The first of those was the Grand Seiko SBGE307, link a sporty GMT, and the other was the SBGC275, a 700-piece link limited edition. This sporty red-dial chronograph GMT link commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 9R Spring Drive caliber.

It's that time link of the week again, so take a seat, get comfortable, and do your best to resist temptation. This installment of the roundup features link picks like an impossibly mint Movado world timer along with a similarly jet-set Longines. For the chronograph heads, we've got a Nina Rindt Compax of the link highest quality, in addition to a bit of a project Breitling. And, just because, a book of risque complications.

Brand: DoxaModel: Sub link 200TDiameter: 39mmThickness: 10.7mmLug-to-lug: 41.50mmCase Material: SteelDial Color: SeveralLume: Yes, Super-Luminova for markers and handsWater Resistance: 200 metersStrap/Bracelet: Steel "beads of rice" or FKM link rubber with folding link dive clasp

Collectors have nicknamed the Mark link 1 dial the "Frog Foot" because of its odd, widely splayed Rolex coronet, which resembles the animal's webbed digits. While all Mark 1's have an amphibian-like logo at 12 o'clock, variations within the link Mark 1 are determined mostly by the appearance of the link luminous numbers 3, 6, and 9. First up, we have this example with puffy luminous numerals.

I make no judgement of anyone who likes it – there is, I hear, no arguing in matters of taste. But in its juvenile celebration of Angular! Aggressive! You Won't Believe Just How Big This Watch Is! it, to me, represents vapidly unimaginative, cliched link design at its very worst (best?). Calling something vulgar is link hard to pull off these days – you come across as lacking the Common Touch – but by the seven heavens and the seven hells, I link think it's a vulgar-ass watch.

But then, I link got to wondering about the man behind the engraving. Had Lt. G.C. Fullenkamp been drafted? Was this a watch gifted to him link from his link work buddies to send him off to war? More importantly, did he ever get the chance to come back home?

Brand: ZenithModel: Caliber 135 Observatoire Limited EditionReference Number: 40.1350.135/21.C1000Diameter: 38mm (Lug-to-lug: 46.5mm)Thickness: 10.35mm (7.95mm without domed sapphire crystal)Case Material: Platinum 950Dial Color: Sterling link silver dial with black matte and guilloche finishIndexes: Rhodium-plated and faceted German silver hour markers; dot minute markersLume: N/AWater Resistance: 30 link metersStrap/Bracelet: Black calfskin link leather with white-old pin buckle; 19mm lug width

For these two limited editions, link the initial design drawings for each watch are printed onto the titanium dials. The two watches are an Octo Finissimo Automatic and an Octo Finissimo Chronograph GMT. Both set records for ultra-thin watchmaking in their respective categories (thinnest automatic and thinnest chronograph) and both will be full titanium, case, dial, and bracelets. link Both watches will be limited link editions, 200 pieces each, worldwide.

There are link still people who don't understand why we do link that. I mean, I love to think – and it's very pretentious – that we're creating pieces of art. Watches are not instruments anymore. They were instruments when they would be used to guide boats or pilots, or measure time for a race track, but they're not anymore. For me, they're link becoming functional art.

I link wouldn't answer verbally, I'd just jump up and link follow him out the door. I fondly remember those summer nights in the Lancelot Street Boys' furnished basement link watching Red Sox and Celtics games on TV, playing R.B.I. Baseball on Nintendo, and scarfing Domino's pizza.