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Philippe Dufour Simplicity, De Bethune DB28, And Fondue: What’s Going On Here?

by Ian Skellern

Some meals are memorable for the food, some for the company, and some for a watch at the table.

And then there are those that hit the ball right out of the park by getting top marks in all three.

Make up any story you like to explain how a very contemporary De Bethune DB28 and a very traditional Philippe Dufour Simplicity came to be sharing a bowl of molten cheese in the Swiss Jura mountains.

De-Bethune-DB28-Dufour-Simplicity_fondue

Please share your fun, funny, sarcastic, or realistic ideas in the comments below.

18 replies
  1. fando
    fando says:
    September 9, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    This is so gay

    Reply
    • Ian Skellern
      Ian Skellern says:
      September 9, 2016 at 6:20 pm

      I wasn’t staring into Dufour’s eyes, I was staring at his watch 🙂

      Reply
      • Ethan Vardi
        Ethan Vardi says:
        September 9, 2016 at 9:51 pm

        Funny

        Reply
      • fando
        fando says:
        September 10, 2016 at 3:39 pm

        So gay, eww

        Reply
      • fando
        fando says:
        September 11, 2016 at 10:57 pm

        Good to see you’re not making some pottery together

        “Oh, my love, my darling…”

        Reply
  2. Anita Khatri
    Anita Khatri says:
    September 9, 2016 at 9:03 pm

    Ian watch is where your heart is 🙂 fondue or any great dish right ?

    Reply
  3. DanW94
    DanW94 says:
    September 10, 2016 at 1:55 am

    The Simplicity turns to the De Bethune and says “Go easy on that cheese and bread, you’ll never get Saxonia Thin if you keep eating like that”

    Reply
    • R. Judson Williams
      R. Judson Williams says:
      September 10, 2016 at 6:12 am

      ???

      Reply
    • Elizabeth Doerr
      Elizabeth Doerr says:
      September 10, 2016 at 10:56 am

      I’d like to see someone beat that one! Good going, Dan!

      Reply
      • Ryan
        Ryan says:
        September 10, 2016 at 2:35 pm

        Dan you are a pun legend amongst the WIS community, but I will see yours and raise you a “La Chaux de Fondue”!

        Reply
        • Ian Skellern
          Ian Skellern says:
          September 10, 2016 at 3:01 pm

          I have the feeling we should be holding this in La Vegas around a table covered in a green baize cloth!

          Reply
          • Ryan
            Ryan says:
            September 10, 2016 at 3:20 pm

            Hit me!

            Reply
        • DanW94
          DanW94 says:
          September 10, 2016 at 4:15 pm

          Ryan, you’re a goud-a guy, but I just don’t think you have what it takes to skewer me pun for pun 🙂

          Reply
          • Ryan Schmidt
            Ryan Schmidt says:
            September 10, 2016 at 6:02 pm

            Come on Bert, I mean Dan. I am an emmentalist that picks his puns from the top shelf, whereas you gruyere own in the back yard.

            Reply
  4. DanW94
    DanW94 says:
    September 10, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    Well done! I appreciate the witty and curdeous exchange, but perhaps we should just bag-uette for now. I bid you a fond(a)due 🙂

    Reply
  5. Ian Skellern
    Ian Skellern says:
    September 11, 2016 at 7:05 am

    Not easy to cheese between those two watches.

    Reply
  6. Colton Davis
    Colton Davis says:
    September 11, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    Two gents who thoroughly enjoy ‘dipping’ into independent horology 😉

    Too easy to resist haha. Thanks

    Reply

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  1. Urwerk Calls This A Zeit Device, But Come On, What's It Really For? | Quill & Pad says:
    September 16, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    […] Congratulations to DanW94 for his winning “fondue dietary advice” entry for last week’s photo, but the punny exchange between Dan and Ryan is worth a read all by itself. Check out all of the comments last week at Philippe Dufour Simplicity, De Bethune DB28, And Fondue: What’s Going On Here? […]

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