Casio G-Shock GMW-B 5000 D-1 Brings 'Full Metal' To The 5000-Series
In front of my tired eyes the words “instant get” started flashing like the dazzling billboards on the streets of Tokyo when I saw this news: the awesome-looking G-Shock 5000-Series, the daddy of all G-Shocks, is getting a full-metal case in steel with the?Casio G-Shock GMW-B 5000 D-1 and in IP gold with the?GMW-B 5000 TFG-9. They both also sport all the tech I’ve been missing from, say, this otherwise cool Mudmaster. Let’s take a quick glance at the details of these two new 5000-Series bad boys, accompanied by Casio’s traditionally, famously and consistently crappy, horrendously low-resolution official images-none of which, no matter how awfully bad, can turn me off of one of these.Steel, or any metal for that matter, is the least G-Shocky material I can think of and that is one of the two reasons that makes these two watches get on my “want” list. The first G-Shock, technically, was what you see right above: a plastic ball with a display in i
58 New Old Stock Breitling Watches "Last Of The Joseph Iten Collection" On eBay For $125,000
What is the Joseph Iten Breitling collection? It is/was a collection of about 1,500 NOS (new old stock) Breitling watches that were produced in the 1970s and “held in a bank vault” before the company was saved from forever closing down after being sold. Mr. Iten (now deceased) acquired about 1,500 of an estimated 3,000 NOS watches that Willy Breitling held on to in 1978.?While Breitling watches is alive and well today, the company shut down for a period of time in the late 1970s during the “quartz crisis.” In 1978, Breitling terminated its operations but was purchased by the Schneider family in 1979-who still owns the company today. At that time, Willy Breitling (who died shortly after the company was sold) decided to hold on to a large selection of unsold and prototype watches. Many of those were sold over the last 20 years via private sales and auctions, but only a few remain today outside the hands of private collectors.Old World Jewelers (their eBay store) o