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Dan S
·Since I didn't contribute any photos to this thread, here is a group shot of some vintage "jumbos". These are all in the 36.5-38mm range.
Do IWC vintage watches trump (no pun intended) vintage Seamasters?
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imfagent449
·@Dan S - Interestingly to me, the seiko and IWC (bottom right and left) really stand out. If the watches didn't have labels, I would probably prefer those. I never noticed that the logo looks like a tiny signature. It is beautiful in its own signature.
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Dan S
·@Dan S - Interestingly to me, the seiko and IWC (bottom right and left) really stand out. If the watches didn't have labels, I would probably prefer those. I never noticed that the logo looks like a tiny signature. It is beautiful in its own signature.
There may be other things drawing you to those two watches, but it is interesting that you chose the two dials with no numerals or lume.
I remember once asking my wife about her preferences in watches, and she really had never thought about features like that (lumed markers, applied markers, Arabic/Roman numerals, different types of lugs and bezels etc.), but she certainly knew what she liked and was very consistent in her preferences. I showed her a bunch of watches and could quickly narrow down the features that she preferred by trial and error. There should be an app for that. 😀
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MikeMan2727
·Since I didn't contribute any photos to this thread, here is a group shot of some vintage "jumbos". These are all in the 36.5-38mm range.
Dibs on that Memovox, Dan 😀
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kanye_mouse
·IWC always struck me as having a bit more german austerity -- perhaps due to being based on the other side of Switzerland. I've always been drawn to the designs and technical achievements (cal. 89, of course). Subjective call, based on personal taste.
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JwRosenthal
·There may be other things drawing you to those two watches, but it is interesting that you chose the two dials with no numerals or lume.
I remember once asking my wife about her preferences in watches, and she really had never thought about features like that (lumed markers, applied markers, Arabic/Roman numerals, different types of lugs and bezels etc.), but she certainly knew what she liked and was very consistent in her preferences. I showed her a bunch of watches and could quickly narrow down the features that she preferred by trial and error. There should be an app for that. 😀
I was organizing my watch box a few weeks ago and she came into the room and I asked- which ones do you like? She went one by one and told me what she does or doesn’t like and why- which is the ultimate way to know. She likes black dials, simple indices, not chronographs (except my Navitimer because she loves the blue reverse panda dial), sizes between 31-37. Her favorite is my black dialed Airking....of course.
Our first reactions to watches is what we need to be attentive to, once we recognize brand, complications, heritage- we start intellectualizing them which creates justifications for why we like them. But the gut reaction is what draws us to grab one over the others on a given morning at 5am.
I started an exercise where I don’t put the watch I just wore back in the drawer at night and put it on the dresser, then the next morning I grab another and again, on the dresser. By the end of a few weeks I see what’s left which tells me which ones I really need to move on eventually. My rotation is seasonal of course so it’s important to really do the drill over the course of a year, but it’s about our gut reaction to them and not the intellectual that matter. To the Omega vs IWC, the differences seem subtle for something like the OP watch, but they are significant enough to elicit a gut reaction and there is no way to quantify or monetize that.
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Dan S
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imfagent449
·@JwRosenthal - Yes. I have a lot of Longines watches but I seem to only wear black dialed chronongraphs. It is not really what I collect but it is exactly what I gravitate towards when I put on a watch - I seem to put them on without even thinking about it. If someone asked me what I like, I would probably say Longines 30L. I guess I never thought much about it.
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Shabbaz
·OHPF
Edit: SOLD
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Sgt_Bilko
·I have both various Omega and this IWC that I have been wearing for the last few weeks.
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aap
·Wearing this today because of this thread
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mikeo1
·For me it's really a question of genre; dress watches/pilots watches/movements 50's, 60's and 70's I think IWC was a step up. Chronographs a toss up through the 80's maybe 90's. Complications I lean IWC, don't know of any Omegas. Since Omega introduced the co-axial (which I feel they extorted from Daniels) they have certainly upped their horological game, while IWC seems to have lost direction. I really dislike the constant Omega "re issue" thingy, seems to focus more on what they did vs what they are doing.
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JwRosenthal
·I really dislike the constant Omega "re issue" thingy, seems to focus more on what they did vs what they are doing.
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··Omega Qualified WatchmakerFor me it's really a question of genre; dress watches/pilots watches/movements 50's, 60's and 70's I think IWC was a step up. Chronographs a toss up through the 80's maybe 90's. Complications I lean IWC, don't know of any Omegas. Since Omega introduced the co-axial (which I feel they extorted from Daniels) they have certainly upped their horological game, while IWC seems to have lost direction. I really dislike the constant Omega "re issue" thingy, seems to focus more on what they did vs what they are doing.
Not sure if joking...
Daniels shopped the co-axial escapement around to almost anyone who would listen, and Omega was the only company that would bite.
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MikeMan2727
·Not sure if joking...
Daniels shopped the co-axial escapement around to almost anyone who would listen, and Omega was the only company that would bite.
Reminds me of when Netflix offered to sell its company to Blockbuster 😀 Hindsight is always 20/20.
Been wearing this one for a few days now.
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Shabbaz
·Reminds me of when Netflix offered to sell its company to Blockbuster 😀 Hindsight is always 20/20.
Been wearing this one for a few days now.
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mikeo1
·MikeMan--Very,very nice with a tiffany touch as well !!
Here's the omega coaxial overview--"George who?"😉
Here's the omega coaxial overview--"George who?"😉
