Omega Speedmaster Co-Axial Automatic

Few other items in American history signify “achievement” as well as the Apollo 11 moon landing. Worn by the astronauts on the mission, the Omega Speedmaster Professional watch is a mainstay for Omega and a highly sought-after timepiece worldwide. Its iconic look and status combined with the message of achievement make the Speedmaster a prime graduation gift watch. (Bear in mind, though, that the piece is often worn by older gents.) Unlike the vintage Speedmaster Professional, the Speedmaster Co-Axial Automatic is a more modern rendition of the classic. Upgrades include an automatic movement, date window and sapphire crystal.

Certina DS-1 Automatic

For half a century, the initials “DS” have been the trusted mark of Certina timepieces equipped with the renowned Double Security system developed by the Swiss watchmaker. Today, the new Certina DS 1 line perpetuates the same stringent sporty tradition of fearlessness. This automatic model’s distinctly modern style is tinged with a subtle “retro” feeling inspired by the highly successful early collection of 1960. The case’s broad, open face is equipped with a stylish slim bezel, a rounded sapphire crystal and features a tasteful interplay of polished and satin-finish surfaces. Echoes of the past, in an exclusive expression of design that will charm connoisseurs the world over.

Grand Seiko Automatic Mechanical Hi-Beat

Model SBGH001 sounds like a rank and file name for a remarkable watch. A higher-end line from Japanese Seiko, Grand Seiko makes some of the best quality (and value) mechanical watches in the world. Classic in looks, the watch contains a caliber 9S85, probably the most accurate production mechanical movement anywhere. The secret is the special “Hi-Beat” movement developed by Seiko’s master watchmakers. Hand-assembled and finished, the watch and movement are the epitome of classic, lasting timepiece design. The style is one that grows on you slowly, making for a luxury watch capable of looking and functioning properly for many decades to come. This is a graduation gift watch your son will come to appreciate more over time.

Ball Fireman Ionosphere Chronograph

The Fireman Ionosphere watch was born as a collaboration between Ball Watch designers and engineer and NASA astronaut Dr. Owen Garriott, who spent a lot of time on deep sea research missions, Antactic expeditions and who first launched into space as the scientist-pilot for the Skylab III mission. Based on his wide knowledge, Dr.Owen Garriott has worked with the Ball Watch designers to create the specifications for this professional watch.

Tag Heuer Carrera Calibre 5 Automatic

The timepiece is to be available in two variations – with a black or brown dial. The dial of the new TAG Heuer Carrera watch catches the glance by its Clous De Paris pattern and alphabetical time scale flange. The dial provides perfect readability even under reduced light conditions, being completed with hand-applied hour markers and polished baton-shaped hands coated with luminescent material.

The peculiarity of the dial is the original date display found at 3 o’clock position. The “Carrera” and TAG Heuer logo are traditionally featured at 12 o’clock. The dial is protected by a scratch-resistant sapphire crystal.

The polished stainless steel case, 39mm in diameter, incorporates a black or brown aluminum bezel. The sapphire crystal case back reveals the TAG Heuer Calibre 5, a highly reliable automatic movement. The movement gives an advantage of a 42-hour power-reserve. The timepiece is 100-meter water-resistant.

The new TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 5 watch is secured to the wrist with a 5-row stainless steel bracelet with contrasting brushed and polished finishing. The strap is fitted with a polished folding clasp with safety push buttons.

Tissot T-Touch Expert Pilot

Inspired by aviators’ watches, the T-Touch Expert Pilot opens the way to new heights. The dial seems to have come right out of a cockpit, while the bezel resembles a navigation compass. Simple pressure on the crown and scratch-resistant glass will immediately access its eleven functions. Sportsmen and women will particularly appreciate the altimeter, the altitude-change meter, the barometer and the countdown, which will make this timepiece a 24-hour companion for those who love thrills, both on the ground and in the air.

IWC Aquatimer Automatic

Competently mixing fashion and function, IWC’s Aquatimer collection always hits the spot. Few men’s watches can blend suave and sport so well. More edgy that the ubiquitous Rolex Submariner, the Aquatimer Automatic on a steel bracelet with the black and white dial (a drip of color thanks to the yellow tip to seconds hand) is a handsome watch for any active man. It’s 44mm wide in steel, is water-resistant to 2,000 meters and features a clever quick-change bracelet. It is a great transition from wild student to the more mild professional. This graduation gift watch has good looks and sends an optimistic message that it’s time to get serious.

