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Only two acquisitions this year - the 5001 and the Santoni I put on it. Sometimes I miss the "old days" when I'd have two or three watches per month coming and going.
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whichwatch Wrote:... Sometimes I miss the "old days" when I'd have two or three watches per month coming and going. ...
What is stopping you? I understand it, though, I would never do that: watches would become commodity that way, there would hardly be an opportunity to get to know and feel those watches well enough. Your latest aqcuisition is really beautiful.
Kind regards, Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
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ok, so not as quiet a year as I was hoping for, given the successful run at well-priced items in auctions...
pic missing a Pallweber which is in for servicing, and some faint traces of a few of the 'other' brand acquisitions at the top of pic... :)
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.
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Sunflower Wrote: Ouch! I totally understand, again, why IWC for me is in quite a different esthetical league than Hublot. But you like it, good luck with it.
Kind regards, Paul
So you won't like the new ingenieurs, then, right? They all try to inherit the Gerald Genta design.
You come from nothing, you go back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!
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regulateur Wrote:So you won't like the new ingenieurs, then, right? They all try to inherit the Gerald Genta design.
The Gerald Genta design concept is quite great. It is the way the concept is implemented that makes the difference. The IWC way of implementing is quite clean, both the new 40 mm watch and the ceramic (is this still been inspired enough by the Gerald Genta concept?) look very nice to me. The Hublot in contrast is busy and a bit messy, with a lot of frills. But in a way you are right: the Ingenieur family is not my favourite, that is the Portuguese, like the handwound. But as always, there are exceptions, and one of the Ingenieurs I mentioned could very well be mine one day.
Kind regards, Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
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My sole entry below, just need a screw driver or two, tweezers, loupe and help! Seriously just my 1850 which I had serviced hence the photo below. As for Shing's entry, time for a safe or rent a chunk of a safe deposit as you have got a serious addiction that needs looking after!
Dick L.
whichwatch at roadrunner dot com
What is stopping you? I understand it, though, I would never do that: watches would become commodity that way, there would hardly be an opportunity to get to know and feel those watches well enough. Your latest aqcuisition is really beautiful.
Kind regards,
Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
Ouch! I totally understand, again, why IWC for me is in quite a different esthetical league than Hublot. But you like it, good luck with it.
Kind regards,
Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
Regards,
Bas
If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me!
Last edited: 7 June, 2013 - 14:34
pic missing a Pallweber which is in for servicing, and some faint traces of a few of the 'other' brand acquisitions at the top of pic... :)
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
So you won't like the new ingenieurs, then, right? They all try to inherit the Gerald Genta design.
You come from nothing, you go back to nothing. What have you lost? Nothing!
Last edited: 31 January, 2013 - 15:22
The Gerald Genta design concept is quite great. It is the way the concept is implemented that makes the difference. The IWC way of implementing is quite clean, both the new 40 mm watch and the ceramic (is this still been inspired enough by the Gerald Genta concept?) look very nice to me. The Hublot in contrast is busy and a bit messy, with a lot of frills. But in a way you are right: the Ingenieur family is not my favourite, that is the Portuguese, like the handwound. But as always, there are exceptions, and one of the Ingenieurs I mentioned could very well be mine one day.
Kind regards,
Paul
What you do may not be so important, but it is very important that you do it well. (my variation of a saying by Gandhi)
Wow Shing, you've blown away all the opposition!
Regards
Dave
Last edited: 25 May, 2013 - 08:22
Seriously just my 1850 which I had serviced hence the photo below.
As for Shing's entry, time for a safe or rent a chunk of a safe deposit as you have got a serious addiction that needs looking after!
Cheers Greg Chalk
Cvanwhite at aol dot com
Last edited: 21 February, 2013 - 13:47