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Sorry I missed this thread while it was still "HOT", nice collection Tony, and the answers given by some were just magnificent (especially Hajo and Adrian). I won´t add my couple of watches to the gathering, I´ll save them up for a later posting ;-) Adrian you mentioned this;
The watch depicted here shows a typical, often seen damage on its enamal dial. It is no crack or hairline but it seems as if a part of the dial is lifted up : between 10 and eleven o'clock. Probably this is caused by moisture.
This is caused by stress to the mentioned area, caused by a blow. Underneath the dial are the dial feet at exactly that and the opposite position , pegged to the movement, so a blow would cause the enamel to be lifted/torn off the metal dial. You were lucky the enamel never fell off on those positions.
Well done all and thanks for a thoroughly good read.
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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I prefer the sailing boat, Antonio. The definitely lower speed makes it easier to calculate in my age than the aircraft's speed.;)I'll take one of KM deck watches.:)
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Simply amazing and outstanding. This is what I call a real collection - nobody can copy that so easily. Everbody with enough money can get the newest IWC at any store in the world and buy them like a Swatch watch, but this collection beats anything. BIG congratulations!
You come from nothing, you go back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!
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regulateur Wrote:...Everbody with enough money can get the newest IWC at any store in the world and buy them...
Thanks for the kind words. Collecting vintage watches, especially vintage military timepieces, is indeed a completely different experience than collecting new watches, and IMO more rewarding. Although ownership is rewarding, I value more the “hunt”, and uncovering the history/story behind the watch. New watches, with few exceptions, provide a short flash of enthusiasm, until the next line, and then people virtually stop talking about them. I wonder which of the recent models will be collected fifty years from now. In contrast we are still talking with enthusiasm about the Mark 11, the W.W.W., the B-Uhr, the Jumbo Ingenieur, the original Portugieser, to name a few.
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clepsydra Wrote in reply to:
regulateur Wrote:...Everbody with enough money can get the newest IWC at any store in the world and buy them...
Thanks for the kind words. Collecting vintage watches, especially vintage military timepieces, is indeed a completely different experience than collecting new watches, and IMO more rewarding. Although ownership is rewarding, I value more the “hunt”, and uncovering the history/story behind the watch. New watches, with few exceptions, provide a short flash of enthusiasm, until the next line, and then people virtually stop talking about them. I wonder which of the recent models will be collected fifty years from now. In contrast we are still talking with enthusiasm about the Mark 11, the W.W.W., the B-Uhr, the Jumbo Ingenieur, the original Portugieser, to name a few.
You have encapsulated the passion of collecting vintage / military vintage watches, Antonio. At least to my mind.
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Adrian you mentioned this;
This is caused by stress to the mentioned area, caused by a blow. Underneath the dial are the dial feet at exactly that and the opposite position , pegged to the movement, so a blow would cause the enamel to be lifted/torn off the metal dial. You were lucky the enamel never fell off on those positions.
Well done all and thanks for a thoroughly good read.
Best Regards
Jimmy
clepsydra
ad fontes...
Outstanding!
Best regards,
Jim
"We are the other people, we are the other people...you're the other people too!"
Frank Zappa
+1!
History in the flesh!
Am I spotting a Junkers in the background...? ;-)
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...
Looks great, Antonio! Now ready for celestial navigation. ;)
Hajo
Fair Winds and Following Seas
All I need now is the airplane. Or a sailboat. :)
clepsydra
ad fontes...
Hajo
Fair Winds and Following Seas
You come from nothing, you go back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!
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Thanks for the kind words.
Collecting vintage watches, especially vintage military timepieces, is indeed a completely different experience than collecting new watches, and IMO more rewarding.
Although ownership is rewarding, I value more the “hunt”, and uncovering the history/story behind the watch.
New watches, with few exceptions, provide a short flash of enthusiasm, until the next line, and then people virtually stop talking about them. I wonder which of the recent models will be collected fifty years from now. In contrast we are still talking with enthusiasm about the Mark 11, the W.W.W., the B-Uhr, the Jumbo Ingenieur, the original Portugieser, to name a few.
clepsydra
ad fontes...
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You have encapsulated the passion of collecting vintage / military vintage watches, Antonio. At least to my mind.
Hajo
Fair Winds and Following Seas