WL131F.BA0710
Clearly, not all Kiriums are created equal, some are definitely intrinsically nicer than others and this blue dial version is right up there for me. I happened upon this watch on eBay a few weeks ago and I really thought my wife would go for it, especially as the asking price of £280 seems very reasonable to me. The seller was open to offers, but turned down an offer of £250 and my wife decided not to pursue it any further.
I can't quite fathom the idea that it's worth losing a watch for the sake of £30 myself, but there you go. She's obviously not quite as obsessed as I am. But clearly the market agrees with her as the watch went unsold and has popped up back on eBay once again for the same asking price.
I think this is a stunning watch and if I thought for one second I could wear a 29mm watch on my 7.3/4" wrist then I'd buy it myself!
As I've said before, I think the brushed Kiriums generally look better than the polished ones, but for a ladies watch with a jewel blue dial it makes total sense. I think my wife has some reservations about the watch because the photographs show up a lot of surface scratches, but to be honest I bet they aren't as bad as they look in the pics. Polished watches always seem to photograph quite badly, but you should still be aware that a lot of polished Kiriums have been worn as beaters... sometimes I wonder what sort of person buys a polished luxury watch and then wears it to their day job breaking rocks?
This particular example comes with all the (correct period) boxes and a warranty card, albeit the card seems to have some very odd marks on it, it looks like it says TAG Heuer Malaysia - but it looks like its been punched into the plastic, which looks a bit strange, but maybe that's how they do things over there?
Again, I can't vouch for the seller, but she has very good feedback, I think I'll give the wife one more look and see if I can't persuade her to try again.
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