Time Is On My Side: Passionné D’exception . . . (A Selection of Watches)

[Saltine]

Those watches look very similar to each other.

they look nothing alike. unless you focus on the 12 and the 6. The similarities are:
case
hands
12&6
seconds at 9
GMT

similarities on the rolex:
everything but the stones,gel on the bezel and leopard print

what is horologically important about leopard print?

few words for you: radiomir, luminor, tourbillon, screwless cases, screwless bracelets, screw down winding crown, crown guards, crown locking lever, eight-day movement, outsize... ohh yea FIRST UNDERWATER WATCHES

Edit to say: question for Panerai is not what have you done lately... it's what have you done.. and that answer is a long one.

[Posh]

The only Pams that I consider are horologically important are the double barrel tourbys that they have delivered in the last year.

That would interesting but they didn't invent the double-barrel tourbillon. But that feature is something interesting nonetheless. And while we're on the subject of tourbillons, the Panerai 276 has the UNMITIGATED GALL to be $98,000 and you can't even SEE the tourbillon without TAKING THE WATCH OFF?! Who IS this company's creative director?

Seeing the same ones on here everyday doesn't help matters.

Wow. I am speechless.
What a thread...what a post.

I must add however, that my favorite watch in fact is a Patek rep.
The MBK Nautilus is worthy of comparison to the gen 3700/3800
jumbo, albeit, not even close to 1.1 to the gen. Personally I would never spend 25,000 for the current 5711, but I am such a fan of this Patek model, that wearing the rep is worth it for me.

Your eloquence is much appreciated.

Thank you, John, for your kind words and enjoying the posting. I'm sorry some of the pictures are missing; I am fixing that now.

they look nothing alike. unless you focus on the 12 and the 6. The similarities are:
case
hands
12&6
seconds at 9
GMT

similarities on the rolex:
everything but the stones,gel on the bezel and leopard print

what is horologically important about leopard print?

few words for you: radiomir, luminor, tourbillon, screwless cases, screwless bracelets, screw down winding crown, crown guards, crown locking lever, eight-day movement, outsize... ohh yea FIRST UNDERWATER WATCHES

I didn't say they looked alike. I said they looked "similar." You didn't name anything that they did FIRST. They haven't done anything FIRST. They don't even have a research and development department in the same sense as even their stablemates Piaget, Jaeger-Le Coultre or even A. Lange. They weren't even the first to have big watches!

Panerai didn't make the first "underwater" watch or even the first water-resistant watch. Hans Wilsdorf of Rolex in 1927 gave us the Oyster, the first water resistant watch. The first diver's watch, the first underwater watch period, was the Omega Marine which was tested during the late 1920s and introduced in 1932.

There's nothing horologically important about leopard print; it's simply a DESIGN element. I didn't include Rolex in my list but I could have. I didn't add them because people want to know about other companies with histories besides them, even though I respect Rolex highly. Rolex has proven their relevance to world of time keeping, even introducing the wonderful Yachtmaster II with a great countdown function. I'm very simple to please; you only have to do ONE thing that's significant to the advancement of horology. Just one. Or, if not that, DESIGN something of interest. I think that's MORE than reasonable, don't you?

[bestcraigslisterever]

That would interesting but they didn't invent the double-barrel tourbillon. But that feature is something interesting nonetheless. And while we're on the subject of tourbillons, the Panerai 276 has the UNMITIGATED GALL to be $98,000 and you can't even SEE the tourbillon without TAKING THE WATCH OFF?! Who IS this company's creative director?

Seeing the same ones on here everday doesn't

Clearly you don't understand the point of a Panerai.

Panerai's are meant to be understated following their historical design without giving merit to the MTV bling bling culture that the other watch makers are so happy to oblige.

[Posh]

Clearly you don't understand the point of a Panerai.

Panerai's are meant to be understated following their historical design without giving merit to the MTV bling bling culture that the other watch makers are so happy to oblige.

I don't understand "the point" of Panerai? This understatement you're talking about comes from the roots of the watch as military bauble for a fourth string military power in the mid-twentieth century, as any military historian will tell you. You may want to read my entire post and my replies to Saltine to make sure I really don't understand the point of Panerai.

Since I don't understand the point of Panerai, because I seem to be so clearly ensconced in the "MTV bling bling culture," why don't you explain it to me. I'm all ears.

[Posh]

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[spekoli]

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i enjoyed the read, thanks for taking the time to put it together.


i also really enjoyed your post that i quoted here because it uses normal size white letters

[Posh]

i enjoyed the read, thanks for taking the time to put it together.


i also really enjoyed your post that i quoted here because it uses normal size white letters

Snap! Awesome! I'm glad you liked it. Where was I?

Oh, yes. Back to business as usual!