Contemporary Pop Art In The Alexander Shorokoff Lady Avantgarde Watch
This limited edition watch for women by German Alexander Shorokoff reminds me of my youth. Usually watches seem to remind other people of their youth, but when I saw this watch my mind began to wander to being in a kid in the 1980s and 1990s. No, not because I used to wear women's watch. It is the art.A large part of my watch fascination comes from being an art lover. Watches are art. They are tools first, but they are tools with artistic real estate. Appreciation of good design and quality aesthetics drives a lot of my commentary. This watch will repulse some and entertain others, but in my eyes it reminds me of cartoons. Back in the 1980s colorful geometric art became really popular. A lot of this had to do with the start of computerized design and graphics slowly taking over hand-drawn work. Organic lines started being replaced by straight lines, and the inclusion of computer graphics into the art world was rapidly taking place.In the 1990s this design aesthetic began to evolve into

Hands-On: Some Quick Thoughts On The New Rolex Air-King Versus The New Explorer (Live Pics, Official Pricing)
The most interesting, or I should say curious, introduction from Rolex this year is the Air King reference 116900. First, I never really expected to see an Air-King at all ever again after the new Oyster Perpetual was brought out last year, but here it is. And on top of that, the Air-King is back in, frankly, a semi-foreign form as a 40 mm, anti-magnetic aviator's watch with a multi-color logo. We'll get to that, so let's first talk about the brand new Explorer, which is a really similar watch, also introduced this year, that, in my opinion, will be often compared to the new Air-King. The Rolex Explorer Reference 214270 1 OF 4 The new Explorer features new luminous applications and longer, wider hands for better legibility. So the new Explorer reference 214270, as introduced here on HODINKEE last week, is very much the same as the outgoing iteration of the same reference with its Oyster Perpetual case at 39 mm, 100-meter water resistance, and in-house caliber

Introducing: The New Bentley Bentayga SUV Will Feature A Real Self-Winding Tourbillon Clock From Bre
The newest Bentley is a beast (no surprises there). The Bentayga is an SUV, but it’s an SUV in the same way the battleship USS Missouri is a boat. It’s what you get when Bentley does the SUV, in other words; which is to say it is lavish with a capital L in every aspect from its sheer size and weight, to its almost absurd power (the darned thing has a twin turbo W12 engine and will do 187 mph, according to Bentley, so if you’ve been lying awake at night wishing your heart out for a chance to go faster than an F-18 at takeoff in an SUV, you can stop wishing).  Naturally, you don’t build a machine that can probably follow a main battle tank through Nature’s roughest terrain, and do 187 mph, and that has a champagne fridge in the boot (for real) without taking considerable pains with every other aspect of the vehicle, and in order that you may better tell the time whilst flattening careless wildlife with scarcely a detectable rattle in the opulently turne

Which LE Speedmaster would you choose?
Being a real sucker for Speedmasters and being something of a space geek/freak, I'm torn between deciding what my next LE Speedmaster should be.The two options are the Snoopy and the Apollo Soyuz. I'm a massive Snoopy fan and I love that the little guy is on both the case back and the dial and as for the Soyuz, well, just look at it, it's gorgeous. Both pieces also have plenty of ties to historical events so really, I'm stuck between a meteorite and a hard place. Just wondering what everyone else would choose, if you had to choose between these two.Copper

This or That: 5230G vs. Lange 1 moonphase WG
So, help me out here....Yes I know this is a Patek subforum but hopefully that doesn't equate to blind prejudice :)These two pieces are very different. However my current collection already includes travel timers (e.g. the 5164, GMTII, SBGJ019), time only watches, and moonphases, as well as Lange (1815 Up/Down and Saxonia Annual Calendar), and of course the perfect little PP 3940j that will never leave my collection.So the question of This or That is not one based on need, or a desire to round out the stable...simply the fact that both pieces (the Lange 1 and the 5230) have each caught my eye and I want to choose between them.What would you do?Rich