Beg to differ, SJX. Love and hate are very close relatives...

... both are signs of caring. If I don't care for a brand, I neither love it or hate it. And if I love a brand and there's a blemish (remember, nobody's perfect) then I hate the blemish. So no love without hate, and no hate without love.

Speaking for myself, there's exquisitely much to love and hate about IWC. Love: Portugiesers, non-Spitfire Fliegers, innovative Aquatimers, real vintage Ingenieurs, Portofino Moonphases with silver dials, ceramic cases and beautiful in-house calibers but also the incredible things they've done based on the V7750. Hate: blingy new Da Vincis, ugly old Da Vincis, Ceramic Pilots with ludicrous Top Gun logos on the side, and the fact that they call their new series Vintage Somethings in order to make it forever difficult to talk about their real vintage models.

Just to mention a few. The list is endless. Which brings me back to the necessity of a forum.

With strong feelings,
Jos.

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Why no IWC forum?

By: Young J : March 9th, 2009-14:35

Forgive the impertinence as a "newbie" so to speak, but it stands to reason that the majority of members here probably own an IWC...so why no forum? Thanks in advance, Young

here are a couple past threads: click here click here click here Cheers, Anthony

Goes to show how much interest there is, Anthony...

By: Jos. : March 10th, 2009-18:30

... maybe it's time to lobby with Georges Kern to reverse the decision? Incidentally, I quoted from memory above but here's the literal quote: '[T]he "IWC" forum does not exist because IWC has asked us not to. 'They feel they currently have enough "covera...

Doable, Jos, but not easy, as you perfectly said

By: amanico : March 10th, 2009-23:59

Each forum provides to his moderator a lot of work. If the brand doesn't want to play the game, I don't see why we would invest our time. It's sad for IWC Lovers, I agree, but this is the situation...For now. Best, Nicolas

Time and Sands can move......

By: MTF : March 11th, 2009-03:24

I appreciate ThePurist forum more than IWC

By: LVT : March 11th, 2009-03:44

In this forum , I gain many thing : knownledge , vision , inspiration...I think good watch brand should be happy to present themself on this forum . Sometime, they are not happy with bad comment which we speake here , but in fact the bad comment will help...

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