Horological Meandering

WPP 2008 Singapore - Security, Bar ID and Souvenir Badge

 

Keppel Bay Marina Club House

 

What else did you expect?  That's why they call it a marina

 

Prive

A new complex of Restaurant, GastroBar and Cafe at the marina.

They had their official Grand Opening just a day before our WPP 2008 event.... although the rich and famous have been enjoying prime steaks and fine dining for a few months. In the evenings, the gastro bar is HOT HOT HOT with PYTs (pretty young things) and financial wizards cooling off from a hard day's wheeling and dealing.

Our dedicated restaurant manager (Miss CT) making sure everything was ready for discerning PuristS

 

SPONSORS

As is our PuristS custom, everyone turned up expecting to share the cost of the event but there was a pleasant surprise in store for the Inaugural WPP attendees in Singapore!

First, a note of thanks to our main sponsor - TimeWerke magazine - they stepped up with free-flow champagne all evening that set off the elegant tone of a Watching Perpetually PuristS evening.

Mr Michael Lu of Prive threw in a selection of pub grub tasters and we were all set.....

An Anonymous Purist contributed the rest.

 

 

WATCHES

We had an official photographer sent by TimeWerke magazine to cover the event but I brought along my camera as back-up.

I must apologise upfront that all photographing activity stopped on my part, once the champagne kicked in ! 

Clean lines of the teutonic Glashuette Original; see the little red dot for Leap Year?

 

This ladies' Gerald Genta automatic perpetual calendar did quite well, considering the torque requirements....see the Leap Year blue indicator?

22:05: date changed to 30.

23:05: date changed to 31.

23:40: month changed to Mar.

23:52: date changed to 01.

23:58: day chaged to Sat.

31st of February?

 

Rare, discontinued Glashutte Original perpetual calendar Karre mit moonphase.

By the way, it was a half-waning moon that night.

 

This Breguet tourbillon retrograde date perpetual calendar was absolutely beautiful and a good thing too because the owner spent a l-o-o-n-n-g time looking for the changes

Here showing 29 Feb

 

Here showing 1 Mar.

 

Girard Perregaux Ferrari GTO Perpetual Calendar Chronograph

Date: .....30..... hidden under chronograph seconds hand

Date 01 Mar

 

Mysteriously, IWC da Vinci Kurt Klaus did not change date even after the hands showed midnight

I wonder why???

 

PEOPLE

 

 

Our papparazo doing his th-ang as the black limos arrived.

He was smoking a fag only seconds before this shot!

 

Right: Mr & Mrs IWC had big torque engines.........should have changed at midnight without problems.......

Left: The Poljot moonphase chronograph was showing half-moon correctly and the Citizen Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar had the most instantaneous change that night

 

Ahhh....Patek Philippe perpetual calendars....by the time you can afford one.....you can't read the dial

 

The staff  had set up two "Watching" areas with standard lamps.

 

 

 

 

 

CONCLUSION

We would be interested to hear what people thought of the Watching Perpetually PuristS event. Please leave your comments.

For the inaugural event, we purposely kept it non-brand specific even though some brands with particular expertise in perpetual calendars wanted to join the party.

I'm predictinig that the next-big-thing will be perpetual calendars and astronomical watches so maybe when we do the WPP 2009 event on 28 Feb 2009, many more brands CAN join the party, because they would have great perpetuals in their range......?

Shall we do the WPP Dance in 2009?

 

Regards,

MTF

 

This message has been edited by MTF on 2008-03-02 05:02:57

Thanks for being such a great host for the night.  We had definitely enjoy ourselves.  Oops! about the watch, he did it on purpose just to create some excitement for the night.

Nice meeting all at the event!

Cheers!

Our target was 20 PuristS.

We had 29 registered people but 2 dropped out on the night.....then 2 replacements...so spookily, we had 29 attendees on the 29th Feb !

Maybe the largest turn-out of the WPP2008 global locations...

MTF

And organizing A World Purists GTG ?
It's quite difficult, as we are on all parts of the world, but the idea is more than seducing...
Let's think about it...
Best, and congrats for this event!
Nicolas

IGOTT 2 - The (Re-)union of the Original Tribe!

