FabR[Senior Patek Moderator]
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All opinions are obviously welcome and respectable Keith, but then let me just say you'll be *very* disappointed at much of the vintage artistic watch production, which goes back 400+ years (even if it might have been groundbreaking at the time! ;-)
Apr 27, 2022,22:17 PM
What's actually interesting to note is the remarkable improvement between this or other 5075 references from 20 years ago (which I mostly find comparable), and today's production. Not sure whether you like them, but below are two of my favorite contemporary enamel dials (both under the new reference 5177, introduced in 2018)....arguably, most other Patek Rare Handcrafts are on a similar level today ;-)
However --- in this like in any other artistic or scientific (even mathematical!) discipline --- it will be VERY fascinating to look again at today's best work with the eyes of 20, 40, or 100 years from now!
Cheers.
5177G-028 "School of Fish" (2021)
5177G-010 "Boccadasse" (2018)