Well-Done Double Retrograde From Pierre DeRoche: New Brand On The Scene
I have to applaud a new brand that releases relatively sober and legible timepieces. The Double Retrograde from the new Swiss watch brand Pierre DeRoche is an obvious "homage" to Gerald Genta, but well done nonetheless; making for a legible watch that strays from the norm.A retrograde watch is one that has a hand that moves along a liner arc. Once it reaches the end of that arc, it simply jumps back to the beginning position. This is as opposed to traditional cyclical nature of watch hands. Retrograde hands are often used to emulate gauge meters, but can serve a very good purpose when it comes to legibility. Being a new twist on analog time telling, a double retrograde would have two such retrograde hands. According the Pierre DeRoche double retrograde have one hand for the hours and another for the minutes. It maintains a traditional cyclical subsidiary dial for the seconds.The Double Retrograde is powered by a Dubois Depraz automatic mechanical movement (one of the fancier names in w

Introducing The Piaget Altiplano Scrimshaw, With A Dial Made Of 40,000 Year Old Mammoth Tusk (Live P
A few weeks ago, we gave you a hands-on look at the Piaget 900P, the thinnest mechanical watch in the world. But this isn't the only new watch Piaget is showing at SIHH. The Altiplano Scrimshaw features a dial made from fossilized mammoth ivory that is then engraved with a map of the Eastern Hemisphere using traditional scrimshaw techniques. Each dial takes 65 hours to produce and these watches really are unique little works of art. 2 OF 15 The Altiplano Scrimshaw starts simply enough – a 38mm Altiplano case in either white or pink gold with an in-house 400P ultra-thin calibre. While these are admirable as-is, this watch is all about the special dial. A piece of preserved mammoth ivory (approximately 40,000 years old) is shaped into a dial that comes in around 1.7mm thick. From there, the dial is engraved with a map and a compass rose using traditional Scrimshaw techniques.Scrimshaw is a special type of engraving that can be traced back to the Inuits and other t

ROC ref. 25860 advice needed
I am wondering if any of you has experienced this. My ROC is losing approximately over a minute per week. It has started about a month ago and exactly 5 years since the last service. Initially, it gave me no issues for about a decade and now I am noticing that it is losing time. It probably needs a new service?Any suggestions is greatly appreciated and thank you all for your time.gb

Incoming: First Panerai
I've just ordered my first Panerai....a PAM 00050 with steel bracelet plus extra rubber and leather straps on deployment clasp.I now have a Rolex 1972 1603 Datejust (birth year), a Breitling Montbrillant Datora, A Tag Heuer Link Auto Chronograph (40th pressie off my wife last year), a Tag Heuer sports elegance and the incoming Panerai!!

Keep either new BLNR or 2009 16610 Sub date
I managed to get my hands on a new BLNR today from my AD. I now have to make the decision to either keep it and give my Dad my 2009 Sub or keep Sub and let him have the BLNR.I love them both it's 50 50 would love to hear what anyone else would do ?Keeping both is not an option unfortunately.