[Leica] Horology

[gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)]

Nathan,

IWC and Lange are two of the world's greatest Swiss Watch makers. The Leica 
and Hassleblad of watch maker's.

Ironically, IWC started out as a US owned company 130 plus years ago and 
setup shop in Switzerland to avail of cheaper labor.

Regards,

Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: Michiel Fokkema <michiel.fokkema@wanadoo.nl>
Date: Sunday, March 26, 2006 11:58 am
Subject: Re: [Leica] Horology

> I agree Nathan, very nice day indeed.
> 
> Coincidentally Pieter owns a golden IWC chain watch inherited from 
> his 
> father.
> IWC stands for International watch company. This Swiss company 
> based in 
>  Schaffhausen is one of the most reputable watch makers in the 
> world. 
> Probably not the most well known with most people.
> An IWC can be compared to a Leica, Hasselblad, Linhof, Steinway, 
> Rolls 
> Royce, Bentley, Mont Blanc, single malt, West Vleteren trappist or 
> a 
> Tilley hat.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Michiel
> 
> Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> > I still don't know what they are talking about....but that's OK, 
> I don't 
> > need to know everything. On the other hand, I met up with 
> Michiel, 
> > Pieter (Michel's father-in-law) and Bruce in Amsterdam this 
> afternoon to 
> > see an HCB exhibition at FOAM, followed by lunch on the 
> > Rembrandtplein--sitting outside in the sunshine, enjoying a 
> seasonally 
> > appropriate beer, watching the human traffic walk by (especially 
> the 
> > female variety)--yes, it was a good day indeed :-)
> > 
> > Nathan
> > 
> > Steve Unsworth wrote:
> >> Every so often a post comes along that I have to read two or 
> three times
> >> before I grasp what it's saying. This was one of them ;-)
> >>
> >> Steve
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org
> >> [lug-bounces+lug=steveunsworth.co.uk@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> >> Jeff Moore
> >> Sent: 25 March 2006 18:34
> >> To: Leica Users Group
> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Horology
> >>
> >> Yep, funny y'all should mention that right now.  Just a few 
> days ago,
> >> after a few years of admiring them from afar, I treated myself 
> to a
> >> shiny new IWC UTC (with the "classic" face).  I saw that the 
> only UTC
> >> model now entering the retail pipelines was the newfangled, ugly,
> >> tarted-up "Spitfire" flavor, and I figured I should get one of the
> >> clean-looking ones while the getting was good.  I learned my lesson
> >> from the One True Portofino Face I Love, which became completely
> >> unavailable, new or used, while I was making up my mind.
> >>
> >> I am astonished at their ability to make a curved synthetic-
> sapphire>> crystal like that with no visible optical distortions.  
> And optically
> >> coated to reduce reflections, too -- although one wonders if the
> >> coating on the outside is just waiting to get scratched, thus 
> reducing>> the utility of the super-hard material.
> >>   
> > 
> 
> 
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