Did you know how to wind a watch up correctly?

When your mechanical watch needs some more power… i.e. manually wind the watch “Wrist Watch Times” advises that the watch is taken off the wrist. Why is that you might ask?

If you leave it in the wrist then you could possibly create unnecessary strain on the stem of the watch. During my time in the watch industry i have often seen people physically force their finger under the stem to try and wind the watch often resulting in a broken stem.

Did you know that Omega don’t just make watches!  From the Basel 2007 Omega showed off their new range of contemporary jewellery.

The Swatch Group’s main movement manufacturer, ETA, has developed a family of thermo-compensated quartz movements with 20 times the accuracy of a standard quartz movement.

Watches which use this movement are Breitling SuperQuartz, Longines Flagship and also the Omega Constellation Perpetual Calenda

Tag Heuer told us at the BaselWorld that the amazing Tag Heuer Monaco V4 is now available in a pre-series of 20 units. Two of them have been worn by Tag Heuer representatives at the BaselWorld 2007. The Tag Heuer Monaco is a belt driven watch!

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Fossil one of the largest watch company’s ahve learned their lesson “Consumers want a more advanced watch” These new watches will be able to show the callers ID on the dial at a glance. After experimenting with MSN and PDA watches.

Fossils new range “Abacus” is fresh and handsome offering some of the usual properties that every Fossil watch has to offer, water resistant analog men’s watch with a tiny 96-by-16-pixel OLED screen near the bottom of the face. The “Abacus” pairs up with a Sony Erricson Bluetooth phone so that when you get a phone call, the caller ID information appears on the watch. If you don’t like what you see, you can silence your phone’s ringer by pressing a button on the watch.