2012 - What are your acquisition ?

These two irresistible pieces joined my IWC collection in 2012.
The Vintage collection - Aquatimer:

Portuguese - Pure Classic :

Seasons greetings to all !

Vishal

Not so difficult:) .... still enjoying this!

Absolutely Beautiful !

This one:

As a newcomer to IWC in 2011 the SIHH experience and a job change made me dare to make a double-acquisition in 2012.

As a dive-watch enthusiast it was no way I could avoid the coolest dive watch on the market - the Deep Two. And since I started a new job as Manager Engineering & Marketing a Big Ingenieur Chronograph was a perfect gift to myself.

Aloha Vishal -

I picked up two Big Pilots in 2012 but wasn't able to get one of the ceramic Big Pilots yet...

• Tracy

BP 5002

BP 5004-02

2012 is obviously a BP year for me. I acquired two beautiful BP.

Well...

And

And 6 other non IWC watches.

I only managed one IWC in 2012. I needed an AT in my collection and wanted the old ref. 3536 in steel.
JK

One of the Good Old Times:

and one of Modern Times, replacing the YC Chrono:

Only two acquisitions this year - the 5001 and the Santoni I put on it. Sometimes I miss the "old days" when I'd have two or three watches per month coming and going.

What is stopping you? I understand it, though, I would never do that: watches would become commodity that way, there would hardly be an opportunity to get to know and feel those watches well enough. Your latest aqcuisition is really beautiful.

Kind regards,
Paul

Ouch! I totally understand, again, why IWC for me is in quite a different esthetical league than Hublot. But you like it, good luck with it.

Kind regards,
Paul

This one for me in 2012

BP 5009 attracts a Regulateur....

ok, so not as quiet a year as I was hoping for, given the successful run at well-priced items in auctions...

pic missing a Pallweber which is in for servicing, and some faint traces of a few of the 'other' brand acquisitions at the top of pic... :)

So you won't like the new ingenieurs, then, right? They all try to inherit the Gerald Genta design.

The Gerald Genta design concept is quite great. It is the way the concept is implemented that makes the difference. The IWC way of implementing is quite clean, both the new 40 mm watch and the ceramic (is this still been inspired enough by the Gerald Genta concept?) look very nice to me. The Hublot in contrast is busy and a bit messy, with a lot of frills. But in a way you are right: the Ingenieur family is not my favourite, that is the Portuguese, like the handwound. But as always, there are exceptions, and one of the Ingenieurs I mentioned could very well be mine one day.

Kind regards,
Paul