Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Selfwinding Tourbillon Chronograph Watch
Ever since Carl F. Bucherer released their in-house made caliber A1000 movement in 2010 with a peripheral automatic rotor, I felt that more watches needed to integrate peripheral rotors in their mechanical movements. For 2014, Audemars Piguet releases a new ultra-high-end version of the Royal Oak Offshore with a new visible dial-mounted peripheral automatic rotor that exists in addition to a tourbillon and chronograph complication.What is a "dial-mounted peripheral automatic rotor?" Many of you know, but I just realized that non-watch lovers might have a difficult time understanding the concept. Automatic rotors are part of a mechanical watch's "self-winding" system and tend to be shaped like half circles placed on the rear of the movement. These half circle weights move with the motion of your wrist and wind the mainspring barrel that powers the watch movement. One issue that some aficionados have with automatic movements is that the rotors block a large part of the movement (even tho

Artist Profile: The Imagery Of Time With Olga Narozhna
People starve to be different. The least likely of places you'd expect find individualism was Soviet-controlled Ukraine in the 1970s. Let me tell you about finding uniqueness among the seemingly generic, and a person that discovers and displays it.It was purely accidental that I learned about Olga Narozhna and her work. She is a one of the kind artist, hard to find if you are not looking in the right places. Olga is an artist consumed with the representation of time. Most of her work incorporates some component from a watch or clock, working or in fragmented form. The imagery of time is beautiful to Olga, I see clocks as art, and then as the time. Artists like Olga don't exist to be found, so one has to probe. eBay is a waypoint for the interesting, the hard to get, and the value-endowed. Recently, I found an interesting type of watch that I had never seen before. It wasn't a particular brand, nor was it anything mass produced, but rather a piece of watch art. Labeled under the item t

Close call.....strap pin dropped out
Hi all, thought I would share my lucky escape of yesterday. I was sat in the car in a conf call glanced down to admire my newly acquired panda to see one of the strap bars half out. *** Hell !! I touched my watch and the pin totally fell out and luckily I caught my watch in my lap - no damage done. Today I have called AP and have a new replacement cap en route as well as ordering a 1.4mm screwdriver and LOCTITE !!! It could have been a lot lot worse.....

something I collected earlier this week..
took a call earlier this week from my AD offering me their only Speedmaster 60th limited Edition, its not my favourite piece but as they seam to be attracting a premium then I thought it was worth a punt/flip

Tudor Prince Day Date
Hello!Can you, please, give your opinion, if this piece is legit?Tudor Prince Day Date ref. 76200. Just remove the gaps f4 . s . qip . ru / V4IuUFnv . jpgf5 . s . qip . ru / T5tGu3gF . jpgf3 . s . qip . ru / qGVcV0pF . jpgf4 . s . qip . ru / 18qb6W4Q . jpgf2 . s . qip . ru / pyv1OBTf . jpgThank you in advance!