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

In-Depth: PHOTO REPORT: Inside The Breguet Museum In Paris
This is one of the those places that if people only knew existed, would be an absolute hot spot on the global watch lovers tour. Sitting above Breguet's beautiful boutique on the Place Vendôme in Paris is a Breguet museum, and a remarkably impressive one at that. It's a museum that until I visited it this past week, I, frankly, did not even know existed. And if you're a fan of horology at all, it is nothing short of a "must-see". Here's why:Breguet as we know it today is a large and somewhat secretive manufacture of high-end timepieces. They regularly tout themselves as some of the finest watches in the world, and they've spent a literal fortune on ensuring that watch lovers en masse know this is indeed the brand founded by Abraham-Louis Breguet, indisputably the most important watchmaker that ever lived.  That's all well and good, but it's very easy to gloss over all that without actual SEEING the connection between the Swatch-owned

15400 in the UK (advice)
Never owned an AP did toy with the idea of a ceramic diver but that meant moving on all of my Rolex collection which I wasn't and still not willing to do.But of late I have really started to admire the 15400With little knowledge of these and being in the UK what's sort of price should I be looking at and would it be AD or grey (prefer to buy new or LNIB) Dial wise I'm looking at the black dial.For some back ground, collection evolution is going in the route of selling my custom 114060, keeping my 116600 and then adding a white 116500 and looking to add this 15400Any help or advice most welcome

Masters: Congrats to Danny Willett and AP
Another great Masters is in the books and AP takes 1 and T2. Congrats to Danny Willett and Lee Westwood. I was rooting for Spieth to repeat but that 12th hole was brutal. Danny wearing his AP ROO 44mm ceramic/anthracite waiting for Jordan to finish. And Jordan stumbling giving up the green jacket like he stumbled on 12.

PP 5004P or 5204P
So I've been thinking a lot about which one of these to get with in next year. Love 5970P and 5270G blue dial, but wanting something more complicated and more unique. Any thoughts?Also was just approved for 5131R and can't wait till I get one.Watches: 5711/1a blue, 5712/1a, Rolex D blue, GMT BLNR, Sub Hulk, Daytona Ceramic black dial, Tudor Ranger