Top Five Useless Watch Complications
In the world of watches, "complication" is typically what functions are called. The more things a watch does, the more complications it has. Most of these are historical and have been around for centuries, proving to be useful and interesting. That latter camp of "interesting" complications incorporates a lot of potentially complex features that have arguable utility. Nevertheless, we still enjoy them for the simple effort and time required to produced and assemble them. They exist for the sheer love of things "complicated."Most complications are rather useful - even in our modern digital world. In addition to the time we enjoy having features such as the date, day of the week, more complex calendar functions, perhaps a second timezone, chronograph for measuring the time, and even things like the time all over the world. Those are pretty useful things. Then there are complications that while not totally useless, are certainly not very useful for the majority of people. We've assembled

AP in Houston, TX
Guys,Because of my old age and shrinking wrist, I have decided that most suitable RO for me is 15450 Blue. So today I paid to Zadok to see what they have. All together they had like 10 pieces available, which is a lot less than few years when I last visited the store. Naturally they did not have it available, but the very kind lady promised to let me know what she can do about it. So I was just wondering what is going on in this 4th biggest US city? AP seems to be very poorly represented.

Once in a lifetime... my journey to acquire my grail (lots of pics)
There are a few moments in our lives where we know is very special. This weekend was one of mine.As some of you know from my recent threads, I’ve been a Panerai guy for the last 10 years. A couple years ago, I started looking at APs mainly due to a fellow car guy - s14roller. It was a lot more expensive than what I wanted to spend so I tabled that for a few years (but I have still browsed the AP forums periodically). After a long year at work, I decided to treat myself with my first AP. I didn’t know much of AP at all (and am still learning now) so I looked at a lot of pics and bugged a LOT of people with questions (once again, mainly Jack - s14roller, peter - wx watches, Sam – 911cab, etc). Looked at Panda, new panda, the Beast, Ti-grays theme, and RG rubberclad… all were nice watches but none of them “spoke to me.”Until… I saw the RB2Ti. Being a car guy, it was easy to be drawn to this LE. I’m not eloquent with words so the best

after service feedback
hi guys,I'm thinking of sending in my AP ROC to AP Service center for refinishing the uncalled for scratches and dings it got.. its still new but i just wanna clear out those scratches.i would like to ask others for their experience after refinishing / polishing of scratches through AP.does it look the same like it was originally? back to that flawless beauty?i would highly request if you could post some pictures after polishing�� thanks

Advice needed with Omega PO
Over the last several months I've acquired several timepieces with the most recent being an Omega PO (orange number dial and rubber strap with orange stitching). My dilemma is I've fallen out of love with it. I admire the quality of construction and the co-axial movement and from a objective point of view the time piece is hard to fault. But it just doesn't stirr my emotions. My AD has a pre-loved Cartier Santos 100 XL (non chrono) for sale and I really like it. Would I be making a mistake by selling the Omega for the Cartier??I have been visiting this site for months now and find it rather addictive. There are a lot of knowledgeable members on this site which makes it even more interesting. JJ has over 49k posts !!! with a few other members not far behind. Heck, I even bought a new camera to take a few awesome pics of my time pieces and to no avail I can't seem to get my pics to appear like the guys here. Macro functions I am still toying with. I'll get there !!! Again, I w