What time is it? Watches and horology

I thought they were doing a grand job selling to people for whom spitfires, connections to the military and 'made in england' were all value adds.

That's very nice

my fellow commutees into Canary Wharf seem to manage to make it in each day with their subs

£44m worth reported stolen in London last year! The thieves seem to operate mostly in the evenings at weekends, spotting watches of people going for a drink . There's been heaps of press coverage
https://www.ft.com/content/557d8356-1f64-4e0c-ac12-d655a5916b71
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67608184
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/17/met-halves-luxury-watch-robbery-in-covert-operations-to-lure-criminals

Likely a guilloche-style dial? Regal educated everyone on it a few months back:

'Real guilloché is done by hand and requires very specialist machinery and skills, and is therefore very expensive. There are so few suppliers that can do it..'

Yes, Fauxoché. This one's new and sub £200 so unlikely done by hand! Great value though.

Agreed, it looks great!

Beautiful guilloché on this 250k euro JLC. Top of my Euromillions shopping list. The dial is said to take 2 or 3 days to make. The version without guilloché costs 25k less

https://watchesbysjx.com/2020/01/jaeger-lecoultre-master-grande-tradition-repetition-perpetuelle-review.html

Ha - you're right. I cannot find a single photo of him wearing a helmet.

I like it.

All that and they stick that fucking year window on it.

Is that Times New Roman or Arial on a 250k watch? 🤔

I know. Looks like an IWC part. They're owned by the same group. If I bought one I'd try to get the font changed.

Wait what?
That's a very good looking watch for the price.

It's distorted Gill Sans with Arial in the year window.

Launched 4 years ago. They said they would make 50. It seems they are still available new on the JLC site. Probably depreciates by two thirds as soon as you leave the shop.

Where did you buy it from please? rather like that and looks great for the price.

Got it off a friend who purchased it from here.

🤣

Nice one I’ll check it out

It's the Neuchatel parts bin scattergun. They based it on this

And another one from Zenith

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I prefer the older look, but then does that mean I am old now?

I get you need to shake it up and with them playing on heritage that didn’t really exist maybe the new owners thought it was time to cut ties on a brand that has built by some military lose history and parts.

Pastel pink is in this year then

Oh hell yes Purple Rain!!

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That is VERY cool.