Am lucky enough to join the IWC forum Collectors' Meeting this year. It started with a night of laughter and joy: the Collectors' Meeting Dinner.
Friends of the brand together with friends from the brand. (Photo credit: Tonny)
The venue of choice is Restaurant Vieux Bois in Ecole Hôtelière Genève, with dishes being prepared by apprentice chefs. Coherent to IWC's long history of having a watchmaking school training apprentice watchmakers. (Photo credit: Ben)
Menu of the night
With Mr Hannes Pantli in the house, we knew we would learn all the insider stories along the history of IWC. (Photo credit: Tilo)
A tradition at the Collectors' Dinner is a quiz on everything related to IWC, prepared by our moderator Tonny. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tonny serving as our moderator, thank you for your contribution!
Both from the 70's, both by IWC
The Ingenieur bloodlines
As always, the dinner was concluded a table shot.
It's a huge privilege sharing the night such group of genuine collectors and friends for the dinner, and happy seeing new faces joining. It will be the Collectors' Meeting 2025 today and I am looking forward to it. Cheers.
Picked up recently the lastest addition to the BP family, it is a project initiated with a bunch of Hong Kong Collectors and I am glad that the final product has arrived and it just looks awesome! Allow me to share some photos of this beauty here.
For those 14 lucky fellows in Hong Kong collectors circle who are involved with the project, the box comes with a special metal plate.
IWC's execution of forged carbon gives the case a 3D black camouflage look, it is just mesmerizing
Fish crown is always welcomed in a desgin catered for BP fans.
The Black Carbon is the new champion in terms of lightness among the BP range, here joined by another serious contender in Titanium.
Apart from the new watch, another great news is an IWC NATO strap that fits BP has been released, should be available in boutique anytime soon.
Big thank you to both the team in Schaffhausen and in Hong Kong for making this project a reality. It is really an amazing experience participating in a BP design project, and it feels surreal holding in hand the final product which by any means is a very cool watch.
The gift this year is something I spotted in boutique before and thought "it would be nice if I can have one at home, for TV watching in winter nights". They certainly read my mind.