Last time I was in Schaffhausen in 2014 for Collectors meeting as well and of course I missed this best place in the world. So, I was so glad to visit Schaffhausen again.
Leaving cold Moscow with Mk. 11 on the wrist...
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I came to sunny Switzerland!
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, but main part of the Collectors meeting started on Thursday.
Welcome speech from CEO IWC and Q&A seccion afterwards.
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And we started. We were divided by two groups. Our group is started with presentation of current collection and photo seccion.
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After the lunch with the branded dessert at the end...
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...we came through Museum. David told us about 2 temporary exhbitions, one dedicated to Ocean 2000 Bund (with main part of pieces from Martin Dohrmann)and another with one watch only (and it's also Ocean 2000, but civil version). It looks like it was the watch with highest number of flying hours as it belonged to Swiss pilot wearing this model permanently.
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](Everytime good experience to have watchmaking class by IWC.
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](Another great experience we had at the night, going for a dinner to Schloss Hohenklingen. Stephanie Homberger invited his father to talk about the time of Homberger family in IWC. He brought books, photos, silver Olimpic medal, some watches from the family. Just amazing!!
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](After his wonderful speech we had usual quiz from Tonny and some words about Laureus donation from Andrew.
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Next day started with the tour to new Merishausen plant.
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Returning to Schaffhausen we had presentation from Christian Knoop about Da Vinci line...
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... and continued with Collectors presentations. Adrian was first, talking about the caliber made for 100 years anniversary of IWC.
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Mark told the story about ordinary from the first sight pocket watch.
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And Tonny told about some of his steps in passion to watches.
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After the lunch with the person next to me wearing this modest watch on his wrist))
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It was the last point in our schedule. Tonny said thanks to all who organized this amazing event, to Clizia, Stephanie and all others.
](It was great time!! I was so glad to see my good friends Andrew, Tonny, Michael, Mark, Arg, Ralph, Terry, Nelson and many others, to chat with David Seyffer, Stefan Ihnen, Hannes Pantli, Nina Jaegle, Christian Knoop! Thank you Stephanie and Clizia again, you made great job!
And I will remember Schaffhausen and hope to see it again net years!
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