Patek Philippe

On the AP forum you posted that you are waiting to get 2 Pateks back from the service center before showing us your collection.  If you just started buying these watches in the last few months why do they need any servicing at all?   Based on your AP posts and Patek posts either you are spending your free time pranking watch enthusiasts or you are just full of crap.   Now if you will excuse me I have to post some pictures of the Monet and Picasso I picked up last week on the new art collecting site I joined last night

Stewart

Seal, before! 

Best,

Nicolas

the fact that my living room walls look like an art museum

Stewart

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Hi.

Your perception is totally understandable because of the short time I only spent to collect these watches. In due time I will post the individual shots of each of my watches including a few magazine articles on my collection and myself within the next few month.

Thank you for your comments.

to your future posts - impressive or not

Cheers,
Oliver

beautiful collection. 

... and, yes, I see lots of nice Pateks and nice collection indeed.  Why you keep your collection in the sealed plastic sort of makes me scratch my head..... but then again, there must be some reasons.  Anyway, we await your follow up posts going forward and looking forward to your long term membership here!  Very eager to your story how and why you collected these pieces!

Collection...congrats...

can't image what happens in the near future. 

... IMO you got it all wrong, with all due respect.

YOU are spoiling his b'day party by blowing out his candles before even giving him the chance to make a wish.

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Many thanks for your honest opinion.
First off....I am not collecting watches to become a professional in the horology industry. I am merely just another avid collector of fine watches.
Secondly....even at the rate I am buying watches, I won't be able to collect all the watches of my choice within the next few years. I'm also very interested in watches from Breguet, Richard Mille, Vacheron Constantine, etc.
Thirdly....I'm fortunate to reside in a country that has an extremely affluent market for luxury watches which means it is relatively easy to meet experienced watch collectors and professionals from the horology industry. Service centers are also aplenty and extremely efficient and reliable. I do spend time analyzing each piece before I proceed to purchase it. However, it won't take months to know whether a piece is worth collecting. Even as of now, I'm already researching on pieces to collect for Breguet and Richard Mille which purchases should commence next year.
Lastly....I treat each time piece I have with the utmost respect and admiration. I intend to keep them as long as I can and hopefully passed down to my future generations to come.

... that i might be wrong. Its just not usual to come across such case as yours. 

Sure.....I seem to notice many people taking photo shots of their watches on their wrist with their car steering wheel as the backdrop....trend now?

... you will see how nicely the dial plays with the light.

With your words.

....I suggest you to buy 9 x 2499.

I'm going to go ahead and say it.

I don't believe any of this.  Prove me wrong.  Take a wrist shot.  Take a wrist shot outdoors.  They are all your watches.  Almost everybody on this site appreciates a shot of the movement as much as one of the dial.  All we got was what looks like an assortment of watches laid out on a dealer/grey dealer's desk.  Are you planning to wear them, or look at them through plastic.  Maybe collecting stamps is a better hobby.  I have nothing against stamp collectors.  They put their nice little stamps in big binders and then put them in fireproof safes.  Unfortunately my watches are not pampered and lead a rough life.

As we say in the trade.  Give me proof of life.  How about a wrist shot with today's Financial Times or Wall Street Journal.  Or even the Daily Mail.  And please reset the date and time to today's date on the watches.

Of course none of this may be possible if you put your watches in a safe and are away on a business trip.  Or at the World Cup.

Thanks.  And welcome to PuristPro.

You are absolutely right....I'm in brazil now for the world cup....the newspaper background picture shot is a great suggestion. I will keep it in mind.
Thanks!

....the following came to me.....

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.....genuinely, a large part of the fun in watch collecting is identifying criteria that forms the framework for a collection. In devising those criteria, a big part of the fun for me is devising aspects that will prove challenging and interesting. Historical importance and rarity are two of the things I enjoy about collecting. When, in a situation like yourself, you have no restriction on budget, it actually can remove a lot of the fun. Hunting down watches that are hard to find....very hard to find..... is a big part of that fun. If all it takes is a phone call to an AD to put an order in for the latest minute repeater, by going down that path you remove for yourself a great deal of the potential fun. So, when you asked the question about what to add to this collection, my answer to look at something that does not invoke the power-use of budget was a genuine and hopefully rewarding suggestion. Devise a framework for your collection...know why you want a specific watch...how it fits into the framework. also target watches that are really tough to find. 

Supposing these really are your watches, you're an accumulator, not a collector.

And your flippant self introduction is clearly rubbing some people the wrong way. 

Whether I introduced myself flippantly or rubbed people the wrong way or whether I am a accumulator or collector it doesn't really matter. Everybody's perception of things are different and I am deeply sad and disappointed that instead of sharing knowledge and experiences on fine time pieces within this fantastic platform, some people are more interested in judging other people on a personal level instead. I will not subject myself to answering anymore such personal judgemental questions....you guys can post whatever you want....I still will want to learn more and will continue to post constructively and I will continue to collect.

For those who have been very welcoming and warm, I would like to extend a big THANK YOU to you guys.....maybe these people are the REAL purists after all.

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The original poster's "AP Collection" looks as suspect as his "Patek Collection".  I too can post wrist shots of my visit to Rue du Rhone.  But I don't.  I even have wrist shots of a 2499, 1518, 1526 and others.  My wrist.  Somebody else's watches. 

Actually I agree with your point.....so how can someone prove his ownership of his watches through photos? Suggestions please!!!