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. . . is this 1960 Constellation Calendar . . . . . . that came from the estate of the original owner. The dial and cal 504 movement (one service noted on the inner caseback in '73) are practically im

. . . last Friday, so I headed off to Westime in Beverly Hills to photograph the collection. As it turned out, there wasn't enough time to take snaps of every watch before the crowd started filtering

The DeWitt Manufacture in Perspective By Art "Dr No" Dakessian © September 2011 Our moderator Dr. Magnus Bosse wrote about The Manufacture DeWitt in "A Pandorean box of creativity - a visit to the man

. . . dedicated to eliminating preventable blindness in the developing world. Omega has made a significant commitment to ORBIS, which operates a flying eye hospital that visits impoverished communitie

. . . after a long stint with the watchmaker and a blessedly short one with the strap-maker. You might recall my initial post which described the joy of acquiring it; let's just say there were some pi

. . . in unlikely places. I was recently in a distant part of town on personal business, and noticed a pawn shop on the way to my destination. After taking care of the reason that brought me there, I