POTM - July - Alkiro1
Dear friends This month we will meet most prolific poster that has joined our ranks in last few years unstoppable Alkiro1 Nice guy ...nice collection...can't persuade him to join GTG except it is Independents GTG Once more please enjoy our Purist of the M...
I can think of few things
with as many facets as Alkiro....diamonds come to mind. What an extraordinary human being!
Hi Alkiro, it is a great pleasure to finally ...
"meet" you and I salute you for the sabbatical to become a watchmaker ! Your career move has really inspired me ! I know friends who are in the roles of sales, trader and structurer for derivatives, but "derivative strategist" is a position that sounds ne...
Thanks a lot Gordon
You know, my job is so specific that we were less than 5 to do that when I worked in Paris (a little bit more in London of course). It's really specific but I really enjoyed to do that. I know that I won't find this exact job again in Geneva but I chose t...
Best of luck Alkiro in your new career endeavors!
Starting & financing your own brand can merge your two passions together ! Perhaps I can sign up as your first client ! Cheers, Gordon
Alkiro, you really embody the spirit of this site.
It has been a pleasure meeting you and getting to know you.
Absolutely top drawer profile....
.....really enjoyed it...shame we never managed to meet up last time in Switzerland. Best, Joe
Wonderful to read and great to get a little bit more insight in that manic poster :)
I particularly liked your statement about PuristSPro starting in the virtual world and then bringing together the people. I surely hope we will have the pleasure one day. Best, CC
I can be of witness, absolutely a nice and wonderful guy, it's a great pleasure meeting you, my friend...
We share very similar passions and I hope you can get those nice Indys soon. Rgds Raymond
This is true that Alkiro is very prolific
Always a pleasure to read your comments. I thought you worked as a mystery customer for the Michelin Guide Nice collection
LOL 😁
It would be a true pleasure but I think I would become obese very quickly 😁 Best wishes Alkiro
Alkiro is a true Purist...
We (my wife and I) had the pleasure to meet him in Geneve during this year SIHH. Congratulations Alkiro and D for another great post. Cheers, Nilo
Interessant post
Hi.. I liked the profusion of the culture, tastes and watches included in this post. The histories of life also are all good,mainly why and how you start to like watches. I don't know as this Loctite 243 can to be used in watchmaker, I already saw in elet...
Thank you EJR for your kind words.
You know, we only used this glue (at least to my knowledge) to fix the winding shaft (after having cut it to the right length) to the crown. I think only one pot is sufficient for a watchmaker lifetime 😊 I really wish you to own such a bench with the poss...
Congratulations on being chosen as POTM
Your prolific posts are always informed, positive and encouraging and are much appreciated. Regards Kev.
Many thanks Kev
Well, I really love to learn about my passion (I already learned a lot here and I'm sure I'll learn many more things) and I try to be as honest as possible when I post a thread or when I answer to a topic. And, at the same time, if we can have fun in a fr...
Great Profile Alkiro , really a joy to read and i think
your words will be the same for most of is on PuristSpro ( for your passion of watches offcourse ) at least for me . Was lucky to meet you on the last Swiss indie tour/GTG . I was amazed about your beautiful collection and cant wait to see wear it will go...
Great interview :)
I am jealous about your sabbatic year, and being in your age (yeah, the mid age crisis), I felt inspired by your determination to follow your passion and learn horology. It's been a pleasure to know a little more about you. Cheers!
Thank you very much
I think it was a unique opportunity in my life to seize and I don't regret my choice even if, now, I have to find a new job in finance. No worries! Just a question of time 😊 Best wishes Alkiro
Wonderful read!
Aa great pleasure to have meet you in person, my friend! Hope to see you soon again. Best Blomman
It was a true sharing pleasure dear Blomman 😊
I hope to meet you again soon and have the possibility to learn more from a true watchmaking fount of knowledge. Best wishes Alkiro
I know more than a few guys totally obsessed . . .
. . . with tic-tacs , as hs111 likes to call them, but not one other who's made the leap Alkiro has, dedicating a year to learning the craft from the ground up as a sort of sabbatical. That's impressive. Admiringly, Art
Thank you Art for your kind words
Well, you know, you have sometimes few opportunities to seize in a lifetime and the possibility to learn watchmaking (unfortunately not as deeply as I would like) was one of them at a turning point of my life. Best wishes Alkiro
What a wonderful wholesome and honest POTM
I love these insights into " names" of people who I have never met personally but enjoy getting to know purists one by one Everyone has a different take on collecting and each and everyone adds to the purists family Alkiro adds to the color and complexity...
Many thanks Julian you're too kind I'm blushing ☺️
I'm fully agree with you about this possibility given by Ares501 to learn more about PuristS here. A big thank you to him to organise such "interviews". So cool and interesting especially when you don't know the person in real. Best wishes Alkiro
Thanks for sharing your story
Always enjoy your posts and experiences on this site. Really admire you taking sabbatical to learn watchmaking. It's passion and not addiction.
Many thanks my friend
You know, passion and addiction are so close that I'm, sometimes, in these both categories. My wife could add... sweet madness 😁 Best wishes Alkiro
Great to read your thoughts in more than short posts, my Langefanatic friend.
You add so much to the Forum. I'm very glad you're here.
What a great interview!
Thanks for sharing so much of yourself, and for your always good and passionate comments on this forum. What a choice indeed to spend the sabbatical on learning watchmaking!👌🏼🎩 I wish you to find the perfect job quickly, so you can keep sustaining your pa...
You're too kind HGL
I hope to continue to be really active on this forum as it's so nice to learn many many more things everyday about our common passion (and more). Regarding my wish list, the main problem is that it evolves all the time and I will never complete my collect...
Very true😃. "The way is the goal" (or how that is in english).
