IWC Schaffhausen

It was a good IWC year this year. Here is the box with my acquisitions of this year:


And that's inside:


A 5032-03



A 5442-03


Love it to watch that movement.

A 5444-03



But the year is not over yet, and before it ends that box will miss one place to hold my acquisitions of this year.

Giovanni Ambrogio Wrote:It was a good IWC year this year. Here is the box with my acquisitions of this year:


And that's inside:


A 5032-03



A 5442-03


Love it to watch that movement.

A 5444-03



But the year is not over yet, and before it ends that box will miss one place to hold my acquisitions of this year.

Giovanni,
Excellent additions, especially the Blue PPC. Looking forward to see what you add in 2013.

Kevin

Bill B. Wrote:I have one inbound next week. It's a secret (tease) until I pick it up. A couple of guys know and are sworn to secrecy, but can anyone else hazard a guess?

Hi Bill,

It's apparent how much you enjoy your AT2000 White Dial and how proudly you wear it on many of your travels. Given your appreciation and comment on the white dial AT in this thread, my guess is that you now want to join the VC-AT club and might have secured one soon to arrive in the states.

If my guess is correct, no doubt how much you are going to enjoy it.
Can't wait for reveal.

Best,

Andy

Bill B. Wrote:I have one inbound next week. It's a secret (tease) until I pick it up. A couple of guys know and are sworn to secrecy, but can anyone else hazard a guess?

Great Bill. Looking forward to your reveal. Will we need to wait until Christmas, or will we know before?

In 2012 I acquired a number of IWC's, too many infact, I was afflicted with a severe form of IWCitis.

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Live long and prosper

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Sunflower Wrote in reply to:

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

Didn't mean to hijack this post, but I couldn't help to add my comments onto this discussion...

In a way I agree with you both. I am a fan of Gerald Genta's design. That's why I adore the Ingenieur series (and that means I think I will probably be in trouble next year). I do prefer IWC's "cleaner" design to a few other brands' though. Anyway, let's not go into that.

I'm still curious as to why Regulateur let go of his YC Chrono for the Hublot though (just curious to know the rationale behind that decision).

I haven't posted any acquisition to this thread yet, as December isn't over yet... perhaps I still have a chance to acquire one more before the end of this year, in addition to this:



fingers-crossed!

Sincerely,
Kelvin Leung
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Repeat after me: I don't need another IWC, I really don't need another IWC...

Giovanni Ambrogio Wrote in reply to:

Bill B. Wrote:I have one inbound next week. It's a secret (tease) until I pick it up. A couple of guys know and are sworn to secrecy, but can anyone else hazard a guess?

Great Bill. Looking forward to your reveal. Will we need to wait until Christmas, or will we know before?

I hope to have it next week, Saturday. Then to my basement for a few pics and the reveal.

Bill

Sunflower Wrote:
What is stopping you?
Kind regards,
Paul

Thanks for the nice comment about the 5001.

What is different for me than the "old days" is that I am mostly retired, though I still do a little consulting. Thus, disposable income is quite a bit different than when I was working full time.

Dick L.

whichwatch at roadrunner dot com

CHAMPTHEKID,

Nice close up pic and totally agreed on the PP.

Great collection.

If It Is To Be, It Is Up To Me!