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Mine is the zenith chronomaster sport in white. I’ll be optimistic and say that I’m somewhat likely to get it but not for a while, and by the time I have the money maybe I’ll have a different grail. Idk tho because this watch is stunning.
Lmk what yours is and add a picture if you can. Some of you might already even have theirs.
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A Lange & Sohne Datograph. Likelihood of getting it: never
Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked.
Not likely at all. I doubt I’ll ever have spent enough at the boutique to have a shot, or have the roughly $140k in disposable income to buy it on the gray market.
No Tachimeter on a chrono ? Never seen that before that’s interesting.
Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 41, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to justify ~$6,000 on a watch. That said, I do believe it is the end all, be all of GADA watches.
Either a Seamaster 300 or Tudor BB58. Neither of which I’ll ever be able to justifiably afford in my lifetime. My realistic grail is just a Sinn 556i RS.
- I think they’re amazing. I didn’t know when I was looking for the first time it was the John Mayer. I’m in my 30s so wouldn’t spend 100k on a watch as I’m still sorting out retirement and Porsches and planes but maybe when I’m 50+ I’ll grab it
Damn dude that watch is amazing i might cop it.
Rainbow daytona. Probably won’t happen.
If I’m being realistic, it’s a VC Fiftysix in steel with a blue dial. I might be able to slowly work my way up to that.
But my actual grail is the AP Code 11.59 Starwheel. Which I will never be able to afford.
Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra 150m in green. Basicaly 0% chance of getting it
There are 3 watches that I absolutely want, 1. Richard mille rm055 bubba white, somewhat likely, rolex day-date 40mm platinum arabic dial fluted bezel, probably down the line, and rolex yacht master 40mm in rodium with the blue needle, I hope I’ll get it in like 3 years
Patek Pertual Calendar Chronograph in yellow gold. Chances of getting it are whatever my odds are of winning the lottery.
The watch I have most obsessed over, and was recently fortunate enough to be able to purchase, is the Reverso Duoface (classic medium small seconds).
I remember seeing ads for early versions of the Duoface in glossy magazines when I was in my teens, but what piqued my interest in owning a Reverso was, ironically, Watchfinder’s video about the Baume et Mercier Hampton 10528—which totally sold me on rectangular dress watches, and which attracted a few comments mentioning the Reverso as an obvious inspiration for B&M’s design.
For nearly three years I considered all the many different options: vintage or modern? Monoface, duoface, memory, or display caseback? Of course the Hybris Mechanica Quadriptyque and Hybris Artistica Gyrotourbillon are probably my true grails, but even eliminating all the completely impossible choices still leaves so many amazing models to choose from.
Eventually I narrowed it down to a set of four models all of which were reasonably available (but only one currently in production) and made a spreadsheet to compare them. Obsessive checking of review videos followed, mainly to try to get a sense of whether the two “large” models would fit on my rather slim wrist; eventually after trying a few different models on I decided that the medium would be a better fit. That narrowed it to two, and although I love the front dial of the Q3838420 I much preferred the back dial of the current Q2458420.
Unfortunately the medium size is relatively rare on the pre-owned market (especially in the UK) and this past May when, after many months of scouring eBay and Chrono24, I saw a post here that JLC was going to be putting their prices up again I bit the bullet and enjoyed a very delightful but mildly impoverishing afternoon at the JLC boutique.
Of course no grail is ever an end, so what next?
Curiously enough it’s probably the Mondaine Stop2Go. There’s a new 41mm version available now available for preorder—and I might—but what I really want is one of the early, ~36mm versions, now long out of production and rare enough I’ve seen only one come up for sale in the last several years.
Even more humbly, I also want a SARB033—but as a matter of principle am unwilling to pay more than its original MSRP, so this quest is one I expect to continue for some time, despite prices at last moving in the right direction.
Omega Speedmaster Pro. Very unlikely unless I get a decent retirement lump sum.
