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…receive details for payment etc? Cheers, pplater.

...that Patek’s Calatrava is Tiffany and your ten examples (plus others) are Costco? Put another way: Patek is the OG and the others get away with it because it’s the real world. Which would not be entirely unreasonable, if the proprietary use has been overtaken by common usage. As you say: much lik

Let’s bring it back to watches. Is any brand other than Patek reasonably entitled to describe their watches as ‘calatrava’? Cheers, pplater.

Can anything other than a Patek be called a ‘Calatrava’? Explain your answer. 🧐 Cheers, pplater.

...a place where all are respected! ;-) Cheers, The nun.

Lovely to ‘read’ you. Hope that all is well in your universe. Cheers, pplater.

…can’t be unseen. This is a [bad] photo of an old De Bethune sitting on top of a watchbox. The watchbox is beautifully made, very heavy, and finished in piano black lacquer with a fancy logo. It was a very generous gift from a well-known retailer in Singapore some years ago. Today, pplater Jr. saw t

Because it's new in this week. Ming 27.01 'extra plat'. Excellent execution and great bang for buck: a credit to a couple of our fellow Purists who were responsible for its design and manufacture - congratulations lads! Cheers, pplater.