My PuristSPro ABR Edition Story

Ares501 - Mr Green shares a deeply personal account of acquiring a PuristSPro ABR Edition watch to commemorate the birth of his son. This narrative highlights the emotional significance of watches as heirlooms and symbols of passion, demonstrating how community engagement can shape a collector's most meaningful acquisitions. His story underscores the profound connection between life's milestones and horological pursuits.

This year was extremely successful for me.

I spent 10 wonderful months with colleague’s Purists learning
& sharing passion for these “small objects of beauty that mesmerize”

Title of Assistant professor in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution is within a grasp and what is most important to me is that my first child (son) is born.

Of course, I immediately wanted to mark this event in a way worthy of the man madly in love with watches so I began my quest through thick and thin for appropriate watch  to celebrate this event and what is more important to present it to my son one day. Although many will say that Patek imposes logical choice I wanted something not so trivial :0).

After the birth of a child vacation season soon came so I took enough time to make my decision. I was looking at watches all the days and most of the nights …. walking to shops and ADs …. reading all the posts on the PuristS. This last was, as I expected, important and helpful.
First what appeared was AnthonyT post on St. Gallen Disinfectable Watch. At that moment I thought OK …. cool watch ….
A post by MTF about SE for the PuristS came next .. I thought OK … nice touch ….
Then, AndrewD wrote in a post that we should, and allow me to paraphrase, help to our community by purchasing an ABR PuristPro edition, which has already made been for us, I thought OK …. man got a  point …. but all that time I was still tormented not knowing what to get for my baby.
Finally among one of the posts correspondence started about watches made in the year of our birth between me and Nicolas and he suggested to me that I should purchase for a son an Omega Alaska project or Polaris Re-edition to keep with family tradition.
And then it just dawned on me ... that's it .... There is simply no better way to convey my love for the watches on my son and demonstrate simultaneously how much I love him than to acquire ABR PuristSPro Edition for him.

Why? Because this place represents the best possible way of telling him how big is my passion for watches and because this is a place where I, after 20 years of love for watches, finally find peers who understand me, think alike and share the same obsession.
In the first moment of excitement, I almost ordered from Anthony watch with wrong serial number .... thrill was so intense that in the third attempt I realized I wanted ABR with serial number which corresponds to the date of my sons birthday.

When this happened ….. it was epiphany …..

At the end of this lengthy expose allow me to thank Anthony, MTF, AndrewD and last but not the last Nicolas (MERCI mon ami!) your post made it possible that all of the hints locks into place.

I’m so happy!
And now the picture show

And of course obligatory wrist-shot!

P.S. Patek perhaps have a slogan for the next generation, but PuristS Pro has the next generation.

Sincerely

Damian