Rolex Daytona Watch: A Zero To Hero Story
Written by Andrew Morgan for watches-dealerThe StoryIf there's ever been a story of zero to hero, it's that of the Rolex Daytona. Unloved and unwanted, selling barely 500 units annually in its formative years, the Rolex Daytona has grown to become one of the most coveted watches of all time, commanding year-long waiting lists and astonishing residuals. The question is, how did that happen? This is the journey that turned Rolex's loser of a David into a hulking great Goliath.The Sixties was the decade of the sports chronograph. Jack Heuer's appointment as CEO of Heuer guided the launch of the Autavia in 1962 and the Carrera in 1963. Omega's Speedmaster was among the first to the game, introduced at the tail end of the Fifties. But the chronograph was no new invention; seen as early as 1816 in Louis Moinet's astronomical pocket watch, and in smaller wristwatch form at the beginning of the 20th century, the chronograph was old news. In fact, Rolex itself had been making chronograph watche

On The Media's TLDR Explains Swatch Internet Time
Back in 1998, Swatch tried no small task: to fundamentally change how we track time around the world. The idea was called ".beat time" and "internet time," and was supposed to simplify communicating across the world in the age of the internet by doing away with timezones and small units like seconds, instead dividing the day into 1000 event units. The experiment has been largely forgotten, but NPR's blog and podcast TLDR decided to take a closer look into why .beat time was born in the first place and why we're not all wearing .beat watches today. This is definitely worth a read and a listen.The basics are pretty straightforward: with internet time, the only units are "beats" and there are 1000 even beats in one day. This makes each beat a little shorter than a minute and a half (1 minute 26.4 seconds to be precise). They record time after midnight, so the @950 time shown on the watch above is equivalent to exactly 10:48pm at the Swatch headquarter

AP "Trunk Show" April 8th to 13th in NYC Boutique
Any members planning on attending?? all the 2014 Novelties will be there !

Seamaster chronometer
Hi guys Bought another watch recently 2006 seamaster pro chronometer, the guy seemed nice but i have now had it for 4 days and it stopped 2 days ago and i had to manual wind, could this be a serious issue with not winding itself? Or will a good service sort it? When its wound it keeps time very wellIt stopped again today......Any thoughts appreciatedCheers

My collection of 4 - but...
Hi All, TRF has become my daily newspaper, and I thank you all for the passion and insights shared. Owned 20+ pieces in the last 3 years, consolidated down to PP and as follows: 5205 / 5726 / 5712 / 5167 I am not loving the Aquanaut, I do have an opportunity to trade that plus the 5712 and cash for a blue 5960, that would leave the collection down to 3. I am not looking to add many more, but to settle on a well balanced 3 or 4 within the PP stable. So I open this up to all of you for some pearls of wisdom!Warmest regards and wishes,