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doesn’t seem to make too much noise about their 100 year anniversary, but Guido and Franca Mondani do! Yet another great book from the famous publisher Mondani is this ““-book, written by himself and his wife.This book covers the Rolex-story (about founder Hans Wilsdorf and the Heiniger-family who are running the Rolex organization since 1963) from 1908 till now, including the introduction of the Rolex Deep Sea-Dweller during the . The book covers all important Rolex watches of the last century by publishing great detailed photographs of these watches, where Mondani also favors Rolex collectors by putting much effort in capturing details of bezels, bracelets, boxes and papers. All texts in this book are in Italian as well as in English.As the pictures above and below indicate, the book has a nice and almost complete overview of watches that were introduced in a certain year. Besides that, the book comes with a smaller booklet with estimates of modern and vintage Rolex wristwatches. Additionally, Rolex dealers (authorized and unauthorized) placed ads in this booklet which might be usefull when you are planning to buy or sell your Rolex timepiece. Our own blog sponsor is also listed in this section. This book is limited to 4000 pieces, which makes it even a nicer ‘wannahave‘. Gone is gone I guess and I am more than happy to have my copy. It is a nice addition to Mondani’s ‘Collecting GMT-Master watches’ and ‘Collecting modern and vintage Rolex watches’ books, but certainly interesting when you don’t have either of these books. 100 Years of Rolex covers all watch series produced by Rolex, either vintage or modern and is very up-to-date. sells 100 Years of Rolex (over 340 pages and an extra booklet with collectors price guide) for the special price of 299 Euro (normally 350 Euro)! Click if you are outside The Netherlands. is a trusted party for all your (modern and vintage) Rolex purchases.

While Baume & Mercier may be best known for its entry-level luxury watches (usually under $5,000), every now and then it likes to pull out the big guns to show off what it can really do. The William Baume Collection, named after the brand’s contemporary paternal figure, features the manufacture’s line of haute horlogerie pieces, including two exclusive jumping hour watches. You’ve never seen a Baume & Mercier like this before, but something tells us you’ll want to see more of them. 90 Uniqueness First things first, there are only 40 of these watches going to be made. On top of that, you can be sure the first pieces will be going to collectors and other friends of the brand. The jump-hour movements display the hour in a “digital” readout, reading only one hour at a time. The minute register resides around the hour display and the seconds register sits at 6 o’clock. The Baume & Mercier William Baume Jumping Hour is a throwback to a bygone era of horology, and these limited-edition William Baumes are a modern twist. Read more 87 Durability Baume & Mercier has been around for 180 years and it’ll be around for at least another 180 -- it has a strong brand following (even among Ace baseball players), and since it is owned by the Richemont Group, it can rely on the resources of its bigger brothers to get by. In fact, it is safe to assume that some of the parts used in this $20,000 Baume & Mercier came from some of the more luxurious brands in the Richemont stable, like A. Lange & Sohne, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and IWC.