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Drove over to the Stowa facility today to have a look around. Very nice folks. Saw an original pilots watch. Holy cow that thing is big. But appropriately so. Saw a couple of very unusual watches that had cascading date style wheel that indicated the time. Kind of like a slide-rule. I rather liked those.
I was greeted by a very nice young lady, spoke English very well, Offered me coffee or water. She was very patient while I gawked at the watches and answered my silly questions. And as if that weren't enough. She was very pretty as well. One of my goals in visiting Stowa was to look at the Ikarus. It is much more handsome in person than on a monitor. Just something about that grey dial seems to make it very hard to photograph. They had one of the pilots watches with the decorated handaufzug 2801. Very, Very nice. And 1MM thinner.
What surprised me was the size of them. Mind you. My TAG that I just sold was an old 6000 chronograph with a 40MM case with a 25MM or so inner dial. So to be honest. I was expecting to be underwhelmed with a 40MM watch. So as you can imagine I was surprised at how big a 40mm watch looked on my 190MM/7.4" wrist. There is so much dial area and not much bezel. Which is a good thing for a guy that has to short an arm for his eyesight.
So. I got to see the Stowa facility and received the Kadloo ocean date I bought from Caddymon in the same day. It was good to be me today. I do believe there is a Stowa watch in my future. Great watch, Great people at Stowa. A winning combo for sure.
Drove over to the Stowa facility today to have a look around. Very nice folks. Saw an original pilots watch. Holy cow that thing is big. But appropriately so. Saw a couple of very unusual watches that had cascading date style wheel that indicated the time. Kind of like a slide-rule. I rather liked those.
I was greeted by a very nice young lady, spoke English very well, Offered me coffee or water. She was very patient while I gawked at the watches and answered my silly questions. And as if that weren't enough. She was very pretty as well. One of my goals in visiting Stowa was to look at the Ikarus. It is much more handsome in person than on a monitor. Just something about that grey dial seems to make it very hard to photograph. They had one of the pilots watches with the decorated handaufzug 2801. Very, Very nice. And 1MM thinner.
What surprised me was the size of them. Mind you. My TAG that I just sold was an old 6000 chronograph with a 40MM case with a 25MM or so inner dial. So to be honest. I was expecting to be underwhelmed with a 40MM watch. So as you can imagine I was surprised at how big a 40mm watch looked on my 190MM/7.4" wrist. There is so much dial area and not much bezel. Which is a good thing for a guy that has to short an arm for his eyesight.
So. I got to see the Stowa facility and received the Kadloo ocean date I bought from Caddymon in the same day. It was good to be me today. I do believe there is a Stowa watch in my future. Great watch, Great people at Stowa. A winning combo for sure.
