congrats, quite the beautiful piece and nicely written, though, with all due repect to WUS, the audience here might have been a better fit.
a kind of tradition here, let me welcome your TOC with a wrist shot of it's forefather,
1964 TopTime 810.
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| Author: | sumanr1 [ Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Link to a post I made on WUS re my journey to the TOC LE http://forums.watchuseek.com/f15/no-109 ... 20338.html |
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| Author: | WatchFred [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
congrats, quite the beautiful piece and nicely written, though, with all due repect to WUS, the audience here might have been a better fit. a kind of tradition here, let me welcome your TOC with a wrist shot of it's forefather, 1964 TopTime 810.
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| Author: | sumanr1 [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Cheers fred. The top time and toc are virtually identical. Nice one! |
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| Author: | sumanr1 [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
 Just remembered this striped shirt pic i took during the week! |
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| Author: | wessa [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:36 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Very much enjoyed reading your story Sum, I will not add anything more as you have covered it all very nicely. I will only say, welcome to the TOC owners club and mine is saying hello  
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| Author: | Driver8 [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Very nice write up of a great watch. 
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| Author: | sumanr1 [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 3:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Cheers wessa, ive admired yours from afar for a long time now, but now i finally have my own to admire. Wear it well (as u always do) and i look fwd to sharing more stories over the years. |
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| Author: | angstfree [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Good fortunes to you, & your families (human & horological). It may never be mentioned, but I think tachy scales look better, & seem more authentic when they go all around, & include the 1000 notation. It will never be referenced, but they appear more balanced as opposed to others that are limited to 750, or 500. |
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| Author: | Iantheklutz [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 7:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Awesome write up - always enjoy hearing peoples thought process through the watch hunt. Beautiful watch and wear it in good health! |
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| Author: | CH-dmath [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Congratulations and thanks for the story. I too started out looking at Speedys and ended up with a TOC. I agree with you about the long lugs, they're my least favorite part of the watch. Mine is the silver dial which I think looks great. Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that it can be difficult to read -- while shopping I'd always worn my reading glasses so didn't notice the difficulty. Lesson learned. Monday I'm stopping by the AD to see if they can make me a decent deal on a trade-in for a black version. A couple of months ago they had a black LE. Fingers crossed. Again, congrats. |
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| Author: | sumanr1 [ Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Landed: Transocean Chrono LE |
Ye i think the black/black would def have the best legibility. The (minor) problem with the LE is that hands can get a little lost in the silver sub dials hence with black sub dials you wont have that problem. See if you can compare side by side if the LE is still in stock, then decide from there. Either way you cant lose - both stunning pieces. |
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