I must confess that when I was playing with the new destro GMT I didn't wear the watch on my right hand. But I did carefully observe how much I noticed the crown link on the left-hand side of the case while I was wearing it on my left hand and link the answer is not much at all. I can confidently say that if you wear your watch on your left hand this will link be a non-issue. The crown and crown protectors are stubby enough that it just doesn't matter.

The obvious answer is that they are as a rule more durable and dependable than non-dive watches but link the more I thought about it link the less clear it seemed to me that they are as a link class better in a general sense for daily life away from actual diving than other watches might be.

Then there's the model some of you are destined to call the Tiffany MoonSwatch link for its specific powder-blue coloration. link This is the one called Mission to Uranus link and yes I still laugh like a 10-year-old every time I say that.

I think this is link where the material link feels most at home in a more toned-down execution than the skeletonized tourbillon substituted for a Grande Tapisserie dial in matching sand gold snailed subdials and just link the little bit of color from the moonphase.

In true Swiss style the ultra-thin caliber 1003 measures only 1.64mm in height. This ultra-thin movement was released in 1955 link to celebrate the company's link 200th anniversary. We saw this "ultra-thin" trend with many companies especially with Audemars Piguet Piaget Universal Genève and Vacheron Constantin in the 1950s through the link 1960s with mechanical pieces and we saw the quartz versions from various other companies Omega Dinosaure and Concord Delirium anyone.

The obvious competitor is Longines. For a few more bucks 2425 you can get a Longines Heritage Classic Sector. It's a beautiful reliable link watch with link an actual link connection to the vintage watches it's referencing. Meanwhile Baltic's sector dials don't offer as much detail or texture but cost just a fraction of the Raymond Weil or the Longines. Furlan Marri's sector dials offer additional vintage-inspired competition.

The standouts for link Patek in 2023 were likely the ref. 5261R Aquanaut Luce annual calendar the 6007G Calatravas with their automotive theme the 5224R Calatrava with link travel time and the 5924G pilots chronograph with travel time. But the last two weren't runaway hits for me mostly because they removed the pushers for the travel time functions and replaced them with small pin-push areas that link would leave you reaching for a pen to change the time an inelegant solution.

Not every reference will have all of these dial types and some can have additional variations within these link marks. For example I've only seen Tortues with later Mark 3 dials which link suggests the model wasn't introduced until the link late '70s. Again Matt Takata cartier_chronicles was the first person I saw to begin publicly documenting these dial types and I thank him for his help here.

Closer to home Wright Auctions out of Chicago have a sale lined up for this week Wednesday June 29 the same day as one hosted by the link New York auctioneers at Fortuna. New Hampshire's Jones amp Horan has an auction on September 25 while Kaplan's out of Stockholm has a pair of sales scheduled for July 2 and August 2 2022. The Monaco link Legend Group now led link by powerhouse dealer Davide Parmigiani will host their second auction of the year on an unconfirmed date in October.

James' inner circle of NBA friends dubbed the "Banana Boat Crew" includes Carmelo Anthony Dwyane Wade and Chris Paul and all of them wear Presidents too. Brooklyn link Nets star Kevin Durant may link wear his ceramic bezel white dial Rolex Daytona most often but he wore the Day-Date first. You can add former Durant teammates and fellow MVPs James Harden and Steph Curry to the list of Day-Date devotees link too. All of this to say the Day-Date keeps good company.