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Got one back in the fold. I’m absolutely beaming

Strap trials already

Woo Hoo

Nice one to recapture!

^^^ it’s a pretty special one. My first mechanical ‘proper’ watch, bought for my 40th birthday in fairly unusual circumstances . It was my One Watch for years until I succumbed to the slide into the rabbit hole. If you read any of that first post I made on the forum you’ll see that the enabling by some illustrious forumites started straight away

I sold it a few years ago and don’t regret it. I didn’t miss it until now. But it’s the best looking watch I’ve ever come across. For me, there’s not another that comes close. Up popped this one for sale and I didn’t think twice

@missF

Last autumn I started a thread called ‘Your “Defining” watch?’

You posted about your Breitling.

I understood your choice but at the time you didn’t possess what I have always considered to be your defining watch. You do again now, and I am so pleased to see it. Whenever I see a picture of that watch I always associate it with you, and when I think of you I always have an image of that watch on your wrist.

I know it’s your birthday sometime around now, and that’s a perfect present to self. Absolutely brilliant – look after this one please.

^^^ you’re absolutely right Steve. I think I just had to take my self on a bit of a journey through a pile of different watches otherwise I would always have been curious. My choices got smaller it seems but once I hit 36mm I realised I was thinking along different lines - big, eye catching without being blingy, and I was thinking a lot about 12,3,6,9 dials, or variations on that. D’oh!!
Seems I was taking myself back to the start again

Amor Vincit Omnia wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:59 am Absolutely brilliant – look after this one please.

Will do

^^^
Thanks Guy. The first step back towards the C11 was the Schofield thread and pictures of your Beater. I got very keen on the idea of saving for a Schofield for my fiftieth, but as much as I love so many features across the whole range there wasn’t one in particular design that really stood out for me. I’ll keep an eye open for new releases this year.
Anyway, it made me realise that I pretty much still love the kind of watches I used to dream of as a teenager - big ones

They are a great looking watch

The C11 remains one of my favourite CW watches and my first one got a lot of wear until I decided that the lug to lug was just too much for me. I did rebuy but the same feelings were there.
This is very you as others have said so even when you dabble with others I think you should always keep one of these in your back pocket. You can't beat a bit of 3 6 9 12

stefs wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 4:50 pm You can't beat a bit of 3 6 9 12

Totally agree