Hi All,
Very nice post, Jon. Your photos were excellent and your focus on the aesthetics of the JD design ethos was very helpful and appreciated. I'm grateful for all of the effort by various Moderators and enthusiasts to provide comprehensive reports and photo essays about Baselworld 2011; your submission was no exception.
But there's the delicate matter of what appears to be a '900 pound gorilla' in the room. I recall a very recent (March 25) post by another respected Purist Moderator that takes, shall we say ('ahem...'), a 'slightly different' tack on subject of JD and its doings of late. And virtually all of the responses to that report seemed to agree with what Mike had to say.
So a little cognitive dissonance seems to be manifesting.
I don't personally own the JD and I have no axe to grind either way. There just seems to be a collegial difference of opinion here and I wouldn't mind seeing a little more vetted on the subject.
Thanks and Best Regards
DB Darien