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Independents: Thank you for reading

Glad all of you enjoyed my sharing of a personal "passage of time", thanks to Richard and Maria Habring for creating a watch to remind me strongly of that passage. Maria, sorry to have left you out in my original post. I now got to understand better that you did put in effort to create my watch. Tha
16Y
By: s.j. lim
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Independents: Impression of my 2nd Habring2 watch

I bought my 2 nd Habring 2 watch in Singapore on 8 th Oct 2009. It is a Worldtimer with the special jumping second. My 1 st Habring 2 watch was bought in 2006, a SHH model released in Singapore Sincere H.H. And the unique features of this particular Worldtimer watch are: a) the customized city names
16Y
By: s.j. lim
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Girard Perregaux: Quality?

Peter, Thank you for your "cheer me up" reply. In the 80s, US semiconductor product quality was so bad that it almost was put out of business by Japanese. And that level of quality was in terms of ppm (parts per million). E.g. for every one million chips made, perhaps, 100 parts failed, while Japane
17Y
By: s.j. lim
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Girard Perregaux: Bad quality of service

PeterCDE, In 2007, Swiss watch exports were at CHF16.0 billion. The GP Evo3 Moon (ref 80185-11-131-11A, case S/N A290) I bought contributed to this sale figure. Unfortunately, after 2 repairs at GP’s La Chaux-de-Fonds factory, the watch is now ruined and has stopped operating. Obviously, the quality
17Y
By: s.j. lim
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Girard Perregaux: sms me

18Y
By: s.j. lim
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Girard Perregaux: Technically what's wrong?

Peter CDE, I was captivated the very 1st day EVO3 Moonphase was released in 2006. And it was very difficult since then to buy one due to very short supply. I finally managed to buy the white dial EVO3 Moonphase watch (s/n AN290) on Oct 2007 in Malaysia. After the initial excitement and satisfaction,
18Y
By: s.j. lim
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Girard Perregaux: Not so pleasant experience

Alex, I envy you are very happy with your EVO3 Moonphase. I bought the same white dial EVO3 Moonphase watch on Oct 2007 in Malaysia. After the initial excitement and satisfaction, I began to face the reality of a manufacturing flaw, not expected of the quality of such top-end watch: The minute hand
18Y
By: s.j. lim
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Independents: Habring2 SHH Grand Reserve 2006

I am the proud owner of No. 11/12, on 8th Sep 2006. Two things that captivated me: a) the pure classical elegance dial that is designed with complete "1 to 12" hour indicator, complimented by balanced proportion and function of power reserve indicator, dual aperture date and wonderful contrast of ju
19Y
By: s.j. lim
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