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5 January 2024, 02:03 AM | #31 |
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Thank you! We’ve really enjoyed the watch journey, of course, and for obvious reasons. The other comment about closing our AD is certainly worrisome, but they’ve just opened the Carmel Boutique a couple years ago, so I suspect that it won’t be first on their hit list. Indeed, Kern Jewelers will be opening up the new Patek Boutique in SF in just a few months. (Despite closure of Shreve, who had been PP for >100yrs!) So it makes you wonder “why” certain AD’s get closed?? Maybe there’s back stories that we don’t know? Maybe some selling behind the back door and green changing hands? I’m not sure but often there’s more to the story that might explain things, eh? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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5 January 2024, 03:46 AM | #32 |
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Geneva only serves locals now. Someone I know who'd been with the Geneva Salon for years was told to find her own local AD after the pandemic. Lucky for her that her family has a long history of jewelry purchases from an AD.
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5 January 2024, 07:43 AM | #33 |
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Bettridge in Aspen is no longer an AD
I bought my first Patek from Betterridge in Aspen in 2023 (I live in Denver.) Received an email today that Betteridge is no longer a Patek AD as of Jan 7th. Super sad. Spent two years farming relationship to get Calatrava Travel Time Pilot with hopes of something that had a complication around the corner.
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5 January 2024, 08:16 AM | #34 |
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I know several PP collectors who are not « locals » but acquire their watches from the Salons.
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5 January 2024, 10:48 AM | #35 | |
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5 January 2024, 11:39 AM | #36 |
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5 January 2024, 07:27 PM | #39 |
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In 2019 they told me they serve locals plus people flying in on their own jets from around the world. No luck. I had arrived on Lufthansa.
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5 January 2024, 09:31 PM | #40 |
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7 January 2024, 05:29 AM | #42 |
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Is this the AD or the Geneva Salon? I was told Salon only serves local but not sure for ADs.
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7 January 2024, 05:33 AM | #43 |
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If you fit the profile you won’t have any problem buying.
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8 January 2024, 09:10 AM | #45 |
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Ok you are right but jeez breitling really ?!?! Let’s be honest Patek can sell their 65k watches in china and India alone probably and they barely have any point of sales in that region. They made it clear that they are a watch maker that and not a retail company - maybe it will backfire but I highly doubt it frankly Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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I was using Breitling as an example, a local dealer holding events can create interest and if you don’t have one the interest goes, I’m sure Patek can sell all their watches at the minute. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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9 January 2024, 02:52 AM | #48 |
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Thank you, Robert! Hope you’re doing well. Biggest problem is that I don’t wear this very often…. Kinda afraid to get it used. When I want to steep up a little, I wear the 5167, and swap out the straps and having fun. BUT, there’s few events that I feel the 5811 is “the right watch” for the day. (It’s a first world problem!). See you soon! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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9 January 2024, 04:39 AM | #49 | |
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Happy New Year - yes definitely a first world Problem;) enjoy !!! It’s definitely a Banger !!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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9 January 2024, 09:18 AM | #51 | |
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Makes sense you have a good point !!! Local events definitely can make a difference but probably more important for less hot watch companies Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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19 January 2024, 04:14 AM | #52 |
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Anyone knows when will the ADs find out if they will be cut this year?
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All GC are neither « signature pieces », if by that you are referring to « allocation pieces », nor historically « hard to get models ». The collectors I mention have not started to call themselves this way in the last seven years. They have been loyal to PP for decades. If the « 10 GC » image is uncomfortable, let’s say that these collectors have « pièces uniques » in their collections and PP does not limit their contacts to one visit of the Manufacture per year. They also sometimes fly with their jets to get their timepiece. Finally, I do not think that they are « whales ». |
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26 January 2024, 05:20 PM | #57 |
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3 February 2024, 06:16 AM | #59 |
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Just got the sad news that my AD is no longer. And now only 296 ADs are left globally. Well, time to move on and say bye to the brand…
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That's just terrible! Sorry to hear.
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