markiemark Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 With the IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph Edition “Le Petit Prince”, we pay tribute to one of the best-selling books in literary history, written by legendary writer, pilot and adventurer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astonjenks Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 That looks FAB AJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higginsd Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Ok. And now? What do you want to tell us? Nice pics from the IWC site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karone76 Posted April 10, 2014 Report Share Posted April 10, 2014 Hope they have it in Rep soon.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssouthall6 Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Love it - one of my favourite IWC's. I'd be surprised if we see a rep though unfortunately, certainly any time soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asanibal Posted May 14, 2014 Report Share Posted May 14, 2014 Love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted May 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 Ok. And now? What do you want to tell us? Nice pics from the IWC site. Just wanted to share it. No need to act like an ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higginsd Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 Yes it's a nice watch. I thought you dropped or deleted your question... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seafoam Posted May 18, 2014 Report Share Posted May 18, 2014 Ok. And now? What do you want to tell us? Nice pics from the IWC site. Lighten up Francis! Geeze, some people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted June 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Dang! That looks stunning!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higginsd Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Gen? Or a miracle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianmac Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 I hope this is replicated soon........looks stunning! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted June 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 Gen? Or a miracle? Unfortunately a gen. Now we wait for a miracle... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higginsd Posted June 13, 2014 Report Share Posted June 13, 2014 (edited) Can anyone contact Angus (Puretime) via RepGeek? He is collecting user votes for new reps and sending them to the factories. But - to be honest - the date wheels should be blue also... Edited June 13, 2014 by higginsd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted June 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Can anyone contact Angus (Puretime) via RepGeek? He is collecting user votes for new reps and sending them to the factories. But - to be honest - the date wheels should be blue also... He is no longer doing that. People complained and complained. He wrote an open letter and the bullsh*t continued.... Here's the letter: Hi Everyone, I am going to be frank in this open letter, and I apologize if this message ruffles some feathers, but for me this is necessary, sadly. I am writing this to all of you rather than the specific people involved so that it hopefully becomes a group mindset and prevents the regular offenders from doing it again, or any new guys from doing it. The issue I want to raise is aggressiveness, antagonism, negative speculation and all negative emotion that some members so easily raise on the subject of this hobby, in particular with the new releases sometimes not meeting expectations. I want to be very clear on this point… I AM A WATCH DEALER. I AM NOT A WATCH MAKER. Yes, I SOMETIMES help the Makers with their watches, I always try to do my best with this task. I help ZF a lot recently, as an example, but this means that if a watch does not meet expectations, this is not my fault. I have faith in some Makers (like Noob, ZF, V6, etc., etc.) and if they tell me something is being released, I trust them to deliver a great product, and therefore promote their product before release, because their track record shows that they can be trusted. An important point to raise is that sometimes it is not even the Maker’s mistake when something bad happens, it is the parts factories. When the Maker confirms a part with the part factory, the factory then does mass production, like 1000-2000 pieces, and sometimes the factory delivers something different than what was accepted during prototype phase, so even if the factory is willing to remake the piece to perfection, it will take a fair amount of time and the Maker does not want to wait for just 1 or even a few parts to be perfect before assembling the piece and selling it. The Maker will fix the parts on the next run, the V2s, V3s, etc., etc. Some people tell me to tell the Maker not to sell watches like this, however what needs to be realized is that we are only about 20% of the Makers sales, we are not influential enough to demand this from the Maker. Once we are, then the Maker will listen to us. It seems to me that some people think I am a hype man for certain Makers, and this is completely not true. I give news on watches being released because that is what is expected of me. No other TD does it as regularly as me, and I am clearly known on the forums as the most active dealer, consistently speaking and informing you guys. Here is the important point… YOU CANNOT HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT. Either understand that I am doing my duty to you guys by informing you of things, giving the news that you guys ask for, and that I have no control (most of the time) as to what the Maker’s final product will look like, and that I only keep you guys informed because YOU ASK FOR IT, and therefore I DO NOT want to be met with antagonism, aggressiveness or any other negative emotion, or I will simply stop keeping the forums informed of pre-releases, I won’t offer any pre-sales, I won’t give any information, to anyone, of any new watches expected to be released, and I will just go to being like every other TD on here.. I can swear to all of you that this would actually make my life 10x easier, and I will not lose more than 1% of my sales. Really, I do presales, keep you guys informed, because it is what you want, NOT what I want. This is your choice, and it is the forum member’s responsibility to either stop being negative, or to all the positive forum members, it is your responsibility to put the negative people in their place. To be honest I have not been active on the forums since CNY because of all the negativity surrounding SubC V3 and Diver V5.1. It is not nice to read all these negative comments (towards me and the watches) wild speculation, silly theories, and so on and so forth. I work 18 hours a day on average to get the watches made that you want made. I answer my PMs lightning fast, I run a business with 20+ employees, I do my best for this business, for your hobby, and I do not need any extra worries on my plate, I have enough of them as it is. If you have a problem with a watch, that’s fine, state your issue, but be careful as to what you say, how you say it and whom you direct your anger towards. Stuff like “OMG, this watch is TERRIBLE, I can’t believe Noob and Angus would release such a piece of crap!” IS NOT OK IN MY BOOK, and I won’t tolerate it anymore. Comments like this turn my hobby (yes, watches are MY hobby also) into my enemy. I apologize for this letter, I don’t like writing these kinds of letters, but for me it had to be done. From now on, we can move on and continue as normal, but as I said, this is now in your hands, because if there is more of the same old negativity, then I am sorry, but as mentioned, I will just stop posting pre-releases on the forums. Your choice, guys. Cheers, A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtguk Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Wow that's some letter M, hadn't seen this before, gotta feel for him though we are hard buggers to please That's a great looking piece too ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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