I always get in trouble at home for getting my daughter overexcited about the build up to Christmas so I can’t claim to not like this time of year. As for it getting earlier every year, I once saw Christmas cards in the shops at the Boxing Day sales, I then pointed out to my wife that it was only 36...

Glad they arrived safely and they are appreciated. Don’t worry Steve, our other secret is safe……

Bit of a chilly one today. Storm Arwen has brought some snow and ice. You can’t see on these pictures but the power-lines across the moor have blown down. While the power is off, I didn’t fancy getting whipped by a flying cable so turned back. It’s my works do later this afternoon round Leeds. I was...

Happy birthday, hope you have a great day.

Yes from me, I like this style of stitching and have a leather on my El Primero and a canvas on my trident with it.

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Verbalise watches yet.....

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Sorry, I’ll get my coat.

Whenever this question comes up it seems like a race to recommend the Hirsch Robby. Ian beat me to it this time.

This may assist, indicative pricing by model in CHF. Note that a service carries a 24 month warranty. https://www.iwc.com/content/dam/service/service-prices/service_pricelist_EN.pdf Thanks for sharing, I’d not seen this before. Interesting to see the difference in cost between the in house chronogr...

The older standard pilot chronograph uses a Valjoux based movement so is probably easily serviced outside of IWC. The doppel and other special ones will use in house which would limit your options, You can of course check which movement the watch in question has on the watchbase database. https://wa...

I’ve owned quite a few watches since I started to take a more serious interest in them. With many brands I’ve owned just the one watch, but there are 4 brands where I’ve owned multiple different ones. These are IWC, Bremont, Zelos and Christopher Ward. I’m not sure why Zelos appear as I’ve sold ever...

What!! Googling Tribus IWC the only hit I get is a loose comment from Joshua Flagg in an article from WIAA where he says: All of their watches will use Swiss-made cases and movements (I understand it’s the same case manufacturer as IWC), with the four core TRIBUS models at launch all chronometer-ce...

36,000 posts. It’s a good job you stick to CW watches, I’m not sure you’d have time to post on another brands forum as well.

Well done and thanks for all you contribute.

Do you subscribe to the telephone theory to explain the elongated three, six and nine minute markers on old chronographs? I do Steve, to me the other explanations don’t hold up in comparison. I’ve seen a post somewhere about it, where a page from the original maker’s instructions was posted and it ...

The majority of chronographs, and all the ones I’ve owned, have a running seconds on one subdial. The chrono second is always in the centre, with minutes and hours on the other subdials.

There are exceptions to this but most seem to follow this format.

It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it. That’s what gets results.....