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IWC Roma: What a poetic location

FrX,

Finally, the report that we discussed!  Thank you.

IWC is not only at a good location being on the edge of the luxury shopping area of Rome but also next door to the Keats-Shelley Memorial House.

The bane of my early school life was having a mathematics teacher who was more interested in poetry than quadratic equations. I could recite:

"Tyger, Tyger, burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

.........better than the mathematical Pythagorean theorem a^2+b^2=c^2.

The museum curates a most extensive collection of manuscripts, letters, memorabilia, and paintings relating to the Romantic poets -- John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as Byron, Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Oscar Wilde, and others.

Strangely, it is the current Mrs MTF who collected big IWC watches in our family (so much for engineering by men for men!). I had to quickly buy a IWC DaVinci to wear when invited to a Dinner with Ronan Keating.

At SIHH 2013, I liked a few models shown below.

The INGENIEUR Automatic 40 mm you showed is perhaps the most important of the collection because it is the base model that will sell in huge numbers. The 40mm size is absolutely crucial to its success since the big watch trend is stalled or reversing with many brands.

Regards, MTF 

INGENIEUR Chronograph Silberpfeil

I like this bronze dial version as it is in keeping with the vintage strap.