A picture selection over the year 2006

        As for the year 2005, I am pleased to publish here a selection of more than 800 pictures taken along the year 2006. They are mostly related to my discovery of watches as a hobby and  are presented here in about 138 pages.  Watches are a mini-testimony of the human adventures that they have accompanied, and they will accompany, still, for long times. Pictures are neither annotated, nor classified more than by their chronology. Please refer to the watchuseek and  forumamontres (in French) fora posts and galleries by "marc_wl" for explanations and contexts, or the author's blog (not well maintained). They were all taken using ambient lights (not flash light) using a 5Mpixels cameras Minolta Dimage 7i, A200 or Dynax 5D . They were processed using the GIMP software operating on a LINUX computer, free of any commercial licences. Images were automatically resized to a maximum size of 1024x768 pixels using the routine web-album preparation (gThumb software 2.7.8). I will be pleased to provide the original files at high resolution (usually 1600x1200 or higher) for any wanted illustrations.