Does any fellow tri-state members remember when these 6542's were all over the chelsea and hell's kitchen weekend markets for cheap? We would find them even cheaper in the Philippines and sell them to pavel or johnny at the chelsea flea market thinking we made a score.
I still wake up with cold sweats over that and the daytonas...
10 past 10, the best time for a watch pic obvs
Makes sense but also matching the GMT hand and seconds hand to the exact same spot too?
Makes sense but also matching the GMT hand and seconds hand to the exact same spot too?
You can break it down like this
10 and 2 has long been popular for watch pictures.
As for the GMT and Seconds hand, it may seem silly to stop them at exactly the same time (so A+ for consistency), none of the hands are blocking the other hands.
If the second hand was frozen later, the tip would have intersected the 9 o’clock plot. If it was stopped earlier, the tail of the seconds hand would have overlapped part of the minute hand. They could have reversed the GMT/Seconds but then the seconds hand would have gone through the cyclops or overlapped the hour hand. How it’s stopped shows the entirety of each hand, unobstructed by any other hand. Why he didn’t position the GMT early to show all of the text, I have no idea.
The GMT hand can't be set independently of the hour hand on these, so it pretty much "had" to be positioned at about the 5 o'clock
Ahhhh thank you. I have never owned a GMT, so thank you for enlightening me 😀
I have seen many of these with nice Bakelite bezels at one time, at a very upper end dealer. A jaw dropping sight. They only came out of the safe for very special occasions and were not for sale for any price.
I’d bet if a dealer had them, he’d let one or two go for some price 😉
Not this gentleman. Money is not relevant when have hundreds of millions +. We are not talking some mall jeweler. More likely you’d be asked to leave for poor manors.
