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Today would have been John Lennon's 75th birthday. As he was a proud Patek owner (given to him by his wife)................ ..............I am wearing 1 of mine

My wife and I are on a cruise right now, doing the shore excursion thing in a couple of ports(lots cheaper to pay for a beach excursion than a day shopping in places like Georgetown Grand Cayman)!!!! Well this morning walking through the shopping area at the cruise dock in Falmouth Jamaica, I noticed a jeweler with and AP sign. Thought it was a little odd, small shop, cruise port that pretty much caters to RCI. On the way back this afternoon, had a few minutes to kill so we went into the store. Surprisingly, they had quite a good stock of AP's. New Tour Auto, Safari, 44mm FC, and the one I was really interested in, the new SS Diver with the open Caseback. Salesperson was very nice, took it and the Safari out and I tried them both on, primarily focused on the Diver. I have my V7 with me, but another watch on today. One thing I noticed, the dial seemed a little more gloss than the V7, although it could have been the lighting in the store. Other than that, there wasn't a whit of difference. My watch has an AR Crystal from guru on RWI, and the difference between it and the gen or microscopic if at all. The open Caseback is nice, and the movement is really a thing of beauty. The rep manufacturers attempts at duplicating the genuine movement pale in comparison. Since mine is the closed Caseback, that isn't a consideration. Here's the kicker. Walk out the door price, 14450.00 USD, discounted from over 16k. I probably have around 1k or a bit more in mine including the Powermatic 80 movement, guru Crystal and Donerix shark strap and the cost to get the movement swapped out and the Crystal installed. My final conclusion, if I won the powerball lottery, inherited a fortune or was already pretty well off, then I might go for the gen, but for me, there isn't a 13k+ difference in these watches. Wish I could have gotten a wrist you of the gen, but I felt like that might be pushing it a bit! So here's mine. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Amazing work!! Questions though will you ever bevel the edges on the case?

Waouh, you're high !

^^ It's perfect, congrats!!

Thank you, I might just do that!

You have too appreciate the MOP dial bro

Look over in the IWC section, it may be there!!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Wait, what happened to my blog about the AP diver??

god it makes me regret trading my pam 228!