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Quick Take At Baselworld 2017, Zenith relaunched its Defy collection with the focus on a high-beat chronograph (the Defy El Primero 21) that can measure down to 1/100th of a second. Just a few months later, Zenith upped the ante with the Defy Lab, a time-only watch that debuted a new, super-high-frequency oscillator and would [...]

The market for pre-owned items is huge. The success of websites like Craigslist, AutoTrader and so on are a testimonial. And the wristwatch market is no exception. Although a wristwatch is often a very personal item, at some point people are willing to part with it and trade up for something more expensive, or more [...]

– Buy silver and sell gold now – Frisby – Gold should cost 15 times as much as silver – Silver might have disappointed in short term – But it's time to buy – Editor's note: Silver has outperformed stocks, bonds and gold over long term (see table) by Dominic Frisby via Money Week For those of [...]

– RaboDirect Ireland to close online savings accounts in Irish market on May 16 – RaboDirect holds over €3 billion in deposits from its 90,000 Irish customers – Irish savers now exposed to still indebted Irish banks and bail-ins – Marian Finucane heard recently that buying gold is for “ordinary people” and not just for “rich and posh [...]

CDN Weekly, Supplement, Quarterlies, Bluesheet & Goldsheet to merge into single “Monthly Greysheet” starting May 2018 After 55 years, CDN is making a BOLD move. We're merging all our award-winning coin publications into a SINGLE “Monthly Greysheet” edition. Everyone wins!  Every month, subscribers will get: All the pricing from all of our coin sheets in a single [...]

While we consider ourselves New Yorkers, we thought it would be great to venture out to the Golden State for some sunshine, warm weather and watches. While we are in Los Angeles for the week, filming Talking Watches episodes and working on other special projects (stay tuned!) we would love to see our Los Angelian [...]

by John Rubino of Dollar Collapse Normally the action in the gold and silver futures markets tends to be pretty similar, since the same general forces affect both precious metals. When inflation or some other source of anxiety is ascendant, both metals rise, and vice versa. But lately – perhaps in a sign of how [...]