watch aside. let's talk about preferences. leather strap or stainless steel strap and why?

looks like everything is jammed up to this tag heuer model. what is intriguing about this watch is the compass indicator on the bezel and even after thorough examination, i cant seem to find out how the compass mechanism works in this watch. btw, i've never seen this model in the market before. care to provide the model number?

i saw the almost similar design seiko arctura that cost around that price region at the Curve Moments. cool watch but will u be willing to part with almost 20k for seiko?

i'm kinda intrigued by watches with sweeping second hands, somewhat like the seiko springdrive...does anybody here know of any swiss watches of less than 5k with that sweep-second hand capability?

what i meant is as in second hand that sweeps across the face of the watch instead of the conventional ticking second hand. a very good example would be the seiko springdrive...notice the second hand actually sweeps across the face instead of ticking? it's the graceful movement of the second hand that caught my attention but im looking for swiss made watch with similar concept

easiest way to explain second hand sweeping is by watching this clip
sweeping second hand]

This post has been edited by davc: Jan 9 2010, 07:17 PM

oh right...mechanical watches...kinda fascinated by it...any idea which swiss brand of less than 5k (besides swatch) has such movement?