While staying over in Dubai before I head out to Thailand I took the opportunity to spend a few hours at Dubai's Mall of the Emirates. If you have never heard of it, it is an interesting and HUGE mall. Believe it or not, the place even has an indoor ski slope of all things. At any rate all the Big Boys in the watch world are represented at this mall with various ADs and Boutiques which makes for a perfect opportunity to see tons of pieces in the metal. I managed to snap a few pics of pieces I tried on and thought I would share them with ya'll. The other bonus was I walked out with about 7 hard cover catalogs they gave me. The down side is that the ADs and Boutiques don't discount near what we can get back in the States, but for the Europeans the discounts offered make for a bargain.
I thought I would check out a Graham to see how it looked and felt, I was surprised they aren't as big as they look in the photos.
One I hadn't really given much thought to was IWC and this one was just plain gorgeous
Unfortunately the Breguet AD didn't have the white dial/blued hands/blued romans, but still was nice to ck them out
This piece by Blancpain is really a cool model, again not as big as it looks in the photos
JLCs Reverso's have not really appealed to me a whole lot, but this one kind of grew on me
Another Breguet offered by the Breguet Boutiqe was awesome, the pic doesn't do it justice but it is way out of my range
Lastly this one by AP was just awesome and had me thinking how to manage to snag one in the future
There is so much to see and check out, that a guy/gal could spend days there looking over all there is to see. If you ever get a chance and are in Dubai, stop in and plan to spend a few hours...it'll be worth your while.
Good for you.
