...and I absolutely love whats happening to it!
As some of you are aware, Giovanni and I join an annual dive trip of a group of friends, each year traveling to a different location to meet up with the guys, have fun and do some serious scuba diving.
This year unfortunately the dates (planned a year in advance) caused a major issue for us, as the recent CF3 Collectors Event in Schaffhausen was later scheduled to be bang in the middle of our trip. Sadly with tickets paid, and reservations all done - we needed to ask IWC management team (and those of you that attended) to excuse us from the event.
This year our destination was here:
Where we boarded after a speed boat ride out, the far side boat - Similan #4:
Which boat cruised the islands between dives bringing us to the nicest of places to dive - like this pinancle here:
Where underwater I could relax, adopt my usual pose and enjoy the wonderful nature at it's best (yes that's yours truly). The boulders underwater are an explosion of colors.
and team with life from close up (like this feather star here):
and hanging out in the big blue afterwards, leaves time to replay the dive in ones mind :
But that time is all important - so for this one needs a reliable backup timepiece - to ensure that all are safe. And what better an excuse then, than for my good friends at IWC to manufacture, ship and let me have on my wrist - just in time for this trip, this wonderful Aquatimer.
Watch arrived 2 days before the trip - and was oh so shiny - almost BLING (had it not been so handsome. Here a wrist shot from the Airport Lounge prior to flying out. Very SHINY watch!
But to my absolute joy and pleasure - I could watch this watch over a period of just 6 days and 18 dives develop this fantastic aged patina!
A gradual dulling of the shined case and after 2 days - the luster was gone.
And the watch looked great with some reddish coppery tints beginning to show:
This gradual aging progressed day over day - leaving me with what is to my eyes a truly magnificent and fantastic diving watch.
The buckle is "worn brass"
The case is superb!
This has now become my favorite of Aquatimers - I cant wait for the Red to start being supplemented by some greens!
Photo credits to my good friend Derick Burger.