To all you Leica nerds with more money than brains...

illumiquest · May 22, 2014

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/introducing-the-valbray-el1-100-years-of-leica-photography-edition

Only 17,999 Euros, a bargain!

Jeff Kubach · May 22, 2014

For that price I'm getting 2!

Jeff

darkosaric · May 22, 2014

illumiquest said:
http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/introducing-the-valbray-el1-100-years-of-leica-photography-edition

Only 17,999 Euros, a bargain!

Nice camera, but question is ... Will It Blend?

BradleyK · May 22, 2014

Thanks for the post, but my $100 USD LL Bean Field Watch does the job just fine!

Mustafa Umut Sarac · May 22, 2014

You can find it from china for 100 dollars next month.

c.d.ewen · May 22, 2014

Where's the red dot?

Charley

jp498 · May 22, 2014

WTF with an hour marker set for 4:30? 4:20 would be more popular and only ten minutes earlier.

Nick Merritt · May 22, 2014

Mustafa Umut Sarac said:
You can find it from china for 100 dollars next month.

That's the one I would buy!

hdeyong · May 22, 2014

There's a sucker born every……..

AgX · May 22, 2014

I like that idea with the diaphragm.

Tom1956 · May 22, 2014

I wonder if it takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Actually a Hamilton is a darn fine watch.

AgX · May 22, 2014

I read Valbray and not Hamilton.

cliveh · May 22, 2014

AgX said:
I like that idea with the diaphragm.

+1, although very expensive. I would like to see them install a shutter mechanism, where the iris diaphragm would open and you could see the time for 1/4, 1/2, 1 second intervals with the associated sound of a Leica shutter.

benjiboy · May 22, 2014

If I paid that sort of money for a watch I'd at least want numbers on the dial and not have to play guessing games, it's the horological equivalent of "sunny sixteen".

AgX · May 22, 2014

I guess you get those numbers in addition when you order that red-dot.

Ulrich Drolshagen · May 22, 2014

I suppose the MP is included?

250swb · May 22, 2014

We can only wait, a long time as it happens, for the tumult and fanboy histrionics when Canon and Nikon get to 100 years of camera production. The wankers will be out in force then, so why not consider a bit of generosity of spirit for a camera company celebrating something that changed the face of photography?

Steve

RalphLambrecht · May 22, 2014

c.d.ewen said:
Where's the red dot?

Charley

that's extra

segedi · May 22, 2014

46mm grade 5 titanium case - Yes!
Threads for a filter - No!

Honestly if I did, as the OP suggested, have a bank account far in excess of my IQ, I'd take one of each. It looks like a very nifty watch.

Zathras · May 22, 2014

I'm sure some GASBAG over at Rangefinder Forum would consider this a must have.

giannisg2004 · May 22, 2014

The ad on the site is ironic.

In my case it shows a Nomos Metro watch.

Which is so much better than the watch advertised.
With 2500€ you get an in-house movement from top to bottom (balance wheel, spring, escapement, etc.), which means flexibility in design (it shows, with the off center reserve dial and the huge outer edge date dial), and finer tuning for better accuracy.

And they're asking 17000€ for a generic off the shelf ETA movement.

Not to mention that the clean, Bauhaus-y look and feel of the Nomos, along with the hand made craftsmanship is a better match to Leica in spirit, compared to this overpriced bloated timepiece.

Newt_on_Swings · May 23, 2014

That watch has such an ugly face, really odd combination of busy lines all over and that obnoxious V. Totally gimmicky aperture dial. Also the back is tinted grey for the darkroom? What why not red?! Also points off for no vulcanite inspired strap or film rewind styled pull out winding stem.

pen s · May 23, 2014

Oh shucks, I already have a $25 Timex. Every 2 weeks it gets 3 seconds behind and I reset it. I've had it for 2 years and when the battery poops I'll toss it and get another. My experience with these watches is that they last 4~5 years. That works out to 2 cents per day for accurate time.

(No, I don't carry a cell phone)

Mustafa Umut Sarac · May 23, 2014

I buy my 10 dollars swatch watches from etsy and reasonable looking 6 dollars watches from dx. I have a swiss paper thin kremlin palace watch dial worths few thousands dollars but I did not buy a battery to it since its presented.

Mustafa Umut Sarac · May 23, 2014

More interesting news to you , my friend is working for the biggest watch dealer in Turkey and he told me that all their omega , tissot you name it watches worths hundreds or thousands dollar are made in china with their special order. WOSTEP training program if I am not wrong costs to you 25000 dollars in Swiss and only only program to you to open a rolex. There are lot cheaper wostep programs in china , kuala lumpur malaysia and australia. Some of them only trains in chinese. Chinese imitators have so well trained force and they can copy a million dollars worth of tourbillon watch for 1500 dollars. Every year chinese officials buys 10 billion dollars worth of highest price swiss watches and lot bigger amount of that money subsidized with chinese goverment. Last year , chinese goverment stopped that and swiss high price watch industry went in crisis. You ask who buys them ? Answer Chinese officials.

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