# Crown & Caliber

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## Posts
- [Why Is the Rolex Daytona So Expensive?](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/why-is-the-rolex-daytona-so-expensive-64b3): A steel Rolex Daytona lists at $16,900 and trades for roughly double on the resale market. A look at the design, the scarcity, and the Paul Newman history behind the price.
- [The Most Valuable Two Words in Watches](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/the-most-valuable-two-words-in-watches): Buyers pay a premium for the stamp on the dial. The 2017 law tightened it, but 40 percent of a Swiss Made watch can come from abroad
- [Your Watch Is Wrong. So Is Every Clock on Earth.](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/your-watch-is-wrong-so-is-every-clock-on-earth): Greenwich Mean Time retired. The Prime Meridian moved. Even atomic clocks need fixing. A history of humanity's most productive mistake.
- [Wearing a Girard-Perregaux Laureato Fifty to Craft's Final Service](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/wearing-a-girard-perregaux-laureato-fifty-to-craft-s-final-service): As Tom Colicchio closes his flagship after 25 years, a longtime regular says goodbye
- [One Word Changed the Way I See Every Watch](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/one-word-changed-the-way-i-see-every-watch): A beginner learns what lugs are, why lug width and lug-to-lug matter more than case size, and how a single term unlocked her father's Cartier Santos
- [Why I Dreamed of Stripping My Land Rover Series 2A to Bare Metal, and Sean Wotherspoon Did the Opposite](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/why-i-dreamed-of-stripping-my-land-rover-series-2a-to-bare-metal-and-sean-wotherspoon-did-the-opposi): The color-blocked 1958 Series II, wrapped in denim, plaid, and hand-mixed hues, was headed to RM Sotheby's this month before it slipped off the block
- [When Heavy Watches Stopped Meaning Expensive Watches](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/when-heavy-watches-stopped-meaning-expensive-watches): The lightest watches now weigh next to nothing, built in titanium, carbon and silicon nitride. As the industry abandons heft, the question is whether buyers who long equated weight with quality will follow.
- [Glashütte After Dark](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/glash-tte-after-dark): The watchmakers had gone home when I reached Glashütte Original, in a Saxon town that has made watches, and little else, since 1845. Seen after hours, with the benches still and the museum lit by flashlight, the place gives up more than a daytime tour would.
- [Baltic Made 300 of These and Will Never Make Another](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/the-racier-side-of-things): For this year’s Tour Auto, Baltic unveiled a new take on racing timers in Paris’ majestic Grand Palais
- [What Are Watch Complications For Now?](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/what-are-watch-complications-for-now): Watches once tracked the tides, the altitude, the time on the meter. Now Blancpain, H. Moser and Urwerk are among a handful of makers split on whether usefulness is even the point.
- [My First Watch: Jean-Christophe Babin](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/my-first-watch-jean-christophe-babin): Stepping down as CEO of Bulgari today to run LVMH's watches, Babin looks back at the timepieces that marked his turns
- [Every Watch Secretly Powered by the Zenith El Primero](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/every-watch-secretly-powered-by-the-zenith-el-primero): The Rolex Daytona ran on it, so did watches from Movado, Ebel, Concord and Panerai. Now, on the G.F.J. Calibre 135 Double Signed with Naoya Hida, Zenith's name shares the dial.
- [The Porsche Design Chronograph 1 Was Built to Match the 911](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/the-porsche-design-chronograph-1-was-built-to-match-the-911): The $8,250 Porsche Design Chronograph 1 All Titanium went on the wrist for a 911 Carrera S lap day at the Porsche Track Experience's new Laguna Seca home.
- [The Ulysse Nardin Freak at 25: How Watchmaking's Great Provocateur Won](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/the-ulysse-nardin-freak-at-25-how-watchmaking-s-great-provocateur-won)
- [Does a "Sleeper Watch" Still Exist in 2026?](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/does-a-sleeper-watch-still-exist-in-2026): In this digital era, can anything really still be called a sleeper or hidden gem?
- [A Foodie’s Guide to Nairobi](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/a-foodie-s-guide-to-nairobi-d9d01eb3b9eb5d14): How Kenya’s diverse cultures and bold chefs are transforming its capital city into a global food destination
- [Five Outdoor A.I. Smart Home Gadgets To Improve Summer ](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/five-outdoor-a-i-smart-home-gadgets-to-improve-summer-7e4e537ebc1252c3): And How They’re Changing Our Relationship with Technology
- [Lay of the Land: An Insider’s Guide to Bodrum](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/lay-of-the-land-an-insider-s-guide-to-bodrum): Why This Turkish Riviera Hotspot is on Everyone's Radar
- [A Day at Yankee Stadium With the Oris Lou Gehrig Limited Edition](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/a-day-at-yankee-stadium-with-the-oris-lou-gehrig-limited-edition): Oris's Big Crown Pointer Date honors the Iron Horse in 2,130 pieces, and we wore it from Monument Park to the final out
- [The Watch Learns to Share a Wrist](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/the-watch-learns-to-share-a-wrist): On a single wrist, a watch and fine jewelry increasingly sit side by side; the jewelers, watch executives and collectors who wear both are rewriting the wrist rules
- [Philippe Stern, the Patek Philippe Leader Who Shaped Modern Mechanical Watchmaking, Dies at 87](https://www.crownandcaliber.com/p/philippe-stern-the-patek-philippe-leader-who-shaped-modern-mechanical-watchmaking-dies-at-87): He carried Patek Philippe through the quartz crisis and gave it the Nautilus