One of the more later Eterna pieces I picked up is this beautiful Eterna Soleure Moonphase Monopusher Chrono. Its probably my favourite Eterna watch that they have made, and has such a unique way of presenting the subdials. The movement runs on the rock solid Valjoux 7751 with the 12hr Chrono counter removed.

As you can see, the dial has a very clean appearance especially without the 12hour subdial. The 7751 positions the date on the outer ring via a pointer-date hand. Day and Month are both indicated at the 12 o’clock subdial. Month and date are both adjusted via the first crown position, with the month changing when the date does a full rotation. Day of the week is changed via a recessed pusher at the 10 o’clock position.

The brushed sunburst style dial looks amazing in my opinion. Quite often, brushed sunburst patterns can look cheap or unfinished, like Doxa’s sometimes do (no offense Doxa, I do love your watches). Eterna does a great job with this one, and it looks all class, and the applied dots on Eterna’s logo look fantastic. No lume whatsoever on this dial, it is a dress watch. Great blued Chronograph hands complete the package and the patterned subdials offer nice contrast against the dial.

The stainless steel watch case measures a healthy 42mm, but wears very large in my opinion. It seems to wear more like 43-44mm, possibly due to the thin bezel and large face. I just can’t get enough of the dial on this watch, they did such a fantastic job!

As you can see, this is a monopusher chronograph which means the same Pusher starts, stops and resets the chronograph mechanism. This is a very neat and nice complication/feature, but it does have one limitation: You can’t stop the chronograph and then start it again, your only option would be to reset it.

The crown has the notched edges with the 5 round notches representing the Eterna Ball Bearing logo.. I’ve always liked the way they designed the crown on these models.

Beautiful understated back. Not too much going on, but a beautiful fully polished back with plenty of room for engraving if you so wish. Caseback is held on by only 4 screws on this model, which is good for 50m of water resistance. Not too shabby.

The single-fold deployant is very nicely crafted on the Soleure Moonphase Monopusher, featuring double push-button release and a very large clasp. The Crocodile flank strap is also very well made and nice and wide, suiting the extra thickness of the watch head nicely. The lugs on this one are also slightly curved, a nice extra touch of class.

There it is, sitting happily on my wrist. Currently my favourite Eterna, though it probably still doesn’t get as much wrist time as it should. Time to get it out!

Rolex has been using green for years, and Breitling has over the years as well. So it should not come as a surprise that their new Limited Edition Breitling for Bentley GMT is accented with a Green chapter ring and a green rubber strap, should it? The watch commemorates the new Bentley Continental GT. The watch is basically identical to the regular GMT offering aside from the green accents: 49mm case, 100m water resistance and Caliber 47B Movement.

If you ask me, the color is not too attractive. But I’m not a fan of the green rolex submariner either and that seems to sell just fine. So what do I know right??

For once, an watch company that embraces their Asian movements! Usually we find watch companies try and hide the pedigree of their movements when the origin is not Swiss, but Sean Wai of moVas Watches is here to change that. He spent over two years tweaking the design for his first watch, and each watch will only be produced in a limited number of 100 peices.

The first series of watches based on the first case design are simply called the GMT, Regulateur and Chronograph. This first watches have been released and are priced between $430-$670US, but many eagerly await the release of the divers that will be out soon. The price point feels a bit high to me, but for a in-house designed original watch with a quality finish on the case the price is reasonable enough. From the few reviews I’ve seen, the watches seem to be well made.

From the renderings, the new divers look like they will have sandwich dials and a horizontal power reserve… a little bit of Panerai influence in those designs it appears! But many of the watches and straps appear to have Panerai influences here.

I recently purchased a Panerai Luminor GMT PAM 320, with the 12hr GMT hand, Seconds Reset and 3 Days in-house Caliber P.9001 movement. This watch is pretty much exactly what I was looking for, so my PAM 90 is now on the block. I realized I never really reviewed my PAM90, or talked about it on here. Now that its going to be sold, I should probably snap some photos and put them up here before its gone.

The PAM 90 has the standard modern 44mm Luminor case, with the straight sides, a bit less complicated than the 1950’s style cases that most of Panerai’s newer models have. I was really wanting one of the 1950’s cases, so I picked up the PAM320. The PAM90 is still a fantastic watch, and one of my favourite PAMs.

Most of these photos are taken with the watch in the box, since I took these photos to sell the watch! While I want to sell it, I don’t think I’d be heartbroken if I ended up keeping it either! The watch comes with the usual Screwdriver and Strap change tool. This one is a J series, from 2008. It does have the quick change strap bars, not the screw-in kind, which are much less desireable in my opinion. These spring loaded lugs are the best.

As with most polished PAM’s, the crown protector is polished, but the lever is brushed. I’m not sure why they do it this way, but that’s the way they do it. As this is a newer model, the lever has the little wheel on it as well. All nice little refinements that Panerai has worked into the models.

Funny that I’ve had this watch for two years and still never got around to writing up about it. I really enjoyed my two years with the PAM90, but I am even more happy with my 320, and expect to enjoy the 320 for another couple of years when I’m sure another Panerai will probably draw my attention. If you are not hung up about getting an in-house caliber from Panerai, the PAM90 is a fantastic choice with the offset power reserve indicator and sub-seconds.

Its funny.. I bought this watch, and then sold it on Timezone to a well known TZer, who resold it at a large profit for himself I believe, since everyone has consequently been selling it around 50% more than I sold it to him for! But anyway, some you win, dimsum, you lose is what I say to that.

Now, I only sold it a few months ago in June, and it has gone to three different owners since that. Its a neat watch with a mechanical Alarm movement by A. Schild. I did not know the watch was called a Sportscape Alarm Automatic until I saw it posted as such on the sale forums of TZ. You learn a lot in those forums.

Its a nice 40mm size, mounted on a Bob Faux Crocodile strap. Works well with the watch. It came with the original Dunhill strap but was VERY worn out and I was unable to find a thin enough strap to use with the Dunhill folding deployant. I stuck the 20mm Bob strap on and it looked good enough for me! I noticed that the watch has subsequently been mounted on a genuine Croco strap by another owner.

Exhibition caseback shows off the A. Schild alarm movement, which is quite thick compared to usual movements. Its got a lot of depth in the bridges and the watch itself is also thicker because of this. Two springs need to be wound, one for the alarm and one for the time, similar to a Clock movement like the ones from Hermle. The chime is just kind of a buzzer and the watch buzzes on the wrist.

Didn’t take too many photos of this dunhill, but here’s a wrist shot to show the 40mm case on my 6 3/4″ wrist. It shows very well and doesn’t appear small at all to me. I quite enjoyed the watch while I had it, but too many other watches were calling my name so the Dunhill just had to be sold. While I do enjoy having an alarm complication due to it’s uniqueness, it wasn’t something I used and eventually lost its novelty. Otherwise, a very nice watch.