Officine Panerai

AnthonyTsai
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Ralf, here is my stance as GM of this site

Postings of fakes, such as those you can buy in Chinatown on Canal St. in NYC, is definitely prohibited.

Then the main concern of yours pertains to hommage / frankenwatches / replica pieces, whichever name you want to refer to these pieces as.

I am not going to make a new guideline just for these hommage pieces.  Obviously, if someone makes one and then tries to sell it, then yes those posts will be deleted.  But when someone makes a hommage watch for his own personal use, then I do not see the problem of allowing these posts.  Posts such as these, as Nicolas has stated above, maybe occur at most 3 times a year, heck maybe even only once a year max or once every several years.

We even have someone in our sister site ThePuristS.com's AP forum who likes to take apart his AP's and mix and match the hands, dials, etc. and then assemble them back to together in non-stock configurations.  His frankenwatches are interesting to see IMO.

As Art has stated in his post in the below thread ( panerai.watchprosite.com ), you obviously have a vested interest in this topic since you are a vintage collector.

Unfortunately, over here on this site, passion takes preference over someone's commercial interest in his collection.  I've known Guille for many years, and he has the Panerai passion we all share.  Futhermore, Guille, disclosing to me has has no vested interest in your new book, even brought a copy of your new book to our Panerai event this past Tuesday to show to everyone because he wanted to spread your vintage knowledge and passion to everyone there.  We don't allow shilling to occur at our events but since I know this was done through passion, I turned a blind eye on this that night.

If creation of hommage pieces has a negative impact on your vintage collection, that really is not this forum's concern.  Creation of hommage pieces happens all the time, so there is no way stopping them.  Yes, we could ban these postings from this forum but censoring content does not take precedence over sharing passion here.

You and other vintage collectors may feel otherwise, but that is how I feel in relation to this topic.  If the vast majority of the participants in this forum adamantly disagree with my views, then I will consider a ban on this hommage topic.

Best,
Anthony