It's now Dr. Seyffer, officially I believe

Fantastic News. We salute you Dr. Seyffer and thank you for the dedication to IWC's archives and history.

Great news Dr David. Congratulations on your fine accomplishment. We IWC collectors thank you for your fine efforts in keeping the history alive and your support of our passion.

Best regards,
Kevin

Congratulations Doktor Seyffer on your wonderful accomplishment.

David,
Great accomplishment...hope to see you again the next time I am in Schaffhausen.

Congratulations David, well done!

Kind regards,

Clemens

David, your hard work paid off! Nice job, Doc!

Nelson

Congrats Dr. Seyffer. Well done.

Bravo David!

Dr. David Seyffer,

Congratulations with achieving such an important milestone. It must be gratifying to reach that milestone. Perhaps it also leaves an "empty feeling" after working so hard.

A virtual toast to your - achieved and upcoming - success.

I will look for the thesis because it looks like a very interesting topic indeed.

Dr. Seyffer: Congratulations, well done!

While Stuttgart and almost all German universities now accept dissertations in English, I have an email from one of my campus librarians that this is marked as mainly in German in a PhD database. If was in English I would request a copy but my German abilities are highly limited.

There is a well-established private company that archives, licenses, and translates on request PhD dissertations for universities world wide, but services are slow (more than six months) and costly for a translation. The topic is interesting enough that a publisher may very well be interested in translating and putting copies out for sale, if Dr. Seyffer agrees to work with them and in return receive very small royalties compared to what the publisher will eventually sell online.

In any case, congrats to Dr. Seyffer.

Ray

David, my congratulations!!

CONGRATULATION!

Ralph Ehrismann

big congrats!
Is it in mechanical engineering, haha?

Dr Seyffer I presume...Congratulations David, now I an thinking about getting my friends to look over the paper, we don´t want the same happening to you as happened to Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, do we? :-)

Best Regards

Jimmy

A great achievement.
David Seyffer wrote a thesis that was completely on IWC :
Von der "Internationalen Uhrenfabrik" zur Manufaktur für Luxusuhren. Uhrenfertigung in Schaffhausen am Beispiel der Unternehmungsgeschichte der International Watch Co 1868-1978.
In English : From the International Watch Factory towards manufactory of luxury watches. Making watches in Schaffhausen as an example of the entrepeneurs history of International Watch Co 1868-1878.
His thesis will be published as a book. During the relatively short time that Dr. David Seyffer has been the museum director, this is the second scientific work he has published. It will be a matter of weeks when the book "F.A. Jones. His life, legacy and watches" will be issued. Here is David Seyffer co-author together with Thomas König and Alan Myers ( the expert on Jones watches).
Congratulations Dr. David.
Kind regards,
Adrian.
(alwaysiwc).

Ahh, Ralph Ehrismann sent his congratulations.
Ralph is one of the very few IWC experts on P.W.'s, but did you know that Ralph is a Doctor too? I heard this from Friedrich Wagner, many years ago.
In Horology! He wrote a thesis - please correct me Ralph- on the cases of Swiss P.W's.
Kind regards,
Adrian,
(alwaysiwc).

Closely correct. Production of W.W. cases ;-)

regards

Ralph

Congratulations! wonderful work
Regards,
Dan