The ''Oooh look at this watch' Thread...

[tertius]

I’ve had a GO and really rate them but that SeaQ is frickin’ massive … 17mm thick … and I really don’t like like he minute hand. Howeve, would like to see I in the flesh to see if the pictures are representative.

[AmitG]

matrignano said:

Agreed. I will get a Panoinverse at some point, can't believe they can be had for ~£6k!

Need to get one before the mainstream finds out!

[WhisperingWasp]

toasty said:

Black on Vantablack H Moser & Cie Venturer

Awesome. That Vantablack is interesting stuff.

[NDA]

AmitG said:

It's a lovely thing IMHO. I have a real soft spot for annual and perpetual calendars. Maybe one day...

Me too.

It's why I had to have the Sky Dweller - on of the few, if not the only, annual calendars that's so easy to set and has no 'danger zone' in terms of when you can set or whether you can go backwards etc. Very clever.

[Harry Flashman]

Unimatic. The case design and build are phenomenal.

If you haven't tried one, you should. No good for telling the time, though.

[smithyithy]

I was in Lisbon last week, so went watch-hunting around some of the boutiques on the main shopping street. Some brands were as expected..

Rolex - GMT Pepsi, Explorer 1 + 2, Air King. All 'exhibition only', plus a few women's / jewellery watches. Disinterested staff.

AP - Literally an empty cabinet. not a single watch in to view. Friendly sales assistant, but probably bored stiff in a completely empty store..

PP - Nothing but women's and a few dress pieces. Lovely big empty store.

VC - Bare, some Fiftysix in stock, obviously no Overseas. But very friendly staff, had a good chat (not much else to do with no customers in there).

Big Omega boutique but that's all the usual stuff.

Tudor - few things in stock, nothing I haven't seen before (no chronos)

Zenith - tried on their chronomaster, I'm a big fan, lovely watch. Black dial was available, white dial ('panda') there's a small wait for apparently.

Panerai - small selection given it's supposed to be a dedicated store (in the same building as PP, Tudor etc). Few Luminors, some Submersibles, not a single Radiomir sadly.

Few other brands dotted among them. Some beautiful Breguet, including a tourbillon for something like ~€130k, some Blancpain, some Glashutte, and some pretty bonkers Franck Muller (not my cuppa tea but...)


I transferred through Schiphol but unfortunately had to run between gates due to flight delays so didn't get chance to browse the airport stores, maybe next time...

[AmitG]

NDA said:

It's why I had to have the Sky Dweller - on of the few, if not the only, annual calendars that's so easy to set and has no 'danger zone' in terms of when you can set or whether you can go backwards etc. Very clever.

The Sky Dweller is the only Rolex that I would really love to own - for the reasons you describe.

The complication is very discrete. Most people would think it's just a regular date window. For some reason I like that.

[RSTurboPaul]

Harry Flashman said:

Unimatic. The case design and build are phenomenal.

If you haven't tried one, you should. No good for telling the time, though.

I do like the Unimatics a lot! but IIRC they are quite a lot of money for a low-beat movement??

I guess one must pay a certain price for style, though lol

[Harry Flashman]

Yup. It's just a boggo Seiko NH35 movement. It's all about the case design and build on this thing.

[RSTurboPaul]

Harry Flashman said:

Yup. It's just a boggo Seiko NH35 movement. It's all about the case design and build on this thing.

Aren't they Italian?

Would make sense if they are all about the style lol

[/stereotyping]

[Doofus]

MHD watches, anyone?

I've ignored them in the past because 'motoring themed', but on further investigation, they look like nice watches, rather then pretend speedometers and st.

Any hands-on experience?

[NDA]

AmitG said:

NDA said:

It's why I had to have the Sky Dweller - on of the few, if not the only, annual calendars that's so easy to set and has no 'danger zone' in terms of when you can set or whether you can go backwards etc. Very clever.

The Sky Dweller is the only Rolex that I would really love to own - for the reasons you describe.

The complication is very discrete. Most people would think it's just a regular date window. For some reason I like that.

The complications are definitely under the radar - it's also fairly bullet proof along with being idiot proof for setting too. I really like it. The only downside is that it's very obviously a Rolex, so I tend not to wear it in London too much.

You should try one on.

[gregs656]

Tried on a couple (!!) of Ressence watches last night, and one of them was the Alain Silberstein designed one.

Very cool.

[T6 vanman]

gregs656 said:

Tried on a couple (!!) of Ressence watches last night, and one of them was the Alain Silberstein designed one.

Very cool.

This story is no good without pictures ...!

[matrignano]

AmitG said:

Need to get one before the mainstream finds out!

Actually I lied, £6k gets you a second hand older model one.
I didn’t find somewhere willing to sell me a brand new one for just under £7.5k.

Very tempted!

[gregs656]

T6 vanman said:

This story is no good without pictures ...!

Also tried this on which I really liked, maybe more than the black version (the blue doesn't do it for me)

[smithyithy]

I really want this

[Drooles]

smithyithy said:

I really want this

That’s fantastic. Crazy and fantastic

[Drooles]

smithyithy said:

I really want this

That’s fantastic. Crazy and fantastic

[smithyithy]

Very tempting, I think they've actually done a decent job of incorporating the Mario elements, rather than just surface-level changes, there's a lot of unique components in there.

The tourbillon is £20k+ but the regular chrono is about £3.5k and limited to 3000 apparently..