Schaffhausen looks in summer amazing and thanks a lot to Tonny, to IWC people, to all involved who decided to make it this time in August! Amazing watches and great people together with sunny weather, delicious food and beautiful locations!
It was a great chance to see manufacture again, to meet Kurt Klaus and Hannes Pantli. And we were lucky to have even Chris Grainger-Herr with us.
And of course a lot of watches!!
Great time indeed!
Here some more photos of that wonderful meeting:
We had a guided tour through the beautiful small town of Stein am Rhein:
This time's special present from IWC was a photo frame with two original wheels from the movement of the Portugieser Eternal Calendar. How amazing is this?
It's a wheel from the world's most accurate moonphase display in a mechanical watch (deviation of one day in 45 million years) and the 400 years wheel, responsible to make, that the leap years in 2100, 2200, 2300 etc. are correctly left out or not.
Thanks a lot to IWC and to Tonny for this unvorgetable time.
Philipp
Great pics! Looks like y'all had a great time. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Roman and others for sharing your experience with us. Nice to see some familiar faces and some new ones as well.
Absolutely fantastic seeing all the Collectors again - and some new faces too.
There was serious watch talk - and many questions too!
Thank you IWC and the team for taking good care of us.
Thanks for all these beautiful photos!
It was a very nice collectors meeting and the weather was perfect: dry and not hot. Organised perfectly. Many thanks to the IWC team and Tonny!
Stein am Rhein with very nice and old buildings.
Why is there this crowd in front of one store? The zoom may give you some hints :-)
Hope to see you again in good health.
Your visit to Stein am Rhein reminds me of my visit in 2007 to this same place during a Collectors meeting. A lot of simliar attendees.
Rumor is that Barker drank half the contents !
Rumor ? ;)
Rumor, NO. Fact, YES.
Awesome days!
Thank you IWC team for a great and well organized program, your super-nice hospitality, and the facilitation to meet with other fellow collectors from all over the globe. Even the wheather was supportive!
Thanks again, I definitely enjoyed these awesome days in the Schaffhausen area, already looking forward to the next opportunity!
/Anders
Thank you all for the photos, always a fantastic time when collectors get together!
And, wow - that Jones!!! Let's see some more of that beautiful box case...
Thank you all for the great photos, it is always a fantastic time when collectors get together!
I'm so sorry I was not able to join the group this year.
Thank you IWC for hosting us during these great days in Schaffhausen and up the Rhine. Arrangements, schedule, restaurants, and all the programs were top notch. It was great being with such a nice group, and with such perfect weather. Thank you again, IWC and Tonny.
Nelson
What can I say?
It were fantastic unforgettable days in a beautiful summering Schaffhausen with the best people from IWC and from Collectors side. Many more missing but those who were there had a blast.
Here are some pics from the first afternoon / evening
special watches meeting
and special people too
What a gentleman!
The beautiful and wonderful IWC ladies hosting us: Caroline and Maria!
Collector group enjoying welcome dinner and drinks at first night, listening carefully to the welcome speach...
... from our beloved moderator and friend Tonny
wonderful Lebanese food and drinks
Icons everywhere
They have great plans for us
The next morning, with David Seyffer from and at the IWC museum
More icons
Terry listening carefully to Stephanie and Joelle
Now that's the spirit for a beautiful day
Southern gentleman
Northern gentlemen
What a group!
Talking of icons
Fantastic photos, Tilo, thank you!
Tilo, many thanks for those extraordinary photos. It was a great pleasure. Some photos show me what I missed during the morning when I couldn't attend.
some more ...
our beautiful guid in Stein am Rhein
Enjying good life
Visiting the monastery at the beautiful river Rhine
This was my first collector's meeting and hopefully not the last. Thanks to IWC, Tonny and all other participants for making this a truly unforgettable experience.
See you on the forum until next time!
Henrik
So good to see everyone enjoying themselves. Fantastic photos - thanks for sharing!
Henrik, glad you were attending and to meet you in person finally. So beautiful days in Schaffhausen!