Spangles - Dr. Tabby
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I appreciate your passion for AP.
Ironically, the very range and depth you point to as AP's strength contrasts with the way detractors of the brand focus on a perceived limitation in the brand's great reliance on mainly the RO and ROO lines.
To your question of what brands have great range and a capacity for "avant garde" work, I would say Cartier in particular as well as JLC both have this. I appreciate both for it, although I am not in the market for avant garde watches. Yet, a brand's capacity for this kind of work does enlarge the brand as a whole, which sounds like the point you are making and I agree with completely.
Enjoy your AP watches, AP is lucky to have such passionate purists!
Rethinking my thoughts on AP
My wife and I have own/owned numerous APs from Millenary, Lady Oak, 15400, Novelty and APROC. ROLEX aside they are the most prevalent brand in our combined collection. Despite this I remain a big naysayer in the despite the big push from within my regula...
I’ve no idea of the numbers but does that make them any less advantgarde?
Comments about sales volume or indeed resale value are moot points. Name another brand like AP..
I appreciate your passion for AP.
Ironically, the very range and depth you point to as AP's strength contrasts with the way detractors of the brand focus on a perceived limitation in the brand's great reliance on mainly the RO and ROO lines. To your question of what brands have great rang...
AP make very artistic watches
I would still have them in my collection if not for accuracy and reliability issues.
Haha.
Not sure I will ever be an owner but fair is fair, they could have went down the road of most of not all other manufacturers with a standard round 3 part case offering and called it a day. To big - yes, to thick - yes, disappointing - yes but you can’t ac...
Agreed. Most adventurous of the 3 you mentioned -Balances high horology n haute couture. Though Cartier and Chopard are two more brands I wud put within the described silo. They start ..
...at a very low base which sort of dilutes their haute value.