At the top of this pile is a Universal Geneve Golden Shadow - the thinnest automatic watch between 1965 and 1978 - a Genta design. At the bottom is a White Shadow Quartz which was the thinnest quartz watch when it was launched but I doubt if it held the title for as long as the Golden Shadow.
In my view the VC always wins these threads, hands down.
Some lovely stuff here and a great idea for a thread.
VC will always win, a stupendous watch.
This is my thinnest auto, obviously a micro rotor, the Hamilton Intra-Matic.
4mm deep.
Last edited by Neil.C; 18th October 2017 at 07:46.
Cheers,
Neil.
Vacheron Constantin and Audemars Piguet shared their ultra-thin movement. VC's was identified as '1003', AP's as '2003'.
I had the AP. It was wonderful and a joy to own. It was also expensive to have serviced.
Not only that, short of sending it to AP, it was difficult to find someone to service it.
Eventually, I found an FBHI who would do the job. When he returned it, he said, "It had been somewhere it shouldn't have been. Someone had been in there who shouldn't have."
The other downside is that ultra-thins don't make a lot of money.
Perhaps there's a connection.
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