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Distributor
My watch is definitely coming. Promised by distributor-prefer not to say where. Although I am going through a dealer my contact is with the distributor. Says there are still problems with the enameling process but my watch should arrive in November.
5131
Anyone received a 5131. Still waiting for mine. Promised for September, then October, then November!
promissed by who ?
your dealer or did Patek gave a positive answer to your application form ? I have never seen such a watch (not from a member) In the Patek Boutique in Geneva I saw both G and J. They are amazing but impossible to get
Distributor
My watch is definitely coming. Promised by distributor-prefer not to say where. Although I am going through a dealer my contact is with the distributor. Says there are still problems with the enameling process but my watch should arrive in November.
well
please post a lot of pics when you get it because it is such a gorgeous piece and I can't find much pictures (except from the press release)
i have an anecdote on this watch too...
My brother-in-law has his name down with his AD for the grail 5131. The AD took a £7k deposit from him and told him that PP had assured them that they would receive one watch. The AD has ear-marked that watch for my brother-in-law. They told him it would ...
5131...
No, he is still waiting for Godot. Genuinely, as i have told him, i don't think he will get it. The AD took £7000 as a deposit to secure teh watch. Yet, as the AD pointed out, if the watch does not arrive, teh £7k can be used against the purchase of anoth...
That is what I call "salesmanship". Good luck to your brother-in-law...
With approx. 500 Patek AD world wide and only about 10 to receive the 5131 this year and next. That figures to 2% of the dealers may get the 5131. Of those 2 % what do you reasonably believe your brother-in-laws AD chances are firstly that the AD be alloc...
I am the only one
who does not find the 5131 very attractive in pics? I know it is an enamel dialed world-timer from Patek, which carries at lot of weight, but beyond that I have a hard time getting very excited. Of course that could change when I see it in the metal.
G, the deep blue for the Atlantic Ocean, the deep rich colors ..
of Eurpoe and Asia. But most of all the entire process of making the enamel dial is such a great story in itself. Each dial is a work of art. Any 5131 J or G is a real treasure, any collector that obtains one is blessed in my book.
