Patek Philippe Ellipse Ref.3930 (gebraucht)

Tonneau BIN on eBay -- Caveat Emptor!!!!
There is what seems to be a potentially nice WGF plain white Tonneau on eBay the number is 280774954533, it is a BIN for $129 with a best offer option. Be careful with this one!! While the seller has a good rating, and shows 3 photos of what seems to be a complete watch including a back (shown from the side in photo #2). Her listing says clearly: "PLEASE LOOK AT PHOTOS PRIOR TO BIDDING, WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE" Above that his listing says "THE SS BACK IS MISSING AND YOU WILL NEED TO FIND ONE OFFERING THIS AS IS AND NO RETURNS" Since I KNOW it is not SS (Stainless Steel), when I asked if the back was missing and what metal the watch is (solid or filled), I was told "not 100% sure of metal this has no back there seems to be some sort of color difference on the lug area at 7 if i had to speculate i would say white gold filledhope this helps sue" I then wrote the following to her: "The middle photo SHOWS a back, so telling people to look close at the photos is rat

Brand watches sales drop in China
In the past 5 years, the world economic situation is not good, American financial crisis, European debt crisis. In the past 30 years, the economic in China is always keeping high speed increase. More and more people became rich man in China, so we find many Chinese go to abroad and to buy luxury. In the same time, many well know brands also opened stores in China in the past years, and they really got plenty of profit. Last year, there was a serious traffic accident happened in Shanxi province because of heavy fog, dozens of people were killed or injured. Several government officers and polices went to the accident place, reporters also arrived. But a advanced officer folded his two arms and smiling. Compare to the bodies with blood, this smile photo Provoked public outrage, and a shinning gold watch dressed on his wrist. Angry people searched form internet of this officer, and found he dressed many different famous brand watches in different places, such as several AP, VC, Rado etc. I

Bonus factoid
This is from 2002. Don't know if it ever got off the ground:The Skyaid Watch monitors the wearers pulse rate and will automatically radio a request for emergency aid for sudden cardiac arrests. The only hope of surviving a sudden cardiac arrest (300,000 die annually in the US) is to have the heart defibrillated within 8 minutes. Currently 90% of the people with sudden cardiac arrests die, often because the defibrillation equipment arrives too late. For the 40% of sudden cardiac arrests for which there are no bystanders, the Skyaid Watch will be a true lifesaver.An automatic call will eliminate vital minutes that would be otherwise lost while bystanders call for emergency medical care. This call will be a true lifesaver in the case that there are no bystanders, which is the case for 40% of sudden cardiac arrests. The Skyaid Watch automatic call for help will also be of significant help for the 30% of all strokes which occur during asleep.Initially, these requests will be responded to b

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Lol. Argue with that

The Golden Ellipse...
What do you think about the Patek Golden Ellipse model? With just one 5000 series reference (in platinum only) and three 3000 series smaller sized references in gold in the 2013 catalogue, is there much demand for these references in today's larger size, complication heavy watch world? Wonder what are Patek's future plans for the model.