Abandoning the kids with their grandparents, it was time for me and the mrs to runaway for a few days with a short getaway.
So where best to escape reality and have some fun & good food than the place they call ‘America’s Playground’… the place of concentrated excess pretty much all on one single street (strip)…
...where else, but Las Vegas!
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So boarding the plane from London… (note the typical British grey skies)
Checked out the cockpit… and what a nice photo op it would have been if I had a pilot’s watch on (but not this time).
And sorry… I couldn’t see any of their watches, but clearly if these pilots were any good (with good taste to suit) they'd ALL be wearing IWCs...
Up into the skies…
Over the icy mountains of Greenland…
To the desert mountains of Nevada…
Just landed…
now check out those blue skies!
Checked into the hotel room with a view…
A quick unpack
and it was time to recharge the batteries with some food!
And recharge indeed, because it was time to hit the shops!
Quicky through the lush indoor gardens of the Wynn Hotel
And crossing over to the Palazzo Hotel…
Can anyone guess which shop we headed to FIRST?
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(or rather raced to… as I’ve got a bad case of ‘the virus’)
Yes admittedly, my heart was slightly racing and my pulse was certainly elevated, and there was even a bit of sweat on my brow… now whether that was the virus or I’m simply out of shape, who knows! LOL
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Anyways we have reached our destination and it was time to look around!
Now I won’t bore you with too many photos of the boutique, as Bill B had a great post about this boutique not too long ago here.
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But on my visit there were the usual fantastic fayre...
like some Ingenieurs…
some Portuguese…
and then wow… some MORE Portuguese…
like a Minute-Repeater
and check out this Dynamic Duo:
a Grande-Complication and a Tourbillon Hand-Wound!
At this stage, I had to take a deep breath –
and first calm myself down by checking out the lovely 'art-work' on the walls:
But now it was time to play with some goodies
(many thanks to the very friendly and extremely knowledgable manager Ben Cucio who really helped bolster my newbie IWC knowledge).
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Tried on a Aquatimer Vintage Collection
There were other great watches that I tried on, but some I was told strictly not to post on any forum! (sorry folks)
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So anyways, it was then time to try on the one I really wanted to play with.
You see I’ve already got timepieces with the following dial colours: white, black, and grey. And trying (desperately) to throw some ounce of rational reasoning into this raging virus that I have… certainly the next one should have a BLUE dial…
And what a blue one it could be indeed…
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a Midnight Blue Portuguese Perpetual Calendar!
Didn’t want to remove the protective plastic, but boy was this watch ‘singing to me’
Not a limited edition, but certainly a limited ‘production’ from hearing the background of how incredibly difficult it is to get the blue dial just right with its complicated manufacturing/chemical treatment process.
Anyways, what do you all think?
Please tell me... does it look like it BELONGS on my wrist?
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Certainly, my Da Vinci was telling me it wouldn’t mind sharing wrist time with a new big blue brother! (yes my form of the virus causes watches to speak to me...)
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Alas, so sorry there is no fairly tale ending here!
The virus does have me bad, and as much as I’d love to have bought a third IWC in as many months…
There are limits to the insanity (and quite sadly, the budget)!
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Oh well, here’s hoping entrepreneurial success finally lands on my lap (or rather wrist)… (at least before the next leap year (please) so I can enjoy a PC…)
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So back to work and reality it is…
but first signing off with a photo of my beautiful Da Vinci over a Vegas breakfast taken the next day.
best wishes fellow virus-afflicted!
thang
