Interesting...and complicated as this article will focus on two new references from Patek Philippe link the 5204G Split-Seconds Chronograph Perpetual Calendar and the 5935A World Time Flyback Chronograph. Do you remember that "Justification For Higher Education" poster with the big house and the supercars You link could just use a photo of either of these two watches if cars aren't link your thing. Cars are my thing among many things. Maybe I should have been a doctor after all.

I watched the game as both a basketball junkie and a watch link nerd. James link entered the arena apparently wearing no watch at all. But after ringing up his 38390th point The King came through at the post game press conference wearing what looks to be a black ceramic AP Royal Oak Double link Balance Wheel Openworked to match his all-black threads.

From Rolex to Hublot link the watches embodied Maradonas cult of personality and tabloid lifestyle. Did he wear his the way we wear ours link Well not exactly. But what we love and will miss is that link he approached watches the way he approached everything else with an endless and infectious exuberance.

Brett Gilliam reminds us link that luxury and utility are not mutually exclusive. Here's a guy who took a watch many us wouldn't so much as hold under a running kitchen faucet and logged over 17000 dives with it strapped link to his wrist. For Gilliam the watch was not an item meant to be stored away in a safe or delicately coddled. It was a tool of the trade. link There's something inspiring albeit recklessly so about using an 18k gold dive watch in an actual dive setting.

On March 27 link Seiko Holdings Co. in Tokyo issued a "Notice Concerning the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic." It outlined the steps it was taking to deal with the pandemic and warned "In the global market including Japan the status of sales of watches and clocks is expected to become severe due to a decline in demand mainly link from Chinese tourists to Japan as well as link weak demand in countries where the disease is spreading."

This "slate-dialed" Nautilus is full set box papers hang tag the link works. As I said in the last 5711 write-up this watch is probably not for everyone that link reads this post but if you're looking for a 5711 link that's ready to ship today and guaranteed authentic then here you have it.

The total export value of Swiss watches for 2021 was CHF 22.3 billion beating the previous all-time link record of CHF 22.25 billion which was set in 2014. The United States was the leading market somehow we link managed to absorb CHF 3.1 billion in Swiss watches which represents a 55 percent increase over 2020 and maybe even more astonishingly given that it was a pre-pandemic year up 28 percent link over 2019.

Now less than three years after a tremendous sale link of the prototype F.P. Journe Astronomic link Blue at Only Watch in 2019 the Astronomic Souveraine has started to make its way to customers only five watches so far with two under construction. The functions are the same as the Astronomic Blue all 18 of them and only two watchmakers are qualified to construct it including François-Paul himself so it should be no surprise that link only four Astronomics are made each year.

In the late link 1940s and into the '50s Rolex introduced the slimmer caliber 500 link series. These calibers illustrate how link Rolex continued to refine its automatic movements allowing for slimmer cases and the transition from the chunkier Bubbleback design.

Did I mention the C-2R ran the full 1000 miles link and worked like a charm That is the link most amazing thing about it this car lives a double-life winning link the world's most important car show one weekend then slamming through the desert the next.