Ready for summer...
Well even spring has to start yet.... but i am ready for a summer of colour and fun! And not taking yourself to serious LOOOL!
Munich watch fair
Well.... Munich... in perspective... the show was kind of a disappointment. The trip with friends was great. The quality of the watches shown by most of the dealers was poor. Ugly dials, cases overpolished. I was there with money in my hand and nothing i wished to buy. Rasmus had some nice pieces as usual. One Newman. But for the rest... quite some DRSD at still high prices. Some bad GMT's/Subs for 3.5-4.2 K euro.. not 1 matching 1655 in nice condition... and still asked 9.5K for it... None i would buy. There was a brown Daytona but i did not see it live. I have only seen 1 original Comex and 1 6541. 1 Tudor Big Crown and 1 ugly Rolex Big Crown..... a lot of the big dealers where not there. A ugly star-dial for 90K euro... The nice watches where all on the wrist of friends ;-)
The most beautiful 6238 black dial, 6263's... 1655,.. 1675,.. and double-swiss Daytona. Seems like the market has problems to find real nice watches. As quality is everything.... I had my un-polished gilt Sub with me (to sell)... for the case if i would be tempted by a real nice watch like a black Daytona or so.... BUT nothing!!! So i enjoyed the time with friends! Which at the end of the day... is the most important part!
So i saved money and still went home with great watches and a big smile on my face.
The NEW Tudor homeplate
Wauw just wauuuwwww. I need one of those! In vintage such a cool beast as i had one for a while. But now with the black dial.... yeahhhhhhh!!!
The new Rolex Explorer 3
Yeahhh... first i was waiting for the new Submariner. Maybe he one modern Rolex i would like to buy. But looking at the Explorer 3. Well the new Sub can't beat the vintage ones. But the new Explorer looks ultra cool. Very close to my former Blackout... but just bigger. But not to big! Really a nice watch. Maybe the one to buy!
Lanvin again
Yesterday i was at the opening of the summer season of one of my favourite fashion shops... Prada, Dolce&Gabbana, Etro, Moncler (nice coates!!!), DSquared and Lanvin. I love Lanvin!!! ANd a friend asked me a while ago about these 'green' shoes... so when the new collection was there... and in his size... he could not resist! Next week he will be a happy man. And Lanvin has such a cool sneaker collection this year! I settled for an polo from Lanvin... at least with a print of the shoes on it ;-)
The way forward
Well after a hell of a trip/detour... i received a package today. Way late... but that is a different story. Let's say it like this. There was someone really surprised at a different place in Europe ;-))) thanks to Fedex LOOL!
But here it is. And what makes it so important to me? Not only that it is a coool watch. With a killer dial and real fat indexes. Maxi style, as it comes from the same time as the 5513 Maxi dials. Not only it comes with papers, original receipt from the shop of Geneva airport and service papers. No it came from the original owner.
The last weeks i had strong discussions and thoughts about the vintage Rolex world,... and the direction it will take for me. With more and more technical development, micro welding, re-lacquering, put together, toasted, re-lume...
And what i feel is, that provenance and first owner watches, fresh to our world are the way forward to me. Trying to find these packages. Not only because of the quality and beauty! The fact that the watch is pure... as it comes and honest. Is it new knowledge? No of course not. As great friends and kind of hero's for me in this world do this for a long time now. Finding first owner watches. But i think it will get more and more important. And i think it is time to have good discussions on 'restoration' of watches. What do we think as OK and what NOT. Where do we draw a line.... and how does it reflect on price? Happy to hear your thoughts.....
Back on the wrist
This beautiful 5513 unpolished gilt sub... just went dead one morning. ANd now after great care by Philipp's watchmaker... it is back and running!
Running nice. The spring was broken. But most important... it is back on my wrist!!!
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