Off topic watch chat for the horologists out there

964RS · Post by **964RS** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:50 am

Bootsy wrote:
Tosh wrote:A couple of years back, TAG did a limited edition Monaco Gulf

Wife tried to get me to buy one... Perfick for your Porsche steering wheel....

I'm going to disagree, I think they ruined a classic looking watch by over commercialsing a beautiful design and made it look like a bodged replica!

Totally agree.

Not a big Tag fan at all though tbh

964RS · Post by **964RS** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:24 pm

Porsche design PVD chrono for sale for £350 here:

http://www.thewatchforum.co.uk:80/index ... opic=41372

I know the seller and he's trustworthy

Vic Cohen · Post by **Vic Cohen** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:32 pm

Although it looks a little worse for wear , i know a place in Germany caN make it black , fit new face and hands whatever .....BUT NO ORIGINAL STRAP................it does indeed appear to be the 1 st edition Orfina model .the original !

Post by **Bootsy** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:01 pm

964RS wrote:Porsche design PVD chrono for sale for £350 here:

http://www.thewatchforum.co.uk:80/index ... opic=41372

I know the seller and he's trustworthy

Bugger, would have snapped that up!

Post by **Bootsy** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:43 pm

I purchased this today - BNIB

For no other reason than a colleague's relative who works at Dunhill was able to buy one watch as part of an exclusive staff sale and offered me the opportunity.

They retail at £1500 and the price offered to me was just too good to turn down so I looked at what was on offer and picked this.

Something a bit different to my usual choice but I like the design and went for a brown calf strap.

Only downside is that Jude Law wears one as the face of Dunhill!

Dunhill A-Centric Automatic.

Polished stainless steel
40mm diameter
Brown calf strap, polished stainless steel deployant
Automatic mechanical movement with central date hand (date corrector at 4 o'clock)
Calibre: DD9031
Jewels: 21

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 4:59 pm

Jude Law is a fairy

Post by **Bootsy** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:02 pm

Nige wrote:Jude Law is a fairy

and I'm not?

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:24 pm

for the non-fairies among us, I thought this was pretty good, build your own.....

http://www.brm-manufacture.com/configurateur/?lang=gb

Post by **Bootsy** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 5:28 pm

Mike wrote:for the non-fairies among us, I thought this was pretty good, build your own.....

http://www.brm-manufacture.com/configurateur/?lang=gb

Yes, very good.

I've designed one for Vic.

Del · Post by **Del** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:40 pm

Was sent these pictures in an email today. Quite impressive. I wonder if my watchmaker has the spare time to do something this creative!

Vic Cohen · Post by **Vic Cohen** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:54 pm

Very sensitive now Blutos gone Bootsy ...................may have to go for the Kleenex , or even a hammer for dat watch!

hot66 · Post by **hot66** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:22 pm

who wanted an ORIGINAL Steve Mcqueen Monaco then ?

http://catalog.antiquorum.com/catalog.h ... tionid=215

"Sold including buyer's premium: 87,600 USD"

left4dead · Post by **left4dead** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:51 pm

I LOVE it when auctioneers are so off with their estimates

Did you see lot 416? Steve's Submariner?

Estimate $10-20k

http://catalog.antiquorum.com/catalog.h ... tionid=215

Sold for..... $234,000!!!

Post by **Bootsy** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:11 pm

The estimates for those 2 McQueen watches were always way off the mark. Even my Mum said she had read about the Monaco and that it was going to fetch about £20K - I said to hear more like £100K so I was a bit out!

Post by **Bootsy** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:12 pm

Been wearing this all week and growing quite attached to it now.