Introducing: The Senfine Concept Watch From Parmigiani Fleurier, With An Amazing Escapement That All
?At any given SIHH or Baselworld, you’re obviously always going to see a plethora (to put it mildly) of new watches, but one thing you don’t see very often is a new escapement. That’s because designing a new escapement – much less one that can actually be produced in large enough numbers to be commercially viable – is probably the single biggest problem in watchmaking. Over the centuries since the very first – the verge escapement – was used in clocks, there have really been only a handful that have been used extensively, and in watchmaking, it’s a virtually certainty that any watch you buy is going to have a lever escapement. But not this one. 1 OF 7 Omega now uses the Daniels co-axial escapement in all its in-house movements but it was a huge challenge for them to make it and enormously expensive in both time and money to industrialize, and departures from the lever in modern watchmaking tend to be made in very small numbe

It feels...
So orgasmic on the wrist today!! First seeing Paul's unveiling thread and now the Fedex guy came by mine!

Ref. 5235G Regulator - Prices and Stats.
Ref. 5235G first appeared at auction in October 2014 that watch fetched $68,250 which is hammer plus premiums. Since then 5 more watches have made their way to auction for a total of 6 watches so far. None were repeats, all unique watches (not the same movement/case numbers) with one of the 6 not selling, reserve basically was not met (not enough interest)The average selling price (including buyers premiums) for the six watches was $59K. That's the price buyers had to pay to take the watch home, however if you are a seller and sold your watch at auction you would have taken home $45K only (after deducting the 25% buyers premiums and the listing fees).patekonomics (coming soon, looking for web developers)until then follow patekonomics on Instagram.

Interesting Hodinkee article -uneven recovery in watch mkt
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No more waiting... Platinum, Ceramic GMTs (pics)
With the teaser promising the donning of the jubilee on a sports model, presumably a new GMT, the speculation and wishful thinking for a platinum GMT model has all but dwindled to a whisper approaching the final day before the big reveals. So, I thought I would add a small contribution, as my own teaser, for what is unlikely to come to pass as another Basel comes and goes. New Coke, or Blueberry, or Pepsi, or LN offered on jubilee should be enough to hold us over for the next 11 months --or two weeks-- before the Basel 2019 predictions start If the general consensus is that the WG sports models didn't sell too well, what would be the rational that a higher priced similarly toned model would do any better? I assume the Daytona may be an anomaly, or off limits to discuss, since I can't recall any discussions on how good or bad sales may be for the PM models.