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My decision
After much careful consideration and believe me it was tough. My initial thought was since this week submission were mostly static shot. My job would be a walk in the park.
But it wasn't
1st choice: Geo's Cartier Tank Duo time, which I thought will be a sure winner. The dial display a beautiful guilloche pattern combine with balance and proportionate chinese numerals. A rare attribute. (Over the years I have seen too many badly done samples) Just this alone is enough to make it a winner. However this week theme is Chinese New Year or to be political correct Lunar New Year I'm rather sad to say there isn't any presence of the element involve.
So move on to 2nd choice: Blomman's Zenith Chromnometre. This is such a powerful photo. A no nonsense watch on a no nonsense legendary character ??(Guan Gong). It is a tradition that every chinese to pay visit to the temple and make an offering to ?? before the Lunar New Year. This clever shot as Art put it qualify to be judge in the wristscan category. There is a but ..... the offering to ?? is not limit to Lunar New Year. As a matter of fact almost every single traditional chinese celebration we will see people making offering to ??. So it is still not the photo I'm looking for to best represent our theme this week.
Finally our winner for the wristscan category. chronos-lorien' PAM 372. Every element is here. A historical tribute of a historical watch. Goes well with our theme which is a historical event and the best part is the background show the chinese zodiac animal of this year, the serpent. The 2013 give us a precise date is just icing on the cake.
Here you have it folks.
Thanks you for reading and Art for chance to be the judge.
Regard
Tyler
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Our judges this session . . .
. . . are Ed [log-in: E.S.] for Static Photo, Tyler for Wrist Scan, and Bulgari moderator Ping T for Watch of the Week.
My decision
After much careful consideration and believe me it was tough. My initial thought was since this week submission were mostly static shot. My job would be a walk in the park. But it wasn't 1st choice: Geo's Cartier Tank Duo time, which I thought will be a s...
Good call, Tyler . . .
. . . chronos-lorien's pic was one of my favorites, too, along with blomman's category-straddling composition.
My verdict
as for static photo is runner up is Geo with beautiful dual time Cartier with chinese font, which as Tyler already mentioned, represent very much New Year, the photo itself is very nice and balanced. and the winner is Nilo (Nilomis) with IWC, the 12 chine...
Thank you Eddy ...
The blue background is a Quilt purse, made and from my wife. Cheers, Nilo
You pulled the rougher assignment, Eddy . . .
. . . no doubt about it. There were more images in your category this week than usual, and many notables, in my humble opinion. A special mention for Graham's eye-catching composition . . . . . . from yours truly. ...
All great choices...but no mention of my floating trio, Art?
I'm going to need to step up my game!
Ping's Watch of the Week turns out to be . . .
. . . Eddy's runner-up! "Hi, Art, Sorry for the delay. I liked the Kari and the carbon AP but I have to say this watch intrigued me the most :-) . Hope all is well with you. Never got a chance to say Happy New Year! Best, -P-" It's been a good year so far...
Never played the Wristscan section
before and hope I am doing it right but hrere goes 1955 Valjoux 72 pre 806 Breitling AOPA Navitimer ...
You're a bit late for last week's thread . . .
. . . but there will be a new session initiated by Baron roughly 24 hours from now. Please check back in a day or so, and join in the fun! Btw, I think you'll find a lot of admirers for the Breitling - there are more than a few fans in residence.
this week's new WristScan masthead photo
Panerai by chronos-lorien & IWC by nilomis & Cartier by Geo ...