Finally everything was completed and I can do my reveal which I already announced in my SIHH post.
On January 20th at about 6a.m. in the morning (Mark and I were meeting to fly out to CH for SIHH) I got delivered by Buddy Mark a packet which contained a nice wooden box:
The wooden box contained a very nice 3711, which I had purchased from a dutch seller and Mark was so kind to pick it up for me:
I was so proud to own my first Double Chrono IWC
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and the doomed glass looks fantastic
The watch is in perfect conditions, however, already on the flight, just after a few hours of wearing it, I did not feel comfortable that the watch did not have anymore the "original" fish crown and the "original" tritium dial.
Fortunately enough, on our way to Geneva, we had planned a stop-over in Schaffhausen to meet Nelson and Terry.
Where else would you have the chance of finding a T-dial and fish-crown for a 3711 other than in Schaffhausen? And who else should embark with you on such a search other than some forum friends here?
So off we went, after a refreshment to find those two things in Schaffhausen.
I did not took too long, and a seller had a fish-crown for that piece.
Seeing the crown, I immediately asked the Million-$ question: "Do you have a tritium dial for it as well?".
The seller left us for a second and came back with potentially the last 3711 T-dial in the world.
I felt like being in the lap of luxury. But then ... the disillusion.
To replace the crown and the dial and to service the watch I needed to leave the watch there, for about three weeks. Oh no!! I just had the watch on my wrist for about 9 hours! And then, I can't go to SIHH without a new timepiece. I was so happy to present this new timepiece, which I just had got the same day to my Forum Friends. What to do?
Well, the seller, being a smart guy had a solution for my problem. As if he was able to read my mind ... see my disillusion ... know my taste ... know what I am missing in my collection and what I am after ... he disappeared for a second and came back with this beauty:
"You can leave your 3711 here for service, and buy this nice 3536 to take to SIHH. Anyway, it fits better this year's SIHH theme", the seller said.
I just had bought in the morning an IWC. A few hours later I am again tempted to buy another one?! Well, guess what that bunch of enablers who were with me were saying? They were shouting "Great solution! Go for it Giovanni".
Well I could not resist, so I went for it. Proud owner of my first AT 2000, and sad of leaving the 3711 behind just after about 9 hours.
Yesterday, finally the 3711 arrived, with fish-crown and T-dial. And it looks great. It was worth waiting for it. The patina on the dial gives it a much more mature look.
The patina matches the color of a good espresso cream
as well as the gold on the Porsche badge
Here are a couple of pictures of the two beauties together:
Thanks for reading, and thanks to Mark, Terry and Nelson for sharing that great experience with me.
