My wife likes watches but on a recent walk down Collins St in Melbourne she stopped in her tracks outside the VC AD....it was the picture of the 1921 in the windows that stopped her in her tracks. It's such a stunning piece.
Loved the style of video. I’ll be getting mine in 40mm white gold. Your videos helped inform me and helped make my decision on what I believe is one of the best and earliest lines of tool/dress watches.
It's a fantastic watch! What I find really interesting is that it's original inception, purpose and UX was almost the modern definition of a toolwatch, a watch specifically configured for the driver of that era. These days many consider this piece to be a dress watch...which doesn't do it justice. Great watch and a fantastic video 🙂
I'm planning to get the white gold 40mm soon, but I would really prefer the original 1919 version in a larger case. The original small seconds at the rotated 6 position (i.e. 7:30) is correctly aligned with the dial and presents a nice balance with the offset crown and VC logo. But the current version with the small seconds at rotated 3 (4:30) is misaligned and makes the whole dial lopsided. Frankly this drives my OCD crazy, but at the end of the day it's still a lovely watch and I expect I'll get used to it 😐 PS - when my hands are at 10 and 2 on a steering wheel I can't even see the face, so I'm not convinced about the whole 'driver's watch' story (many experts seem to doubt this too). But the 'preacher's watch' story does seem to be genuine, even if it only accounted for 2 sales 😏