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At less then 150.000 its a hard choise....
and just havent made up my mind... but in the more expensive range I know what i want !

Audemars Piguet - Millenary Chronograph MC12 Tourbillon

The shape just speaks to me. It's a sporty watch but also dress watch I guess.
I really like the mc12 edition for masarati....(in the pictures...) never liked the special car editions watches but this!, this is something else...

At a price of around $310,000, I must win euro millions.....




the most beautiful for me without a price tag:

5016g Patek Philippe

minute-repeating, white gold wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, retrograde perpetual calendar, moon phases

I'm sure this is a beautiful watch but at that price it best come with someone to read the time for me because as it is I cant read a thing on that dial

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Jerome

Well, I don't know if I really have a "Grail" watch. I'm really happy with the Lings I just purchased! (about to make another post on this subject... don't want to let the cat out the bag yet)

But as a "maybe someday, when I make a LOT more money", I saw this Rolex in a store, and loved it, with the black MOP dial. But the one I saw took it even one step further, with a two-tone case and two-tone bracelet. Was simply stunning.

... for a simply stunning $18,150. Not anywhere CLOSE to my kind of budget.

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Chris
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2009 TT Chrono Evo w/Rose gold, blue face
2009 Airwolf w/black face, Co-Pilot module
2009 TT Lady Cockpit w/Mother-of-Pearl, Diamond face for the wife

I'm an astronomer, so one of my favorites is the JLC Reverso grande complication à triptyque.

On the front, an it looks like a "mere" tourbillon...


...but flip it over and you have one of the only watches in the world that tells sidereal time (time relative to star positions and not the position of the sun). AND you get a sky finding chart, PLUS accurate sunrise and sunset times and a visual representation of the equation of time. 100 years ago, before calculators and computers made these calculations easier, astronomers would have killed for a watch like this.


I have absolutely no idea how much it costs, other than I am pretty sure it's more than I could afford in cash at the moment (so apologies to Roff if it's more than the limit).

Here is an article that explains all of its features: http://www.thewatchquote.com/Jaeger-LeCoultre-Reverso-grande-complication-a-triptyque-with-a-tourbillon-a-zodiacal-calendar-an-equation-of-time-and-sunrise-and-sunset-times-and-a-perpetual-calendar-18-complications-in-total-No_5642.htm

Mofongo

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Wow ,some amazing watches and they look like refined and delicate timepieces. My choice though is more industrial and has a bulkier look to it and that is the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak T3 Titanium. I'm not exactly sure on the price , i have seen it for $40,000 upto $200,000, not sure why the huge price difference.

It's actually very easy.

At the top is the power reserve on the left and day night indicator on the right - about 4 days of power reserve left and it's daytime.

9 o'clock subdial is day (Wednesday) and moon phase (full). 3 o'clock is date (18th) and 6 o'clock is month (April). To the left of the 6 o'clock subdial is the year (07) and time is obviously in the middle.

See - easy

Roff,

Now that you've pointed it out its a piece of cake!!!! Just as long as no one ask for the time and date and expect an answer in a hurry.

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Jerome

Actually, here is a watch that I am lusting after but could genuinely see owning someday. I have always wanted an IWC Big Ingenieur, but after seeing pictures of the new BI chronograph, I fell in love instantly:


Like the BI, it has an exhibition back:

Unlike the BI which has a 50000-series movement (like the Big Pilot) the chrono has a smaller (but still in-house) new 89360 movement. So no 7-day power reserve, but still the Pellaton winding system.

Retail for the SS version is something like $14,000, but I also want the SS bracelet, so that would add a little bit more to that. I have not seen it yet in the U.S.

Mofongo

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Interesting thread Roff, lets see....

Keep Dreaming: A. Lange & Sohne Datograph Perpetual Cal.

Someday: Patek 5711R at a measely 30K US

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Certified watch nut.

I really like this one too. It may be a little (dare I say) "cheap" for this Ultimate Watch thread(!), but it's a lovely thing.

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Driver8

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+1 - that's a very nice watch.

Until the economic downturn hit I was going to buy a really nice watch this year and this was in the early running - ruled it out as being a little too extravagant, but still on the 'someday' list.

i 'll join mofongo and driver8 in there addoration for the IWC

Yeah, it is a little "cheap," BUT if you want to spend more money, there is the LE platinum version for $45,000 (250 made):


(Although I have to admit that if I were to spend $45K on a watch, it would probably be for something else.)

Mofongo

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There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." --Dave Barry

After seeing the previous watches my "Holy Grail" watch seems inexpensive. It is the IWC Aquatimer Chronograph Cousteau Divers. Its a very nice watch, I tried one on at a IWC dealer, could not justify paying the $11,000 price tag. That was before I got my first Breitling.

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Garfield411
CH-53D & UH-1N
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Rolex Submariner
Rolex Explorer II

For me, the Ultimate Grail Watch is probably the one in the picture.
A Heuer Bundeswehr Chrono prototype, a one-of-a-kind watch, so I don't even have an idea about the "price". Obviously, we cannot really talk about "price" in connection with this watch anyway.
I've only seen it in one picture, the website I've seen it on says that it belongs to a former Heuer engineer, who now owns the company Chronoswiss.

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