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More Pictures of my PAM 233 L

7th Watch, PAM 233 L Series

Ok I finally got my grail watch, the PAM 233, of cos there are other watches that Im fancying like the AP ROO Volcano, AP ROO Panda, Patek Phillip, Richard Mille, etc. The only problem is the dough....pockets too shallow for now I guess....currently all my watches are either inside my winder or my watch display cases, the only watch with more wrist time would be the PAM 233...hahaha ops...even going to the market for breakfast or running errands, I would strap on my 233 with my super lok kok clothes and go out...hahaha guess thats how deeply poisonous the 233 is....ok now some pics to share....

6th Watch, PAM 320 L Series

I thought by getting the Deepsea it could subside the itch within me for the 233.....it still could not...till I buey tahan and went ahead and got myself the PAM 320 L series! 1950s Case, 3 Days Power Reserve, GMT, In House Panerai Movement....Nice I thought heheh, no need 233 liao! But....haha guess U know the rest...

5th Watch, Rolex DeepSea

Surfing on the watch forum, I came across some posts of fellow forummers posting pictures of their newly acquired PAM 233, wow its a beauty I though and it had an 8 day Power reserve....really impressive, it was to be my PAM holy grail and I thought it would be the next PAM I would get! Alas, after a few clicks on the World Wide Web..I found out that 233 is actually a manual wind watch and God I really prefer self winding watches compared to manual winding ones......also the price was...ahemz...the wrong side of my pocket..hahaha so I tried to comfort myself by buying a Rolex Deep Sea Sea Dweller instead and I thought I had gotten over the 233....I tot....haha

4th Watch, Sinn U1 SDR

I had always been a fan of the Sinn U1 Phantom THG LE of 399pcs but it was already sold out and prices on the resale market is a wee bit high...so I dropped the idea..... Was passing by THG one day, saw a Sinn U1 SDR on display and before I knew it, the Sinn U1 SDR was already on my wrist and I was signing the credit card slip...oh my God....what was I doing....I later walked out of the shop feeling abit feverish....as though the watch devil had taken possession of my body and I didn't know what I was doing as well....Sinn U1 SDR is a really nice simple and functional watch. I love the colour contrast of the hands and also the weight of the watch.....ok some pictures to share.....

3rd Watch, PAM 104 M Series

Just recently, in June this year, which has been awhile since I last visited watch webs and I was surfing the Panerai Website and suddenly I had the itch again, my watch itch had subsided ever since my Sea Dweller was sold.....which was more than a year ago.....

I called my buddy Daniel and said hey, I'm thinking to get a PAM, any base PAM with the trade mark crown protector will do...anyone from far can see its a PAM, so there was no need to get a higher end PAM so I thought....Daniel said get a PAM 176 will do....while my other buddy said 176 has no date, the movement is outdated, etc not worth. Should at least get one with a date. A few phone calls later, my Local AD has a 176, 104, 164 and 320 in stock.

I made a trip down, due to budget, I got the 104 as it had a date, it is an automatic and most importantly it had the crown protector! Some pics below of my PAM 104 M.

My 2nd Watch, a Rolex Sea Dweller "V" Series

There was a Rolex fever among my buddies, I was infatuated by Rolex watches and I knew I had to have one! I wanted a Sub LV as I was captivated by the green bezel and I needed to get it. Once I reached my AD, he told me, brother, you can get a Sub LV anytime but Sea Dweller has been discontinued, somemore its a "V" Series, die die must get! So I pondered over it and finally decided on the Sea Dweller. It became my favourite watch, I bought a watch winder and put both the Maurice and SeaDweller into the watch winder and could not bear to wear them.....ok I'm being a wee bit long winded....some pics of the Sea Dweller....

Sadly, the Sea Dweller has been sold to a nice gentleman more than a year ago....a family crisis and I needed the cash so it had to go....I'm still missing it lots....sighs...hope it found a good home!

My First Swiss Auto, Maurice Lacroix Pontos Chrono

Ahh...real nice memories of my first proper watch...some pictures below of the watch....

The Winding Rotor of the Modified ETA 7750 Movement by Maurice Lacroix. Although its cheap, it is a reliable and robust workhorse.

It is carefully kept, though many watch fans may think it is just a cheap Swiss Auto watch, it holds a special place in my heart....many time pieces come and go....this watch...will stay with me for a long time to come.......

My Watch Hobby Journey

Being a total watch noob, I only knew I liked Panerai Watches and thats it! As long there is a crown protector, I will know that its a Panerai Watch.

Before I start, then I had heard of people spending tens of thousands, some even hundreds of thousands on just a watch and I seriously thought these bunch of watch fanatics are crazy and I consider them to be lunatics....I have since jumped onto the lunatic bandwagon and became a lunatic as well...

Being the typical guy next door, I had pretty shallow pockets, "dough" was never enough, I would spend more on my cars, changing them "regularly" at least once a year much to the dismay of my loved ones around me....back then cars "were" indeed my passion and I was deeply "poisoned" to say the least.

Ok fast forward to 2009 where I started being more interested in watches, mainly under the influence of my buddies, Daniel and Loner hahaha where Daniel started off collecting Bell & Ross Watches and Loner Vintage Rolexes. Wow! I was intrigued by the mass variety of brands available on the market and there were only a handful of brands that was more popular and I was interested in. Namely Rolex, Panerai, AP, Patek Phillipe, etc

My first real automatic swiss watch, a Maurice Lacroix Pontos Chrono. It is running on an ETA 7750 modified movement, though it wasn't an in house movement, I still loved it and kept it carefully and only bringing it out to wear whenever there was an event important and big enough for me to put it on.

Till today which is only a year and three quarters, the watch is still with me safely kept in my Mitch & Marc watch display case. I still wear it albeit less often compared to in the beginning. Its getting alot less wrist time as compared to my PAMs and Rolexes.....

parte di tempo

parte di tempo essentially means "Time Piece" in Italian, why, you are asking..?? The Greatest Time Pieces were Swiss Made you are saying....

Well I'm a die hard PAM fan and since PAMs originated in Italy, I decided to use the Italian expression for "Time Piece" instead..haha...

Ok...I was thinking hard about the name for my Watch Blog, in the end I tried using an online translator and I did try to translate to the Swiss version but the translator didn't support the Swiss Language. So I tried the Italian instead and indeed, it turned out sounding out pretty nice so I decided on this name instead.