I’m a fairly sporadic poster on these forums, but I do read a lot more than I post, so I thought I’d post my new (old) acquisition. I call it a new (old) acquisition as this is my third big pilot. My first “luxury” watch was in 2009 at the age of 26 when I bought the IWC pilot chronograph. I was abs
After several years of putting my money towards other things (typical story….married, house, kids etc) my wife thinks I need to get back into watch collecting as it’s obviously always been a big part of my life, and I’ve been saying for years that I really miss my Big Pilot, but I think I want the B
..is what I regret selling the most. I’m not going to pretend the wild price increase isn’t a factor, but mainly I regret that I owned this watch in 2013 and only kept it 9 months or so as it just didn’t suit my lifestyle at the time (30 years old, very active, almost exclusively wore sports watches
Obviously in an ideal world I’d have had the means to buy both! I agree that I’d prefer my choice without date, but I still love it and really think of it a a perfect casual watch. Plus it goes well with my wife’s reverso! Also, after 20 years of collecting watches I have come to the conclusion that