about the Pre-V models, I often wonder what would have, "the Florentines" done, if they hadn't sold the watch division to Vendome. Would they have continued producing..true and pure, minimalistic..tool watches or would they have gone down the....Vendome/Richemont way....chasing after mainstream horology, with complications, bells&whistles and razza-mattaz? Were they lucky to...pass the buck...and forever bask in the fame or unlucky not to be able to preserve the essence of the brand?