• Master
    19 Jan 2009, 4:25 p.m.

    I would be interested in getting some comments from collectors who attended the preview in Schaffhausen last week... specifically, any comments on the larger size of the new DaVinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month versus the DaVinci Perpetual Calendar Edition Kurt Klaus. Is it dramatically larger? The numbers here may not seem significant - but, with nearly 2mm longer, and more than 1mm thicker, and about 1mm wider - I bet it's awesome!

    The DaVinci Perpetual Digital Date-Month: 44 x 52.8 x 16.3 mm

    The Perpetual Kurt Klaus dimensions are : 43.1 x 51 x 15.2 mm

    www.iwc.com/upload/FCKEDITOR/Image/img_davinci_end.jpg

    www.iwc.com/upload/FCKEDITOR/Image/img_davinci_large.jpg

  • Master
    19 Jan 2009, 9:50 p.m.

    It is certainly bigger...

    And feels bigger on the wrist. But the thing I noticed was that it sat better on my wrist than other dv's I have tried on. It also feels real quality.
    You'll like it Richard. Get your order in!

  • Connoisseur
    19 Jan 2009, 1:25 p.m.

    Size matters ?

    Both are perfect expressions of the art.

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    20 Jan 2009, 1:55 p.m.

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  • Master
    20 Jan 2009, 5:45 p.m.

    Digital date DV is surprisingly comfortable...

    for a small wrist (6.5 inches, 17cm). I was very surprised to see how well it fitted my wrist, and felt very comfortable. I have no comparison photo with the KK edition.

    Ross

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  • Connoisseur
    21 Jan 2009, 5:50 p.m.

    Date ? Month ? Day? Month? comments?

    I was wondering aside form the problem that, I was in a school system that presented the month first and day then year ie Jan 21 2009 and not 21 Jan 2009 , does anyone find it a problem that the DV indicates the day window as date? Why not day? Just wondering.

  • Master
    21 Jan 2009, 5:30 p.m.

    It is a digital 0-9 numerals used.

    The day is not able to be part of a "digital movement".

    Andrew

  • Master
    23 Jan 2009, 5:55 a.m.

    What I think Dr Dan was asking....

    I believe the question was regarding which sides of the dial the DATE and MONTH appear- does anyone have an issue that this watch presents the date (from left-to-right) as Date and Month such as 25 - 01 (25 JAN).

    For example, in North America - we write, and communicate the date in the opposite format - JAN 25. So, many over here may prefer to have the MONTH on the left, and DATE on the right.

  • Connoisseur
    23 Jan 2009, 2:55 a.m.

    It is a digital...

    Andrew
    Just my 2 cents but I would rather not have the windows noted with any wording. How would you denote the window on a BP date ,day,and would it depend if a month window present.
    By the way, if the date were digital it would be represented by a series of 1's and 0's thats digital.
    The numerical representation of the day of the month is the number ( 1-31) the date is a combination of Month Day and year in any order you prefer. I certain would not give you the date of my birth as 14.
    Quite frankly I think the wording on the dial is in error.
    Still a beautiful piece of work and one to be desired.

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  • Connoisseur
    23 Jan 2009, 1:30 a.m.

    What I think Dr Dan was asking....

    Thats one part but I believe the word date
    "date in a calendar is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "19 January 2009" is ten days after "9 January 2009" in the Gregorian calendar. The date of a particular event depends on the time zone in which it is observed. For example the attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941, in Hawaii, but on December 8 according to Japanese time."

    I believe the window should be noted as day

    A day is defined as 86,400 seconds.

    A day on the UTC time scale can include a negative or positive leap second, and can therefore have a length of 86,399 or 86,401 seconds.

    The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) currently defines a second as

     … the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine `level`s of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom.2
    

    This makes the SI-based day last exactly 794,243,384,928,000 of those periods.

    In the 19th century it had also been suggested to make a decimal fraction (1⁄10,000 or 1⁄100,000) of an astronomic day the base unit of time. This was an afterglow of decimal time and calendar, which had been given up already.

    both are web searched definitions
    thx Dr Dan

  • Master
    23 Jan 2009, 5:30 p.m.

    Terms commonly used for watches

    I don't see what is wrong with the term "date" on the watch. It means the day of the month, from 1 - 31. "Day" is the day of the week, like Monday. I am prejudiced of course but for me in the small country of the Netherlands the order day-month is the normal order. So for me, the lay-out of the watch is perfect. And isn't it a very beautiful and special watch? If month and date were in the reverse order I wouldn't mind, for me it would be a minor detail. But of course I like it as it is.

    Kind regards,
    Paul, wearing wordless VC Portuguese (except for IWC Schaffhausen Swiss made)