Historical Perspectives: Something To Consider: The Watch On The Left Costs (Approximately) 100 Time
The watch on the right is a Universal Geneve Tri-Compax in stainless steel. It belonged to a man named Reginald Fullerton, who was the grandson of the great early 20th century watch collector (and commissioner of the most expensive watch in history) Henry Graves, Jr. It was sold at the final Graves auction that took place in June of 2012 at Sotheby's.? I purchased it at that sale for around $2,750, and you can read why I did that right here.?The watch dates to about 1945 (Fullerton purchased it new from the Henri Stern Watch Agency in 1948 while visiting with his grandfather) and features a triple calendar, plus moonphase, and chronograph, in a steel case.?The watch on the left looks a heck of a lot like my Universal Geneve, and was even sold alongside my watch at the HSWA in the 1940s, but it's worth about 100 times as much.? It is, of course, a Patek Philippe reference 1518 in yellow gold, and while it looks a lot like my UG, it has one (ok, a few) very important differences.? This w

A good reason for a refund or just weakness?
So, a great pal of mine has been desperate to change his twenty year old Tag Heuer Formula watch for either a Patek 5980 or Offshore. And for two whole months I received emails with pictures of watches entitled how about this one?Then suddenly a purchase was made for a BNIB grey ti themes and shortly after I received the customary email with a wrist shot and it was very nice indeed and everything seemed right in the world for the following 24 hours. The following day I received a call from my pal explaining that he was in significant pain with his wrist and he was going to have to return the watch to the dealer. It seems that the size of the watch and perhaps even the metal bracelet may have aggravated a relatively recent mountain biking injury.I'm slightly concerned that my pal may be going soft so I thought I might post a couple of photos to see if he deserves any sympathy, after all this was his 40th birthday present to himself.Full marks to the dealer for the refund too!

PO newbie question
Good day. In the 42mm variety, is it the movement that is the primary difference between the newer 8500 and 2500 versions? Thanks in advance Sent from my SGH-I747M using Tapatalk 4

Speedmaster model information
.lesmala.net/jean-michel/s...er/history.htmI stumbled across this website as I have been doing my own research of the watch and thought this might be useful for those who are as versed as I with these watches.

Official Rolex GMT root beer.
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