Swiss Army Ambassador

Plentiful in population, Swiss Army watches are common for good reason. Reasonable prices and functional design keep watch lovers coming back for more. Unlike some of its more outdoorsy cousins, the Ambassador watch suggests “conference” more than it does “camping.” A perfect men’s watch for budding professionals, the 41mm-wide steel case has a metallic blue dial and strong-looking hands. Inside the watch is a Swiss mechanical movement with a fully spelled day and date indicator on the face. A sapphire crystal and 100 meters of water resistance provide durability, and the price of $750 gives this attractive package serious value and is a viable option for a graduation gift watch.

Bell & Ross Geneva 123

Bell & Ross Vintage Collection Geneva 123 Watch in polished stainless steel features a black dial and a steel bracelet. This Bell & Ross Vintage Collection Geneva 123 Watch also features an automatic movement with date and small seconds.

Rolex Explorer

Originally created for exploration purpose, the unique and stylish Rolex explorer is not only the pet of adventurers but also many celebrities and movie stars.

The Oyster Perpetual Explorer II is the ultimate reference chosen by pioneers and those with a spirit of adventure.

The watch that witnessed the first ascent of the world’s highest peak, Mt. Everest, is the Rolex Explorer. Even today, this watch is one of the most widely sought after Rolex models. In addition, its successor–the Rolex Explorer II–has done very well in its own right in light of its improved functionality.

Currently, Rolex offers a 36mm sized case Explorer in steel. This model features a polished bezel, Oysterlock bracelet and a black dial engraved with numerals 3, 6, and 9. It is known for its high visibility dial, an extremely strong case, and the ability to withstand temperatures from -20 degree to +40 degree Celsius.

The Rolex Explorer was designed to suit the extreme conditions of a variety of different expeditions. It is evident from the fact that the two prototypes of the Explorer, numbered 6098 and 6150, were given to the members of the British Himalayas expedition team on May 29 in 1953, when they set out to conquer Mt. Everest’s 29,035 ft. The soon to be released Explorer, model 6098, was given to the expedition member Tenzing Norgay, and it performed without fail. The name “Explorer” was adopted for the model after the widely publicized success of the expedition.

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At the end of November 2009, all our web sites went down. My staff from Asia and the US were all in San Francisco for a meeting and company outing. Since I was the only person working I was checking our sites on a Sunday night. I was shocked to discover all were down. Apparently our sites went down due to some catastrophic failure at 800Hosting and when I called to ask what is going on they did not even know there was a problem.

I had to notify 800 hosting they had no idea, and never provided monitoring. Previous issues as well, required us to first notify 800Hosting!

No Monitoring

We purchased monitoring 24/7. If they were providing that monitoring how could our sites all go down and they not know?

In their dealings with me and my company 800Hosting continually over promised and undelivered. This aforementioned monitoring is but one example.

Based on their website homepage we really believed we had found the solution for our hosting. We checked and they were well reviewed too. You obviously were impressed or you would not be reading my post. In my experience there is no relationship between their home page claims and the service they deliver.

No Managed Hosting

With the managed hosting, what we asked for SPECIFICALLY we were assured the health of the server would be maintained and monitored and we would be secure from malicious attacks.

However once the server went down, we had to notify them. They never notified us of any problem and often erroneously reported all was well when it was NOT!

Then they suggested maybe we were the victim of an attack by a competitor until they realized protecting us from that was also their job. Another exaggeration or lie.

During the aforementioned 6 days they repeatedly called or e-mailed us that everything is now fixed.

No Communication

When we would discover nothing was fixed and we were still down you will not believe what occurred. They disabled our E-mails claiming we were sending “too many”. Their excuse for that insensitive and bad behavior was we already know you are down and that and it wastes time to respond to your e-mails that could be spent fixing the problem. What were we to do? They called and said everything is OK BUT it was not. If we said nothing maybe it would never be repaired BUT when we attempted to tell them that nothing had changed our E-mails were returned. By this time we realized we had been had and were dealing with incompetents or people who at best were very careless with the truth. We had to contact them by phone, and when the tech answered they noticed it was down and question if we even had a website hosted at the domain that existed for 14 years.

No Backups

As soon as we noticed data was missing we requested back-ups. We were told they were already restored, but “this could not be verified until the server was back online”. I do not know why but at that time we still bought that. Wishful thinking I guess. However once we had FTP restored and we were able to view or site to compare files, we realized MOST of our images were gone and a lot of additional files were missing as well. 800Hosting had no complete copy of our websites and had NO idea what they lost! It seemed as if they thought they could mislead us to believe everything was ok when it obviously was not!

We had bought daily back up BUT when it came time for them to deliver our backed up data they finally said we only keep data three days! We realized however it occurred the missing data was gone forever and there were no back-ups. We lost secure customer data that is unrecoverable and cause a serious strain to our companies.

Four months later we are still replacing missing images and apologizing to customers for missing data that they must resend.

