Patek Philippe

Try to put 5131/1P on your wrist for a week or a month. Then you can real feel how much you will like the watch.

I heard in Geneva that there will come also the new WT with enamel dial. Will you collect also that?

I'm really not a World Time or Cloisonné collector. I just happened to find the 4 dials depicting parts of the globe paired with Patek's World Time complication a combination that makes sense at the same time as being very attractive. I think if they made a WT watch with a Cloisonné dial of an activity that I don't really embrace ... then no.

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What's the secret to buying just one of these through an authorized channel? They are gorgeous. I've had no luck!

I would think comprehensively supporting the Patek brand and having loyalty to your AD is a good start. Also, I suspect that reselling an application piece (to anyone other your AD for the purposes of trading up) is probably not looked upon favorably?

My suspicion is that with these watches selling at sometimes double retail price, some dealers are giving at least some of their allocations to shills who then cooperate with selling the watch on the grey market. It's hard for Patek to come down on dealers or to prove this. Anyway, many congratulations on getting all four of these!

Thank you for the compliment on the collection of 4. I'm not a dealer and don't really know how things work, ... but I talked to a cloisonné artist in NYC and she told me she makes about 3-4 dials in the course of a YEAR! So the release of the /1p-001, for instance, had to be planned well in advance in order to have a reasonable amount of product available for the obvious demand that would exist the minute pictures hit the website. 5131's are application pieces so there will be far fewer watches than dealers wanting to sell them ... and the dealers that get cloisonné pieces in their allocation probably have a pretty reasonable pipeline of clients who they can depend on buying and never selling these coveted pieces?

I am assuming it is less likely that a customer who spent enough on Pateks with an AD to garner a 5131, and to wait for it to be delivered, to sell it to a grey market dealer than the dealer itself to succumb to the temptation of the profit flip. There are too many of these on the grey market.

There are listings on eBay and elsewhere but it's hard to see exactly how many individual 5131's are out there for grey market purchase.

I just noticed you changed out the strap on the R watch, and I like your choice. Is that a Patek band? Is there a reference number for it?

To create some differentiation between the 5131J-001 and 5131R-001 I outfitted the "R" with a burgundy strap from Patek Philippe. I've commented on previous posts that this combo pairs wonderfully with a Cordovan Shoe and Blue Suit. Attached are some close-ups of the strap. Sorry, I'm not the best photographer because I use a iPhone without any fancy attachments. Lol. There is no reference number on the strap ... only "Patek Philippe Geneve" impressed on one side and the Calatrava Cross impressed on the other.

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Stunning collection.

may I ask whats the weight for each of the watch? I have been research watch and weight 😊

I used a inexpensive postal scale ... so I'm not sure how accurate the numbers are:
Including the Strap/Deployment or Bracelet:

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