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Guys, I sent my 3450 to be "serviced." 18 months. $3,500. Specified no polishing of the case as I did not want the Hallmarks worn down. As for my 5004, it is clearly understood that if you send it in with a white dial to get a black dial put on, you will not get back your original white dial. I susp

Dear Guys, I am going to be in Geneva next week and thought I would drop by the Patek Boutique. I have been to the Museum before and enjoyed it very much. My questions regarding the Boutique are two. First, what is the availability of hard to get models - do they have them , will they put you on a w

Dear Guys, I saw thee post about the search for the 2526 crown. So here is another search question. We often see poeple who are buying a second dial for their watch - a balck dial for a 5004 comes to mind. Now, the problem is you need 4 contrasting hands - for the black dial you need white hands for

Dear Guys, A friend of mine recently received this Patek 1518. It had spent 40 years in a safety deposit box...so the good news is that it was never polished and the hallmarks are unbelievable. The bad news is the degredation of the dial (sorry the photo is so bad). Anway, the patina of age on the d

Dear Guys, I have been following the Advanced Researc Watches for the past 3 years. After reading Jerome's excellent post below, it seems to me that there might be several things going on. It seemd at first that everyone in the watch industry was being part of the silicon fad phase and the use of "n

Dear Guys, Thank you so much for all your replies which were quite insightful. I hope I din't give anyone false hopes with Patek doing dial exchanges on 3970s. My question had more to do with dial exchanges on vintage annual and perpetual calanders - specifically days of the weeks and months of the