Good luck to you for everything! (And I agree with the other ones here, you shouldn't have shown those food shots, you'll have to make a GTG catered by yourself some time!😉) Best wishes, HGL
It was a pleasure meeting you in person!
And if that is your cooking I would like to propose a GTG in you kitchen 😊
It was a true pleasure to meet you Arie too even if we didn't talk a lot together unfortunately (3 days were too short 😉)
Regarding cooking, I think we should organise a double GTG food/watches 😁 Best wishes Alkiro
Unstoppable Alkiro =
unstoppable passion, unstoppable fun and unstoppable friendship. 😊 Alkiro, so glad to have you onboard my friend. 🥂
Thanks a lot for your kind words my dear Luis. I hope to meet you in person one day.
I know that everything is possible here 😉 Best wishes Alkiro
Great post from this series as usual
I envy the idea of the sabbatical. Life is short so do what brings you joy!
Great read! Really nice, that you did go the next step to learn more about watches by experiencing it first hand.
I would love to do a watchmaking training myself, but my hands are too shaky.
Dear Alkiro, it has been a real pleasure ...
... to read through the Q&A and to learn a little bit more about you personally and your watch passion. For me, who joined this community just a couple of months ago, you are an important part of PuristSPro, and it is impossible to imagine that a day ...
Keep it up Alkiro!
You are an inspiration to us all and a fine example of what this community is all about. Best Regards, Fernando
Many thanks to both of you Damjan and Alkiro for this POTM post, always a pleasure to read about friends
Since I have the big pleasure to know you as we have met several times, I have obviously not been surprised by your answers. So instead of commenting them, I shall rather complete them by adding few words on how I see Alkiro... The words that spontaneousl...
You're too kind my friend, I'm blushing 😊
I'm really proud to meet you and I hope to see you again very soon. Merci mon ami. Best wishes Alkiro
As always, I look forward
to this series! And this month's read is as enjoyable as all the others. Although I may not have the opportunity to meet any of you here, reading POTM brings me closer to the 'spirit' of this forum. Looking forward to reading more and who knows, when the ...
This series of posts is one of my favourites!
And Alkiro is a great subject for this. I always enjoy his posts and tasteful pics! Bravo, my friend!
Great to learn more about you, Alkiro!
I always appreciate our interactions, in which your very likable and kind self always comes across. To many more, Alex
Great read.
I guess many of us took the same path in this passion (except perhaps of the sabbatical year😃). I agree that the GTGs are the icing on the cake and I hope that one day I'll join one. Aris
Hi Alkiro, my friend! I am so late that I will send you a PM which will explain why I am so late and I know you will like it
I had the privilege to invite you recently to an exhibition in Geneva and I enjoyed every single minute talking watches with you. Hopefully we will meet again soon! Cheers, HSTE
Alkiro, if there was a vote
You would have mine for purist of the year!! You not only reply to almost every thread but you do it quicker and more constructively than most!! The fact that you live in Geneva is to me the rightful place for you. You have my utmost respect!
Really a livewire here and contributes a lot
Great knowing you a little more, Alkiro, and I do hope that one day, we'll have the opportunities to meet in person. I love your collection and the diversity in it...especially the PanoInverse;-)
Thank you very much Richard. Same for me. I hope we'll have the opportunity to meet together one day. As I already said here, the world is so small... so it should be possible
Hummm, the PanoInverse. A true keeper for me. I loved this timepiece at first sight and it's still the case many years latter. Best wishes Alkiro
Thanks a lot for these deep insights int a true Purist, Alkiro!
I is amazing how you became a corner stone of our community in such a short time. As Art I am not aware of any Purist who dedicated a whole year to learning the craft. That is so impressive and we all benefit from the deep detail knowledge you acquired in...
Thank you very much Martin for these kind words. Like you, I really would like to meet you as I already met in real so many nice people here that I don't want to stop 😉
I have a true profound respect for everyone here as I learned, learn and will learn so many things. As you say, "Passion, Opinion, Information". There's no other place like this one so kind and respectful and I really love that. Regarding watchmaking less...
I love this series created by our dear Damjan for our delight. I love to discover more about our friends and colleagues here...
... in our favorite place in the net. This month I had the pleasure to discover more about this nice and so kind gentleman we know as Alkiro1 and find such a wonderful young man, his work, his tastes both in watches and in Life. I was delighted to read yo...
Another epic POTM - thanks to both of you :)
While I have been privileged to have met Alkiro several times already, this is such a great format to learn more about our fellow Purists (mushrooms, for instance - not something that regularly pops up in conversations ). To many more posts, watches, to m...
Many thanks my friend. I hope to see you again soon around a tartare and, why not, with mushrooms too 😁
Thank you for the shots. You can't imagine how happy was my son when he saw that his both watches were with daddy and friends ones 😉 Best wishes Alkiro
Wow! What a wonderful post! Congrats Alkiro!
Thanks for sharing! It was great meeting you at the Swiss Inependent GTG!
Really enjoyed reading this post...
... thanks for letting us know so much more and better about Alkiro. Although haven't met him in person, through this post that makes me get closer to him. Hope to meet him on day soon. Stefan
never had the pleasure to meet you irl but this is a great post
Thank you for being outspoken as well as kind and sharing your watch collection and your other hobbies with us. Have a good week Best regards Georges
Avec plaisir
Il m'arrive d'être de temps à temps chez Charly La Passion des Montres ou de visiter la Boutique JLC place Vendôme ainsi que les boutiques Breitling et IWC rue de la Paix, donc peut être y a t il une probabilité que l'on s'y croisera un jour avec Nicolas ...
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I feel for what you said, though you are far advanced. I think I share some of your aesthetic style/interest: Germans & Independents. Love the Breguet. Excellent interview.
