What should be the basis for the new LE?
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
I'd really would like something different. What can you do to the C8 to make it different! Maybe give it a quartz movementI Why not a C90 with no complications that would keep the price manageable, even a C90 GMT (no power reserve) should be possible for £350 ish.
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
I suspect CW would be unwilling to do anything for a forum LE that could not be used as a production watch later. The previous forum LE's were unique for only a short while, and are now available to all with only a change of dial colours.
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
Now a C90 LE would have me saving every penny i have and those i found in the street!rygel16th wrote:I'm inclined to agree with you. Obviously diver's watches are very popular, but they've really been done to death at the £350 - £450 price range. Hardly a week goes by without some new micro brand popping up somewhere on the net. I really want to like the Trident but to be honest I don't think it has the individuality of the C6.andyg wrote:Another LE Diver?
I think there are far more original ideas.......
Should the Trident win, my interest will disappear.
I think the best option would be a C8 or better still the C90, although at that price I'd be out of the running for one.
Just my two pennorth.
But it won't win so I'm still going with the C8! What can be done with the C8 to add an LE element to it? Can the movement have a complication added? Would Tritium Tubes look ridiculous? A Blue Face?
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
How's about a C8 Mk2 with a chrono function similar to the Hanhart Flieger chronograph?andyg wrote:Now a C90 LE would have me saving every penny i have and those i found in the street!rygel16th wrote:I'm inclined to agree with you. Obviously diver's watches are very popular, but they've really been done to death at the £350 - £450 price range. Hardly a week goes by without some new micro brand popping up somewhere on the net. I really want to like the Trident but to be honest I don't think it has the individuality of the C6.andyg wrote:Another LE Diver?
I think there are far more original ideas.......
Should the Trident win, my interest will disappear.
I think the best option would be a C8 or better still the C90, although at that price I'd be out of the running for one.
Just my two pennorth.
But it won't win so I'm still going with the C8! What can be done with the C8 to add an LE element to it? Can the movement have a complication added? Would Tritium Tubes look ridiculous? A Blue Face?
Clearly i'm still a noob (sic)
Or even the Hamilton Military Chronograph - not a pilot's watch as such but it gives some idea of what a C8 Chrono would look like.
CW could even include the phaeon if they wanted; after all Longines are doing it.
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
like it, like it!
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
Love the idea but the cost of a chrono seemed to kick the idea into touch with the C9 Chrono suggestion. If I can't have the Flieger Chrono then I still want a C90 variant.
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
I think the C8 Chronograph may be a great idea, but along the lines of the Steinhart Nav.B Chrono.
http://www.steinhartwatches.de/index.ph ... _ID=27#159
This would use the un-modded ETA 7750 Valjous movement as used in the C40 which comes in £200 cheaper than the new C9 Chrono whith the modified ETA 7750.
To me a watch that does away with two functions (day & date) and costs £200 more seems a waste of money even if it does have a passing resembalance to an IWC Portuguese.
Maybe a ETA 7750 Chrono with a distinct C8 look would come in cheaper than the original C9 Forum LE proposal, which was rejected on cost.
http://www.steinhartwatches.de/index.ph ... _ID=27#159
This would use the un-modded ETA 7750 Valjous movement as used in the C40 which comes in £200 cheaper than the new C9 Chrono whith the modified ETA 7750.
To me a watch that does away with two functions (day & date) and costs £200 more seems a waste of money even if it does have a passing resembalance to an IWC Portuguese.
Maybe a ETA 7750 Chrono with a distinct C8 look would come in cheaper than the original C9 Forum LE proposal, which was rejected on cost.
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
Both very nice ideas ... if CWL would put a Sea-Gull ST1901 (or Poljot 3133) inside ... but the company is wedded to being "Swiss Made", and I think the ETA equivalent would add several round numbers to the price.rygel16th wrote:
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
Couldn't agree more - um - that's where I stole the movement ideaMortis wrote:Would also make it a bit too close to the PRS5...
But I imagine CWL would have their own 'take' on a 9/3 two register chrono... and the C8 case would make it very different (assuming of course that a chrono movement would fit snuggly inside it).
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
I am bored with all this speculation on the next Forum LE. Can we move on to the next stage? Please?
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
We had hoped to have something out here by now to begin discussions. Hans is away again so discussions have stalled.
We have made progress...just not as much as we had hoped for by now.
Hang in there.
We have made progress...just not as much as we had hoped for by now.
Hang in there.
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
A C90 based watch I hope!Kip wrote:We had hoped to have something out here by now to begin discussions. Hans is away again so discussions have stalled.
We have made progress...just not as much as we had hoped for by now.
Hang in there.
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
I agree here, the C8 would be second choice for me. The C90 is the way to go. Isn't an LE supposed to exclusive, stand out and be mechanically superior?Galton321 wrote:A C90 based watch I hope!Kip wrote:We had hoped to have something out here by now to begin discussions. Hans is away again so discussions have stalled.
We have made progress...just not as much as we had hoped for by now.
Hang in there.
We would all want to spend on something that had a real cache, wouldn't we? Not just a colour adaptation of an existing piece, or something that will be affordably released a few months later (a la C60).
Anyway, my two pennuth turned into a score. apologies.......
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Re: What should be the basis for the new LE?
Changed my vote. Decided I'd much rather buy a C8 LE rather than a Trident, which I have gone off in the last couple of weeks.
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