That has to be one of the last. Congrats jack, what a watch. On the list for an openworked next?
Finally added a Speedy to my collection. Can't believe how well this wears for a 42mm watch. It manages to actually feel slim too.
I've missed out on the 15202 but hope to get whatever AP bring out next year as the 50th anniversary model. Happy to wait for the 15407 openworked too (plus 2-3 others I am down for) and that is most definitely a multi year wait piece here in the UK.
Assume you dealt with the team at AP House Jack?
I'm assume that getting a new Royal Oak is akin to a small lottery win so congrats for that alone!
Having been told expect a wait of up to two years, picked this up today after a….. wait for it….four week wait.
2nd time with this watch , never stuck the first time and always missed it .
I have no purchase history with the AD, had to fill in the obligatory expression of interest...the displays every time I have been in looked like old mother Hubbard's cupboard.
I can only conclude that either I got lucky or they lie like a cheap watch. Not complaining mind as I love the watch
Back to level par for the year with a completely unexpected and unnecessary purchase
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Spotted this one on Yahoo Auctions, a steel Luminox 3204 for the Japan market:
Part of the "Navy Seals" range, which is useful for those breaks inbetween simian poetry recital and ikebana during which I enjoy covert missions:
No sign of Bear Grylls anywhere, fortunately.
Mine came on a ratty Luminox velcro band, which I binned. Tried a thick leather strap, then a 22mm tropic:
5-jewel Ronda 715Li inside...
This version of the 715 normally offers 10 years battery life, but in this application Luminox suggest 8 years. Presumably because the hands are heavier, being fitted with the borosilicate glass tubes containing gas and tritium.
These work as advertised, the markers and hands being perfectly illuminated all night. I admit some childlike wonder at seeing this the first time. And the second
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This one has arrived today.
I was looking for something blue to join the family, so it is definitely another one that I will be keeping forever!
I am happy with everything about it.
Except the ridiculously small screws in the bracelet. They made the process of adjusting it an experience so painful that now I have fond memories of the canal treatment I had to go through when last visiting my dentist.
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^^^ that PO is very striking and a great addition to your clutch of Omegas. That Great White is especially lovely.
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It was Hayek Jr. himself:
Extract from an interview with Bilan magazine, 2005"What are the main component parts of a Swiss Made watch manufactured in China?"
N.H.: "Certain bracelets, low and mid-range, sometimes hands and dials, also packaging"
B.: What are the main component parts of a Swiss Made watch manufactured in China?
N.H.: Certain bracelets, low and mid-range, sometimes hands and dials, also packaging. However, no piece made in China concerns our haut de gamme production or the Swatch.
It is not clear to me what he meant.
Sorry for taking this thread on a detour. I don't think the 2005 Bilan article is online, if it ever was, but extracts (from whence I took the quote) are here https://www.europastar.com/magazine/...-produces.html
It is also well worth reading the JCB interview here https://www.europastar.com/the-watch...nt-future.html .
Biver discussing how he bought the rights to the moribund and archiveless Blancpain group in 1982 for less than CHF22K (about $24K).
This was a period when quartz ruled, but JCB knew that the then-30-and-40-somethings that were his market were looking for permanence and their own tradition, to be bought if necessary. He told investors that was quartz was carcinogenic, inventing a story about a doctor giving his patients mechanical watches.
For the public, he aggressively marketed against quartz (you'll recall the Blancpain slogan...) pushing that quartz has no soul. A line that is eagerly repeated today by all sorts of people who weren't around in 1982, and even some who were.
It was so successful, Philippe Stern wrote to congratulate him. At the time, Patek had been buying back their watches from dealers.
Mechanical watches back in fashion with both the public and investors, JCB sold Blancpain in 1992, for CHF60 million ($65 million).