I'm down to these four and I've not bought another watch for months.
However, after losing interest in watches for a while, I've started to look at watches again in the last few days!
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I'm down to these four and I've not bought another watch for months.
However, after losing interest in watches for a while, I've started to look at watches again in the last few days!
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...415d96ef_h.jpg
If I was trying to work that collection down to a hard limit of 6, this is what I think I'd do :encouragement:
https://i.imgur.com/l2sCQkG.jpg
Would you mind telling me what and where you got the case/roll please
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Yes of course. It's a Carapaz watch roll...
https://carapaz.com/
Not a full SOTC, but I was updating certain valuation details for some of the collection over the weekend. Not the finest photo in the world (I haven’t got the time (or the know-how) to do a Tony/Jocke type collage!)...
https://i.imgur.com/cGGvsRD.jpg
Thanks
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Voila :-)
5513s from 1979 and metres first from 1967
https://i.imgur.com/emIuF3W.jpg
16800 - originally purchased on 24 March 1984 from Joyeria Riviera in Puerto Rico. This one has seen some action over the years...
https://i.imgur.com/fJnMtDS.jpg
Another 16800, this one from 1983, albeit this one has led a more sheltered life
https://i.imgur.com/DK2qCqc.jpg
1675 from 1970
https://i.imgur.com/els6OSY.jpg
16750 from 1980 and entirely untouched
https://i.imgur.com/PmKa5q0.jpg
1016 from 1974 (this one circumnavigated the globe with me)
https://i.imgur.com/jWwZMiA.jpg
Straight hand 1655 from 1972
https://i.imgur.com/5Y7wKfA.jpg
Thanks
The cases and dials on these are excellent.
Had a bit of a change round,latest lineup.
https://i.postimg.cc/2SnvR6FH/59-DB9...19-CDE8646.jpg
With two new Seikos, my watch box is now full again.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8e91a6341f.jpg
What’s your opinion on the dornbluth given the other ‘similar’ watches of a higher price point?
I’m falling in love with them and they seem to be of great value and still under the radar. The only problem is that you now have to wait a year almost for it to be manufactured!
I love the "Dornie" -- partly because of its inherent properties (elegant, extremely legible, rugged, well built), and partly because of what it represents: serious handcraft on a very small scale, and delicious rarity (the company makes only about 200 pieces each year).
As an aside, I have met, and had a long chat with, Dirk Dornblüth -- and found him a very charming and high-integrity gentleman.
You mention "similar" watches (presumably in my collection). Perhaps you mean the GO Senator and the MG Benu? The answer is that, if I were forced to sell a watch or two, the GO would leave before the Dornblüth -- even though the movement in the latter is not fully in-house (my normal preference). The MG is not a fair comparison on any level.
I was lucky enough to pick up my Dornblüth used on this forum three years ago, but I think it has seen its last of "Sales Corner".
HTH
This seems a bizarre argument when people are willing to wait over a year for a mass-produced Rolex.
Compare and contrast to waiting a year for a bespoke piece, made from scratch by a respected independent, to your specifications, without having to mortgage the house.
Striking how much weight can be placed on key phrases. Thus we have ‘bespoke’ which is signalled as special and superior (‘just for you sir’) while ‘mass produced’ items seem to be regarded as less desirable.
But an industrially-made Rolex is an example of true excellence, and it’s doubtful that ‘bespoke’ is genuinely superior.
All in the words. A ‘mass produced’ Ferrari would do the job adequately. And you could specify those lovely yellow badges on the flanks…..who knows, they might be hand-drawn. Imagine!
I agree it sounds bizarre. However with a Rolex (or any other piece in demand) you can usually find a dealer who has the model you like and to be able to try it on. If you don’t like it you move on (or at least I do). I haven’t put down my name for a Rolex just for the sake of it because I know I can flip it for a profit if don’t like it.
With a Dornbluth it’s slightly harder, the what if dilemma to wait for a year and then the off chance that you won’t like the piece. Although this forum is a great place to at least be able to read first hand experiences from other members.
Dornbluth are very much “bespoke”. I can contact them when I wish, have a watch built to my specifications, see how it’s built, have an engraving should I wish. Very much “Just for me sir”. A mass produced watch simply cannot compare to this and is considerably more desirable.
As for Rolex being an example of “True excellence”. Nice try but as a Rolex and Dornbluth owner your comment just makes me smile.
This was the state of my collection 1 week ago…
https://i.postimg.cc/jjqZ2w9x/C9-E2-...86-C5-D636.jpg
This is it today.
https://i.postimg.cc/CKvJqMTj/EFC42-...19-A9-E355.jpg
You are a wise man. Well done!
How did you decide which to keep?
All the best with your health situation.
Enoch, I think you may have set a new TZ record…….impressive by any standard.
And a great last piece too. All the best to you sir.
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Attachment 18605 still space for a few more.
Been quite a few changes since I posted a SOTC. A couple of recent purchases including an IWC hand wound moon phase. Still too many divers though... I'm currently eyeing introducing the current blue 300m seamaster, a Mark II speedmaster and potentially an 1815 Lange.
https://i.imgur.com/IvlIfwy.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DX47dRH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/E9NxthL.jpg
I thought I would post some of the watches that I have to play with currently so not quite a STOC.
Excuse the poor photo I may spend the time and get the full frame out; but it will never be amazing photos like others.
https://i.ibb.co/pfnv1VB/CBB6-A32-F-...44-FA55502.jpg