Might be humble Jack but... Wowww! All in such a beautiful condition and searched for years with grate patience and love.

A true passionate collector!

Love the variety of your collection and this last months have been so thrilling for you ;D

The UG trio is marvellous! But the one that has really attracted my attention has been your Rolex Pie Pan from the 50's, with that so rare and special step sector crosshair dial. Pfff! Falling in love with it's lovely bezel too. What a beauty, love it!!!

The look of your sporty Seafarer, patina is awesome and so fond of the blue tones!

The Contograph is such lovely sample that checks all boxes for a now a days grail chronograph ;)

Your last acquisition, the Autavia 2446, well... Speechless!! A dream for many.

Then the Longines, the Fifty Fathoms etc... All great and not very common vintages.

And not less fun, your as you said "oddballs' are such hard ones to find looking that good. Psychedelic joy! ;D

Thanks for sharing with all of us, enjoyed very much Jack, really!

Enjoy them all very much and do admire your lovely spirit and feel for them.
Sandra

: 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
: Daytona

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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.