bernard cheong
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We do not have to be rich. We need discipline to save, luck to have one on FS
I was owner number 1 for the Cabestan, brand new.
Owner number 3 for the Greubel Forsey..and I was fated to own it.
I wanted 00 of 11...but no money.
Owners 1 made a KILLING...owner 2 owned for a short while, enough to make a second profit.
At above $500,000 plus I had to throw in one of my most loved watches, please do not ask me which one...painful!!!!!!
I acquired Invention 1 in platinum.
No doubt, people will say they can get one.
BUT..this one although is old, it is 100% mint. I know what is mint.
It's as good as new.
Google or Bing and you will rarely find a genuine seller of a GOLD piece.
A platinum??? Never, almost never.
I am so CONFIDENT of Greubel Forsey, just as I was with Vianney Halter and Richard Mille and Panerai.
I have bought also the last of the platinum 30 Vision available...as investments for generations to come, and to wear and enjoy.
The range of collecting from 1990 till today, no matter what, exclusivity can be harmful
Being exclusive will usually mean being expensive. It takes decades as well as many psycho and social links to open a market for collectables. I am always FOR the watch collecting hobby to become a mix of exclusive and inclusive..like the collecting of an...
Well said
Specially like the "I hope we all have fun, and will conquer our insecurities" part Watches aren't shabby either but far from cheap & ordinary :) Cheers D
Boy that is mighty generous of you, Bernard. Can you tell me...
More about that vabene tourbillon?
Thanks Ronald. It's a doctor thing from the old days.more pics soon.
The tourbillon...it is probably Chinese...but if you wait...I will post more. the cage is a typical swiss tourb which the Chinese never did often....they used the carousel type. This tourb is an unfinished, unpolished raw movement...that works very well.....
thanks for sharing Bernard....we should do a straw poll on everyone's favourite!!
I would have chosen the GF IP1, but instead, its the Cabestan that captures my imagination most. best, Horo
We do not have to be rich. We need discipline to save, luck to have one on FS
I was owner number 1 for the Cabestan, brand new. Owner number 3 for the Greubel Forsey..and I was fated to own it. I wanted 00 of 11...but no money. Owners 1 made a KILLING...owner 2 owned for a short while, enough to make a second profit. At above $500,...
I love the watches from both sides of the spectrum
From the simple time only Patek, to the designs from childhood MB&F, The Captain Nemo VH and the Machine looking Cabestan.
I have some really strange watches!!! Will post.
These are from my 1990 days. Good to see they are healthy.
Wonderful.....
Always love to see your timepieces. Quite a range across your collection. Can't wait to see what you have coming down the pike. Darren
I will prepare the next post..collecting and sharing is good for stress
I hope that I do not come across wrong as boastful, and if so..forgive me. I just wish to have the entire young and old world friends discover a wonderful and hopefully inexpensive way to enjoy life.
I've never seen that Vabene before! Now I need one!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful collection. And thank you for educating me on Vabene, i had never heard of them before. I think I need to find one of their tourbillons for myself!
A Proper Real Tourbillon..
I am tempted to have the watch dismantled and the tourbillon alone polished.
Bernard....
...Only your crazyness ( forgive me for that word ) can dismantle the watch to have only the tourbillon polished !! Great Bernard....do it please...so we can admire the lovly polished than !! Who will polish than ?? Let's guess !!! Have a nice week end......
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Bernard, that black LV it's smashing !! I think in that box missing some pieces, like the OPUS and also some Horological Machines...without them the future generations cannot understand the level that we have reached !! Best Giancarlo
Yes. You are right. I am currently restoring another box(es) of 8 (16)
Then we would have for the purists...a good span.
Wow
Beanrd, you know we all want to see the pictures !! I'm loking forward to it ! Best Giancarlo
I knew about them Gianko..I was on the same jury with Stephen and Robert in 2011
BUT... the big thing was I was and still am VERY sure that work as GOOD as what Greubel Forsey did, I was on the jury before 2011, in 2010 that awarded them... would always be FULLY booked and bought and sold out when(1) they make 100 a year, (2) they kno...
Bernard....
...belive me I know very well that you were sitting next to them at 2011 GPHG....(I also saw some pic of you next to Setephen at the jury table).. and exactely for that reasons I was wondering ever more how you can recognize their superlative job only now...
so your daughter is a watch nut too?
why would she want men's watches (apart from the resale value)?
The gender factor among items with intelectual movments..take photography, cars and books
Remove the genderization of a commercial product, and the audience expands, and discussions go deep into emotional territory. Women can bring that in. Watches have colored my marriage, bonded my family, as it is an object easy to love, sentimental, lasts ...
dude....
chill out.... I was just wondering because of the size of most (aimed at) men watches. If a lady has got a lady-like wrist it often doesn't look right (40 mm+) and isn't comfortable wearing (at least that's what I often was told by the ladies). Again: jus...
You are right..I must. Too much of women's rights activism for me. chuckles...more
I mean all in good faith. More to try to get as much of my wife to accept more watches. And to bring a hobby for sharing between the married guys.