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BEST FROM: & Friends March 28 2014

Baselworld is here and in this round-up you will see the latest watches from Rolex including the new ?Pepsi? GMT-Master II and Sea-Dweller 4000. We also check out other new watches such as Tudor s new Heritage Black Bay ?Blue? and A. Lange & S?hne s exquisite 1815 Tourbillon watch. Next, we take a closer look at at the $14,000 flea market find that turned out to be a priceless Vacheron Constantin timepiece and round off by taking a look at some bang-for-buck watches.1. Glashutte Original PanoLunarTourbillon Watch Hands-OnWith all the attention that A. Lange & S?hne is receiving, o

Urwerk UR-210 Watch

I recently discussed Urwerk's brand new UR-210 watch with their interesting new "winding efficiency indicator" complication. The idea of the new complication was to tell you if you were winding the movement enough, or if you needed to be more active. I quipped that it was a complication to remind you to get up off your butt and move around. More recently I got to get my hands on one of the first UR-210 pieces. My overall report is that with or without the new complication, this is one cool Urwerk.The last new Urwerk watch before the UR-210 was the UR-110 (which we covered hands-on her

Breitling Navitimer Cosmonaute Watch

Someone recently asked me a question about watches with 24 hour dials. That is, watches that display time in the 24 hour format versus the 12 hour format that we are mostly used to here in the US. Many digital watches do this with ease (switch back and forth), but 24 hour analog dial watches are much less common. In the US, 24 hour time is often referred to as military time. If you are in the military you need to know it, otherwise you can be more or less ignorant of what 17:00 is. I guess it is about reducing confusion about when to be places and getting rid of saying "AM or PM." When

MB&F HM3 Chocolate Frog & ReBel: Unique Watches Unique Business

I decided to cover both of these Horological Machine Number 3 variant watches together to illustrate just how creative MB&F can be with their models and marketing practices. The original HM3 debuted in 2009 and I did a review of the watch as well here. Since then MB&F has offered a range of HM3 based models, including these two watches which are the HM3 Chocolate Frog and the HM3 ReBel.These two watches are not only unique collector's pieces from an incredible brand, but are also linked to MB&F's ongoing and creative way of approaching the sale and marketing of high-end ti