Reply With QuoteYeah!!! Bubi got one!
great britain
how cool IS that?
ok, having said that, I only have one comment, the lugs are too short.
I fit an Eddie's aviator fishbucke strap and it touches the case, getting scratched.
it's kind of seikoesque, in a way.
anyhow, love the lume, all in the right places.
also, the hands are cool, not blingy but painted silver metalflake kind of stuff, so they are very visible all the time.
funny, the seconds hand is slimmer than the hours hand, at first it is weird if you go in the dark to watch the lume, but at night in bed it's not bad at all.
lume is also persistent.
finally, the AR is good, there seems to be more than on the Vantage.
well, that's it.
Yeah!!! Bubi got one!
So did you get No. 69 Bubi?
Congratulations btw, nice pic too :-)
I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
Nice photos Bubi 8)
Glad to see you got one after the initial dissapointment !
I still find the watch superb, but adding Speedbird 3 on the top part of the dial (similar layout of lettering in the Mark XI) would make it even better IMO.
I seriously considered putting "Speedbird III" on the dial in gloss black paint, on top of the matte black dial.Originally Posted by Paulo
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
That's gonna be the SBIIIMKII then. Wasn't it Jussi's idea?I seriously considered putting "Speedbird III" on the dial in gloss black paint, on top of the matte black dial.
Eddie
I'm not as think as you drunk I am.
That would have been nice.I seriously considered putting "Speedbird III" on the dial in gloss black paint, on top of the matte black dial.
Eddie
:hello1:That would have been nice.I seriously considered putting "Speedbird III" on the dial in gloss black paint, on top of the matte black dial.
Eddie
If this come a reality I cannot but to order one!
:)
I think Eddie said "considered", not "considering".:hello1:That would have been nice.I seriously considered putting "Speedbird III" on the dial in gloss black paint, on top of the matte black dial.
Eddie
If this come a reality I cannot but to order one!
:)
Incidentally, Max Schweizer the well-known Sydney watchmaker saw my SB3 yesterday and was VERY impressed with the finish. He's going to regulate it for me after Christmas, so it will have been on the winder that whole time. In the few weeks since purchase, it now runs at +15s, not +18, so it's beginning to settle down I think.
Eddie,I seriously considered putting "Speedbird III" on the dial in gloss black paint, on top of the matte black dial.
Eddie
For what it's worth, I thought that the sterile dial treatment for this watch was an absolutely perfect choice. On the other side of it, I thought what you chose for the dial treatments of the PRS-10, PRS-5, PRS-50, PRS-14, PRS-53, .................................................. ...... I could go on, but I thought that the choices you made for the dials of each these watches in each their way were absolutely perfect as well.
Don't listen to us, especially them :blackeye:
I don't think it's a matter of the lugs being short: I sometimes use a black open-ended aviator on my on me '53 which, as you would know, has quite long lugs. It still causes abrasions to the strap. I think the leather used is especially soft. Eddie (I hope) will correct me if I'm mistaken.
Another vote for the sterile SBIII dial. It wants for nothing, and has all that is necessary
The sterile dial is one of the key things that attracted me to this watch - a well made (and well considered 8) ) choice Eddie
I think it was a wise decision to design the lugs like this. They still look good even though are shorter than the SB1 and others. If the lugs simply would have been scaled up like the dial size it would have ended up like Yao's Quad 10. The Quad 10 looks great but its 52mm lug to lug width is ridiculous.
Agreed! That was the biggest issue I had with that watch.
Cheers,
Guy :)
I also found the lugs short upon fitting a Don Ginsler leather. However I think you will find placing the spring bars between 2 spoons and squeezing so as to bend them in to a curve will Sort this out. It's what I do and it worked a treat!
That brings to mind that the first of the post-Mark XI IWC pilot's watches, the Mark XII, the immediate precursor of the watch the SB3 homages, used box stock standard what CPF describes above----springbars factory bent into a distinct crescent that gave a fitted look to the lug-ends of the black buffalo leather strap the Mark XII was sold on. If I recall correctly though, the circa 36mm diameter cased Mark XII's interlug width was spec'd for 18mm straps or otherwise you could just order the springbars directly from IWC(you might check though----maybe my memory is off and the Mark XII used 20mm straps like the SB3).
number sixtynine
and fitted on eddie's fishtailaviatorstrap on special offer (not parallel)
Looks like 89 to me...
Hi Bubi,
I have to agree with Jon, it does look like 89 to me also. May be you have the two i.e. 89 & 69?
the MK XV has 19mm lug width, so I am pretty sure the XII has 18mm.
the curved end bands look nice, but I have some reservations as to their security relative to the regular straight spring bars.
Looks really good on a strap! Congrats.
Just a quick note... perhaps some people don't like the sterile dial, but I think this is one of the strokes of genius with the Speedbird III
Just for the record, I've stated preference for a non-sterile dial, closer in style to the original Mk XI, not dislike.
The watch is really a beauty with or without writings on the dial.
You are correct, the Mark XII lug width is 18mm. :)the MK XV has 19mm lug width, so I am pretty sure the XII has 18mm.
the curved end bands look nice, but I have some reservations as to their security relative to the regular straight spring bars.
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