OKay, I'll weigh in. My best acquisition for 2010 is also the watch that I'll wear tonight, on New Year's Eve. it's the Collectors'' Forum Ingenieur. It doesn't perpetually tell the days and months. It doesn't do anything fantastic at midnight. it doesn't show the moon and it's neither my most elegant watch nor my sportiest. it doesn't evoke that I'm a pilot or diving to depths. But it represents this forum, and all the friends I've made here.
I'll raise my wrist to Auld Lange Syne --and this forum.
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MF Wrote:OKay, I'll weigh in. My best acquisition for 2010 is also the watch that I'll wear tonight, on New Year's Eve. it's the Collectors'' Forum Ingenieur. It doesn't perpetually tell the days and months. It doesn't do anything fantastic at midnight. it doesn't show the moon and it's neither my most elegant watch nor my sportiest. it doesn't evoke that I'm a pilot or diving to depths. But it represents this forum, and all the friends I've made here.
I'll raise my wrist to Auld Lange Syne --and this forum.
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MF Wrote:OKay, I'll weigh in. My best acquisition for 2010 is also the watch that I'll wear tonight, on New Year's Eve. it's the Collectors'' Forum Ingenieur. It doesn't perpetually tell the days and months. It doesn't do anything fantastic at midnight. it doesn't show the moon and it's neither my most elegant watch nor my sportiest. it doesn't evoke that I'm a pilot or diving to depths. But it represents this forum, and all the friends I've made here.
I'll raise my wrist to Auld Lange Syne --and this forum.
Words well spoken Michael. Robert Burns couldn't have said is better.
Thanks everybody for the great line-up of beautifull IWC watches and all the best for 2011!
Norbert
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf - Jon Kabat-Zinn
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MF Wrote:OKay, I'll weigh in. My best acquisition for 2010 is also the watch that I'll wear tonight, on New Year's Eve. it's the Collectors'' Forum Ingenieur. It doesn't perpetually tell the days and months. It doesn't do anything fantastic at midnight. it doesn't show the moon and it's neither my most elegant watch nor my sportiest. it doesn't evoke that I'm a pilot or diving to depths. But it represents this forum, and all the friends I've made here.
I'll raise my wrist to Auld Lange Syne --and this forum.
Very well put Michael. The CFDV was my dearest in 2010 as well (and it faced very strong competition from my other 2010 acquisition).
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I bought three watches during 2010. Two were IWCs. The CFDV was an excellent acquisition. It is practical, my first in-house chrono movement and acts as a GMT while on business trips. However, the last purchase in 2010 was the platinum doppel. I didn't think I would get it but luck was on my side. It's my first platinum watch and first doppel. I am still looking for a practical use for it, other than timing laps while watching swimming races on TV.
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Rave Wrote:I bought three watches during 2010. Two were IWCs. The CFDV was an excellent acquisition. It is practical, my first in-house chrono movement and acts as a GMT while on business trips. However, the last purchase in 2010 was the platinum doppel. I didn't think I would get it but luck was on my side. It's my first platinum watch and first doppel. I am still looking for a practical use for it, other than timing laps while watching swimming races on TV.
Happy New Year, everyone. ]
2 stunning watches....and whilst I too have not as come up with a practical use for the doppel......lets' face it. The very fact that it can do what it does, and do so 100% mechanically with a fairly high level of accuracy, is for me enough practical motivation to own one - no?
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This was a great post for me to get back into the fourm spirit.....the Rabbie Burns theme helped to ;-)
For me, only three new to me IWC's joined my collection in 2010. Two are still with me and one unfortunately isnt.
Like Larry I have acquired an Ingenieur 866. Fortunately I sent it to Schaffhausen "to the spa" and it will be there until circa February.* I reall look forward to seeing Larrys one in photos and also of course the result of my own one too.
The 2nd was a Bund. I posted it here when I got it.
http://www.iwc.com/forum-en/message/227435.html
It is the only watch I have worn since November and its become really part of me over the last month or so. Its really a brilliant watch.
The 3rd was a Lady Golf Club that I found really quite battered and it came back from the Spa looking really brilliant. I didnt even have time to take photos of it before it left my collection but it fitted in really well with the other clubs.
* My Jubilee Portuguese is also currently in the Spa. When I was flying the plexi glass flew out and landed on the head of my neighbour with quite a pop. As it turns out this event meant that the watch was nicely safe back in Schaffhausen.
I'll raise my wrist to Auld Lange Syne --and this forum.
Regards, Michael
mfriedberg@iwcforum.com
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Same here. I'll drink to that.
clepsydra
ad fontes...
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Words well spoken Michael. Robert Burns couldn't have said is better.
Thanks everybody for the great line-up of beautifull IWC watches and all the best for 2011!
Norbert
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf - Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Very well put Michael.
The CFDV was my dearest in 2010 as well (and it faced very strong competition from my other 2010 acquisition).
Cheers,
Evan
evan_nanos at yahoo.com
Happy New Year, everyone.
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2 stunning watches....and whilst I too have not as come up with a practical use for the doppel......lets' face it. The very fact that it can do what it does, and do so 100% mechanically with a fairly high level of accuracy, is for me enough practical motivation to own one - no?
Best regards
Mark
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For me, only three new to me IWC's joined my collection in 2010. Two are still with me and one unfortunately isnt.
Like Larry I have acquired an Ingenieur 866. Fortunately I sent it to Schaffhausen "to the spa" and it will be there until circa February.* I reall look forward to seeing Larrys one in photos and also of course the result of my own one too.
The 2nd was a Bund. I posted it here when I got it.
http://www.iwc.com/forum-en/message/227435.html
It is the only watch I have worn since November and its become really part of me over the last month or so. Its really a brilliant watch.
The 3rd was a Lady Golf Club that I found really quite battered and it came back from the Spa looking really brilliant. I didnt even have time to take photos of it before it left my collection but it fitted in really well with the other clubs.
* My Jubilee Portuguese is also currently in the Spa. When I was flying the plexi glass flew out and landed on the head of my neighbour with quite a pop. As it turns out this event meant that the watch was nicely safe back in Schaffhausen.
sorry for the lack of photos.
Andrew
Andrew
andrew.thomas1@mac.com
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