Has Anyone Got A Spare £290,000 ? ( Dennis Warning, Do Not Look)

MMMD

Just trying to reduce my embarrassingly high likes-to-post ratio.

SpikiSpikester

This afternoon I popped down to the Bond St JLC Boutique to have a look at some Reversos and the sales assistant was kind enough to show me a couple of the prototypes from the SIHH 2013 collection. Luckily I was the only person in there for most of the time, as the rest of Bond St was closed today.

First, a couple of current models. Here is the Reverso Ultra Thin Tribute to 1931 - my favourite dial layout of the current Reversos.

Moving swiftly away from anything remotely normal, here is the Boutique edition Blue Enamel Reverso. I think it is limited to 50 pieces but my fading memory may have that wrong. Anyway, in white gold only with a hand worked enamelled dial it is absolutely beautiful in real life. No picture I have seen of it comes close to capturing what it looks like with the light playing on it. And the guilloche work is enough to give Dennis serious palpitations.

By the way, this one is £29,400.

Next was a SIHH 2013 piece. A master perpetual calendar. The perpetual calendar is also white gold and is slightly thinner than my already thin
Master Moon.

This will sell for a slightly more reasonable £23,000...fortunately my wife quickly decided that she much prefers the looks of the Master Moon to this, as do I. But it is an amazingly well executed watch and the dial is really well balanced considering the number of functions.

Finally, a rose gold skeletonised gyro tourbillon with 8 day reserve limited to 50 pieces. (I can't quite remember if it is this or the enamel Reverso that is limited to 50 - or both, but both are very small run LE's.). Unfortunately my pictures of this are pitifully bad. I spent quite a bit of time looking at this one & wished that Stefan or Al were with me to appreciate the work that had gone into it.

[EDIT: I've now found out that this was released in 2011 and is a LE of 30 pieces in Rose Gold]

All the finishing is by hand, including a very nice Cotes de Geneve on the back. The tourbillon rotates on 3 axes and the detailing is amazing. This watch can be yours for the sum of just £290,000 my friends.

Not only that but it is also be available in a platinum version (I think he said that would be £350,000) and there will also is a run of 5 watches with a diamond bezel.

This is the first watch I have handled that costs more than some people's houses. I only wish that I hadn't taken such a blurry pic of the case back. Hopefully you can make out enough detail from these:

It is difficult to see but there is a small blued seconds hand that rotates over the tourbillon. Otherwise, you can make out the standard clock face, an 8 day reserve du marche and the date month and date tracks.

The result of this very pleasant hour is that I may put a deposit down on the Reverso I have been stalking for the last few months - which unfortunately still isn't in stock. But having a relaxed look at these pieces more than made up for that disappointment.

Privateday7

Yes.... once your likes to post ratio too high, we can force you to sell your 'high likes' watches to members who had lower likes to post ratio at below market price.
we call it watchosialism......