Five Portuguese Jubilees at a gathering of collectors to celebrate Chinese New Year

For those who want to study close up of the variety of watches, here is a link to a large version of the group shot.

GROUP TABLE SHOT

I am certain we can arrange for another gathering of "Portly-Geezers" (as one chap at the dinner said) when you are next visiting us here in Singapore. Its been awhile since your last visit and it would be great to meet up again.

Happy Lunar New Year to you and your Missus too!

Cheers

Congratulations Tiark on that amazing pw and thank you for replying, very kind of you.

Forgot to wish to all those present a very Happy New Year!

@Harry -I'd love to return, either this year or next. Kay and I have been talking, but I'm not sure what we can fit in yet...

@tiark -there's another black dial 97 on my new site: www.iwcpocketwatch.com/cal_9xx.html

Wonderful. Thanks for sharing Harry.

Wow... wow and again wow!

Thanks for sharing.

Regards,

Harry, Thanks for sharing such great photos.

First of all, with all that hardware, I'm amazed there was not a platinum 5441! And secondly, can I ask how many people were at this wonderful feast?
If you tell me less than 20, I'm going to fall out of my chair. What a selection of watches! Was everyone required to be a WIS to attend?

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Gong Ho Fat Choy!

Larry

Thanks, Michael - your rather beautiful "Chronometre" looks familiar - have you shown this before or is it just because the 2-4-6-8-10-12 dial looks like the Portuguese from the vintage collection?

Great pocket watch site, by the way.

Dirk

Hi Larry - there were about 30 and all that was required was an interest in watches - some are more 'WIS' than others, friendship more important.

Dirk

We have a growing number of serious collectors and Dirk as always - being the ever humble chap he is - the resident IWC WIS. :-) But he is right that not all of the collectors are madcap collector of all kinds of horological information. This group manages to keep constantly in touch with each other regularly through the wonders of the internet and the dyed-in-the-blood need to gather regularly to catch up on all things horological. I guess we are fortunate that the island is small and to get a group together is a lot easier than WIS found in other locations.

But as Dirk said, friendship is the most critical component!

Wow, I wish to make friends with you as well, im residing in the red dot as well and have a very small humble collection of IWC and a keen interest in classical looking watches!