CF3 --some good news!

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Nice pictures, thanks for sharing.

Kevin

It was offered like this:

and is worn by some fine gentleman who occasionally get together to celebrate the fact that they have the privilege of owning one of these handsome times pieces - here are a few of them celebrating together:

And for me, the watch wears perfectly and looks absolutely amazing!

Awesome! Thanks for posting that. The Da Vinci is my favourite IWC line. I would have loved to have owned one of those.

Agreed. All the Collectors Forum pieces are awesome and have something special.

So as you see, the CFDV came with both a black leather strap as well as with a great steel bracelet!

I wonder what "little extra something" the CF3 will have?

O also wonder about that "little extra something" but I confess with a "little" trepidation.

how about just a 'little' tourbillon!?!!? =P

Thang my friend at this price level that would be a real sign of love and affection from IWC to the Collectors.

It is almost time to change the scenery here, it is about the end of July. I guess there is no news, or we would have read it. Still, I have to ask: can the model to make the CFW3 be revealed soon? I want to take a look at the Portuguese Chrono Classic, I hope this will not be the base for the CFW3. Thank you for your understanding, let's hope for some good and exciting news pretty soon!

Kind regards,
Paul

Hi Michael and Forum Members,

Please humor me with this posting as I know the reality. If all goes well and your timeline is correct, we will hopefully know at least what model the CF3 will be built upon. That said, part of the excitement and fun of the reveal is the guessing game. So....

If the run number is considered being reduced, then that could be tied to Paul's concern. Since the Portugeuse Classic has had a very strong positive response and a number of us have already purchased it, it would make sense that the final production count would be adjusted downward.

Like I said, this is just speculation on my part and having some pure fun with no response required. Others may read into this differently and have their thoughts.

Thanks for keeping us in the loop Michael.

Andy

Any news is good news if you ask me.

I guess the concern of not being able to market all units would have been the reason for the reduction in the production of the CF3.

But would that have an inverse effect on the pricing for such a low production?

I finally came across this post with all the 12 pages of responses - being off the grid for 4 weeks sure make you miss a lot.

Whichever direction this may take I give major cudos to IWC and MF for making this a reality - thanks you!!!

Now we just have to sit back and wait for the first "reveal" :-)

Thanks Michael, I've also been "off the grid" due to travels and moving house in the past couple of weeks but its great to know that we'll be having more information soon.

I'm a bit worried with the eventual reduction of the production run from 150 to 100... I hope that will be enough for our demand here.

Cheers!

Maybe it would help to build up some picture to know how many people posted more than 10 posts here in 2013. I am too lazy and no fool, I will not attempt a count. But maybe Michael could know with the use of some function in the forum control software. My guess would be about 80 people, but this guess could be so horribly off. But if right, it could be an indication that 100 CFW3 watches could be viable, if the watch is a real want-to-have.

Kind regards,
Paul

I agree with Paul - "if the watch is a real want-to-have". I'm afraid even a 100 may be too many, it would not be fun to set the number high and then only sell a fraction of them. After the CF2 that would surely destroy any chance of a CF4.
And I do know that we all are a pretty picky bunch - we like what we like and you do really have to like something to spend USD 15.000 on it :-)

@MRF: How about to go really radical and introduce a pocket watch as CF3 for forum members?

A new Pallweber would be a bit of too much fun!!!

Interesting point of view, Paul. I tend to agree.