Thanks, Jack, for this fascinating posting and for your passion for collecting.

It is wonderful to see a collection that is far-ranging, but at the same time focused and logical. You have a great eye for watches -- at least according to my eye -- and they all "make sense", within your collection.

Thanks again for this inspiring posting!!

Jeff

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: Hi folks,

: The year is almost ending and I'm counting my blessings that 2016
: has been a wonderful year for me.

: I'll like to share my SOTC with you (some watches are still in the
: spa unfortunately) but most of them are here..... Apologies in
: advance that the photos has been slightly overexposed... sadly,
: the patina on lume seems too light. :-(

: Let's start with some chronographs.

: Some Universal Geneves:

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: The super well made robust Contograf:

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: Grail A386, still very underappreciated in my opinion:

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: Monaco 1133B, the watch for any Heuer enthusiast:

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: Monte Carlo 7169, some of the toughest watch to find in minty
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: The best looking Seafarer in my opinion

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: The Holy grail of all Autavias, the 1st exec 2446 big eyes:

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: And no chronograph collection is complete without the big red 6263
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: Moving on to the Divers......

: The SM300 BTND

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: The diver from Omega that started it all, CK 2913

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: Another quintessential from Rolex, the 5513 and the best looking
: matte dial version in my opinion, the MKIII Maxi dial lollipop

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: And the grail of them all, the Fifty Fathoms from 1954, with rare
: small rotomatic fonts, earliest small font bezel and triangle
: end minute hand:

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: I do have some dress watches. In fact, I have a big weakness for
: sector, cross hair dials. They are really pretty...

: Lovely pair of pie pan, sector dials from Omega & Rolex:

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: A pair of rare Omega Chronometres from the 40s. Finding them in
: original good condition dial is a super challenge!!!
: With a similar style Longines:

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: With a very rare, jumbo oversized 38mm case with fixed lugs
: longines from the 40s (usually the jumbos are 37.5mm, and
: regular lugs, this is a rare reference)

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: With some odd balls, where I didn't have a specific theme for them:

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: Moving on to some REAL vintage oddballs, but these are some of the
: rarest hardest watches to find.... These are watches that dare
: to do things different and in our time, we have out independent
: watchmakers.

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: 2 favourite seikos of mine, the very first chronograph from Seiko,
: with a very rare sector dial variant, and the yellow
: "Monaco":

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: And to a pair of watches that started all the madness in 2004.

: The curse of this passion started by this duo:

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: I hope that this post has been inspirational, or at least you have
: enjoyed scrolling through the photos.