My triple:
Am now jonesing for a Portugieser panda automatic. But I must stick to the rule of three...
My triple:
Am now jonesing for a Portugieser panda automatic. But I must stick to the rule of three...
My tan strap arrived yesterday from ukwatchstrap.co.uk. I couldn't bring myself to pay some of the prices I got quoted elsewhere, and on the flip side this was nearly too cheap so I didn't have high hopes about the quality. However, very happy with it, especially for the money. I'm a big fan of a tan strap, and I think it works very well with the green dial. I will see how wear it wells over the coming months.
that looks great with the green dial
And IWC bracelets.....so comfortable.
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None of my other watches are getting a look-in after this. It really is my 'sweet-spot' for my little collection at the moment.
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Wearing this today. Some 1990s IWC vintage. Love the logo. 35mm rose gold 3531.
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Finally got around to giving the bronze a decent polish. Not expecting it stay shiney for too long though as my skin tends to cause tarnish quite quickly.
Andy.
My Pilots Chrono seems to be gaining a minute a week. Is this normal IWC behaviour?! I’ve never had anything like that before.
Between 0 to +7spd is within tolerance for IWC.
Got to handle this last week, what an extraordinary piece of engineering!
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That reminds me I bought this print back over 20 years ago .... mirror writing as you can see ... I think it's quite cool (sorry for the crap pic)
When you flip it you see the writing is backwards .... Leonardo style ...
If I recall correctly, when the watch came out, it came with a new annual date wheel for post-millenium in a little phial (as shown), as the one fitted to the watch was only use for a year or two up till the end of 1999.
It's been a while since we had some gratuitous IWC pics
Still loving my white dial XX, back on a bracelet today
Love this 1965 model; a dress watch that's not too dressy and I wear as a daily. Fabulous timekeeping too.
Just noticed the very fine downward curve of the chrono' seconds hand!
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Mark X11 on bracelet.
A delight on the wrist, the bracelet is a work of art. I still want to add a leather strap though.
Sanjay
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Hi Sanjay, The Strap Tailor does an excellent black letter aviator strap that suits the watch well. I’d love to get a bracelet for mine!
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Mark XII still in my opinion the best proportioned, most classic IWC Fliegeruhr dial (in this regard at least, preferable to the Mk XI), though much too small for me, in fact I couldn't even get along with a Mark XV. (Though back in the day 21cm bracelets were standard for both - my Mark XV bracelet was full-size).
What's interesting is just how close the Mark XX dial gets to the Mark XII - something I hadn't spotted till this thread. After quite a few years of 'nice but not quite' the Mark XX really nails it, IMO. (I write as a former Mark XVIII Petit Prince owner as well).
Now updated. My Double (Doppel) Chronograph.
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I’m really liking the titanium ingenieur in every way except the price
Anyone handled one yet ?
https://www.iwc.com/gb/en/watch-coll...omatic-40.html
silver in steel for me, but its too expensive, by about 40%!!
Finally got to try this today , and visited fully expecting to buy .
The titanium is wonderful and lightweight as you would expect and it is all very well finished .
The hands ,markers , dial are all very nice but the watch overall just didn’t seem special enough especially for the price tag - which in fairness was open to negotiation.
Quite underwhelming.
I was equally underwhelmed. The new Inge is laughably small and unimposing for a daily, non-dress watch. We don't live in the 80s or early 90s any longer and expect a watch to be bigger than it was in the old days. Recreating what was once laugably known as the 'jumbo' - 40mm, whoopie doo! - just doesn't cut it today. In modern terms, for modern wrists, this design only works at 42mm upwards. And that's before you even consider the bonkers pricing.
The average wrist is about seven and a half inches (about 19cm) meaning about half of the wrists out there are at least that size or bigger. The new Inge at 40mm, especially given it has a big bezel, wears very small for a wrist that size (ie of average size). I'm about eight and a quarter, which makes my baseline perference about 43-44mm, though I can go down to about 41mm on watches that are all dial such as a Portuguese.
I get it that people with small wrists are happy with the current small watch fad (some quite militantly so) especially after years of watches the size of dinner plates, some of which are too big even for a well above average wrist and can look a bit silly. But I can't see it lasting. We were definitely better off when companies made full-size and mid-size. Some of the current stuff is neither fish nor fowl - just a bit meh. We have to end up somwhere a bit bigger, with small versions for those that need them.
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My wrist is 6.5 “ The watch wears small
The Slender Watch did an interesting study which it seem I (only very slightly) misremembered that put it at 7.25 in on a statistically speaking substantial population of WUS users, pretty representative of the watch enthusiast population.
https://theslenderwrist.com/average-...ize-for-a-man/
It makes sense that the average wrist size is creeping up as people in general get bigger. My family is pretty typical: grandad born 1901, 5ft; dad born 1937, 5ft 6; me, born 1961 5 ft 10; my lad born 1998, 6 ft 2. My grandad’s gold Dennison cased 32mm Smiths is about the size of the Nomos my daughter wears daily. My dad’s 35mm Omega I’d never part with but too small for me, sits in the drawer. Lad was wearing by 42mm Seiko divers at 15 though has turned out pretty uninterested in watches sadly.