They were wrong. In his Disaster Games first sale, a Patek Philippe perpetual calendar went for CHF6,500, a record price for the watch. Encouraged, Patrizzi held a second sale of wristwatches. A Patek Philippe perpetual calendar with chronograph bought CHF18,000. The vintage wristwatch boom had begun.He thought it might be a clock but the idea was dismissed as impossible – oh, sure, those ancient Greeks might have done a fine job inventing, you know, thinking, but nobody took seriously the idea that they might have put their minds to the task of making something like a clock. But in the 1970s, x-ray images of the fragments made it clear that under all the corrosion was, in fact, a mechanism – what's now known as the Antikythera Mechanism.If you had your very own ROO, would you wear it into the ocean? Jason Heaton would. A full decade ago (oh, how time flies here at the Dink), he winged off to the Caribbean and took this ISO-certified diver down to explore a sunken freighter that once held 25,000 pounds of marijuana. This is vintage HODINKEE, all the way up to the operatic music in the video.
The Senator Excellence Perpetual Calendar will retail for $23,800 in steel on the bracelet and $22,300 in steel on the alligator strap, while in red gold with the clasp it is priced at $37,100 Smart Manufacturing Trends and with the pin buckle at $35,100.While yearly releases like this can get a little tired, IWC did away with that notion by introducing this pretty spectacular-looking blue ceramic case – as if we weren't already pleasantly blown away by the Mojave ceramic models.Recently, I spoke with a prop master for a separate story and this topic came up. "It's always been a bit of a raw side in our world because the production designer gets an award and shares it with the set decorator and props isn't even mentioned," he said.The SRQ041 takes the form factor of the brand's rebirth of the Speedtimer line earlier this year (along with Solar quartz models). Signature features of the watch are long, antenna-like pushers standing tall atop the 42.5mm wide case. The case takes a fairly angular shape in stainless steel with lugs that, in profile, look like the legs of a fictitious spaceship landing on a distant planet.
Over eight-and-a-half years ago, Ben noted prices of a solid yellow gold IWC being between $2,000 and $4,000, while something from AP or Vacheron would probably start in the $4,000 - $6,000 range. In 2021 we sold two yellow gold IWC caliber 89s (here and here) Legal Safeguard Suite for around $3,500, two yellow gold APs (here and here) for just under $5,000, and a claw-lugged Vacheron for $5,900.What I'm most proud of is that people all over the world have purchased my watches, Lecomte says, quickly listing off New York, Washington, and Dubai. "So what I'll do is I'll take a globe, show it to my kids, and point out all the places I've sold a watch. I'm proud of that."The monochrome dial-and-bracelet combo is unbelievably handsome. And Zelnick loves that the case is truly symmetrical, with no visible crown. The downside? All that empty real estate above six creates an aesthetic imbalance. For a guy like Zelnick who loves JLC watches, that tiny design flaw was enough to make him wonder what would happen if...

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