5,023 Discussions and CommentsMember since May 29, 2003Sarasota, FL,
United States
Further to my post from yesterday...
The reason I like this watch is twofold. First, from the start I always liked this design. Forget the open back issue. I am just talking about the dial.
Compare it to the original.
How about the platinum version?
Now look at the DFB version.
Over the past few years the dial has been made to look more three dimensional with each iteration of the watch. I thought my DFB had a great depth of field but the AMG goes a step further. While it is not readily apparent from the pictures, the underside of the glass has the wording imprinted on it. And the whole dial now has a cross hatched carbon fiber which changes the look a bit. The result is that everything seems to float across the dial as you move your wrist. Very cool. I still like my DFB version best, but the AMG version is a close second.
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...
2,241 Discussions and CommentsMember since Nov. 16, 2004
Thanks for posting Alan. As with many of these finely textured dials, you've got to see it on the wrist. I don't have much of an affinity with some of the entities that IWC links up with, German national football team, Top Gun and AMG. However, they do make some attractive watches that can encourage me to put my prejudices aside.
2,996 Discussions and CommentsMember since April 2, 2011Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Alan Ross Wrote: How about the platinum version?
I am still waiting to see the AMG in the metal, but that platinum Ing, with the sensational weight, and the contrasting counters and hands against the white dial, is tantalizingly desirable.
Regards, Shing | email iwcforme1976 (at) gmail (dot) com time does not change us. it just unfolds us. max frisch. all that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. baltasar gracian.
The reason I like this watch is twofold. First, from the start I always liked this design. Forget the open back issue. I am just talking about the dial.
Compare it to the original.
How about the platinum version?
Now look at the DFB version.
Over the past few years the dial has been made to look more three dimensional with each iteration of the watch. I thought my DFB had a great depth of field but the AMG goes a step further. While it is not readily apparent from the pictures, the underside of the glass has the wording imprinted on it. And the whole dial now has a cross hatched carbon fiber which changes the look a bit. The result is that everything seems to float across the dial as you move your wrist. Very cool.
I still like my DFB version best, but the AMG version is a close second.
Last edited: 8 November, 2012 - 12:49
I hope I'll be able to see it live.
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
Last edited: 17 May, 2013 - 09:58
This watch POPS.
Regards,
Adam
Last edited: 8 November, 2012 - 12:49
Try as I may, I just can't. :-)
clepsydra
ad fontes...
I am still waiting to see the AMG in the metal, but that platinum Ing, with the sensational weight, and the contrasting counters and hands against the white dial, is tantalizingly desirable.
Regards, Shing | email iwcforme1976 (at) gmail (dot) com
time does not change us. it just unfolds us. max frisch.
all that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. baltasar gracian.
Last edited: 8 December, 2012 - 16:07