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Patek Watch Registration
Hello all,Has anyone registered their watch with Patek online? How long does it typically take to get your registration details and what benefits are available to registered owners?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

New "limited" mustard alligator strap!
Saw this at the La Jolla boutique and fell in love. Boutique claims it was a special order with limited production to about 50. It's not quite orange but not quite brown.

Need more BB36 love in here
Went looking at watches today, at a somewhat distant AD, and was glad to finally try on the Black Bay 36. (Sorry for the bad lighting pic and the plastic over the crystal.) I've been feeling like my time with the Explorer is about up, and this all but sealed the deal. What a great piece.Also finally tried on a Speedmaster Professional and I'm a little shocked by how much I love it. The poor Explorer is feeling especially lonely now...

got my first rolex today
it's also my first post here.short version:it's my birthday this week, and the conversation with my wife went like this:me: i was actually thinking of buying a rolex i found.her: no.me: no?her: no, i'm going to buy it for you. happy birthday.long version:this is really more of an introduction of myself. it was only last year that i decided i wanted to start wearing a watch again, after some 20+ years.i had no idea what i liked, so i visited shops and spent hours looking online. i read some dumb article classifying watches into groups and i decided that i didn't like divers because they all looked the same (turns out they all looked like submariners, ha).over some months, learning my tastes along the way, i bought some decent but inexpensive automatics, and definitely did not want a Rolex. part was cost, part was growing up in steel mill country after the mills went bust and (to this day) maybe having a reaction against ostentatious displays of wealth.but something funny happened when i