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"Hope to meet you again next year"
Me too, but it won´t happen in Geneva some time soon :-(
Will reply to your email as soon as possible 
Thanks my dear friend and all the best for a prosperous and healthy 2015!
Oliver
Great considerations!
By: rnaden : December 29th, 2014-15:24
Thanks for sharing these thoughts and beautiful pictures, Oliver. I agree, that charging exorbitant amounts for work done similarly to industrialized production is not very much value, but sadly, we're seeing more and more of that. While I'm all for some ...
Oliver a tour de force
By: 4Js : December 29th, 2014-18:59
I super enjoyed your collage of experiences. I know this was so much work, and I appreciate your efforts and sharing. So many beautiful pieces you had the pleasure to observe and strap on. While it seemed a quick year, I felt that you had tremendous depth...
Well Said...
By: SALMANPK : December 29th, 2014-16:29
I really enjoyed reading your post, I have been of the same opinion as yourself since 2008, we have to be more careful and deliberate about what we buy and where I might disagree slightly is that the Independents do indeed give us a very viable alternativ...
I hear you...
By: SALMANPK : December 30th, 2014-13:44
I am sure some of them have the issues you have mentioned and would really like to know which brands specifically you had this experience with however in my limited experience so far Christiaan Van Der Klaauw, Andersen Geneve and Vianney Halter have excel...
wonderful post, Oliver
By: donizetti : December 30th, 2014-10:07
to cap of a very informative year - I greatly appreciated your posts and contributions. Sorry that you sound a bit "burnt out" to me, I hope that some days off over the holidays may restore your spirits. Very interesting points about the big brands strate...
Agree and disagree
By: jkingston : December 30th, 2014-15:06
Hi Oliver Your post is very provocative. The question should really be "what do we value" in a watch. I think you are right on track in posing questions that lead to this ultimate question. But on the other hand, maybe you are suggesting some criteria tha...
Neutral
By: SALMANPK : December 31st, 2014-02:17
" Speaking of 'neutral moderators' , I think you are at the right place here - don't you think?".......I am not so sure about the neutrality anymore and I'll speak about myself I definitely avoid writing what I really feel for fear of being marginalized a...
I have the utmost...
By: SALMANPK : December 31st, 2014-03:31
respect for you and your ideas and would be happy to discuss any and all with you and many of the kind moderators here HOWEVER there are others with whom I would not be as comfortable at all since they command such a large and loyal following it would be ...
Dear Damjan...
By: SALMANPK : January 2nd, 2015-00:42
I agree but its been like that for a while so it is what it is. Why don't you try to talk about something you don't like about a watch, a company, a watchmaker, the way a watch company or retailer operates or behaves or things that make you angry or discu...
PS
By: SALMANPK : January 2nd, 2015-06:35
Just between friends there is a "Naughty List", I stumbled across it one day some years ago, had to send an urgent PM to AT as it was accessible to the public. I sure hope I'm not on it now LoooooL :-) S
BOOKMARKED!
By: Brandon Skinner : December 30th, 2014-16:43
Thank you for the wonderful post, Oliver. Over the past year of reading PuristsPro- with the majority of the time spent in the newly discovered AHCI section- my attitudes and opinions of what I thought I knew about watches has changed. This post also illu...
With gratitude...
By: pplater : December 30th, 2014-17:58
Dear Oliver, We are extremely fortunate to have amongst us someone who writes with such élan , knowledge and (sometimes brutal!) honesty. Your photographs are always luscious as well: is there anything you do not execute with style? Thank you for all that...