Audemars Piguet

It was only a few short years ago when these were readily available in boutiques with small discounts. ...  

Nicely captured shot.

Perhaps one day we go back to dressing up and wearing dress watches, or oversized watches, gold watches, futuristic designs, etc. Who knows... But in the near term with interest rates low, governments printing money, liquidity in the markets and people tr... 

Balanced

Cause I can’t get the RO lol For me it’s not difficult to get most hard to get pieces, so I have no right to complain Great connections if I want the Daytona’s, Pepsi, nautilus, journe, omega snoopy ..... but I have no AP connection... damn 😉

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I agree some brands (mostly the ones not in a big group) have learned how to play the desirability "game". It seems like more and more things we buy are FOMO'ed and fought over because they resell for more on the secondary market (sneakers, streetwear, ha... 

I saw them several times at the AP shop on Orchard road, in Singapore where I was living at the time, almost pulled the trigger and then relented. There were more important things happening at that time in my life. I still have small regrets about this, a... 

But check out their service price on their website. Movement service for a RO Ultrathin: CHF 1,150 Refinishing (case + bracelet): CHF 350 Water Resistance for a RO: CHF 400 Total: CHF 1,900 which is roughly $2,100 and that's just for a routine service wit... 

...which supposedly involves depositing extra metal and then polishing it down for it to be flush with unpolished parts? Or would I be mistaken in thinking that AP does that?

But seeing how thin the case and bracelet like are, and how deep the brushed finish is, one has to think they have to use laser welding to add metal back before they refinish the watch.

...that this sentiment is being expressed in the very place that has, in no small way, contributed to the popularity of watch collecting, and the associated rise in demand. All of us are guilty!

You don’t have to be a watch guy to be targeted by Instagram suggestions of watch influencers all wearing the same 4-5 types of watches. If anything, this site taught me to appreciate variety and diversity

My comment wasn’t a slight against this site. Apologies if it came across that way. What I was getting at is, we (enthusiasts, whether Purists or people who are on Ig) are the cause of the price increase. We can’t get away from that fact. The more posts t... 

Hopefully, with more money going into the watch industry, more goes into R&D so that they can continue to offer us amazing watches, as opposed to restricting supply and creating ghost waitlists to increase the hype.

I still remember when I was bargaining on a new watch in Melbourne while I was living there. When we agreed on the price I said: , and by the way I need it duty free as well as I am flying out of the country I bought the watch at a very heavy discount.. T... 

Thanks for sharing the excellent wrist shot. It looks great on your wrist.