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Jun 07, 2024,19:18 PM
 

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Twins, the same but not

 
By: Fastwong : June 7th, 2024-18:46
Stopped by Christies to check out the Signature 1 up for auction (#2) and was surprised to find the dial differed from mine (#5). The pic is terrible but you can just see that the earlier watch has a very very subtle circular graining to the center of the...  

Both are magnificent!

 
By: K-Lo : June 7th, 2024-18:52

+1

 
By: Chronometer (aka yacomino) : June 7th, 2024-19:18

+2

 
By: hora12reborn : June 7th, 2024-19:40

When we did the P10 Gerber watch for this community we learned that it's very hard to control small batches

 
By: cazalea : June 7th, 2024-19:39
When they were produced, the dials were supposed to sparkle around the engraving, but some were more matte finish and there there was an issue matching the date rings. In the end, Paul sent the watches with the best dials installed, and an extra dial and ...  

Wow, cool photos and thanks for sharing the story! These variations are a reminder that this work is hard and still very manual.

 
By: Fastwong : June 7th, 2024-23:18

Two beautiful watches. The small differences is one of the things that makes the watches made in smaller series usually more interesting than the results of mass production.

 
By: lm6 : June 7th, 2024-20:12

Absolutely agreed! What a fun thing to have a group of people with almost but not quite the same watch. One of the auction reps seemed to think the slight difference rationalized my owning both 😂

 
By: Fastwong : June 7th, 2024-23:21

Off topic a bit but just noticed that is a true “small” seconds

 
By: xto : June 7th, 2024-22:04

The smallest small seconds dial ever

 
By: Fastwong : June 7th, 2024-23:22

Both gorgeous. Still love these older GFs way more then there current models

 
By: Watchonthewrists : June 8th, 2024-06:03

These are spectacular.

 
By: gary_g : June 8th, 2024-12:17
Such interesting design. Thank you for sharing.

One that they did for me

 
By: garyglick : June 8th, 2024-15:49
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Wow that’s an amazing grail.

 
By: gary_g : June 8th, 2024-16:55
Congratulations 🎊🎉🎈🍾!!!

Super cool! Thanks for sharing, really awesome to see variations and custom requests within the series

 
By: Fastwong : June 8th, 2024-18:29
I have been wanting to try to catalog all the variants since I did see piece unique sapphire cased, arabic dialed and an all blue plated Signature 1 variants as well.

A real grail piece

 
By: m2 : June 9th, 2024-07:21