Our trip to the 2nd Annual NY GTG (> 100 pics inside)

[PCS]

Thanks to Hannes for the translation.


Original thread (in german): GMTs ihrer ordnungsgemäßen Bestimmung zugeführt. (Modemburner > 100 Pics)

The GMT ist not only a beautiful but also a practical watch.
It has two timezones in one !

After arriving in a different timezone all you have to is to set the small hand hour by hour
to the local time and the red/green 24-hour-hand stays at your hometime.

Thats a nice attribute but it is useless if you always stay at home.




So to test the function all you need is an airplane.





Lufthansa was so kind to leave us one for a small charge:
The fleets grandpa "Thüringen" (whis is one of Germanys states)





Hannes was skeptical. Will there be a happy end... ?

Come on, Hannes. Easy





Hm. The experiment should have started 20 minutes ago...






Hmmmmm. Actually half an hour ago...






Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Actually 2 hours ago





What happend?
The catering company LSG was moving its location at this day.

To make it short: After 2 hours waiting in the plane we left Frankfurt without catering.
On board you could choose between water, orange juice and red wine
added by a 4-cheese-pasta cooked to rags.






Crossing the Rhein River.....









....passing ice and snow......








Are we in an different time zone now? Can we start the experiment?





Come one. Let´s do it !





The leg area had about 9°F






Lufthansa - there's no better way to fly.





Dirt and dust wherever you were looking, a non working Inseat System without sound - This flight was the worst we ever had.







Where are we now? Rhein? Donau?






Olympic Stadium in Munich?





No. It´s the old Giants Stadium next to new one.
And the river is not the Rhein, it´s the Hudson.


We are in.....................






..... yessssssssss! NEW YORK!!!!


Welcome !





And here we go:
The 12-hour-hand shows local time - here 6:24 pm and the 24-hour-hand is set to CET: 0:24 am.
Ain´t that easy?





Oh. There´s our Limo. If it is ok that we don´t have the LVs but the GMT LNs with us?




I guess no. Instead the S-Class we had to take a manky old Lincoln - matching our plane - which had not only the mirror botched







Towards Manhattan






Holland Tunnel






China Town






Empire State Building





Deserved Dinner at an Irish Pup (O´Neills)






On Friday a first meeting with other watch nuts






Ain't that BLING BLING??








Scenes from an italian restaurant















Saturday: Sight-Seeing in Lower Manhattan












Yes. Parking is expensive here !





And you have to optimize the lots







ESB is always watching you






Manhattan got cleaner. But not everywhere









Little Italy








Even the hydrants are showing the italian colors






the restaurants, too. Of cousre.






And he´s having a look at them:







A view back:






A short detour to China Town






And a few impressions...









"Come on now"









Ground Zero












Hannes and his old buddy






Trinity Church






Wall Street












Brooklyn Bridge









The Caribbean Princess.
290m long, 36m wide, 19 floors for more than 3000 passengers. Build in 2004.






Percy taking pictures





















Madison Avenue















Central Park






Big wedding on 5th Avenue





Trump Tower






A bride is looking for breakfast





Famous brand No. 1






Famous brand No. 2






St. Patrick's






Rockefeller Center







And now we are here:












Watch GetToGether






2nd Annual NY GTG






Milos & John






JD, Milos & Idle Swede






Watches from Bull






"Hello. My name is Hannes and I'm interested in Rolex"






"some more fingerfood for the Ladys ?"






John & Boris






Watches






even more watches






GMT GTG









No, it´s not what it seems to be






Erol & Boris






Idle Swede & Larry K.






Hannes, John & Milos






And even in the US there are female watch nuts






"Bull watches anyone?"






Times Square at night









New York in the "Sex and the City" fever






M&M as King Kong









TOKIO HOTEL??????












Everyday traffic






Sunday:

Where are we now?






If you have not seen NY from up here you haven´t seen NY









Flat Iron Building






Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island






For memories






Chrysler Building






Ex Pan Am Building






View to Times Square and Central Park






and to the East River





The Norwegian Dawn





You want me to explain the GMT function again?






Herald Square and Macy's









Taxis, Taxis, Taxis






Indy wherever you go






The weather changes






back to the airport






What is Hannes lookig for?






Aaaaah! The 747 "Bayern". This one is much nicer than the one that brought us here.





Little more left






"Stop!"






And so our GMT test finally comes to an end





Setting the time and back was very easy.
If you own a GMT you should try it once.


In this spirit......






Special Thanks to Milos & John

[alicia]

thanks for sharing

[Marsellus]

Thanks a lot for taking us with you

[tweakshop_be]

Great report Percy, I enjoyed the pics, thanks!

BTW "Bull" watch should actually be "Ball" watch!

[Mike Wood]

looked like a good time was had by all!

[jholbrook]

GREAT trip report...err....GMT field test.

I'm so glad you guys made it this year!

[thesharkman]

percy,

GREAT post. wish i could have met up w/ you and hannes after all these years one day

<* shark >>><

[ehemaliges mitglied]

I would like to say that it was great meeting John, Hannes and Percy and everybody else who attended the gettogether. I wish my flight had not been delayed by 6 hours, but I thoroughly enjoyed the time that was left. Hope we can repeat this next year if not earlier at another location...

[bullibeer]

Wooow guy's.... fantastic trip,... and that you are doing that... in the first place...

Thanks for sharing




And what is James doing there with the ladies..... the old charm.... LOL

[Passionata]

especially the last one

[ehemaliges mitglied]

Well, I wanted to contribute some photos from my trip to the New York watchfan gettogether. Not necessarily watchrelated, but intended to be funny.

Right before landing on the rooftop of Connolly's: Just kiddin...


Liberty is welcoming me:


Graffiti art on the streets of NYC:


The next president of the US: Oh I am hoping this is polically correct... but statistically it looks undisputably good for him:


I was surprised that this lady is not causing a ton of accidents on the streets of Manhattan: I'd pay 17 bucks for her Bikini top...LOL


John in the middle, and Mr. J. Dowling to the very left:


Cheers Hannes:


Jet set attending the event... just kiddin, I took that picture somewhere in another bar:


my aircraft back to Chicago:


back in o'Hare:

[alfisti]

WOW,
very interested story!