New arrival. Something of a result.
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I've not been buying for a long time now for reasons one or two around here are aware of, but I've recently picked up a new contract and felt like celebrating with an example of what I have most missed from my previous collection - an automatic chronograph. Only a cheapy no-name, didn't want to spend more than a few hundred.
Browsing the bay, something popped up on a buy it now that looked like it fitted the bill. A Versace auto chrono, right price, looked very clean. Not exactly a horological brand, I know, but I had one of their Madison chronos a few years back, made for them by Ebel, and it was a well made, very nicely finished bit of kit.
Something else was tugging at my memory, so I pulled the trigger on it sharpish.
It arrived today and is stunning. Mint. Beautifully finished. As good as anything I've seen, it really is. Which was going some way to confirming what I suspected.
So, off comes the caseback. First thing I see makes me smile. A lot. A platinum rotor. That confirmed it.
The inner caseback is signed. Franck Muller. So is the movement, an FM7000, the same as the Conquistador chronographs.
Back in 94, when Versace wanted to offer some watches they had no infrastructure to do so, so Gianna Versace commissioned his chum Muller to make a very limited series of watches for him.
Limited, in this case, to 250 pieces and retailing, at the time, for £10,000.
These were not 'fashion' watches, despite the brand.
I adore it when sellers do not know what they've got
Will try and get some pics, if anyone is interested.
It's this, but with a copper dial:
Browsing the bay, something popped up on a buy it now that looked like it fitted the bill. A Versace auto chrono, right price, looked very clean. Not exactly a horological brand, I know, but I had one of their Madison chronos a few years back, made for them by Ebel, and it was a well made, very nicely finished bit of kit.
Something else was tugging at my memory, so I pulled the trigger on it sharpish.
It arrived today and is stunning. Mint. Beautifully finished. As good as anything I've seen, it really is. Which was going some way to confirming what I suspected.
So, off comes the caseback. First thing I see makes me smile. A lot. A platinum rotor. That confirmed it.
The inner caseback is signed. Franck Muller. So is the movement, an FM7000, the same as the Conquistador chronographs.
Back in 94, when Versace wanted to offer some watches they had no infrastructure to do so, so Gianna Versace commissioned his chum Muller to make a very limited series of watches for him.
Limited, in this case, to 250 pieces and retailing, at the time, for £10,000.
These were not 'fashion' watches, despite the brand.
I adore it when sellers do not know what they've got
Will try and get some pics, if anyone is interested.
It's this, but with a copper dial:
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