The "what watch are you day dreaming about now" thread

Amor Vincit Omnia · Post by **Amor Vincit Omnia** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 8:08 pm

blowfish89 wrote:Well Serlo, if you are getting a German black dial gold watch, consider this too -

Now that...

blowfish89 · Post by **blowfish89** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:12 pm

Spotted again on recon.

Peteo · Post by **Peteo** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:30 pm

^^^^

Can you give the skinny on that, blowfish? What are we looking at here? Looks interesting.

blowfish89 · Post by **blowfish89** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:38 pm

Peteo wrote:^^^^

Can you give the skinny on that, blowfish? What are we looking at here? Looks interesting.

Here, no affiliation with seller. Don't even know if such a limited edition existed, but it sure looks pretty cool and is much more affordable than the blue 103 I couldn't get.

gaf1958 · Post by **gaf1958** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:38 pm

welshlad wrote:I've been thinking about this one a bit again recently. Would fill the hole in my collection for a non-black chronograph very nicely.

Steve, I love the way you always manage to sneak in (i.e. create

) a new niche category in your collection to justify lusting after a new watch.

Having said that, I can understand the itch for this as it's lovely.

gaf1958 · Post by **gaf1958** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:49 pm

Peteo wrote:^^^^

Can you give the skinny on that, blowfish? What are we looking at here? Looks interesting.

Its one of three colour variants in a (non-limited) edition of the 39mm Speedmaster reduced. As well as blue, it came in red and yellow. Tikkathree on the forum owns a yellow one.

The red and yellow were Schumacher versions, the blue was promoted by someone else (one of the KART racers, probably one of the Andrettis). It's commonly called a Schumacher by association with the other two.

It has a 2 part movement - an ETA 2890 with an add-on Dubois-Depraz chronograph module. Generally easy and relatively cheap to service as they usually only service the 2890 (a no-date 2892) - however if the chrono module needs servicing it's usually a replacement job as apparently they are very difficult to service (just what I've read).

rgb · Post by **rgb** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 4:55 am

I prefer the 57 blue dial from 2015 Baselworld. Great size too at 41.5 mm. Tough call this or the vintage 57 ...

nbg · Post by **nbg** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 8:17 am

rgb wrote:I prefer the 57 blue dial from 2015 Baselworld. Great size too at 41.5 mm. Tough call this or the vintage 57 ...

As we are on a "dreaming about" tread - I would say they are sufficiently different to get both!

Neil

neil8fletcher3 · Post by **neil8fletcher3** » Thu Sep 03, 2015 1:05 pm

Currently dreaming of this but the dream is a long long way away

watchstudent · Post by **watchstudent** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:12 am

Little bit of a drool before work:

blowfish89 · Post by **blowfish89** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:06 am

GP Inhouse + Alarm + GMT + 38mm solid gold case, less than 4k pounds
http://www.watchuwant.com/watches/girar ... ible-alarm

blowfish89 · Post by **blowfish89** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:53 am

Since we are on the subject of Panerai..

Kip · Post by **Kip** » Fri Sep 04, 2015 12:15 pm

neil8fletcher3 wrote:Currently dreaming of this but the dream is a long long way away

This has been on my wishlist for several years now as well.

tommo81 · Post by **tommo81** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:37 am

Keen on this but the nearest AD is the other side of Australia in Brisbane. It would my most expensive purchase so far and I'm sure it's not a good idea to buy without handling it first (isn't that one of the Rules?)

gaf1958 · Post by **gaf1958** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:46 am

Define Watches eh? Virtually just down the road from me, for all the good it does you... I will be visiting them at some stage to look at a couple of models. Maybe next year though.

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