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• Bring a Loupe: A Knockout Selection Of Vintage Chronographs From Eberhard, Heuer, And Universal Gene

  This week's Bring A Loupe is mostly about chronographs, one of the most useful (if not the most useful) complications out there. I could not resist featuring a couple of Heuer and Universal Geneve; they simply look too good! You will also find a rare Eberhard Contograf with an interesting date display, and a smaller Submariner from Tudor. This is your Bring A Loupe for December 4, 2015. ........

• GMT-C Ceramic Ring Fell Out...

  g340 on shared on a few other forums his experience of removing his GMT-C watch at an airport security screening, only to find the ceramic bezel fell out. Fortunately, he found the insert, but could not press it back into the bezel ring (like one can with the older aluminum 16710 inserts).g340 indicated that he is going to take his watch to the RSC in New York and will post a follow up. These pho........

• Since we had that long thread on the fake"Otis", here's a real one

  Freshly unpacked from the Express Mail package!Movement shot by the seller:Ad previously shown here by Tom D. I think the IW pigskin I chose is pretty close to the original, but perhaps not quite. It takes a 17mm strap, by the way. Probably an original in 17mm would be the proverbial unobtanium.........

• Identity crisis

  As a newbie to watches it seems to me that Hamilton and Accutron have identity crisis issues. Hamilton is a Swiss made American watch? Accutron is a Swiss made watch made by American owned Bulova which has since been bought by Japanese owned Citizen (I think that is right)? There are probably other brands as well in a similar situation, but these two are the ones that I know of off of the top o........