Coincidentally, wearing this today and seeing your post with my 5117G fresh back from H. Stern service. It is a great, classic piece and perfect dress sizing.
In china, a lot of people decontruct some pp, remove their movements and for making fake nautilus and aquanaut. These fake watches are very difficult to spot because they have real movement. At the beginning, people only decontruct some old ref like 5117,
This is what Patek does best...... A few references for you to consider..... (some current and some in the not so distant past) 5107 5127 5196 5296 6000 5000 6006 5096 5119 3919 (wee bit small for some but very good buying if money is a bit short) 5117 So
Dear Purists, 2016 has ended and, like I did last year, I thought it could be useful (and, why not, interesting) to make a list of some of the threads that were posted in this section this year whether you missed them or maybe would like to have a look at
You can pick beautiful pieces everywhere on the historical timeline of Patek. I've been closely looking at these 5119 and 5116 (enamel) several years ago. The 5120 was interesting to. As I posted not long ago (and Geross mentionned as well), you have also
Have only had it for a few days. Love it. Dresses down, dresses up. So far extremely accurate--keeping up with my smart phone. Comfortable to wear. Rare model--there are none in the US with waiting list. Tiffany told me they have a waiting list for it of
Dear Patek Philippe's passionates, 2016 is pointing out and I thought that whether you maybe missed one article or two or you wanted to re-read something you liked or you find a recent interest in, here is a summary of some of the articles (smaller or big
Hi Mark, Nice post and pictures of classic Patek/s 5115, 5117 & 5119 models which encouraged me to take out my almost forgotten 5117G from safe and put on wrist. Took a bit time to snap few shots at different time to share. I thought to give it more w
Great write up and pictures! I've considered the 5117 in the past, but in my view, that watch has one big flaw: The Minute hand is too short, making it easy to confuse with the Hour hand if you just quickly glance at the watch. That's really too bad, beca