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Voutilainen Minute Repeater 10 Watch

Kari Voutilainen is considered one of today's best independent watch makers - and resides in a small club of traditionalists that enjoy mechanics as much as they do finishing movements. I got to see one of these new Voutilainen Minute Repeater 10 watches myself and was impressed. The decor of the exposed movement was breathtaking. The case is actually in steel (not gold as you might presume) and has a beautiful style and curvy gracefulness to it. At 38mm wide, it is certainly "traditional" in size. The part of the dial with out markers on it helps make the watch much more legible, and the blued steel hands with hooped ends are very Voutilainen in style.

As a minute repeater, the functions of the watch including the time is it to repeat the time back to you in audio form when operating the slide lever on the side of the case. Minute repeater complications are highly desired among collectors, and those from high-end independents like Kari Voutilainen are particularly prized due to the long time spend making the movement nice to look at. Overall the piece has enough unique character to it so that it can stand out in the crowd, but also gives traditional style watch collectors a lot of what they want.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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How a Coin Worth $1.9 Million Travels Cross-Country

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

People buy and sell expensive things all the time, but here's an interesting story of how a dime worth $1.9 million dollars traveled across the country from its old home in San Jose to its new home in New York City. Who knew it was as simple as a guy in flip flops carrying it there in his pocket? Well I'm sure that guy, John Feigenbaum, would say it was anything but simple. He dressed in flip flops so he wouldn't attract undue attention, tried to fly coach (but got upgraded to first class anyway), and didn't sleep a wink on a red-eye flight for fear of losing the precious cargo somehow.

The 1894-S dime is one of nine known to have survived from only 24 minted in San Francisco that year. Of course the new owner, who is choosing to remain anonymous, has no intentions of doing anything with the dime other than keeping it stashed away in his vault as an investment for the future -- after spending a few minutes admiring it, of course.

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