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PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:15 pm 
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Prompted by Driver8's post I got to thinking........

What's your ultimate grail watch?

I could easily come up with a few million dollar watches, and then this becomes pointless, so let's put a limit on it of $150,000.

Here's mine (and the reason I didn't cap at $100K)

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A. Lange & Sohne Datograph Perpetual is definately my grail watch. If i hit the lotto i will most definately be looking at this beauty. I've been in love since I first saw a picture in a magazine a couple years ago. I would love to see one in person, since that is the closest I'll ever get to owning one, with that $142k USD price tag. :wowzers



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Thats a very nice JLC Roff!

my ultimate grail is the one and only paul newman daytona! :yeahthat

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Thani wrote:
Thats a very nice JLC Roff!

my ultimate grail is the one and only paul newman daytona! :yeahthat

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Oh yeah... Newman daytona...

mmm newman daytona... (my homer simpson impersonation)

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Roffensian wrote:
Prompted by Driver8's post I got to thinking........

What's your ultimate grail watch?

I could easily come up with a few million dollar watches, and then this becomes pointless, so let's put a limit on it of $150,000.

Here's mine (and the reason I didn't cap at $100K)

JLC Master Perpetual Calendar 8 Days Skeleton

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Roff stole mine!!!
That JLC makes me drool! :wowzers :wowzers nearly makes my wife pass out (see does not understand us!) :roll:

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Breguet Classique grande complication 5447BR/1E/9V6


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bnewbie wrote:
Breguet Classique grande complication 5447BR/1E/9V6



:nono:

List price is $286K - that's bending the $150K limit slightly.

But it is a very nice watch :lol:


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bnewbie wrote:
Breguet Classique grande complication 5447BR/1E/9V6



:nono:

List price is $286K - that's bending the $150K limit slightly.

But it is a very nice watch :lol:

Ugh. :shock:
Didn't know that. I don't even look at the prices of watches which are more expensive than my apartment. :lol:


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Jeez you guys have expensive taste! :shock: :wink: :lol:

I actually really find it hard to relate to watches this expensive. To me even a grail watch should have a slight chance of actual ownership. I know this is a purely hypothetical exercise (well, it is for 99.99% of us!), but I actually really struggle with super expensive pieces primarily because of the fact that they all use precious metals in the case and non-steel (or non-ceramic) watches bother me. I can't stand scratches and other damage, so that's why I like watches to be non-precious. (Yeah, I know I'm weird! :lol: ) Sooooo, my grail watch honestly is the IWC Perpetual Big Pilot on my other thread for £20K!

However, in the interest of this thread I would choose the "Blancpain Quattro" from 2001, as I'm a huge fan of complicated movements - an amazing timepiece housing a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, flyback chronograph, and split-seconds chronograph, and all for US $150,000 -

http://robertmaron.com/product.php?prod ... t=0&page=1

However, if we REALLY blow the budget (sorry Roff!), then my first choice is 271000 EUROS costing "Lange 31", simply because the technical expertise of the movement is simply incredible. :bow:

http://www.thewatchquote.com/Lange-Sohn ... o_6041.htm

Failing that, I'd have to go for the "Blancpain 1735", which is one of the most complicated wristwatches in the world, and is produced at a staggering rate of one PER YEAR! It's a mindblowing work of art (combining a tourbillon, minute repeater, perpetual calendar and rattrapante chronograph in one watch :bow: ) and every one is made in it's entirety by just one watch-maker...... who then personally hand delivers it to the purchaser's door anywhere in the world! So cool....... but then you'd hope so for the princely sum of USD $839,000 -

http://www.blancpain.ch/e/complications/

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My other, before Roff swipes it :wink: : IWC Grande Complications. Perpetual Calender with a minute repeater (I have been fascinated by minute repeaters since I discovered what one was). Stretches the limits of Roff's $150K limit, but maybe in a fire sale? :wink: :lol:
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An IWC perpetual minute repeater under $150k!!!!!

That's some fire sale.

I guess I knew that you would all have problems with the dollar limit, but no one will ever steal my ultimate 'no budget' watch - largely because I'm the only person who ever talks to it.......

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Roffensian wrote:
An IWC perpetual minute repeater under $150k!!!!!

That's some fire sale.

I guess I knew that you would all have problems with the dollar limit, but no one will ever steal my ultimate 'no budget' watch - largely because I'm the only person who ever talks to it.......

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Dare i ask the pricetag?

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How much am one of they?

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Price depends on whether you can find one. Last one that I heard of changing hands was north of $1 million. Personally, I think it would be more these days.


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I just saw one on the interwebs for £1.5 million. I can't afford that.

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