1,888 Discussions and CommentsMember since June 13, 2001Mansfield,Notts,
United Kingdom
hajoth Wrote in reply to:
JeronimoCG Wrote:Hajo, that is a great photo!
Thank you Jeronimo. Would be nice to get nowadays a w.w.w. aka "Mk 10" for 17 GBP, even in the old English coinage. ;-)
Regards
Reminds me of the days (in the 60's) when you could buy most major brands "military" issue watches for £12.50 from Exchange and Mart here in the UK. However cannot remember whether or not IWC was one of them.
29 Discussions and CommentsMember since Aug. 15, 2005Paris,
France
Dear All,
As promised, here you go, two pictures... sorry for the bad quality... I'll take some more time this weekend to make some proper pictures (these ones where done with my I-pad in the middle of the night).
As you can see the WWW Mark X is fully restored (you can recognize the typical 7 of a factory restoration), might be to nice for some but I love wearing it.
Second picture shows the Mark with his two new best friends (all hand-wound)!
Enjoy.
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
As promised, here you go, two pictures... sorry for the bad quality... I'll take some more time this weekend to make some proper pictures (these ones where done with my I-pad in the middle of the night).
As you can see the WWW Mark X is fully restored (you can recognize the typical 7 of a factory restoration), might be to nice for some but I love wearing it.
Second picture shows the Mark with his two new best friends (all hand-wound)!
Enjoy.
Looks great Merijn, can't wait to see more photos!
And I definitely love the trio in photo number 2. Congratulations!
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...
2,149 Discussions and CommentsMember since March 23, 2001
Beste Merijn, As a fellow country man, I am very interested in the W.W.W KNIL watches. I did some research on them. I found out that 4 of the 12 W.W.W. brands have been purchased by the Dutch Government, between 1945-1950 : Longines, Omega, JLC and of course IWC. In no military museum (Delft, Soesterberg) is a KNIL W.W.W. present. Less than 15 are known. Most of them showed up in Australia and Japan, which is to be expected knowing the history of KNIL. Most important are the movement and casenr. as the caliber of the W.W.W watch (cal. 83) has been produced 66.000 times and many so called W.W.W.'s are fake. As you do have an extract of the Archives, your watch will be genuine, I suppose. The KNIL inscription has not been made by IWC nor the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) but by the KNIL itself. Several techniques have been used, suggesting that the KNIL numbering with 4 digits was done locally, in the East Indies, now Indonesia. I have written an article on the KNIL IWC W.W.W., which I can send to you electronically, if you provide your email address. Hartelijke groeten naar het mooie Parijs dat zolangzamerhand wel in de kerstsfeer zal zijn. Adrian, (alwaysiwc).
1,590 Discussions and CommentsMember since May 16, 2002
Seventeen quid and ten bob for an IWC, if you saw that you'd look a think all sorts, it's a marriage, it's a fake, everything but it's genuine. There was an advert that passed me by and I remember that type of advert in the Sunday papers. Hindsight is a marvellous thing but thinking back in those days it wasn't my taste! Big mistake!
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Hi Jeronimo, Thanks!!! The additional pictures will have to wait a few days as I spend the weekend arranging for a new car... crashed mine last friday ;-( I will make them ASAP. Merijn
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
29 Discussions and CommentsMember since Aug. 15, 2005Paris,
France
Hi Adrian,
Dank voor je bericht. I would love to read your article. Indeed, IWC already mentioned that the KLIL inscription wasn't added by them. Do you keep a data base on teh 15 know examples? If so I can send you by mail the details on mine. Mijn e-mail adres is voornaam punt achternaam apenstaartje gmail punt com. Mijn achternaam is Dols.
Leuk om meer over de WWW te weten te komen!
Thanks, Merijn
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
Thanks for the kind messages.
I will take some pictures tonight with a proper camera.
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
Merijn
W.W.W. / 3712-02 / 5445-01 / RLX 114270 / RLX 16570 White
Thanks for the pics of your WWW... I really love that dial... really a stunning example, nice patina!!! Lovely.
Groet uit Parijs.
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
Merijn
W.W.W. / 3712-02 / 5445-01 / RLX 114270 / RLX 16570 White
Reminds me of the days (in the 60's) when you could buy most major brands "military" issue watches for £12.50 from Exchange and Mart here in the UK. However cannot remember whether or not IWC was one of them.
Ivan
iwcforme
iwcforme@aol.com
Last edited: 11 December, 2012 - 13:27
As promised, here you go, two pictures... sorry for the bad quality... I'll take some more time this weekend to make some proper pictures (these ones where done with my I-pad in the middle of the night).
As you can see the WWW Mark X is fully restored (you can recognize the typical 7 of a factory restoration), might be to nice for some but I love wearing it.
Second picture shows the Mark with his two new best friends (all hand-wound)!
Enjoy.
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
Merijn
W.W.W. / 3712-02 / 5445-01 / RLX 114270 / RLX 16570 White
Looks great Merijn, can't wait to see more photos!
And I definitely love the trio in photo number 2. Congratulations!
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...
As a fellow country man, I am very interested in the W.W.W KNIL watches. I did some research on them. I found out that 4 of the 12 W.W.W. brands have been purchased by the Dutch Government, between 1945-1950 : Longines, Omega, JLC and of course IWC. In no military museum (Delft, Soesterberg) is a KNIL W.W.W. present. Less than 15 are known. Most of them showed up in Australia and Japan, which is to be expected knowing the history of KNIL. Most important are the movement and casenr. as the caliber of the W.W.W watch (cal. 83) has been produced 66.000 times and many so called W.W.W.'s are fake. As you do have an extract of the Archives, your watch will be genuine, I suppose. The KNIL inscription has not been made by IWC nor the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) but by the KNIL itself. Several techniques have been used, suggesting that the KNIL numbering with 4 digits was done locally, in the East Indies, now Indonesia.
I have written an article on the KNIL IWC W.W.W., which I can send to you electronically, if you provide your email address.
Hartelijke groeten naar het mooie Parijs dat zolangzamerhand wel in de kerstsfeer zal zijn.
Adrian,
(alwaysiwc).
Cheers Greg Chalk
Cvanwhite at aol dot com
Last edited: 21 February, 2013 - 13:47
Thanks!!! The additional pictures will have to wait a few days as I spend the weekend arranging for a new car... crashed mine last friday ;-(
I will make them ASAP.
Merijn
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
Merijn
W.W.W. / 3712-02 / 5445-01 / RLX 114270 / RLX 16570 White
Dank voor je bericht.
I would love to read your article. Indeed, IWC already mentioned that the KLIL inscription wasn't added by them.
Do you keep a data base on teh 15 know examples? If so I can send you by mail the details on mine.
Mijn e-mail adres is voornaam punt achternaam apenstaartje gmail punt com. Mijn achternaam is Dols.
Leuk om meer over de WWW te weten te komen!
Thanks,
Merijn
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
Merijn
W.W.W. / 3712-02 / 5445-01 / RLX 114270 / RLX 16570 White
Eratum : e-mail adres = voornaam achternaam apenstaartje gmail punt com
So without the dot between first and last name.
Sorry small typo in my mail.
Merijn
Kind regards, Salutations sincère, Met vriendelijke groet,
Merijn
W.W.W. / 3712-02 / 5445-01 / RLX 114270 / RLX 16570 White