Top Five Useless Watch Complications
In the world of watches, "complication" is typically what functions are called. The more things a watch does, the more complications it has. Most of these are historical and have been around for centuries, proving to be useful and interesting. That latter camp of "interesting" complications incorporates a lot of potentially complex features that have arguable utility. Nevertheless, we still enjoy them for the simple effort and time required to produced and assemble them. They exist for the sheer love of things "complicated."Most complications are rather useful - even in our modern digital world. In addition to the time we enjoy having features such as the date, day of the week, more complex calendar functions, perhaps a second timezone, chronograph for measuring the time, and even things like the time all over the world. Those are pretty useful things. Then there are complications that while not totally useless, are certainly not very useful for the majority of people. We've assembled

This U-Boat Seamaster comes with a bevy of features
This U-Boat Seamaster comes with a bevy of features. It has an adjustable clasp band, made from the finest stainless steel. The watch face and hands are all hand placed, for the accurate timing the Swiss are famous for. The dial window is made of reinforced glass, and has an anti-reflective coating. Since this was made for boaters, it also has a level of water resistance.

Hands-On: With The A. Lange & S?hne 1815 Tourbillon With Stop-Seconds Mechanism And Zero Reset (Live Pictures, Video, Pricing)
Let's get one thing straight. I'm not a tourbillon guy at all. In fact, I think most of them are downright ridiculous. There are, of course, a few exceptions, where I believe the technical thoughtfulness, artistic integrity, and the simple beauty of them in motion outweigh my general belief that this complication is more than useless (then again, aren't all mechanical watches?). Some that I give a pass to include those from Laurent Ferrier and FP Journe, the Tradition tourbillon from Breguet, the?14-day guys from VC, the Gyro from JLC, the downright?ridiculousness of the mega RM's, and the occasional?ultra-slim Royal Oak tourbillon. But, if it came down to it, and I were forced to spend my own (pretend) money on a tourbillon wristwatch, it would likely (though not definitely) be from A. Lange & S?hne. 2 OF 12 Now I'm not going to lie and tell you that if given my druthers, the Lange tourbillon I'd buy would be this new 1815 (first shown to you in January during the SIHH)

Omega FIFA chrono - restore options
Just invested in what i understand is a Speedmaster FIFA chrono case ref 11003. Chuck's site has some info and I see they are quite rare. I want to get it serviced ( cal 1045 ). Can anyone recommend a good watch repairer. The watch will also need a crystal and a general spruce up - dial clean,case regrain, case back refinish etc... Will any specialist be able to get a new crystal or will I need to go to STS?

Alternative Speedmaster Bezel
I like to fiddle with perfection.What if Omega put a rotating bezel on the Speedmaster Pro, somewhat like a diver's bezel, but with a nice clean representation of 60 units, without any 15 minute emphasis as on a diver's bezel.This would allow the user to move the zero of the bezel to the minute hand, and then time two events, perhaps one precision event and another non-precision event.I wonder about this because I have had a chronograph in the past with a tachymeter, and I used the function once or twice to check my automobile spedometer, but otherwise, the tachymeter bezel has no use for me.On the other hand, I fly an EMS helicopter for a living, and I sometimes have two events to time, neither of them really requiring split second precision; but, with a rotating 60 unit bezel, I could time both of them easily by rotating the bezel to the minute hand for one event, and using the chronograph function for the other event.I really don't expect Omega to change the Speedmaster bezel.I just