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1 Patek Philippe and a few Rolex vs 2 Patek Philippe: which would you go for?

1 Patek and a few Rolex
27 (77.1%)
2 Pateks
8 (22.9%)

Total Members Voted: 35

Author Topic: Between a rock and a hard place  (Read 11347 times)

Offline tonykpk

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #25 on: January 24, 2013, 07:33:41 AM »
Some watches like the AP Roo c  rubber clad, could be spotted quite easily from a not too far distance. Just my opinion. tony
rollie will attract more attention than PP at mamak. PP is not that visible and very few people can recognise it. indeed, even sport rollie ss is safe at mamak.

Unless the person who are knows watch very well can spot far far away  ;D Real or not, its all different story alltogether ;D

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #26 on: January 26, 2013, 01:32:29 PM »
ROO RC is very distinctive to watch lover. But trust me, most of my friends have no clue what is AP. lol.

Anyway, I said that before and must say that again, one can never have enough of PP. One PP is never enough. Let me share some of the pictures from one the PP GTG I attended recently. Trading all rollies for PP? Any time without a shadow of doubt.

almost a complete family of nautilus


Hard to find 5550p.


Feel so lucky to be able to try on world's only 2914J and the magical minute repeater.


I definitely do not mind to have all three of 5960


One is enough? No way.


PP is art, rollie is tool watch at most.


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Offline G.MAC

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #27 on: January 26, 2013, 02:01:53 PM »
One question, why is it that all the PP are wrapped and some have some sort of tag on them? Do they belong to individuals or are they stocks of a private dealer who join the GTG? Interested to know because they are some really nice PP on show there. Fantastic range on hand. My hand it getting itchy again.
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Offline Calibr

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2013, 02:03:53 PM »
PP is art, rollie is tool watch at most.

Care to share what's so "arty" about PP? Thanks..

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2013, 02:36:33 PM »
One question, why is it that all the PP are wrapped and some have some sort of tag on them? Do they belong to individuals or are they stocks of a private dealer who join the GTG? Interested to know because they are some really nice PP on show there. Fantastic range on hand. My hand it getting itchy again.

I think they're investor/collector pieces. It's a shame they were not bought to be worn.


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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #30 on: January 26, 2013, 02:55:13 PM »
Some are in plastic because everyone is trying. So, its a precaution that the dial may not get scratch during gtg.

There is only one which is in single sealed. Owner may want to sell it. The watch will cost easily 15k us lesser once he cut the sealed. So he decided to leave it that way. He has so many PP to wear anyway.  :D
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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #31 on: January 26, 2013, 02:57:42 PM »
Gmac, all the watch has a tag with model number and the owner's name to avoid any confusion or mistake.  8)
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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #32 on: January 26, 2013, 03:06:29 PM »
5070, choosing one is gonna be a headache.  :P


Elaborate why PP is art? Picture is louder than speak


5970r is real beauty. All my watches, car, dog and cat for this beauty? anytime.  :D


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Offline dpkong

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #33 on: January 26, 2013, 03:12:49 PM »
5070, choosing one is gonna be a headache.  :P


I will go white dial.


5970r is real beauty. All my watches, car, dog and cat for this beauty? anytime.  :D


Car, dog and cat but not all my other watches :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #34 on: January 26, 2013, 03:20:39 PM »
I see. Thanks for clarifying. I would absolutely drool if I were to see that many PP in one place. I think the selection there can easily beat any AD in Malaysia.  :Laughing_on_floor:
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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #35 on: January 26, 2013, 03:30:20 PM »
Can I ask if this gathering was in KL or out of Malaysia?

I asked that because I hardly see any PP owners in mwf since I joined or there are but they keep very silent because there arent any other PP owners around to showcase or discuss PP.
Amazing collection of PPs…. I guess most of the PP owners prefer to have their a gathering of their own. There must be a forum then for all of you to get together.


 
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Offline Godzillaz

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #36 on: January 29, 2013, 08:29:52 AM »
I would take the.5070P.  :Cheers:

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Re: Between a rock and a hard place
« Reply #37 on: January 31, 2013, 03:30:29 PM »
yeah Gmac, you are right. indeed, I didnt take enough pictures, there are more pieces during the gathering. Also, no way that one is able to try out a minute repeater in AD in msia.

JOS, this gathering is out of Msia. There are quite a number of PP users in this forum too, Gmac, JPSP, Godzilla etc to name a few. But PP is kind of very low profile in Msia generally as msian users generally chase rollie and pam.

dpkong and godzilla, p is the obvious choice as the contrast is nice. But i wont rule out r either.  ;D
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