It wasn't just the idea of paying gold-watch prices for stainless-steel models that hampered the early adoption of the Royal Oak and the Nautilus.
How to know: Watch the price of gold--still the best barometer of monetary weather changes.
Perhaps some day employers will be giving 65-year-olds a gold watch when they join the company.
In thanks, Al-Hamadany gave Brownfield a gold watch that had been presented to his brother by Saddam himself.
This 18k pink gold openface watch is a minute repeating perpetual calendar split-seconds chronograph clockwatch with grande and petite sonnerie and moon phases, manufactured in 1898.
Short-term gold traders will have opportunity, however, watch the hourly charts and use tight stops.
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Included in the lot are a classic gold Royal Oak from Audemars Piguet, a white travel watch from Girard-Perregaux, and a striking azure chronograph from (no watch list is complete without it) Patek Phillippe.
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In addition, a collection of memorabilia associated with the record-breaking run, including the watch used by Olympic gold medallist Harold Abrahams to time it, is going on show at Pembroke College.
One of my grandfathers worked for thirty years for a manufacturer of household appliances, retiring with a gold watch, the house he bought in the 1950s, and some dividend-paying stock in a utility company.
Another big cap name to watch is Newmont Mining ( NEM), a Colorado-based gold mining company with operations around the world.
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Goldline can watch the gold and Annaly Capital Management and Redwood Trust can look over the mortgage-backed securities.
She wore an understated tan sari, a gold watch, and several unusual rings a star sapphire and a Burmese pigeon-blood ruby.
Given the stronger-than-expect jobless claims figures and other recent economic data, gold traders will watch to see if the trend continues.
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The set includes a wristwatch, a pocket watch and a wood and leather presentation case and tools, including an 18-karat-gold magnifying glass.
Which leaves only Rolex, an unstoppable force that holds 25% of the high-end market with basically one watch, the Oyster, while keeping the company's inner workings almost completely hidden behind a gold-clad fortress in Geneva (see "As Tight as an Oyster").
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