Ummm.....Daren??

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Rockrolex

Anybody can make a beautiful plain, boring mechanical watch like this:


But it takes a real watch making genius to make this:


That's what I appreciate.

Hey Ed,

Tonight's Lotto Powerball has escalated to a whopping 14.5 million dollars. If I win, you get the Patek....it's as simple as that!! Seriously and in all honesty, my good friend!!

JJ

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Hey Ed,

Tonight's Lotto Powerball has escalated to a whopping 14.5 million dollars. If I win, you get the Patek....it's as simple as that!! Seriously and in all honesty, my good friend!!

JJ

I think it's in the 1 million region. But how about this one, the Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ill? Have complications, will travel (1 million EURO!!!). Only 7 will be made.

Frans.

[Rockrolex]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

I think it's in the 1 million region. But how about this one, the Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ill? Have complications, will travel (1 million EURO!!!). Only 7 will be made.

Frans.

Now you're really talking my kind of watch, Frans. JJ, when you win the lottery, I think I'll take this one over the PP. Oh, yeah.

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by Rockrolex

Now you're really talking my kind of watch, Frans. JJ, when you win the lottery, I think I'll take this one over the PP. Oh, yeah.

I bet the manual is as thick as a New York phone directory But, will it take a shower? Can you picture this? A 1,5 million dollar watch ruined by the fool who took it under the shower

Take care,

Frans.

[Rockrolex]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

I bet the manual is as thick as a New York phone directory But, will it take a shower? Can you picture this? A 1,5 million dollar watch ruined by the fool who took it under the shower

Take care,

Frans.

You mean it's not depth rated to 3000 m!! Fugedaboudit, then.

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by Rockrolex

You mean it's not depth rated to 3000 m!! Fugedaboudit, then.

I was put off by the tourbillon and canceled my order!

Frans.

[JJ Irani]

Originally Posted by Goodwatch

I was put off by the tourbillon and canceled my order!

Frans.

Cancelled your order for the orange PO, I bet!!!

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

Cancelled your order for the orange PO, I bet!!!

Yes, how did you guess? Watches like these are pure watch porn (no JJ, not the PO) and also demonstrate what the large manufactures can accomplish. And, it also looks like a contest: who can cram the most dials, hands and functions in a wrist watch?

Frans.

[JJ Irani]

"Watch porn"??? LOL, that's a new one on me!!

But I do beg to differ and disagree to a certain extent. Such high-tech, complicated watches consume several thousand man hours of very intiricate and pain-staking work. Each watch is pure genius, a mechanical marvel, too complex and complicated for all but a select few to even begin to comprehend.

Therefore, I would have nothing but pure unadulterated admiration for such a watchmaker....his patience, his brilliance, his craft and the computer which he has for a brain!!

Yes, these watches are obscenely expensive.....way out for most of us, anyway...but when you think of the effort that has gone into producing such a mechanical masterpiece, I think the prices more than justify the superb quality of the end product.

JJ

[Goodwatch]

Originally Posted by JJ Irani

"Watch porn"??? LOL, that's a new one on me!!


Yes, these watches are obscenely expensive.....way out for most of us, anyway...but when you think of the effort that has gone into producing such a mechanical masterpiece, I think the prices more than justify the superb quality of the end product.

JJ

That's what I wrote but it took me only one sentence JJ, I see those watches as a 'tour de force'. They show what can be accomplished when money and time are no object. Actually, those movements are designed on the computer!

Take care,

Frans.

[tpearman]

Congratulations, Daren! That is one pretty watch! Tim

[dman]

Originally Posted by tpearman

Congratulations, Daren! That is one pretty watch! Tim

Thank you Tim.