jrwong23 (aka watchthebin)[Purist]
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Celebrate with my dear friend - JLC Amvox 1 Alarm Aston Martin Special Edition
Jul 24, 2014,04:20 AM
A long time collector friend of mine, Kheng, (kfc on PuristSPro) went to collect a very special JLC which he ordered some weeks ago.
A boutique special edition JLC Amvox 1 Alarm.
Another dear friend of ours, Charles (cmlee) and I accompanied him to the JLC Singapore boutique today to collect it. All 3 of us wore a JLC watch to the JLC boutique
3 PuristS and brothers united, 3 JLCs
Kheng had an option to go for either the Amvox 1 Alarm Aston Martin special edition in calf strap or the special bracelet that is only available for this watch.
The bracelet is very special. Not too bling as the middle part is matt polished. What is amazing to us is that the links are all joined by spring bars, instead of the normal pins. I thought normally spring bars are only used for the clasp. The boutique manager explained that spring bars joining the links are better as pins tend to be knocked in when resizing. Most staff are "lazy" to remove the whole watch to resize and hence just resize the bracelet, removing or adding links, with the watch still attached to the bracelet - this can cause vibrations and stress to mechanical movements. Interesting learning for us.
Kheng decided to go for the bracelet version in the end (and if anything goes wrong next time with his choice, he has decided to blame me for life for it! - quoting him as I somewhat commented the bracelet is nicer for him)... opps
The boxes
Special Aston Martin box
A happy Kheng - came with 1 JLC (the tourby) and left with 2!
Of course, no visit to the JLC boutique is possible without getting poisoned by some lovely JLC timepieces....
Even without Vlad around, we end up self-poisoning ourselves.... by asking the boutique manager to show us some timepieces
We also admired each other's current JLC watches. A mini GTG while collecting a watch of a mate is always nice.
Charle's latest catch
Kheng's tourby in steel - I love this!
My latest love... but alas I cannot afford this MUT Tourbillon! Working out the sums on the calculator... Big time poison this watch....
Lovely watch but I think I need to save up some years for this!
Enjoy the pics! (I only brought an iPhone sorry!)
cheers
robin
This message has been edited by jrwong23 on 2014-07-24 04:20:55