(IGOTT 1 - anyone remember this blowout bash? anyone remember what IGOTT means?!?! first correct answer wins a guaranteed admission ticket to WPP09 and IGOTT2)

"Watch this space" Nicholas!

Cheers,

TM

but hey, I like your version better!

;-)

but the other version is probably right : )

look forward to one if its organised in Asia ; )

cheers
raph

WPP09 (with or without a QP! ;-)  ) and IGOTT 2

See ya there!

;-)

TM

wait till the Honkies (hehehe...local slang) strut their stuff...

Seriously, good show!  I was there in spirit with you guys, and thanks to the generous sponsors!

Cheers,

TM

save me a souvenir button! Or I won't tell you how to untangle all the stopped perpetuals today...

;-)

obviously you guys have had some good time !

Thanks for having me MTF; met many new faces in the process too. Much fun and great company were to be had for a throughly enjoyable evening. Wished Prive had removed the planters so we could all have 'flowed' naturally over to the next door event too!

Cheers!
Lionel

you are one lucky guy! Looks like a great time was had by all. Happy Leap Year! Best, Tim

Nice location and great company together with some wonderful timepieces on a significant day !

Cant wait for the next GTG . A GTG based on another theme perhaps ? Chronos / GMTs / Worldtime / Power Reserve / Divers / Alarms / Military / Chronometers ?

 

George

 

Thanks Melvyn for organising. Thanks Timewerk  & the Anonymous Purist for sponsoring.

Nice venue and the main thing is great company.
I like the button idea...next round, can we have engraved back?

Wish the event last a bit longer.

Kong

Kong, you had our company (me, George and Mr Wong) till almost 2am and you want it to last longer!? Then we should have combined the perpetual vigil with a alarm theme! See whose alarm can wake us up later in the morning! Hope you and MTF managed to finish that last bottle.

Cheers!
Lionel

If you were there but wished you were here, where would you have been watching virtually?

We had cool sea breezes on a tropical palm swaying sort of night. Someone as to do it.....

MTF

And I hope you have some extra WPP'08 pins

Cheers,
Anthony

Thomas Mao also made threats!

It's very simple:

I made 30 and we had 29 attendees......the fight is on...for the last one of the limited edition WPP inaugural badge! 

Regards,

MTF

Thanks for sharing the great pictures! I couldn't agree more when your caption said "Ahhh....Patek Philippe perpetual calendars....by the time you can afford one.....you can't read the dial ". Ain't that a good motivation for any would be Patek owners to start working hard on it EARLY? Great line! Great party! Great Venue! Wish I were there! Looking at my time, "darn, I missed the party!"

This message has been edited by Mech on 2008-03-01 17:37:44

what can easily be termed as a WONDERFUL EVENT and appreciate the timely report of it allowing us to live through what happened vicariously. Have to raise my glass to whomever thought of doing WPP in the first place as he most certainly deserves kudos. As for doing this next Feb 09, the only question I have is where do I sign up! Thanks again MTF...

  he pushed and pushed until we all caved in.......

Regards,

MTF

mentally thrust unto him via the miracle of cyberspace!

Seriously though, thanks Jester for coming up with the idea of WPP. A FIRST of what looks to be the start of an event destined to be synonymous with Purists!!!! Kudos to all the actual organizers of each chapter too!! Am sure the thrill of seeing your own perps do their thing in the company of fellow purists PLUS all that awesome food (yum yum) more than offset a later than usual time of tumbling into bed. SO looking forward to the WPP 09.

Beautiful venue to match the beautiful watches and people.  This is a special event for puristS to share around the world, and I am happy that I could be a part of it. 

Godspeed,

Scott Dufrane

This is such an interesting night, only once in every 4 years!

cheers

Thanks for organizing the event, MTF.  Food was good, wine was great, watch watching was awesome, but the friends made was the absolute best part! 

LP

for the great event. It was great to catch up with friends, and meet other watch enthusiasts and collectors. It makes me want to go acquire a perpetual calendar watch, knowing now how my MIH watch (does not) perform on that night.

Cheers,

CS