You can t be early enough for these things, the world leading show for watches! Baselworld 2005! It will be held from the 31st of march till the 7th of april 2005.Be sure to have your ticket and hotelreservations on time, because it is going to get crowded in Switzerland.Click here for an overview of all Baselworld 2004 news....

If I ever would get myself another IWC (I had a caliber 89 IWC for a short time) I will buy an Ingenieur! Larry Seiden, Marco Sch??nenberger and David Ter Molen wrote a very nice article on this great timepiece by IWC. You can find it here.I have a weakness for luxery sportswatches like the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Jumbo, so I would definately get myself the IWC Ingenieur SL ‘Jumbo like the one below, ref.1831. If I only had the money….....

Or should I say, Paneristi-case? Jerrel showed us his Panerai collection at P-Day 3 in Frankfurt. Not only his watches were incredible, but the way he presented them to fellow Panerai collectors was incredible as well. He made this case by himself, complete with Panerai crown-guard system lock and a nice (working) Panerai clock on top of the case. Also pay attention to the buckles on this case, Pre-Vendome stilo…Picture was made by someone on the Paneristi forum, I think it was Yogi, I am not sure though....

I will probably do a more in-depth essay on this for Fratellowatches in the future, but I just want to share the following about collector s phases. One certain aspect to be a bit more specific, watches with the famous 5 characters on the dial, that is. I have found out that the brand gets an evil form of resistance by starting collectors or watchlovers who aren t interested in the subject for too long. I have been there myself, buying Omega watches and other brands and spitting on for its image, pricing and lame bracelets and folding clasps. I really think it is a phase, first neglecting because you can get so much nicer pieces for that kind of money, even more, you can get probably 3 ni...

introduced the new prices for 2004/2005, check them out here.For example, the Sea-Dweller price has been gone up to 3990 Euro, the GMT-Master II up to 3850 Euro and the Date-Just 16234 (wg lunette, steel casing and jubilee bracelet) went to 3850 Euro as well. The Daytona in stainless steel went from 5900 Euro to 5930 Euro. Yeah, if they only made enough of them… ??...

Alan collects vintage wristwatches, amongst his collection are a lot of Timex watches and a vintage Explorer and Submariner. He describes his own site as:Watch pictures, diagrams, unusual images, watch info, stories and more……Enjoy!...

When I was trying to answer a question on the WatchUseek Forum, I suddenly couldn t remember the movement number of the Explorer and Airking. A quick search on Oysterworld.de refreshed my memory.If you are a aholic, go there....

This Joel really has a red line in his collection of wristwatches. In this case, it is Panerai. He owns loads of them, Pam Logo, Pam 004, Pam 48, Pam 61, Pam 82, Pam 88, Pam 98, Pam 111, Pam 127, Pam 183, Pam 195 and a bunch of others. His page of watches if definately worth checking out, and make sure to get the last 3 months of his homemade Panerai calendar.Click here for his watchgallery. If you click the Italian submariner at the top of the page, you will see something amazing as well....

We are about to change the masterhead (logo on top of the page) on the Omega Forum, and YOU can help us pick one. Till last monday, everyone could contribute a logo or picture to be the new masterhead. Tomorrowmorning, I collected all contributions and put them in a gallery on my webserver and now you can participate picking one of the fabulous Omega pictures / photos to be on top of the Omega Forum page. If you are an Omegan, you should click here and participate!....

My collegue watch weblogger John Biggs over at Wristwatchreview.com posted a very nice story written by Thomas Scott McKenzie about watches and memories that comes with them.My life through times...