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cinq Wrote:Very nice collection Roberto. Is there a special reason you want a weekday display on all your watches?
Kind regards,
Clemens
The one is usage: - I do work according to a weekly schedule so almost every weekday at different places. - Specially on summer and winter holidays (I have the luck to spend longer than average summer holidays) my brain "works" according to days of the week and not according to date. The other is looks: date only on a Valjoux 7750 looks a bit lost while day-date gives the dial sort of (still poor) simmetry. In an esthetical view my favourite dial layout ever is that of the Valjoux 72C /730. Some kind of similarity comes only on the BP FF Chrono Calendar with a FP caliber base and for a ton of money. I could well imagine the IWC cal. 89356 with a date at 3 and a weekday at 9, or date at 6 and weekday at 6 by a small hand, same axis with seconds. Same goes with the Fliegers, a 0-60 turning bezel is a must. (Only my two IWC Fliegers don't have it, but no watch will come home with me without this in the future. Functions that I use them all: continuous seconds, 12h Chronograph, day-date, count-up turning bezel. From the Cousteau I miss the micro-adjust clasp, the manufacture caliber basis and the croco leather option. Still the watch that comes nearest to the watch of my wishes ever. Coming back to your question: Many use day-date feature, as (after the footprints of Seiko in the 1970's) this combo was/is very widespread and a feature changing daily makes much more use than - say - a month display on the new QP module by IWC. Just my two cents of course, but a nice complication does not necessarily mean its usefulness. Clemens, I give significance to small things sometimes, so I'm more than happy with the huge step forward of the new, double-pusher bracelet clasp of the AT bracelet. The micro-adjust of the same design clasp of the Fliegers would make the bracelet a best-ever in the watch industry. Strange is (among others) the AT rubber strap coming on a pin buckle only while the rubber of the YM comes on a folding clasp, and the non-existance of a croco leather option for the AT-s. Anyway, I wear the AT Cousteau almost 7/24 and 95% on the bracelet. And love this combo. Regards, Robert
Congratulations, Robert. You have a beautiful collection of IWCs! I love them all, especially your Cousteau on bracelet. Job well done, it looks fantastic!
Cheers!
Regards,
Jeronimo
Omar Khayyám (Persia XI-XII Century) offered that Time should not only be measured in length but also in width due to the intrinsic difference between a minute or other depending on what is happening to the beholder... I wonder how a watch would look like...
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Enjoy! Robert
Am I correct that the crown and pusher gaskets have also been changed out to stainless instead of blue black rubber?
Yes, and calendar discs and folding clasp :) Could not tolerate rubber on this real beauty.
What is the clasp from? Seems to have a cut out which mine does not have.
Clasp is that of the MkII. AT bracelet (from actual production). I think it's the investment of the century, so much better than the previous one. I'm waiting for the qick-micro-adjust clasp of the newest Flieger bracelet to be adapted for the AT-s too!
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JeronimoCG Wrote:Congratulations, Robert. You have a beautiful collection of IWCs! I love them all, especially your Cousteau on bracelet. Job well done, it looks fantastic!
I'll take the one in the middle all day, and twice on Sunday.
The one is usage:
- I do work according to a weekly schedule so almost every weekday at different places.
- Specially on summer and winter holidays (I have the luck to spend longer than average summer holidays) my brain "works" according to days of the week and not according to date.
The other is looks: date only on a Valjoux 7750 looks a bit lost while day-date gives the dial sort of (still poor) simmetry.
In an esthetical view my favourite dial layout ever is that of the Valjoux 72C /730. Some kind of similarity comes only on the BP FF Chrono Calendar with a FP caliber base and for a ton of money. I could well imagine the IWC cal. 89356 with a date at 3 and a weekday at 9, or date at 6 and weekday at 6 by a small hand, same axis with seconds.
Same goes with the Fliegers, a 0-60 turning bezel is a must. (Only my two IWC Fliegers don't have it, but no watch will come home with me without this in the future. Functions that I use them all: continuous seconds, 12h Chronograph, day-date, count-up turning bezel. From the Cousteau I miss the micro-adjust clasp, the manufacture caliber basis and the croco leather option. Still the watch that comes nearest to the watch of my wishes ever.
Coming back to your question: Many use day-date feature, as (after the footprints of Seiko in the 1970's) this combo was/is very widespread and a feature changing daily makes much more use than - say - a month display on the new QP module by IWC. Just my two cents of course, but a nice complication does not necessarily mean its usefulness.
Clemens, I give significance to small things sometimes, so I'm more than happy with the huge step forward of the new, double-pusher bracelet clasp of the AT bracelet. The micro-adjust of the same design clasp of the Fliegers would make the bracelet a best-ever in the watch industry. Strange is (among others) the AT rubber strap coming on a pin buckle only while the rubber of the YM comes on a folding clasp, and the non-existance of a croco leather option for the AT-s. Anyway, I wear the AT Cousteau almost 7/24 and 95% on the bracelet. And love this combo.
Regards,
Robert
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Kind regards,
Clemens
What is the clasp from? Seems to have a cut out which mine does not have.
Michael
Cheers!
Regards,
Jeronimo
Omar Khayyám (Persia XI-XII Century) offered that Time should not only be measured in length but also in width due to the intrinsic difference between a minute or other depending on what is happening to the beholder... I wonder how a watch would look like...
Last edited: 27 October, 2012 - 08:54
Clasp is that of the MkII. AT bracelet (from actual production). I think it's the investment of the century, so much better than the previous one. I'm waiting for the qick-micro-adjust clasp of the newest Flieger bracelet to be adapted for the AT-s too!
I appreciate your comment! Thx!