Over decades of collecting, for sport type watches, I generally prefer a white metal. Specifically, steel. For dress watches, usually my first choice is also a white metal. Specifically, platinum or for a close second, rose gold. For me steel just makes a

As a note, the 5970P is well worn and not a safe queen. It has clear marks at nine from love and wear. Marks on side of case I too would think it is difficult to sell these without box ad papers and would never buy myself, so probably something that will

Dear watch friend and community, unfortunately my house was robbed and among thing four Patek watches got stolen. Watch only, so still have the papers and boxes. Numbers shared with Police, Patek for black listing, with auction houses, re-sellers and deal

Soon hagswe!

Over the years, there have been a handful of special, highly limited versions of the Patek 5970 — rose gold with black dial, white gold with salmon dial, and likely a few others. But the “standard” versions are wonderful in their own right. To me, the 597

And I love (almost) their entire catalog ! I own the 5270G "successor" to your watch, and, whilst I think that is also a great looking piece, I find the 5970's dial to be more harmonious for some reason. Maybe it's the lack of those leap year portholes ?

I joined the 5970 family yesterday and have been pinching myself ever since making the purchase last week. I truly believe that it is the perfect watch. Here are a few pics from yesterday.

I thought of doing some dial close up photos. Which one is your favorite moon phase? (sorry for the poor quality pics) Let's start with the Wonder Watch the nick name I gave to my 3448 since I have it... The successor of 3448 being the ref 3940, let's go

Which reference 3970 or 5970, which dial color opaline or black they are all stunning and great options. It’s only a question of taste and mood of the day. The only thing I would prefer to avoid is redundancy thus same iteration for the two references. I

For me it’s my 5970R, although they are all wonderful.