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We talked about the 5372P as well but he didn't mention that to me.
Pete is bit eccentric but he is a really nice guy.
Agree...but sometimes we also need to remember....we buying...they selling!!! A stamped case isnt
Being lazy....it’s done so that you get very crisp and sharp lines on the lugs....ha ha...the cloisonné enamel dials are made by little Swiss elves in a hut on montlblanc and in tiny numbers...maybe 100 a year....yeah right ...pull my other foot ....love them for what it is....sometimes truth gets a bit stretched...now that 5372P in blue is stunning
"We buying...they selling" a very good point which I never thought of when talking to them.
Recently John Reardon estimated around 150 - 200 examples of 5131Js have been produced and if we go by those numbers they made less than 100 cloisonné enamel dials per year!
Doubt it.....here is a thread and I expand a bit on that in the theread....I think if we know the actual
Numbers the prices would soften quite a bit
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I guess way more....my AD is a very small town dealer...since launch in 2008 he has received 6
Which was 1J, 2G, 2 R and 1P....that’s roughly every 2 - 3 years....so ignoring the fact that PP had way more AD a few years back we can work on 400 AD that received a minimum of say 5-6 watches and that excludes the Salons where the whales hang out!!! Just an observation I had is that at one stage we had a 5131J-014 .....the 5131R -011 was years later....that must mean the 5131R-011 was planned before the 5131J-014
I agree, if we know the actual production numbers the prices would soften quite a bit.
150 - 200 pieces of 5131J seem to be a low estimate if we go by the facts you have mentioned on that thread.
If u had the WT on this forum we have s few
I think R was the shortest run...but they do overlap 5231J and G 5131R and P, 5531P and 5231J....and we see a lot of 5231J
I think J was introduced in 2008 and G was in 2009 and both were retired in 2014 so they were overlapped for 5 years.
I think R was introduced in 2014 and discontinued in 2018 and overlapped with P for 1 year. There was no overlapping for R for 3 years so there could be more Rs out there compared to Gs. I also think we see a lot of 5231J. I was told I could get one this year (another client got one last year from the same AD) but I decided to pass as I prefer to wait for G or R versions.
I prefer one with snow whether it is G, R or P.
I think R version is the most beautiful of all 5131s and Russell has one of best dials I have ever seen. Dial of your 5131/1P looks great too.
8 year wait?
I guess initially he must have applied for J or G because R was produced only for 4 years. He definitely deserves it if it was a 8 year wait.
Applied for a G 😲
R was in production for only 3 years and with a different city ring each year. 001, 010 and 011.
You are correct it was introduced in 2015 together with 5370P, 5711R and 5524G [nt]
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Shortest production period of all the 5131's
And additionally each of the 3 years had a different city ring.
On 5131R -001 has London on the outer ring
5131R-010 has London on the inner ring and it also has Brisbane. 5131R has London on the inner ring and no Brisbane
City Rings
001 has London on outer Ring and is spaced using a larger circumference of text (amongst other things)
010 has London on inner Ring, is spaced using a smaller outer circumference of text based on newly introduced 5230, Sydney and Brisbane both on the dial (amongst other things)
011 has London on inner Ring, is spaced using a smaller outer circumference of text based on 5230, Brisbane dropped (amongst other things)
010 has London on inner Ring, is spaced using a smaller outer circumference of text based on newly introduced 5230, Sydney and Brisbane both on the dial (amongst other things)
011 has London on inner Ring, is spaced using a smaller outer circumference of text based on 5230, Brisbane dropped (amongst other things)
Blue for me
It will catch the light better and provide different colour variations of the dial.
Yes, I get it, but everybody does that these days-a blue dial that plays with the light.
I'm in for the black as the cool one and the blue as the crowd pleaser(I think🙃)
