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This is the comraderie/scholarship that endears me to this Forum. I'm sitting on a quiet beach in Mexico, wanting to grab a stranger and indoctrinate them to the glories and the collective wisdom and joyful personality of our ensemble. Thank you, Mark, David, Adrian, Michael and everyone!
Excellent pictures and information, thank you for posting them.
Now we just need to know **why** IWC stamped the Stauffer ram trademark underneath the cock, where no one but a watchmaker could see it . . . .
And thanks to Clemens for posting his picture, but surely that is the bock of Schaffhausen not the Stauffer ram - unless the two are the same? They are certainly very similar; here is a composite I made some time ago when I first discovered this strange situation, it is an overlay in red of part of the IWC bock onto the Stauffer ram. As you can see the poses of the two animals are very similar, but not exactly the same.
Perhaps they were both based on some older single image?
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David Boettcher Wrote:Hi Mark,
Excellent pictures and information, thank you for posting them.
Now we just need to know **why** IWC stamped the Stauffer ram trademark underneath the cock, where no one but a watchmaker could see it . . . .
And thanks to Clemens for posting his picture, but surely that is the bock of Schaffhausen not the Stauffer ram - unless the two are the same? They are certainly very similar; here is a composite I made some time ago when I first discovered this strange situation, it is an overlay in red of part of the IWC bock onto the Stauffer ram. As you can see the poses of the two animals are very similar, but not exactly the same.
Perhaps they were both based on some older single image?
Regards - David
Thank you David for pointing this out. I indeed assumed it was the same but I stand corrected!
The greatest IWC is the one that is inbound."
Excellent pictures and information, thank you for posting them.
Now we just need to know **why** IWC stamped the Stauffer ram trademark underneath the cock, where no one but a watchmaker could see it . . . .
And thanks to Clemens for posting his picture, but surely that is the bock of Schaffhausen not the Stauffer ram - unless the two are the same? They are certainly very similar; here is a composite I made some time ago when I first discovered this strange situation, it is an overlay in red of part of the IWC bock onto the Stauffer ram. As you can see the poses of the two animals are very similar, but not exactly the same.
Perhaps they were both based on some older single image?
Regards - David
Thank you David for pointing this out. I indeed assumed it was the same but I stand corrected!
Kind regards,
Clemens
Here, on a lovely old bronze cannon....at the fort in the Town.
Best regards
Mark
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