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Simple - meet complicated. Complicated - meet simple.
Great to meet a few new new watch friends, and to catch up with old ones as well.
From a plastic swatch to a dead seconds tourbillon, and just about everything in between. Quite a pile on the table there.
I really liked that Astron. Not something you see every day. And great to talk to a recent visitor to Dufour's workshop.
Hope we can all do it again one day soon, and thanks for posting these pics Andrew.
grumio
A Casual GTG – Part 3
Hi All Last night a small group of Melbourne watch aficionados got together again, ostensibly to discuss horology, but in reality any excuse to share a beer or two. So here are a few photos from the evening. Hope you enjoy … The Seiko Quartz Astron 40 th ...
And for Grumio ...
Who recently unveiled his first JLC on the Forums, a 34mm MUT [ Click Here ], here are some photos of our new toys together ......
Simple - meet complicated. Complicated - meet simple.
Great to meet a few new new watch friends, and to catch up with old ones as well. From a plastic swatch to a dead seconds tourbillon, and just about everything in between. Quite a pile on the table there. I really liked that Astron. Not something you see ...
reckon swatch hit the nail on the head with that model!
I really like it and have seen it on quite a few wrists! very striking, yet simple design.
Andrew, i saw a JLC Aston Martin top left corner, how come..
..no close-up pics of it? Was the owner shy about it?
Well...
....I don't know why Andrew didn't take close-ups, but it's the AMVOX2 Chronograph DBS - 192T450 if you're wondering.
Not shy. Just my shaky hands. Too many great toys ...
... and I didn't get photos of all of them. But it is the AMVOX2 DBS, as Aptronym points out. 44mm and in light titanium with a partially skeletonized dial. But still the chrono counters are very legible. Short lugs so it sits very well indeed on the wris...
very nice, Andrew. thx for the pic. one of the more innovative watches to come..
...from JLC with the integrated chrono pushers, i mean on the watch crystal itself.
Andrew , thanks for the pics. I am sorry I could not make
the GTG but next time I will be there Julian
At least you can join in 'virtualy' on PPro
And I look forward to catching up at the next GTG. It's a nice little group. Andrew
So many beauties but my eyes were fix on the Swatch.Strange......?
Thanks for sharing Andrew. cheers PAt
What an eclectic mix....
...I love the variety in these photos. It's part of what watches are about, for me. The sheer breadth of different interests. Some of these watches I know well, but others not at all. I'm also curious about the Swatch, although I have a hunch re: whether ...
Guess again. You'll just have to come down to visit ...
... to find out who it belongs to. Andrew
Many thanks
Thank you Andrew. It was a pleasure to be able to see and play with not just one but two FPJs. Best Peter
Great to see you ...
... Peter, and pleased you could share the evening with us. See you in Sydney next time. Great pair of watches by the way. Andrew
I love these GTG reports!
It's so much fun to see who will turn up wearing... Great, eclectic collection presented at this gathering. I am enjoying each watch -- especially the colorful Swatch! No food present at this GTG? That doesn't sound like a bunch of PuristS. Where there ar...
Ah, that's what they mean in Hollywood . . .
. . . when they say it's time for a liquid lunch! And all this time, I thought it was just a fad diet ;-) . . .
Additional info for Magnus
That one I can help with... though I should probably do a more comprehensive post or series... Basically it's the culmination of 7 weeks /5 years of work, in which I was trying to complete an ETA 6498 based custom movement/case/dial, but ran out of time b...
Thanks for that further info, Tom...
It was clear that your watch was a 'custom' piece and, to a lover of Independents, it was the first to scream out of the photo. You have been running a blog, haven't you, on the manufacture of your watch? A mutual acquaintance pointed to it some time ago,...
More more info....
Yup, the movement is mine as well, I had hoped to case it instead of the ETA, but ran out of time before heading O/S, and also was running out of tools, raw materials, and health... The blog is woefully out of date unfortunately, shortly after my last pos...
Thanks Magnus!...
For a moment there it looked as if everybody had just missed it. Great to see a hand-made in there. Cheers, pplater.
Have a stare at...
..the modified movement Tom has created....the more you stare, the more interesting it is...nice to have the creator there to explain the modified layout.
nice watches Andrew, but did you all stuff your faces and get blotto'd
thats what a GTG is all about............well the ones i go to are we should sort out another one in London soon, but probably no chance before the IGOTT2. best G
We are clearly going to miss you at IGOTT2 ...
... if all your GTG's are like that. Actually Graham, we were all very well behaved. There is always family to get home to, so these are usually quick GTG's after work. And we are not up to the standard of the Sydney Tarts who meet weekly. And we had an i...
one day i hope to...
one day i hope to make it Andrew so i can try some of that dishwater you Ozzies call beer G...
Now, now, pplater....
....a proper footy pie has lava hot filling on encapsulating a still frozen core. Like a reverse Uranus...and about as appetising...
Another great looking GTG! :)
You guys really know how to have a good time! Thanks for sharing all these beauties with us, Andrew! Happy to see some JLC’s among you! Best Blomman
Nice watches
That looks like a fun GTG. Nice Pics, especially the dead seconds F.P. Journ. Thanks for sharing! Cheers SamEE