15300 back in the fold
Picked up a mint 15300 this afternoon. I've been in the market for past few months for an h serial white dial 15300 or 26300 ROC but have not had any luck. I decided to go for the black dial today.

Thierry Stern Wearing 5235G
I guess we'll have to wait another year for this delayed release but it is at least nice to see it on his wrist. .patek/contents/defaul...rld2013_2.html

214270 with leather strap...yay or nay?
I've had this Everest strap for a few months. I tried it out when I bought it and thought it was ok, but didn't love it. So I stuck with the bracelet. We are going to Sicily in a few weeks for vacation and kinda want to make the watch a bit more subtle for our travels...so I thought I'd try out the leather again. I'd like to get some opinions. I think I'm where I was before: I like it...don't love it. And, at first, the bracelet is far more comfortable (to me). But I think to make the watch a bit more casual for the trip it'll work.

Stainless sport model shortage... not in my market!
So I have been inquiring on these boards about ADs in the New Orleans, Fort Worth, and Austin markets. We have two local Rolex ADs. One is a Lee michaels, which has a pretty low inventory with regards to stainless sport models but a nice selection of DJ DD and some ladies models. The other AD (which I passed by today) had just about every stainless sport model that I could think of. Only thing missing was a sub date which the gentleman informed me had sold earlier in the week. I was able to try on the BLNR and the no date sub but in the case was a black GMT, Sub no date, deep blue, deep sea sea dweller, the smaller sea dweller, a (SD43 which I was tempted to try on) and explorer II black face and a white face if I recall correctly, and a couple of milgaus as well as a few yacht masters.The cupboard was far from bare!!! I'm not sure why some markets are dried up but this one AD is well stocked!All that said... I think I'm going to pull the trigger on the BLNR when I get back from New Or

Tokyo Haneda Rolex Boutique
This one takes the cake for what possibly is the saddest collection of Rolex I have ever seen at an AD. There was a Milgauss and white dial Exp II. They only had a few DDs, 2 TT Daytonas, 2 YG Daytonas and the rest were pretty much just Datejusts. I get that there is an SS shortage, but this AD was notably missing a lot of PM sports models and even selection for DDs.I'm comparison, at my home AD on Thursday, they had a lot of SS sports models minus LV, BLNR, SD43, D-Blue and DaytonaC. But they also had pretty much every other PM sport Rolex available (BLRO, Smurf, etc.) and a huge selection of DDs.