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Paris boutique visit -
Will be in Paris in a couple of weeks and wanted to visit the boutique. Any special thoughts or just simply email the boutique for an appointment request? Appreciate your thoughts!
I think an email to the boutique to ask for an appointment is a very good idea and appreciated by the staff
They get so many visits every day, it’s hard for them to keep up.
Indeed call ahead breguet is warm and friendly
JLC has some seriously knowledgeable folks. VC was good
Patek was oddly cold when I visited - wasn't wearing one of their watches I guess
Patek was oddly cold when I visited - wasn't wearing one of their watches I guess
Yes, i love the Breguet boutique
Amazing exhibition of historic pieces and original sketches
that first sketch looks tantalizingly like a rough sketch for an Equation of Time movement.
Anyone speak French who can tell from the notes? I know enough to know that it mentions "marine" and "mast", which would align with an EOT movement.
The second looks frighteningly like an apparatus to (try to) protect the watchmaker from dangerous fumes when plating parts....
The second looks frighteningly like an apparatus to (try to) protect the watchmaker from dangerous fumes when plating parts....
I have no idea but you could be right
He was a well of innovation and truly the greatest ever.
NOT so much luck in NYC
Not sure what the situation is in Miami or Los Angeles but kind of crappy news about the New York Boutique. (Certainly hope things are better in Paris 👍)
A really good friend of mine who is a serious watch collector and I have known him for over 20 years, wanted to set up his FIRST visit to the NYC FP Boutique, in about mid to second part of December, because that's when he will be traveling there for business.
He called last week, (so basically about a month in advance)... and was told that they are booked out for the "first time visitors" until March!
I was not sure if I should laugh or cry ....but if true... this is pretty sad, ridiculous and embarrassing at the same time, IMO.
A really good friend of mine who is a serious watch collector and I have known him for over 20 years, wanted to set up his FIRST visit to the NYC FP Boutique, in about mid to second part of December, because that's when he will be traveling there for business.
He called last week, (so basically about a month in advance)... and was told that they are booked out for the "first time visitors" until March!
I was not sure if I should laugh or cry ....but if true... this is pretty sad, ridiculous and embarrassing at the same time, IMO.
It’s becoming the same everywhere
Japan literally impossible. Watch enthusiasts are using boutiques as tourist destinations. The problem is the sheer number of people. I was in the Geneva boutique recently. Before lunch they had had more than 50 people coming in. Afternoon probably worse. They are typically 2-3 staff in a tiny space.
Exactly this point. They cannot have 10 or more staff
and then people complain when the red carpet is not rolled out for them.
Wow, started to see this overcrowding/overbooking several years ago
and as a result my last two pieces have been pre-loved.