Blancpain Introduces Saint Valentin Ladies’ Watch
With the 2012 holiday season behind us, Blancpain is already looking ahead to Valentine’s Day, with the debut of its new Saint Valentin 2013 limited-edition watch, a ladies’ model with a mother-of-pearl dial and diamond-bedecked bezel. The Blancpain Saint Valentin 2013 uses the iconic imagery of the heart �� universal symbol of romantic love and of the watch’s namesake saint �� as its primary motif. The base of the watch’s dial is white mother-of-pearl, and the hour markers are diamonds. The dial is enhanced with five red-lacquered, mother-of-pearl marquetry hearts, the largest of which surrounds the date window at 3 o’clock. The counterweight of the slender, central seconds hand takes the shape of the Blancpain “JB” (initials of founder Jehan-Jacques Blancpain) logo. The 34-mm stainless steel case features a bezel set with two rows of full cut-diamonds, and the case middle also sports five red hearts, here made of liquid ceramic. To make these

Molnar Fabry Bespoke Skeletonized Watches
You are either going to love this brand - given its cool obscure status - or feel cold to it due to its remarkably unknown name. Let's consult the United Nations of Watch Makers (a global organization I just made up) and see who Molnar Fabry isThe brand is a bespoke watch maker based in Slovakia. I can now add that country to the list of places watch makers seem to hang out. It does fascinate me how some of these guys set up shop in seemingly random places. If you live in parts of France, Switzerland or Germany, you are close to watch making areas and it totally makes sense that you'd have access to horological training. Otherwise it would be very difficult to get the right type of skilled training.According to Molnar Fabry, the brand's watches are produced by a duo of guys who are former goldsmiths. That means they took a jewelry background and applied it not to strict watch making per se, but rather the embellishing and decoration of existing watch movements. In some way, what Molnar

Ap nyc
Hello guys;What sort of discount is considered fair at AP NYC for a 15400 in blue? I've read as high as 20%, but that seems high. I've never purchased an AP before, only Rolex/PP/VC and I usually achieve ~10% off from AD.Cheers!

40th
I was thinking that of course Patek will make one or a few new models for the occasion, maybe a few changes in existing models and maybe a special edition, and thought it would be interesting to know 3 weeks from Basel what you think they will do, I read here a few guys wanting a PC, of course with moon phase, that is a strong possibility, don't really see what else they could add to the range of Nautilus, can't imagine things like equation of time, tourbillon, minute repeater or things like that so the PC seems the best bet for a new model, they could also make a special edition of the exact same model they started with, no seconds hand, but not really sure, AP made the same thing, well they always had no seconds but on the 40th they launched an almost perfect replica, since basically the 5711 was made in every single way possible now I don't see what they could add apart from a special one with no seconds.I am kind of guessing that they will launch a 5990 and maybe a 5726 with blue d

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