The inaugural LVMH Watch Week is being currently being held in Dubai, with the four LVMH watch brands introducing their first new watches of 2020.  Today, January 15, TAG Heuer took the spotlight, introducing a new Carrera chronograph, to celebrate the 160th year of the Heuer / TAG Heuer brand.  The newest Carrera is called the “TAG Heuer Carrera 160 Years Silver Limited Edition”,

Back in the old days, before the emergence of Facebook and Instagram, participants in the watch discussion forums would often post “Year in Review” messages. Key topics might include matters such as watches that arrived or departed during the year, changes in collecting objectives, meetings with other collectors, and news in research and writing. I’m not sure when I posted my last one,

This posting first appeared in Issue Number 3 of AboutTime magazine (August / September 2013).  Six years later, we believe that the process of selecting the perfect watch remains fundamentally the same.  Accordingly, we are republishing this posting here, with substantially the same content as in the original publication. 

One of the burdens of being known as a “watch guy” is that friends and family members regularly ask me for recommendations when they are buying new watches.