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Hello dear KM! Let me participate in the Long Hunt theme…
May 06, 2022,19:46 PM
… with a few watches in my collection.
As it happened to you and many colleagues in passion for watches here if we have been collecting during several years we have at least one (and probably more) watches that required a very long time searching and hunting before owning them, proving that to be a true collector patience and perseverance are two required conditions.
Here my selection for the Theme:
I fell in love with the JLC Tribute to Deep Sea Alarm US when I viewed it in person around 2011 for first time. After several years of looking for it without success I received a call from a friend telling me that he had just refused to buy a watch offered to him in a local watch shop but he thought it might interest me.
He sent me a picture by whatsapp and I almost fainted when I saw this example NOS full set. I literally flew the following day to the shop and closed the deal.
Rolex GMT pepsi ceramic. I felt I badly needed to get it to complete my GMT collection as soon as it was announced in 2018. It was just in October 2021 when I finally could get mine at a local AD.
PP 5396g Annual calendar: I’ve been lusting for this watch for years but every time it was offered to me I had other priorities in my list.
On the last working day of December 2019 I received a call from the only PP representative here informing me that they were closing the shop and offered me this watch with very special price as my last chance to buy it (at least locally). Again I drove that same day to get it and in spite of the chaotic traffic that day I brought it home at last!
My Panerai MM Pam 587 was caught in Paris the same day I was returning home from a trip to Italy and France in 2014. I had been hunting it visiting several AD’s in different cities of both Countries.
I arrived to the boarding gate just a few minutes before the plane was closing its doors but with my trophy on my wrist.
The long hunt and the circumstances of their purchase add to the thrill of owning and wearing these watches!
Have a nice weekend dear friend KM and all friends here!
Cheers!
Abel