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A small GTG in Singapore

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    Michael Friedberg
    Connoisseur 11468 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 12:24 a.m. 28 Jun 2015, 12:24 a.m.
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    My CF3 is on holiday, touring Southeast Asia. After a brief stop in Hong Kong, it stopped in Singapore where it met up with some longstanding watch friends of mine and old timers from our forum.

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    Pictured (L to R) are Harry Tan, Jeffrey Sim, me and Dirk Janssen. Harry occasionally still visits here and takes some amazing watch (and other) photos. I met Jeffrey when he attended a collectors' meeting around 2004 at SIHH. Dirk attended a collectors' meeting several years ago in Schaffhausen, and is a real IWC vintage and pocket watch fan. Dirk is from Germany but has lived in Singapore for 15+ years.

    I met them all around 10 years ago, when I visited Singapore and Malaysia for IWC. Jeffrey was a real sport to join us last night --the other three are all lawyers!

    We had dinner at a great Chinese restaurant --and loved the black sesame in a ginger broth for desert. And we talked about many things, even watches, and made the almost mandatory table shot:

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    As you can see there's two CF3s in the bunch, plus one CFI. And the other hardware wasn't too shabby either!

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    8541
    Master 4485 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 12:35 a.m. 28 Jun 2015, 12:35 a.m.
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    Great table shot - indeed not bad hardware for an 4 man mini GTG (considering one is traveling).

    Nice to see our old Singapore names/faces pop up here.

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    Mark Fleminger
    Master 3208 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 5:07 a.m. 28 Jun 2015, 5:07 a.m.
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    Looks like a nice GTG Michael, thank you for bringing us along. Happy travels and have a great vacation.

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    Mr. Zhen
    Connoisseur 101 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 9:02 a.m. 28 Jun 2015, 9:02 a.m.
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    Welcome to SG Michael, have fun .. :)

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    Michael Friedberg
    Connoisseur 11468 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 9:26 a.m. 28 Jun 2015, 9:26 a.m.
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    Hi Zhenhui,

    After spending about 12 hours in Hong Kong, I'm spending less than 20 in S'pore. I'm now traveling elsewhere in Asia --but I will end up back in Hong Kong where I have several get-togethers planned with IWC watch friends and will report again here.

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    Mr. Bob Bunnik
    Master 5208 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 10:11 a.m. 28 Jun 2015, 10:11 a.m.
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    Great post Michael, I love those get togethers the forum enables!

    Best regards,

    B.

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    Tango Victor
    Master 1942 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 10:55 a.m. 28 Jun 2015, 10:55 a.m.
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    superb! wish i was there joining back in singapore!

    regards,
    thang

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    Giovanni Ambrogio
    Master 963 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 11:55 a.m. 28 Jun 2015, 11:55 a.m.
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    Great GTG, thanks for sharing Michael.

    And great hardware in that table shot.

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    Mr. Zhen
    Connoisseur 101 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 12:40 p.m. 28 Jun 2015, 12:40 p.m.
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    Michael Friedberg has written:

    Hi Zhenhui,

    After spend about 12 hours in Hong Kong, I'm spending less than 20 in S'pore. I'm now traveling elsewhere in Asia --but I will end up back in Hong Kong where I have several get-togethers planned with IWC watch friends and will report again here.

    Ah ok. What an interesting trip. Feel free to share with us again the subsequent GTG :)

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    Bill B.
    Master 6725 posts
    28 Jun 2015, 3:10 p.m. 28 Jun 2015, 3:10 p.m.
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    Another successful GTG. This time in Asia. Hope we see more as your travels continue.

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    dzul
    Master 3987 posts
    29 Jun 2015, 1:45 p.m. 29 Jun 2015, 1:45 p.m.
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    Bill B. has written:

    Another successful GTG. This time in Asia. Hope we see more as your travels continue.

    +1!

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    Francis
    Connoisseur 195 posts
    1 Jul 2015, 10:09 a.m. 1 Jul 2015, 10:09 a.m.
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    5 watches, 8 wrists = 3 of you are holding back!

    Enjoy your travels Michael!

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