A dress watch selection

[jrodshibuya]

Do you have any criteria e.g. size restrictions? Gold/SS, square/round shape etc?

I think the Sinn is stylistically too similar to the IWC, so would question how essential that is in your collection, or go for one without white dial and blue numbers etc. But out of the IWC I much prefer the crown of the second one, and it looks more like a classical dress watch.
Personally I prefer brands that have strong dress-watch history - Breguet, Patek, JLC etc. For that reason I wouldn't go for the Breitling, even though it is nice.

Since this is turning into a 'post pictures of nice dress watches' I quite like this Glashutte, kind of interesting, and good value at $88.

I'm also rather partial to this one as it's in my size range, it's a 21j movement, does anyone have an idea of which complications will work?

 

[Fortey]

This is a suitable dress watch, IMO. Black dial is also available.

And if anyone finds it in the 40mm, please let me know All I can find is 43, way bigger than the gen.

 

[jrodshibuya]

And if anyone finds it in the 40mm, please let me know All I can find is 43, way bigger than the gen.

Seems to be a common pattern, which is quite annoying.

 

[tokeyx]

Stay away from the seconds at 6 IWC.

 

[imbisibol]

i'd go for Ballon Cartier or IWC Portuguese.

 

[WashedUpRealityTvStar]

i'd go for Ballon Cartier or IWC Portuguese.

Like this?

 

[jrodshibuya]

That is lovely. What movement does it have?

 

[WashedUpRealityTvStar]

That is lovely. What movement does it have?

Eta

 

[stew007]

Some that catch my eye

 

[Pakz]

Some pictures of the IWC are on this thread:
http://forum.replica-watch.info/vb/showthread.php/another-fa-jones-love-thread-75754
Just to illustrate:

 

[jrodshibuya]

Stew - the Breguet and A Lange you posted are real tourbillons aren't they?

 

[rychastings]

the IWC FA Jones is an amazing piece. You will not be disappointed if you go with that one

 

[honeybear]

I just ordered a JLC Master Tourbillon from Hont. It is like the one available from Puretimewatch.

 

[Celt]

I just ordered a JLC Master Tourbillon from Hont. It is like the one available from Puretimewatch.

I was close to go for this one but the 45mm case and really wrong mistake on the dial just stopped me

 

[thedoover]

I have the Portuguese that you are considering and love it. However the hand wound with seconds at 6 should cause you no problems. The only seconds at 6problems occur from 7750 movements. 21j and hand wound should be fine.
Is the second one the FA Jones? I would say that the port 7 days is a more modern dress watch and the FA Jones is older - early 20th century style to me due to hand shape and font style.

 

[stew007]

Stew - the Breguet and A Lange you posted are real tourbillons aren't they?

Yes, these two were from Puretime watches

 

[Wuggy]

lovely, but I always heard stay away from anything complex when it comes to reps. Is this no longer the case?

 

[honeybear]

I was close to go for this one but the 45mm case and really wrong mistake on the dial just stopped me

I've seen different specifications on this watch, but my understanding is that it's closer to 43mm, or even possibly 40mm. What is the mistake on the dial you're referring to? I know it doesn't have the second time zone and date complication of the genuine article, but I don't think there's any replica tourbillon that's truly accurate to the genuine watch.

 

[Pakz]

I've seen different specifications on this watch, but my understanding is that it's closer to 43mm, or even possibly 40mm. What is the mistake on the dial you're referring to? I know it doesn't have the second time zone and date complication of the genuine article, but I don't think there's any replica tourbillon that's truly accurate to the genuine watch.

I guess that the fact that the dial says "tourbillon régulateur" when the hands settings makes the watch a non-régulateur since hour and minutes share the same center post can be considered an "awful mistake", even though the real JLC watches say "régulateur à tourbillon" when they have "normal hands settings"...

 

[Celt]

I've seen different specifications on this watch, but my understanding is that it's closer to 43mm, or even possibly 40mm. What is the mistake on the dial you're referring to? I know it doesn't have the second time zone and date complication of the genuine article, but I don't think there's any replica tourbillon that's truly accurate to the genuine watch.

Yep the fact that this is not a regulateur kills it, but that's just me and even if this also appear on a Gen does not legitimate it ...

I have a picture of this watch next to a dssd and this watch looks almost bigger! I will try to find it for you when I'm home this evening...