That is a bit painful for me, because I realized that I sold or traded my oldest horological loves. Such as my first serious watch, a Rolex GMT MASTER 16700 from 1997. Or my first Daytona, which I got in 1999 and sold in 2004, then rebought in 2009. The l...
Very nice! This was given to me by my father when I was about 10, so early seventies. He wore it while in college in the late 40's-early 50's or so. The next one, this was given to my father by his father in '51 to wear to his wedding. Once again, he gave...
The Baume and Mercier linea Also still at home but in my little princess her collection now the second watch i bought also more then 30years ago The Cartier model 21 Hagwe ...
... marvelous salmon dial Type XX!! Of course all other watches are superb pieces as well. Real keepers for life. In my case... I’m sure you know what I will answer: Submariners are my old love! My deep love! An obsession... a passion! My 1680 bought bran...
Had 2 in the past, this is my third. The titanium I believe makes it infinitely more wearable, and thus a keeper. I took these photos today while walking back to my house from my son's school. It's literally a living photo studio... no processing or filte...
My oldest love affair, one of my grails until today, a dream, which has come true: IWC Minute Repeater in Platinum. My first love: the IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar 3750. this was my first high end watch. I let it go 2009 to trade for my Patek 5146G. Wh...
How could you sort out this Reverso?! 😎 For me one of the most appealing ones ever made! Besides the cheap Reverso A Triptyque. „Cheap“ because as you know it was sold for the same price as a 5711 at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Funny times. Hahahaaaa! 😊 ...
that launched a thousand emails and visits and calls to fellow collectors, dealers and friends. My Breguet Type XX. It still receives the most attention and compliments when I visit with other collectors. Thanks to Nicolas!! Best to you all, Tim ...
... well says it’s only in this place we can find two examples of this rate edition in one same thread! I absolutely love a white metal case with a salmon dial combo! So beautiful Tupe XX! Hagwe my friend! Abel
. . . an old love. Tomorrow, in fact. ;-( My love for watches began at an early age, but never realized until I was in the middle of my forties. Yes, I had a Rolex AirKing, but that was my only watch for fifteen years. Then, in early '01, I discovered Gla...
The road we collectors travel is meandering and unexpected so we can understand many watches come and go as our interest and experience changes. It’s sad you let go these pieces bit I’m sure they gave you lot of pleasure and joy and other interesting piec...
. . . although curiously my interest began to wane around the same time I stopped working, about nine years ago. With the benefit of hindsight, there may have been a subliminal need to have the calendar at hand, literally as well as figuratively, that dro...
Believe it or not the Benrus was my first communion watch ! This will give you a little idea how long I’ve been fascinated with watches. The two breitlings where one of my first forays into chronographs dating back 25 to 30 years ago The eterna was just a...
I also keep my comunion watch !! It was my First watch and I feel I should have posted here. Don’t have its pictures right now with me. These watches have some magic for us ... thank you for sharing them! Hagwe! Abel
One that I remember to this day was when I went hunting. Lost track of my dive time as I was too focused on a particular fish... Only realised when my pressure gauge was showing ~500 PSI and I was about 100 meters in depth! That was one lesson learned!!!
My grandfather was WW2 veteran,he got shot before to enter Berlin and he was sent the war he brought this and used for many years then put it in a box.I found it 15 years ago after he passed away and have it with me since then.I feel like going back in t...