Horological Meandering

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...  

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

More about that vabene tourbillon?

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..... 

NT

I would have chosen the GF IP1, but instead, its the Cabestan that captures my imagination most. best, Horo

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,... 

From the simple time only Patek, to the designs from childhood MB&F, The Captain Nemo VH and the Machine looking Cabestan.

These are from my 1990 days. Good to see they are healthy.

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 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.

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!

I am tempted to have the watch dismantled and the tourbillon alone polished.

...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...... 

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

Then we would have for the purists...a good span.

Beanrd, you know we all want to see the pictures !! I'm loking forward to it ! Best Giancarlo

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...  

...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... 

why would she want men's watches (apart from the resale value)?

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 ...  

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...  

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.