Close-Up: Rolex’s 50th Anniversary Daytona (with Video)
Last year marked the 50th anniversary of the Rolex Cosmograph Daytona, the chronograph watch made famous by actor and motor racing enthusiast Paul Newman. The anniversary edition that Rolex released at Baselworld 2013 still generates strong opinions in the brand’s legion of fans. Here is a closer look at the watch.The first Rolex Oyster Perpetual Cosmograph Daytona �� a wristwatch in a steel case with a manual-wind chronograph movement, named after the famous racetrack �� was released in 1963 and has been produced in various versions ever since. (Newman regularly and famously wore a Daytona when he took up auto racing in the 1970s; a few very rare models have what collectors now refer to as the “Paul Newman dial,” with block indices and crosshairs on the subdials.) This model, however, is the very first Daytona with a platinum case. The color scheme �� a dial in what Rolex calls “ice blue” and a bezel in what it terms “chestnut brown,” is also unp

Watchspotting: Dial Details
They say the devil is in the details. In this quiz, the details may bedevil you. We’ll show you cropped images focusing on aspects of 12 watch dials. Of course no brand names are shown. Can you identify these timepieces? Accept the challenge by clicking the link below. As always, the answers appear at the end. Good luck!    Answers: 1 – A Lange & S?hne Richard Lange Tourbillon Pour le Merite2 – Citizen Satellite Wave3 – Breguet Type XXII4 – Panerai Radiomir Composite Marina Militare 8 Giorni 47mm (PAM339)5 – Movado Datron6 – TAG Heuer Mikrotimer Flying 10007 – Omega Planet Ocean Chronograph8 – Eberhard Chrono 49 – Max B��sser & Friends Legacy Machine #110 – Glash��tte Original Senator Diary11 – Breitling Chronomat GMT12 – IWC Ingenieur Double Chronograph Titanium

Inside The Manufacture: With Jaeger-LeCoultre In Switzerland, Pt. 1: The Very First Tourbillons Of J
The tourbillon hasn't exactly become ubiquitous, but there's an argument to be made that it may be, just a bit, a victim of its own success. To put it more exactly, the tourbillon may be a victim of the success of modern precision manufacturing methods, which have made it possible to produce tourbillon wristwatches that can be priced almost unbelievably inexpensively, relative to the prices the complication used to command. However, if there is one almost universally valid truism in mechanical horology nowadays, it's that it's not so much what you do as how you do it, and how Jaeger-LeCoultre did tourbillons – and continues to do them – is a microcosm of the evolution of the tourbillon, and the hopes we might have for its future. On last week's visit to the Jaeger-LeCoultre manufacture in Le Sentier, we got a chance to look deeper than usual into what the tourbillon meant, and could mean in years to come. 1 OF 6 Jaeger-LeCoultre's colle

HELP! I am againts the wall here.
Hi Guys I really need your help bad this time. I walked my trusted AD today and like the God father He made me an offer I cant refuse.Well actually he made me two offers but I can only accept one and I need your knowledge and instinc on this one guys. Basically he tempted me with this:Royal oak Diver 16korRoyal oak Chrono 39 mm white face for 16k (This is the discontinued model)What should I do? What should I get?Please advice guys. Here is a stock photo of both.

Diver Rubber
A week or two ago I picked up an AP Bands nice matte black crock strap for my diver. It was great and I loved the change in look, no regrets, but I just switched back to the rubber strap. Why?It is just so amazingly comfortable!! Nothing else like it. I also missed the two channel lines coming off the links at the head of the watch. Subtle, not noticeable when you are used to it, but the detail is missed when its not there. Love my diver