No Explanation

We were NEVER given an explanation as to EXACTLY what happened even though we said repeatedly that was a prerequisite to continue using 800Hosting. We said we need to know how it happened and what steps have you taken so it will not happen again. They said your request perfectly understandable and all promised to do that BUT never did so!

I asked our tech please tell me what we have to buy from you to be safe? They took days to work up a proposal which was unacceptable but what I remember was that when we finally talked on the phone their head tech asked, “How much down time can you afford?” Can you believe that?

I told 800Hosting IF I was making my original decision to use 800Hosting for all my businesses someone had told me one of the choices I had to make was how much downtime I could afford; obviously I would have gone elsewhere immediately.

Has anyone asked you that question yet?

No Character

FINAL blow for me was the owner refused to come to the phone to explain, apologize or tell me to go to hell. NOTHING from him. From my dealings with all at 800Hosting I believe it is fair to say they are an organization with NO CHARACTER and never did they seem embarrassed by their poor performance – NEVER! You know sometimes when something like this happens someone from the offending company will acknowledge the error BUT that did not happen at 800Hosting. They all seemed comfortable telling me that is the way it is. I guess it is their policy and they are following their leader. They did issue a free memory upgrade retail value $10-$15 USD WOW!

I realize this is my side of the story and there are always other sides BUT I left 800Hosting and I am still in business. My independent web monitoring service now rates my sites performance much higher since leaving than when they were hosted at 800Hosting. I do not know exactly what that means BUT I suspect it is another reflection on 800Hosting’s competence to do their job. We have changed nothing but our host and have already seen a drastic improvement! I am not a technical guy so all I can say is the facts are correct.

If you are a business owner considering 800Hosting and want to verify my story give me a call. I will talk only to owners with a web site that will identify themselves and their business. I will not spend time bashing 800Hosting to amuse others. I am in Bangkok BUT this number is a US toll free number: 888 842 4633. If you get voicemail please leave a message and I will call you back.

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Now Nixon have stepped up the retro Rotolog series and released a new skull and crossbones diamond encrusted version. This Japanese Quartz driven piece comes encrusted with 764 full cut white diamonds and 1087 full cut black diamonds weighing in at a total of 9.25 carats. The casing is stainless steel and there is a hand LED to light up the no-arm dial.

On sale exclusively at Barneys in Beverly Hills and San Francisco at a price that is T.B.A, this another great exclusive piece for the modern watch connoisseur.

A nice stainless steel pink watch that I don’t have! What do you think of this watch from Cuadro?

What about this big RED leather watch?? I’m really attracted to both of red and pink watches! Let me know which type looks better! There are more choices and offers at WorldofWatches.com.
Check them out while it’s on sale!

Both men’s and women’s versions are available in different combinations of 18ct red gold, 18ct yellow gold, and steel for the case and bracelet, with the men’s sporting a silver dial and the women’s, mother of pearl. The watch face is domed, scratch resistant sapphire crystal and has undergone an anti reflective treatment on the inside to reduce glare.

Following Chinese tradition that the number 8 is a lucky number (the games open on 08/08/2008) Omega will limit the different gold colors to 288 pieces, 888 pieces and the stainless steel color to 2008 pieces. The number 8 theme is repeated throughout the product launch dates. There will be five more releases in total marking the date when 288, 188, 88 and 08 days remain before the Olympic Games begin. The sixth and final launch will be the release of 88 limited edition pieces when the games begin.

Fossil has finally brought to market the long awaited (FX2008). The Fossil Wrist PDA has been in the works for quite some time now, and was even showing up on Fossil’s website and on Amazon as long as two years ago.

But for those of you who prefer to look forward rather than back, the new Fossil Wrist PDA is actually immediately available on Fossil’s site, and if you can wait 5-7 business days, they will even ship it to you for free!

• 160×160 grayscale LCD touch-screen.
• 66MHz processor. That’s twice the speed of the 2-year-old original.
• Palm OS 4.1 (same as the original).
• 8MB of memory (up 4x from the original).
• Stylus integrated into the buckle.

A lavish 18k white gold timepiece, designed by the famous companies Parlux and Tourneau that teamed up with Paris Hilton, was auctioned off for charity. The sexy socialite was very proud that her watch decorated with around 100dimonds which carries five different time zones has brought money for Memorial Sloan Kettering for Breast Cancer Research. On November 30th, 2005, the watch was sold to Oscar Rodriguez, CEO of Abazias. Abazias.com is famous for having promoted a strong customer following based on customer service and site innovations that let shoppers create their own jewelry. In addition to delivering quality diamonds at wholesale prices, Abazias.com is also a full-service jeweler offering a large selection of settings for stones purchased.