzinger make their luxury project watches out of historical movements such as a 100 year old Patek Philippe minute repeater or split second chronograph. For the Blue Merit they have endeavored to use a much more modern movement taken out of an A. Lange & Sohne Tourbillon Pour le Merite. So yes, a limited edition Tourbillon Pour le Merite watch from the mid 1990s was essentially sacrificed for this Benzinger-esque transformation. Was it worth it?Before & After: A. Lange & Sohne Tourbillon Pour le Merite and Grieb &a

SIHH 2013: Introducing The Piaget Emperador Coussin Ultra-Thin Minute Repeater, The Thinnest Self-Winding Minute Repeater In The World
It's January, 2013 and that means SIHH is just around the corner. Actually, it's about 2.5 weeks away. Which means you're about to start seeing a whole bunch of new releases from some of the best brands in the world. We're starting off the new year with one of them - what is likely to be Piaget's biggest story of the show this year, the new Emperador Coussin Ultra-Thin Minute Repeater - the thinnest self-winding minute repeater ever made. 2 OF 6 3 OF 6 4 OF 6 This new record-setting repeater sits at just 9.4mm thick, while the in-house caliber 1290P is an incredible 4.8mm thin. This is the fourth high-complication that Piaget has taken into the realm of the ultra thins (they also own the title of thinnest self-winding tourbillon, perpetual calendar, etc), the 11th complic

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Patek 5235Regulator annual calendarFirst time I saw it I didn't know what to think. Nice, very well made.refreshing, original, new,...interestingbut would I buy a regulator ?Now, months later I'm faling in love Still a lot of money for a strange looking watch but on the other hand, being a Patek they could ask A LOT MORE. The price is barely more than their other annual calendars which this 5235 is so different So, what do you think about this ?It is the first Patek Philippe wristwatch with a regulator dial, characterized by a sweep minute hand, a subsidiary hour dial at 12 o'clock and a seconds subdial at 6 o'clock. The heart of the watch is the new caliber 31-260 REG QA, the first ultra-thin self-winding Patek Philippe movement with a mini-rotor that displays the subsidiary seconds at 6 o'clock. It is also the very first totally new basic movement designed to accommodate Silinvar? components: The escape wheel and the lever of the Pulsomax? escapement as well as the Spiromax? balance

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First Panerai for me. I always liked the simple classic look. I picked this up from David SW and as usual easy and great transaction. I like the black strap that it came with but I swapped it out for brown. I was lucky the Miami boutique had one left in stock. I feel the color matches perfectly.

Elementary, Dr. Watson...
An annual calendar Day-Date. Or perpetual... Wait and see.