Why Did Patek Philippe Create its Own Quality Seal?
Patek Philippe, the most prestigious firm in the watch world, has thrown down a gauntlet to the Swiss watch industry. After 123 years, the Swiss brand replaced the Geneva Seal with a higher-standard seal of its own. Find out why in this article from WatchTime’s May-June 2009 issue.Patek Philippe has taken the unusual step of defining and codifying its own standard of excellence for a Swiss luxury watch and created its own quality mark ensuring that its watches have attained that quality. As a consequence, the firm has ended its 120-plus-year affiliation with the Geneva Seal quality mark. The company announced at the Baselworld exhibition in April 2009 that, starting that year, it will no longer submit its movements for inspection by the Geneva Seal Bureau. Instead, it will affix its own Patek Philippe Seal (an emblem with a double P) on its movements, testifying that they have met quality standards that the company claims are the most exclusive and stringent in the world.Patek'

Dedegumo Unique Japanese Fashion Watches
Those of you who live in or visit New York City should check out a little boutique called Dedegumo. I recently learned about this shop and look forward to going there myself. Dedegumo has a few other store locations, but they are all in Kyoto, Japan. Dedegumo is a sort of watch maker. They don't make movements, but rather create artistic watch cases, dials, and strap. All very steampunkish, all very Japanese.According to Dedegumo, they hire artisans who are Japanese trained to make all the little parts for these fascinating timepieces. All of this seems to be based on some old technique from Kyoto - so I will just take their word for it. These artisans reside in the boutiques and are making watches all the time in there while you shop. Using many of the same tools as watch makers, they create custom little parts and designs for these artistic timepiece creations.Dedegumo states that the only part of the watch (other than the crystal) that is pre-made is the movement. Which are all Japa

Are your Pam's accurate? mine aren't...
Been noticing some problems on my Pams, haven't yet been keeping exact track, started tonight though, but they clearly don't keep very good time, from what it seems to me, again I haven't yet kept a clear record yet, in 1 week they have more or less 1-2 minutes difference with the exact time, as for power reserve they are fine except for my 233, sometimes it's ok, sometimes in 3 hours 20-25% of the power reserve is gone after rewinding, then it seems to go away slower, and sometimes it works normally. I will keep a close watch on both power reserve and accuracy, and see how it goes, but for 3 new unworn watches from years 2000 and 2009 it's not very encouraging, especially knowing that I am very careful with them, never drop them or hit something…I found a graphic here which shows parameters for chronometer watches, clearly I am way out of of the acceptance… It seems to me that I am in typical for vintage mechanical watch, which for me my Pam's are clearly not vintage, but

I֪ joining the club tomorrow
My local AD called me. They just got the GMT Batman today.None of their loyal customers had it on their hit list. I called him and will go after my scheduled meetings.I plan on paying with an American Express to get an extra year�� warranty.I guess the biggest question I have is who should I use to insure my new purchase.I֪ not a home owner, and I֪ about to move to the U.K.?If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know.Thank you in advance.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gold polishing
A few local ADs have said they'll polish my gold Daytona up for a reasonable circa ?100 but they won't touch the bezel cos it means taking the watch apart The rolex service is about ?600I've never had any watch polished before... I'm slightly nervous about some of the over polishing nightmares we see. I'm guessing Rolex service is the safest bet?Cheers