Horological Beauty

Meet my new acquisition:

It's a limited edition Tag Heuer SLR. It's not actually the SLR which is only available to the Mercedes Benz McLaren SLR owners - that's an even more limited edition - for sale only to the owners of the SLR of which McLaren makes only about 20 every year.

My SLR is a rather my plebian variant - only 3500 have been made and I have number 2678 in my possession.

I've still been thinking about the Marine Breguet but it's actually quite an ordinary looking watch and the only reason why it costs what it does is because of it's Breguet name. I'm now having second thoughts about it but when I have enough 6-figure $$$ to buy either the Breguet twin tourbillon or the Breguet skeleton watch, I'll think about it.

Can you now see why I salivate wildly whenever I see these watches? In a moment of madness I briefly contemplated buying myself a replica Breguet but the madness has lifted but I'm worried that it might return.

Recently I also came across an antique Breguet which looks quite different:

Modern tourbillon watches actually display the tourbillon on the face whereas when the tourbillon was first invented, it was viewed as a more functional aspect of the watch, rather than something which contributed to its aesthetic appeal and was consequently hidden away from view, either way it's a thing of beauty.

It's going to be a long while before I can think of buying myself a tourbillon but in the meantime, I can happily dream of one of these:

This is the soon to be released Tag Heuer Grand Carrera, one of several in the Grand Carrera line. I've been told that they will be on the market before the end of the year but will be a limited production and I think I will use my Christmas money to finance the purchase of one of these beauties. I can't decide whether to get the one with the black face or the white face. The black-faced one is nice because of the contrast but the white-faced one is nice because it's nice a bright. At the moment, I 'm leaning towards the white-faced one as I just bought the black-faced SLR. In any case, I've got a few more months to decide which one I want.