Bravo!
I'd not dare to wear a watch like that in the field, even if I owned one.
It is probably silly to be too concerned about such heirloom pieces, they were built tough to begin with, but still....
My threshold of pain for field watches is at the budget Timex/Casio level.
I also would love to buy a new Vercheron one day as they are also a lovely and top quality piece..Hello The BulbMogul,
I own a very nice Vacheron-Constantin watch but it is a dress watch, quite unsuitable for field work. I bought it used 24 years, ago and it gave me good service until last year. By then it needed an overhaul. I was shocked at the estimate of its value made by the watchmaker. I still wear it but I wear it neither in Central Park nor on the Metro.
I own a genuine B. Altman quarts watch for the field. B. Altman was a Fifth Avenue department store which went out of business about 35 years, ago. Just a little bit more expensive than a Casio.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur :hi:
Bravo!
I'd not dare to wear a watch like that in the field, even if I owned one.
It is probably silly to be too concerned about such heirloom pieces, they were built tough to begin with, but still....
My threshold of pain for field watches is at the budget Timex/Casio level.
..........stolen or eaten by a tiger.
Joachim
Was in Dubai, UAE last week and seen this at the IWC Boutique in the Dubai Mall..
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I like the IWC pilot watches with simpler faces, whereas that one is just nasty IMHO. Atrocious aesthetics!
--AP
yes when one has to shell out 40K for a watch they do become quite nasty..!
My heart pumps pi$$ for you guys. I must be lucky to no have such dreadful 1st-world problems: I just wear my custom Damasko DC66 24/7/365 without any fear of damage.
That seems like a really nice watch. Good on you!
Damasko is a Sinn spin-off. They put a lot of effort into r+d and less into marketing and glitter. Their top models have in-house movements, the others are oem movements cased in-house in in-house cases. Their steel bracelet is an interesting piece of engineering.
Take a look at their 'Technologies' page: Germans are very good at engineering.
In over thirty years of watch collecting most of the fancy so-called alpha stuff is gone again. What has remained are a few Omegas, a Rollie 5813, a Sinn U1, a couple of Airmen ... and the Damasko DC66.
I think as we grow old we learn to separate the chaff from the wheat and whittling away we are left with things of aesthetic and engineering quality that have stood the test of time.