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January 7, 2007

Posted by neillevine

About This Editor: I am a writer. Have been writing for other sites, but expect to do most of my future work HERE! My expertise extends from the esoteric such as burning hydrogen to the unpredictability of the stock market and my writing makes me a jack of all trades and exasperated master of none. I have had some influence over national wildfire and water policy and there are hints of a change in energy policy, BUT as Samuel Goldwyn once said, "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it is written on."

         

The internet has already and is currently exerting changes in the world.

Take the watch business, in general, and luxury watches, in particular. Nowadays most watch manufacturers not only sell through retailers who have convenient web sites, but the watch makers themselves often have interesting and convenient web sites, making the purchase of a luxury time piece that much easier.

It is even possible to find a great deal of background information about watches on some sites such as lovetoknow.

And if you are interested in a special niche such as diamonds, a site like bluenile makes life easy, having become in just eight years a leading seller of diamonds trailing only Tiffany and Zales.

Even antique watches have received a boost. Ebay has dozens of rare and luxury watches for sale at remarkably reasonable prices everything considered.

For surfers interested in discussing such things, sites like www.jewelryforums.org have sprung up to fill the ir needs.

One motivation for this article is an approximately one hundred year old 14 K gold Hamilton pocket watch that my grandfather bought when he was a young man and is still in the family. Although the stem is loose and the crystal cracked, it is repairable and is still quite valuable just from the point of view that it weighs over one pound and with gold over six hundred dollars an ounce that alone would give the watch a value of four thousand eight hundred dollars (eight ounces, more or less, time six hundred), although the real worth of this family heirloom is debatable from several perspectives, including the fact it is the one item of real value that my father left to me, making it priceless from my perspective.