Hajime Asaoka Project T Tourbillon Indepedent Japanese Watch
High-end, independent, and self-taught Japanese watchmaker Hajime Asaoka presents his second watch, the Project T Tourbillon - and it is beautiful. We introduced Hajime Asaoka back in 2011 when he released his first Tourbillon watch. The Hajime Asaoka Project T continues where he left off the with first tourbillon, further extending his cool and masculine art deco sense of style.Interestingly enough, the Hajime Asaoka Project T Tourbillon watch is a collaboration project between Hajime Asaoka and two other companies. Is this watch for charity, or with a sports team, or is there some other type of lifestyle connection? No such BS in the world of Hajime Asaoka - for the Hajime Asaoka Project T watch he worked with two tooling and milling companies! One is the OSG Corporation that makes precision cutting tools, and the second is Yuki, a major company that produces precision machining equipment. Of course each helped with the production of the watch.When you are a small independent watchma

eBay Buying And Selling Tip: How to Handle The Reserve, An Often Ill Used Tool
In addition to looking and fawning over watches, I also buy them on occasion. A typical venue for my consumerism is eBay. I like the thrill of the search and finding a rare item, as well as the system used to win auctions or purchase items. eBay is a wonderful resource, and I recommend it as a tool for everyone, regardless of whether you buy or sell. As such, I like to take the opportunity every once in a while to share tips and thoughts on using eBay based on my years of experience.Today I am going to talk about the "reserve" price. This concept is almost as old as auctioning itself and serves a couple of purposes on eBay. The reserve is set by the seller, and can be changed during the auction if the reserve is not met. In short, I don't particularly like reserves, and urge sellers to disclose the reserve price. More on that in a bit.To explain what the reserve is, first take a look at what eBay has to say about reserve prices here.This is good information, but eBay doesn't give you t

Saw these today
I don't come in here very often as I have nothing valuable to add. However, I'm in a hotel in Mumbai and found a most amazing little shop run by a watchmaker. He has all sorts of instruments in there; telescopes, sextants, compasses, binoculars, clocks and, of course, watches. Most of the watches he has are vintage and a couple of those were PP. Obviously the straps are not original but I'd like to hear your thoughts. The first watch in the pictures apparently dates back to the 1920s (I think) and is for sale at US$20k. The other two are around 1930 or 1940 but I lost track with all the numbers; they're about US$14k

Dive straps
Any advice for a dive strap for a tobacco faced Pam? I don't like the black rubber hat came with my 351. Any suggestions?

Another one
So Im mousing around on david sw's web site today. My new sub gets here tomorrow.