Cartier Panthere

Saving for a grail pays off for me.
Earlier this week I posted a thread on the General Discussion Forum about one of my grails had saved me thousands of dollars. I've had two grails for some time, one of which I already owned, my GMT IIc. The other one has always been a white SS Daytona. Resisting buying something on impulse meant I had a few bucks tucked away that weren't going for a watch I wouldn't wear as often as the GMT IIc. That was my "test." Would I wear the GO, GP, Zenith instead of my GMT? The answer was no, so I didn't pull the trigger on those. Instead I sold off a couple watches (maybe one more yet to go) and had money just in case. Well Saturday I was at my AD and asked, almost as a joke, if they had a SS Daytona in back. To my astonishment he said, "yes, a white one." Then he asked if I'd like to see it. I had never seen one before in the metal, so naturally I said sure. I tried it on and brother, resistance was futile. I knew there was no way I could walk out of the store without my grail of grails.Here

Fatherland: From WWI to Retirement.
This watch seemed to take an inordinate amount of research time. It is a Swiss WWI trench watch with the rare design of an integrated shrapnel guard where usually the guard is held in place by the strap, and not, like on this piece where it is integrated into the bezel.Patria is a Latin word cognate with the Greek πατρίς (patris), both of which derive from the word for ¡°father¡±, or ¡°fatherland¡±

Some Thoughts on Time and Having a Watch
Like the greatest of Russian autobiographers, Alexander Herzen, much time was needed for the events in my life to settle into ¡°a perspicuous thought,¡± a thought I could convey in both a meaningful and written form. Like Herzen, too, some of my thoughts were uncomfortable and melancholy, but in writing I was able to reconcile them, after several unsatisfactory attempts, with my rational faculty. Artand for me the art of writingis an outward integration inspired by a degree of inner disintegration. Having a watch to let me know what time it is did not help in the slightest with my emotional life, although it did have immense practical value especially when I was a teacher with 30 children in my class-Ron Price, Tasmania

PP 5711 steel UK list price?
Just wanting to clarify the UK list price of a PP 5711 steel blue/white dial, prices increased 0.6% 1st July '15 in the UK I believe.ThanksJohn

Happy St Pateicks Day...lets see some green straps!
Loving the green...