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Radone, thanks for your reply!
"premium just because the "crowd" is crazy about something"
Hope you didn´t think it was my intention to offend you or anybody else. It was just a very personal view with the idea to support a fellow Purist, if at all.
"Premium" You are happy with what you paid. Perfect! I know your passion for watches. I know that you are a mature collector with lots of experience. I can understand all your points, but I don´t agree with all of them. Mainly because of a different view - my own very personal and of course subjective view.
You mentioned the price increases and you mentioned some competitors, ok. Still no reason for me to pay premium.
Example: I tried the 5070 (each metal) several times and sometimes I was close to jump on it, but at the end I never got one for me. Something was missing, something was just not right for me. If I change my mind afterwards and will fall in love with that piece, well let´s call it bad timing. I am sure there will be another beauty with better timing 
Best,
Oliver
Christmas is approaching
and it starts to be the time to buy the presents. Within two next week I'll buy a present to myself and it's going to be a Patek chronograph. I have decided already many times that I will get 5170G but every now and then I'm going for 5960P. Both of these...
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Which version of 5960P? If blue or black face, then I think you should go for that one over the 5170G.
I am looking pretty much to the movement side.
And when it comes to the dial of 5960P, all the dial colors are pretty nice. I love blue but I'm afraid that it's too shiny so grey and black are my options. Best, Kari
Did I miss something or do you already own the 5170J?
In this case, there would be a better choice than getting the G version. A 5070G! If you don't consider the 5070 as an option, then the 5960P is a superb choice. One manual chronograph movement, one auto, that is great! Best, Nicolas
The yellow gold is on the way out
because I do not for some reason wear YG anymore. I have quite many but all of those are staying in the bank vault. I hope that next year will bring us a nice automatic chronograph and in my opinion the discontinuation of 5960 & 5980 indicate that. Th...
I totally agree on the AC complication.
As you know, I am far from being a fan of this complication, and I would have preferred without. BUT the dial of the 5960 is such a stunner that I can live with that. A G pair would be THE solution. A bit expensive, but you have been a good boy, didn't yo...
5070G plus 5170G
would indeed make a fantastic pair. I still see the movement of your 5070G when I close my eyes. I had a long and good look at that next to your home sitting outside in the cafe. The new movement of 5170 has great specifications. At the same time the old ...
5960P
in my humble opinion as: -useful 12 hours chrono, -nice 3 windows calendar easy to read, -lume hands and markers, -power reserve on the dial. note that PR indicator does not cross Patek Philippe in older versions My choice was grey dial version which is s...
5170G
I would go to the 5170G: I love its applied figures and its elegance. And I have to confess that I'm not a great fan of the 5960, I find it quite confusing (not convinced by the subdial) and the visible movement remains a 324 which is fine but not excepti...
"I have decided already many times that I will get 5170G ..."
Dear Kari, this time there is no but :-) I try to listen/read carefully to you and therefore it should be the G version of a watch that you already love, nothing more nothing less. If I remember correctly you mentioned me to be guilty for purchasing the 5...
Thank you Oliver,
your advice is very sound. I have also been thinking about the chronograph of VC. Isn't is so that the movement of the automatic chronographs of Patek are based on 324? You'll hear/see soon what was my final verdict. Best, Kari
Premium
Oliver, I believe that the "premium", which I decided to pay for, is fully in line with Patek's pricing strategy over the last 5-6 years. Judging by the prices of 5170 G and J, I am sure that a new 5070 G would have costed at least 50.000 euro, if they wo...
Radone, thanks for your reply!
" premium just because the "crowd" is crazy about something" Hope you didn´t think it was my intention to offend you or anybody else. It was just a very personal view with the idea to support a fellow Purist, if at all. "Premium" You are happy with what y...
I was not offended at all
Sorry that it might have sounded like that. We are making choices all of our lives, don't we? My point is that even with the premium, given the current values of some high end chronographs from diferrent manufacturers, there is some reasonning behind the ...
Kari while I'm no PP expert, I recently had the opportunity
To try on the 5170G at a PP AD in Singapore. Both me and my wife loved it. I think I like it even more than the 5170J. I am from a country where we are more accustomed to yellow and pink gold, so for me to like the white gold version more than the yellow ...
depends what you already own...
... and how do you like to build your collection. Maybe you like to add a piece that is completely different than what you already own. I would go for the 5960P blue, its a unique blue, and we all know that patek excels in doing magical blue dials. The co...
Thank you for your comments.
I love blue dials and I have at the moment five PP with blue dial. The manual chronograph 5170 is a more complicated issue. If I have to choose between J and G, I do not hesitate a second. I like the G much more. So the issue is that should I try to colle...
Reading you...
... sounds like swapping the J for the G is the logical choice, and also that you know what you want and what you do not want.
Yes and no...
I would like to get a steel version and a platinum version but at the moment only white gold is possible. Best, Kari
hopefully we'll see a steel....
... version next year for the 175th. Perfect occasion for such a piece. I can see from now the struggle to get one. I'd prefer a platinum with a blue dial. You can always take the Wg for now, it will make you feel better in case you can't get it in steel ...
There must be a reason why
automatic chronographs will be discontinued. I also agree, a steel 5170 would be a perfect anniversary piece. Best, Kari
and why not a....
Why not a 5070p I think you once said you doubted between the 5070p and the platinum perpetual, you went for the perpetual. But was it the right choice, you once posted this question yourself. The 5070p won't become cheaper and will even go up one day. Yo...
A very good note.
But 100k is too much for a simple chronograph. I hope to see, one day, a platinum 5170. Best, Kari
if
If they would make a 5170 in platinum I wouldn't be surprised it would be close to xxx. On xyz you can find a 5070p around xxx (Note by the moderator: No discussions about street prices. Thanks!)
unless
They keep it ver limited like the steel 5004. That pièce was insane expensive. It they make 100 steel 5170, they can ask whatever they want
They can but I do not believe that
they would be so stupid. Patek is making their money by producing around 53,000 watches annually. A small number of anniversary pieces are not remarkable and I do not believe that they would like to generate a lot of negative reactions. Let's take 5131 as...
Tried the 5170g on my wrist
I wanted so bad to pull the trigger. Not many mordern pateks can do that to me. Since i hv the 5070p , my logical side of me luckily come to my rescue. But i would definayely say 5170G is one of the most beautiful chronograph by patek. Dial is simply too ...
Yu are lucky.
I would not know which one to choose; 5070G or 5170G. I love the level of finishing of the movement of 5070 while the movement of 5170 is technically fantastic and the watch is of the right size for my chicken wrist. Best, Kari
5960P as it has chrono and annual calendar
veru useful watch whereby you have the use of the annual calendar and considering prevailing prices they both are running at same price point. Then on the other hand you hear that both the references in question are being discontinued, in that even 5170g ...
Thanks for your opinion.
The problem is that I'm not crazy about the AC complication. At the same time I would rather have 5140G plus 5170G than 5270G. The two watches cost just the same as 5270 but I do not like thick watches and in my opinion a perpetual is nicest with an autom...
I would go for a classic columnwheel construction
Thus the 5170. On the other hand, the start-stop pusher does not run very smouthly on the 5170 TMHO which I think should with this caliber. 5950A perhaps?
5960P
In ruthenium dial,It may look different that most pateks but in a nice way IMHO. It has some nice casualty,That made me fell in love. I am planning for my first patek for christmas,And targeting this piece as well:) I think its the wright time for the 596...
I would, if I only could and
if cows would fly, the rain would be stinky. I'm trying, even it's difficult, to be realistic. Best, Kari