markwrowland
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Many Thanks!!!
The verification of the authenticity of my new Piaget made me smile all day!!!
I think the Piaget Gouverneur stands up very favorably to the Patek Calatrava also made in the early 1990s.
With many thanks, M-I-L

New to Piaget Site
By: markwrowland : February 8th, 2010-17:39
Friends, Be gentle...this is my first post. I am hopelessly madly in love with watches, and I purchased my first Piaget last week on eBay. It was somewhat risky purchase because the person selling the watch did not know watches, but I fell in love with th...
Some concern...
By: MTF : February 8th, 2010-18:33
markwrowland, I am checking records because of concern with 4 or 5 points seen (or not seen) in those photos. I won't list all of them for security reasons. The most obvious is the peek-a-boo window at the back to see the balance wheel. Who knows what was...
Pictures of my watch
By: markwrowland : February 8th, 2010-19:27
Thank you for looking up my latest love's pedigree. The pictures below are of my watch and were posted on eBay with the advertisement for sale. The quality may be insufficient to determine the fine details of construction that can differentiate a fake fro...
Calvinist vacation LOL !
By: MTF : February 8th, 2010-21:41
M-I-L, LOL -- indeed it could be possible that the Calvinists took a vacation....you know the Swis French and their vacations! My 'Big Book of Piaget' shows a similar watch with automatic movement and date display called the 'Gouverneur'. It had roman num...
This watch exists!
By: MTF : February 9th, 2010-06:11
M-I-L, We have confirmation that the photos supplied are of a known model. As I suspected, it is the manual wind version of the 'Gouverneur' and one example is also in the Piaget Private Museum Collection; Ref. 90970, with the same opening on the back of ...