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Welcome to my watch journey 🙇🏻‍♂️
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Monday Pink, anyone? Who needs Monday blues when you can start the week in pink! 🌸 Wishing the #APfamily a great week ahead! #AudemarsPiguet #RoyalOakOffshore #PinkIsTheNewBlue #MondayMood
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Your eyes do not deceive you, that’s indeed a Yellowjacket. 🧥 Witness the rarer-than-hen’s-teeth Datograph in yellow gold, Lumen, and other collectible horological art at CHALLENGING CHRONOGRAPHS, @ALangeSoehne’s upcoming pop-up exhibition at @ION_Orchard. Experience a fresh perspective on mechanical craft through the lens of classic automobiles, and why their creators and collectors will fight tooth and nail to ensure they live on. #SingaporeWatchClub
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One for every day, one for the dressier days. 🖤✨ Very grateful to add another LE Ref. 26674BC to the collection. A beautiful balance of versatility, elegance and horological artistry. Some pieces just find their way into your heart. NWA. . . . #26674bc #15416ce #audermarspiguet #limitededition #horology
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Audemars Piguet Calibre 7122 As usual in Part III, here’s a movement shot of the Neo Frame - Calibre 7122. This is essentially the same movement as the modern ‘Jumbo’ Royal Oak/ref. 16202 - Cal.7121, with jumping hour mechanism. The watch nerd in me wants to nitpick about not having a shaped movement. Truth is, I’m not fussed about having a shaped movement/rectangular movement in this case. The symmetry of two golden bridges supporting the balance wheel and barrel is more than enough beauty for my eyes. Perhaps I’m not so geeky after all 🤓
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Audemars Piguet Neo Frame - Part II It is quite refreshing to see the Royal Oak coming up with something else other than AP. Read it fast and even the most trained watch enthusiasts might not discern the faux pas. While I love AP’s Royal Oak just like the next chap in line(a very long line), we’re not here to talk about AP’s most iconic model. 

AP doesn’t re-invent the wheel, and as far as the cliché goes, is also why nobody made square wheels. But when it comes to watches, rectangle seem to be pretty en-vogue right now. Just ask Cartier. Thankfully for AP, they never had the habit of following others’ drumbeat. Despite all the rights to re-issue an homage like the one they from 1929, AP came up with a new frame, quite literally. No, not onyx nor black lacquer. It’s a layer of black PVD under sapphire glass. Besides the benefit of being virtually scratch proof, this Neo Frame is decidedly different from any other jumping hours wristwatches. My favourite part? Swipe to see the logo disappear.
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Audemars Piguet Neo Frame In a secret ploy to ensure proper succession of my watches, I’ve been inculcating horological love in my offsprings. Step one, read the time. Who knew reading numbers off two hands is harder than getting them to shower. My ploy is not going too well. So imagine my surprise when they rattled off “the time is 1051” with just one glance on this Neo Frame. Damn you, iGod. 
‘Digital’ display of time isn’t new and neither is jumping hour. IWC did it first in 1885 with Pallweber’s pocket watch. Then AP (1921) and Cartier (1928) with wristwatches. The style of yore is encased entirely in metal, revealing only hour and minutes via two little windows or guichets. Yes, it’s also where Cartier’s Tank à Guichet got its namesake suffix. 

Calling jump hour a ‘complication’, is a little complicated. After all, it only tells time. To make the ‘hour’ jump however, requires a touch of magic. Watch engineers would scoff and say it’s just an interplay of snail cam and hooked lever arm with a twelve spoked wheel. But isn’t that what magic is all about; hiding the inner workings from plain sight. Don’t get me wrong though, I would still love a skeletonised Neo Frame. Not everything needs to be explained - or worse, mansplain - that this AP Neo Frame isn’t a fitness tracker. Whoops (intended). All I had to do was get my kids to pay extra attention on the 59th minute. When the hour frame jumped with a tactile sound and all, this watch received a praise of the highest order “ooh wow, that’s so cool”. I guess my succession plan is on track. 

TLDR: Whoops, I did it again. #NWA. p.s: swipe and wait for the dramatic ‘jump’
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A truly memorable afternoon at AP House, Raffles Hotel. From coffee and pastries at AP Café to finally choosing a blue strap for my AP Star Wheel, every part of the experience was exceptional. Special thanks to Justin for the professional service and attention to detail. #audemarspiguet #aphouse #raffleshotel #apstarwheel #wristcheck What do you think of my new strap???
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🚨 NWA 🚨 Please welcome my latest acquisition: Tudor Black Chrono Bay 39 “Bumblebee” M79310N-0001 🐝🐝🐝 Very thankful to the boutique manager for making this come true. Now it’s time to hunt down the flamingo 🦩 blue 🩵, to complete the “daring chrono trio” 🩷💛🩵 #Time4Lux #Time2Watch #Tudor #TudorChrono #Bumblebee
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Nothing better than a perfectly fitting strap
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Two-tone #RoyalOak pocket watches five decades apart. History really does repeat itself, doesn’t it? #RoyalPop #VintageAP #SingaporeWatchClub Royal Oak Pocket Watches
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Amidst the #RoyalPop frenzy, how about a #RoyalOak collar pin? And yes it’s a fully-functioning timepiece, part of the amazing collection of @PygmalionGallery. #SingaporeWatchClub #PygmalionGallery
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NWA! My No.8 Otsuka Lotec ! Inspired by music mixing consoles from Recording studios- the no.8 doesn’t have traditional hands but an innovative system that incorporates a retrograde minutes and jump hour . The vibe is so cool and totally synonymous with what I’ve come to expect from @jiro.katayama san 👏👏👏 Not only is it so novel and cool aesthetically and horologically speaking ; it’s very wearable on my 16.5cm wrist which is pretty special for a rectangular shaped case- this is thanks to the clever lug angles which soften the silhouette whilst on the wrist . Overall - I have to say Jiro san has delivered again and this is a stunner in the metal and holds its own not only in his current lineup but also punches way above its weight amongst other independent brands out there that are priced much higher. I am a very Happy customer!👏👏👏💪💪💪👊👊👊
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