New leather strap on electric blue
New leather strap looks mighty fine. Purchased from Watchgeko. This strap along with a couple others made it to my US address within a week. That was some fast international shipping which was free. Hope my pictures show up note sure if i did that correct. I cannot post a link because of my thread count. The strap is listed as SIMPLE HANDMADE ITALIAN LEATHER STRAP on the watchgeko site.

Looking for a Coffee table hardback book on Patek
Does anyone have a minty example and looking to sell?

Battle of the giants
you can pick one of the 2 LE Nautilus ... which one do you take?The simple one in PLATINUM (700 pce)the chrono in WHITE GOLD (1300 pce)FYI in have the choice but won't buy one. At that price it's too much above my budgetIF I would have the necessary funds I would go for the simple in platinum

AD near La Jolla?
I looked in the PP directory and could not find a retailer in the entire San Diego area!! Anyone know of one closer to me than LA? Thanks.

Nautilus blue dials
Hi all, as a few already know I have a 5712-1A, and honestly I have never seen in real any other blue dial Nautilus, well apart from the 2 tome 5980, but it has a very special kind of blue, which to my knowledge no other Nautilus has, except for maybe the 5711P, but I still think they are different since I don't see any high end watch maker putting a platinum blue on a SS watch, and when I look at the Patek website, on pics the 5712 blue has nothing to do with the other blue Nautilus dials, so was wondering, is it just the pics which give this impression and is the 5712 blue the same as the 5711, 5980 blues of the SS models or is it really different? For those who haven't noticed I invite you to look on the Patek site and the difference is clear, at least on pics.Thanks in advance for your insights and helping develop my Patek culture, yes I know I am just at the beginning of the road there is still a long journey ahead but as much as I know about Patek since I am a child, I never had