Credit crunch? Not in Bond St....

[Dominic H]

I was taking a quick,cold walk down Bond St in central London this afternoon, when I stopped at Marcus. The window display included pieces from Audemars, Piaget, Hublot, Greubel Forsey, Franck Muller and Alain Silberstein amognst others. A quick count confirmed there were no less than 13 Tourbillon in the window. In prime position was this fantastic Girard Perregaux 1945 'Slot-Machine' Toubillon....



If you have to ask the price.....

[Don1]

Quirky - I like it!
(Dom, I owe you a reply - sorry for the delay!)

[Skyman]

Does not the fact that they are in a window display as opposed to on someone's risk not indicate something? Gash watch btw - IMHO ofcourse!

[IforB]

That is the most overblown gauche thing I've ever seen. Who in their right mind would wear that?

[Don1]

IforB said:

That is the most overblown gauche thing I've ever seen. Who in their right mind would wear that?

Errr....me?

[toohuge]

Lovely watch pictured there, id love to wear that!

[Dominic H]

Don1 said:

IforB said:

That is the most overblown gauche thing I've ever seen. Who in their right mind would wear that?

Errr....me?

Me too, it'd go great with a nice pair of 'Tuscan sunset' cords I picked up at Ralph Lauren.
Over the top? Sure, but great fun.

[S3 Alex]

IforB said:

That is the most overblown gauche thing I've ever seen. Who in their right mind would wear that?

Hardly. I presume you've not seen Jacob watches

[IforB]

S3 Alex said:

IforB said:

That is the most overblown gauche thing I've ever seen. Who in their right mind would wear that?

Hardly. I presume you've not seen Jacob watches

I have, all that I can say is

[Stuart]

Does that lever actually make the barrels rotate? Marvellous.

Dominic - YHM. To your PH email address.

[Dominic H]

Stuart said:

Does that lever actually make the barrels rotate? Marvellous.

Dominic - YHM. To your PH email address.

It does!

Just checked, I'll get back to you tomorrow Stuart. Thanks for the mail....

[CommanderJameson]

IforB said:

That is the most overblown gauche thing I've ever seen. Who in their right mind would wear that?

Feh, the entire product range of Graham says "that's not THE most overblown, gauche thing ever".

[eccles]

Stuart said:

Does that lever actually make the barrels rotate? Marvellous.

Whats the jackpot on it?

[toohuge]

eccles said:

Stuart said:

Does that lever actually make the barrels rotate? Marvellous.

Whats the jackpot on it?

The satisfaction of owning such a beautiful watch.

[WatchObsession]

If you have to ask the price.....

Well, curiosity got the better of me and I could only find one place on the net that has the price listed, RRP $625,000.00 , that on today's exchange is £ 410,000.00 give or take £1k.

The price of a very nice house anywhere in the UK and I am sure with the house market as it is you could probably get the vendor to throw in a Slot Machine aswel if you wanted one so much.

I am hardly surprised it is in the window, doubt it very much that many of these will see a wrist, pug ugly and at £410k an even uglier price tag.