great

ones there DS!

However I might not agree with you owning your grail watch sooner so you could avoid buying more later... because they will be more new grail watches coming your way and older/existing ones that you haven't discovered or you haven't begun to know them better to become a grail watch to you All these can be summed up easily with the word 'downhill' . Yes, it's downhill from the moment you started this passion and usually it keeps getting worse, buying more and spending more (within your means of course) while enjoying it. Doesn't sound that bad does it?

Enjoy them, to me once I stopped buying/looking at watches (especially those which I don't already owned) becomes a passion killer. To me hunting down one is always exciting,keeps the passion alive.

Mech.

Images of ds favourite watch :-)

By: CL : June 18th, 2009-05:47

Congrats ds, it is a beauty and I love the fact that it looks like you are truly wearing it Cheers, CL...

thanks cl

By: ds : June 18th, 2009-07:53

for posting my 5970 pics and yes i wear my watches thats the only reason a person should buy a watch or car imho i wanted to own a prep clender before i reached 30 and im glad i did so that i dont buy more watches or at least try to

ds that is an excellent idea............

By: Topcat30093 : June 18th, 2009-10:41

Get your grail watch right from the start and then you don't have to keep on buying and selling. I wish that I had done that, unfortunately I didn't know anything about PP back then. Your 5970 is a beautiful watch.

great

By: Mech : June 18th, 2009-16:54

Mech

By: ds : June 19th, 2009-00:48

i agree with you but to me a 5970 is very hard to beat its such a classic looking watch and to top that its a patek i own a few other watches just so that i swap them around and i try to get ss, yellow gold, and rose in my watch collection plus on leather...

sounds familiar

By: Mech : June 19th, 2009-01:53

I thought my 3940 was the GRAIL watch, then came 5140, then came datograph, resonance,......duometre plat soon?...gyrotourby2 ... gruelling but exciting...I love the journey. It's very safe to say my condition ends up a collection of grail watches over ti...

I no longer believe in grail watch.....

By: CL : June 19th, 2009-06:32

now I believe in grail combo This is my grail combo for 'mainstream' watch category. It's impossible to have one GRAIL watch but I will keep trying, it's like having one wife :P *CL...

Congrats DS...

By: Rob : June 19th, 2009-02:35

on a wonderful watch. As CL has very well expressed, 5970 in any guise is just about the quintessential PP in our generation. I have to agree that indeed there is no perfect collection PERIOD. However, there is a perfect collection for THAT period of time...

thanks rob

By: ds : June 19th, 2009-04:43

quintessential PP is exactly what came on my mind when i saw this watch fro the first time

Before 30

By: phelipcopter1 : June 19th, 2009-03:01

I struggled even to keep a car before 30, not to mention a watch which is not an essential item in life. Congradulation, you have done well.

CL, I have said before and I shall say it again.............

By: Topcat30093 : June 19th, 2009-12:02

Your 5970G is simply stunning & I love it and want it!!!!!!!! LOL

Then you should really.....

By: CL : June 19th, 2009-15:08

go get it before it is too late This piece will always has its place in history once they are all gone. It is the first piece , together with 5970R , that Patek decided to launch its 5970 series base on 2499 first series. Money comes , money goes but this...

Unfortunately that might involve robbing a bank or two! LOL [nt]

By: Topcat30093 : June 19th, 2009-18:04

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Actually, you already have a grail Patek....

By: CL : June 19th, 2009-22:21

the perpetual calendar 5140G You don't really need that additional chronograph. I never use them for anything. It just happen that I'm a fan of manual wind watch and I don't remember seeing a manual wind Patek Perpetual Calendar. If not, I think I will wa...