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james80 · Post by **james80** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:15 pm

SKX173 on an old NATO.

jrpippen · Post by **jrpippen** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:21 pm

downer · Post by **downer** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:10 pm

Finally got this back on my wrist. And, it's working!

blowfish89 · Post by **blowfish89** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:12 pm

^Did you have a chance to see the blue 3239 in person ?

downer · Post by **downer** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:30 pm

blowfish89 wrote:^Did you have a chance to see the blue 3239 in person ?

No, unfortunately not. They had no stock. I looked at the black version (OK, but not something I would swap my VC for), and a whole host of other IWC's - mainly Portuguese - as they were holding an exhibition. I even had one of these on my wrist for a minute or two:

REFERENCE 3776

The Portugieser Grande Complication has no fewer than 20 displays and functions. Apart from the time and chronograph functions, it includes a perpetual calendar with displays for the date, day, month, year, decade and century as well as a perpetual moon phase display. Rounding it all off is mechanical watchmaking’s supreme achievement: the minute repeater.

I think the AD said it was £187,000. I told him it was nice, but I didn't like the way the 10 had been nibbled. He said I was not the first to mention it...

blowfish89 · Post by **blowfish89** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:49 pm

downer wrote:I think the AD said it was £187,000. I told him it was nice, but I didn't like the way the 10 had been nibbled. He said I was not the first to mention it...

So, you would have bought it had the 10 not been nibbled

?

watchstudent · Post by **watchstudent** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:53 pm

That IWC is pretty mad. How did it feel to hold a watch that cost the same as a house!?

Really don't like it compared to the things Patek and Lange etc design for the same price.

downer · Post by **downer** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:57 pm

watchstudent wrote:That IWC is pretty mad. How did it feel to hold a watch that cost the same as a house!?

Really don't like it compared to the things Patek and Lange etc design for the same price.

It's pretty crazy to me that anyone could consider spending that on a watch, and it was a proper lump - platinum is heavy and it is 45mm x about 18mm. The sound made by the minute repeater was pretty cool though.

blowfish89 · Post by **blowfish89** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 4:58 pm

downer wrote:
watchstudent wrote:That IWC is pretty mad. How did it feel to hold a watch that cost the same as a house!?

Really don't like it compared to the things Patek and Lange etc design for the same price.
It's pretty crazy to me that anyone could consider spending that on a watch, and it was a proper lump - platinum is heavy and it is 45mm x about 18mm. The sound made by the minute repeater was pretty cool though.

Is platinum more or less scratch resistant than steel ? I know gold scratches easy..

downer · Post by **downer** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:18 pm

blowfish89 wrote:
downer wrote:
watchstudent wrote:That IWC is pretty mad. How did it feel to hold a watch that cost the same as a house!?

Really don't like it compared to the things Patek and Lange etc design for the same price.
It's pretty crazy to me that anyone could consider spending that on a watch, and it was a proper lump - platinum is heavy and it is 45mm x about 18mm. The sound made by the minute repeater was pretty cool though.
Is platinum more or less scratch resistant than steel ? I know gold scratches easy..

No idea really - but I found this.. http://www.rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=69361

rgb · Post by **rgb** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 5:24 pm

watchstudent wrote: ...that cost the same as a house!?

We can only wish that was the case here.

gwells · Post by **gwells** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:05 pm

nbg · Post by **nbg** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:13 pm

Dreaming of a rather expensive black dial steel sports watch with a rubber strap, that will remain a dream. Oh well, this will have to do at a small fraction of the cost. I like it so should really wear it more often:

Neil

Boydesian · Post by **Boydesian** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:17 pm

I seem to be stuck in a rut...stuck in a rut...stuck in a rut...

downer · Post by **downer** » Mon Jun 15, 2015 6:22 pm

^^^ not a bad rut to be stuck in..

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