The mid-week watch ... watcha wearing on Wednesday ?

This for mid week :)

rgds
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the BPPC ? 1st out of 200 LE ? very cool.

One out of 250.

Cheers,
sc

oh i see. thanks sc.

Here's the one I was wearing today:

Heh, how do you post a picture?

Shing, I love that watch. The gold numerals are terrific.

We've had one of the wettest Springs in history, so an Aquatimer seems appropriate for me today.

Hi ,Another vote for the Aquatimer .

Tom

Ingenieur Automatic (CFI Limited) at the keys.

thanks Dick - I love it too ! hope to have another white gold (plated is it?) numeral portuguese joining it this week.

In Hamburg

Ingenieur over here as well:

I'm wearing a this one today!

night cap (over here in the far east) !

Monday: South East
Tuesday: North East
Wednesday: North West

So, it was a Portuguese start of the week. Tomorrow South West? That was not planned, but who knows...

Kind regards,
Paul

OK, I decided to wear South West today, just for fun, to wear "the whole picture" at the start of this week. I haven't worn it for several years, I guess. It is so small! It truly is not a watch of this time, yet it is only 11 years old. It was my daily workday wearer for more than three years, until the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar came in: that was a shock! The hands show some dark discolouration, for the rest it still looks like new.

Kind regards,
Paul

Paul - if they marketed that "small" Portuguiser as a woman's watch - you wouldn't have bought it. Call it "creative Product marketing".

out of curiosity, IS there a dedicated woman series ? would that be the da vinci 4523 series ?

Until 2003 I was into small watches. In Holland I am not too tall, that is, I am of average height for about the rest of the world, and I have no remarkable wrists. The bigger watches of those days, like the big GST Perpetual, had lugs that really stood out, those watches were definitely too big for me. I liked the small Da Vinci of those days out of the catalogue, until I saw it in a shop window, that was quite a surprise!

In those days the small Portuguese Automatic was not marketed as a woman's watch, it had the same size as the Mark XII, at 36 mm. Had it been marketed that way, I would not have bought it, of course. They could market it that way right now, although I think it is shaped a bit too matter-of-factly to attract enough women. I guess it would have the fate of all the midsize watches of a few years ago. The current Da Vinci Automatic is meant for women, I think, although it is not really marketed that way. I saw a picture of it elsewhere, the rose gold version with the brown dial, owned by a man who got it as a present from his wife. It looked great, and he was very happy.

Kind regards,
Paul

Thanks Paul for replying - I think you're absolutely right. I was seriously contemplating getting a current Da Vinci Automatic earlier in the year for myself, given my smaller "IWC short strap, 2nd/3rd smallest button" wrist.