Historical Perspectives: And Now A Break From All Those New Watches, Courtesy Of Six Vintage Pateks
For the past four days, we've been inundating you with the latest, greatest, and most extreme brand new watches from the SIHH 2015 – one of two of the most important watch trade shows each year. We've shown you everything from new, ultra thin split seconds chronographs, to inexpensive annual calendars, to collaborations amongst masters, to simple, time-only revivals, to diamond-laden flying tourbillons hidden with golden flowers. But each and everyone one of them have one thing in common – they are brand new. So today we'd though we'd break the chain of newness with just a simple post featuring two pictures of six watches. There is no story here, nothing to report. Instead, we thought we'd just show you six great old Patek Philippes from their front up top, and their back down below. Just beautiful, aren't they? Do any of the modern pieces we've seen at SIHH 2015 compare? You tell us.We'll be back with regularly scheduled SIHH 2015 programmin

Question 15400
Hello new to the forum. I just purchased a 15400 from AD and I'm wondering when the date changes and how long it takes to completely change to the next day? Also any opinions regarding reliability of AP compared to Rolex Thank you.

Thought This Might Be Of Some Interest
I saw this article and thought quite a few of you might be interested to read it. Hopefully in the future it will bring faster turn around times to those of you who send your PP in for work. Have a nice day everyone .bloomberg/news/articl...chool-new-york

Flipping a 16518 Zenith YG Leather Strap Daytona...
...for a Patek 5296R Sector Dial dress watch (38mm, very traditional style, blue hands, fine lines on dial, display caseback, auto).I could simply purchase the PP or flip my Daytona. I am not sure. Is the D a keeper? I have bought it for less than what the dealer would give me for it now. My love for Rolex has cooled down significantly, mainly due to the Bentley-esque change in its buyers demographics.

Chances the prices of SS Sports Models gets back to normal?
Given the recent shortage of the Rolex SS Sports Models, is there a chance that by next year the prices will return to what it was before? Are these current prices here to stay? Given the history of Rolex Watch Prices