Horological Meandering

amanico
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Does perfection exist, Bruno?

I had different experiences, with the Boutiques.

They are good days, and bad days, in every Boutique.

As well as at some ADs.

I can tell you a story wich happened to me more than once, where the salesmen, at some ADs, didn't make the difference between a Lange, a VC, and a JLC... Strange, but True.

A judgement can be based on an experience you repeated maybe 10 times, as there are indeed good days and bad days, like you, like me on our respective job.

Yolu took the example of the PP Paris Boutique...

I can tell you that there, I had mixed experiences, from the bad to the excellent, and that their window shop is not always lacking of the pieces you mentionned, as I recently saw, and for some several weeks, perpetual calendars, Chronographs etc...

So, the pieces you didn't see, I saw them ... Good Days, Bad Days.

I can even tell you that for a long time, I did have a bad feeling about a repsectable dealer in Paris, till recently, and we even became friends.

So you see...

I think it is very difficult and not fair to generalize.

As for prices, what did you expect from the Boutiques?

To heavily discount their watches, which will allow you to think that their watches are worth nothing, because even a Boutique, which is the Flagship of a brand, doesn't have any confidence on the product they sell, or to defend their watches, and show some heavy confidence on them?

Therefore, at the Boutiques, if you can't get any discount, or a very light one, you are offered other things, like an impeccable service, which is not always the case with all the ADs, I said ... NOT ALWAYS.

Let's be very prudent, here...

Best,

Nicolas