Today I've finally completed the full set of the Dirty Dozen. I've had the IWC for about 10 years. The remaining 11 have taken me a year to collect. The last one was the Longines, which is also my favourite.
Today I've finally completed the full set of the Dirty Dozen. I've had the IWC for about 10 years. The remaining 11 have taken me a year to collect. The last one was the Longines, which is also my favourite.
Very nice, my father is currently trying to collect all 12 and the last 3 are proving difficult to obtain in good condition (he is still looking for the Grana, Longines and JLC so not a tall order at all)!!!!
The Lemaina and Timor are my favourite WWWs
Lovely. Well done on completing the set.
Very well done. Can't have been easy - or cheap! They all look in great condition. Any chance of a shot without all the reflections?
Well done .
Fantastic collection :) wasn't aware of this dirty dozen but having just read the hondinkee article, that's an impressive accomplishment
Congratulations!! I love it!! Where in the world did you find the grana? :) This must have been a lot of fun, putting it together.
I was very lucky finding that one. As you know it's the hardest to find because there were may have been as few as 1000 made (est. 1000-5000). Some of the others had 25000 examples.
I think it was Bone Idol from this forum who pointed me in the direction of the MWR forum http://www.mwrforum.net/forums/forum.php. I joined & noticed that one of the members was selling his entire Dirty Dozen collection. His Grana was a particularly good example & I bought it straight away. I still haven't seen a better one. It was an expensive evening though :-/
A job well done there Rob, I bet your wallet wishes I'd never told you about MWR
Congratulations! Looks like a great set. It's been a few years since I got and then sold a Dirty Dozen set and values seem to have doubled in the last 2-3 years, so I hope you're well insured!
Has the JLC been refinished? It looks amazingly good in your photo, usually the brass shows thought pretty badly. Likewise the Vertex.
Wow, that is really impressive. I have only got the Cyma and wish I had bought some of the others before the prices really started to increase.
No the case is the original finish, it's mint. I showed the collection to John Senior who is a very well respected horologist specialising in military watches & he commented that the JLC Lemania Vertex & Record cases looked mint & that they are often well worn. The Buren shows a fair bit of brassing & maybe the one that stands out as being not as good a case as the others. I've already got another Buren lined up though. I thought when I got the twelve that that would be the end of it :-/
The Timor is also particularly good. The Record & the Longines lug numbers also match the ones on the back of the case. This is quite rare because, when these watches had maintenance carried out by the R.E.M.E. the wrong backs were often put on wrong cases.
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Well done on being patient and waiting to get such good examples, they do look fantastic. As you say, also hard to find matching lug and caseback numbers.
Getting all 12 is not the end...I got distracted to finding "P" dialled examples, NATO dials (several variations)...go on, I dare you!
Congratulations. It pleases me that you've arranged them in alphabetical order.
So... what's the next challenge?
Exactly what I did! Managed to complete the group last year after about 4 years of looking. I found the Newmark easily and the Precista eluded me for ages.Originally Posted by trident-7
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Congrats. A fine looking collection. Very even lume across the board.
I wont be collecting the lot but I just bought a Cyma WWW fully serviced for £560. Was that too much? Not bothered really but would like to get an understanding of their price range.
I think that, these days, £560 for one that you know is properly serviced is quite a good price. They seemed to average about £350-400 on the crapshoot that is Ebay until about a year ago and now it appears to be open season - if that's not mixing my metaphors too much.
A lovely collection, well done on putting it together. Out of interest, when a set is put together do they tend to stay as sets, one person selling a full set to someone else or do the sets ever get broken up or do collectors just keep hold of them once they have them.
Thanks. I think most would end up getting sold piecemeal. Three of mine came from another set, including the rarest. I don't think I'd sell mine as a complete set because I would want to keep at least two of my favourites, the Longines & the IWC.
It's more fun to collect them one by one. I saw a full set for sale when I had only just started to collect them but it almost felt like cheating.
Very nice collection
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Nice collection, no stunning.
I am short of 2 to complete my dozen.
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Some breath-takingly nice examples there.
Congratulations on completing the full set!
Amazing! They look beautiful.
Very nice collection!
I only just found out that my late Grandfather's watch may well have been a WWW, and my father is looking for it amongst his belongings. If it is, it's a Vertex model. I'm very excited to see it!
I gave up half way and so did my wallet!! I ended up sticking with my favourite the Cyma!!
FairPlay for sticking at it and well done for being able to complete it in a year?!?!??!?
Chris
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Thanks for sharing these.
Never seen a Dirty Dozen like this.
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