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Alan and Kevin, this one is for you. Last week I upgraded my Laureus Spitfire Chronograph with a deployant buckle. This is the last of my tang buckle collection to get the upgrade. I was told at the Boutique that this model did not have a deployant option, which seemed strange as it is a typical 22:18 strap. After some digging around in the strap options, we found a blue strap and put a deployant on the watch. I am much happier with it now. It has been on my wrist all week.
The Blue dial is very difficult to capture photographically. This is the best I can do. My best attempt was several years ago and is the first picture. The remaining shots are post strap enhancement.
Older picture:
All taken this morning in my basement hide-a-way:
The lume after taking all the pictures under my lighting conditions: You can see after a 6 sec exposure that the seconds hand is moving in the 9 o'clock subdial.
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very nice BIll. love the blue. I am contemplating one of the Laureus editions too - and it is such a decision....
on another note, if auctions and negotiations go well, I hope too to be joining u to upgrade my blue soon.
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.
Wonderful, Bill. Both the photos and the watch/strap combination.
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...
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Beautiful pictures, Bill. There is no blue like the Laureus blue.
I am one of what must be a small number of people who prefers the standard tang buckle over the depolyant - at least IWC's single deployants. No matter what size strap I try and which direction I mount the strap with a deployant, I just find the tang buckle more comfortable. This doen't apply to the IWC deployant type clasps on their bracelets, or to aftermarket double deployants I have tried, which are both fine for me.
So I'm strange - but I already knew that! And that's why Ben and Jerry make so many flavors!
Your lume shot was espcially good. Beautiful photos of a simply beautiful watch!
The Blue dial is very difficult to capture photographically. This is the best I can do. My best attempt was several years ago and is the first picture. The remaining shots are post strap enhancement.
Older picture:
All taken this morning in my basement hide-a-way:
The lume after taking all the pictures under my lighting conditions: You can see after a 6 sec exposure that the seconds hand is moving in the 9 o'clock subdial.
Bill
Last edited: 22 February, 2013 - 18:18
on another note, if auctions and negotiations go well, I hope too to be joining u to upgrade my blue soon.
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.
Best regards,
David
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Nice job. Love the new pictures. I was told the same thing when I asked so I will have to go back to Patrick and revisit.
Thanks for the info.
Regards,
Kevin
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...
Great move Bill. I nominate this watch for a European trip.
Best regards
Mark
Last edited: 16 April, 2013 - 00:36
Best regards,
Jim
"We are the other people, we are the other people...you're the other people too!"
Frank Zappa
I am one of what must be a small number of people who prefers the standard tang buckle over the depolyant - at least IWC's single deployants. No matter what size strap I try and which direction I mount the strap with a deployant, I just find the tang buckle more comfortable. This doen't apply to the IWC deployant type clasps on their bracelets, or to aftermarket double deployants I have tried, which are both fine for me.
So I'm strange - but I already knew that! And that's why Ben and Jerry make so many flavors!
Your lume shot was espcially good. Beautiful photos of a simply beautiful watch!
Dick L.
whichwatch at roadrunner dot com
I concur... Picture# 4!