: It is a good piece of news, as auctioning some of these pieces
: would have given a very bad precedent for a house that aims at
: competing with the more established names. Prudently the online
: catalogue already showed some blanks that said info would be
: forthcoming.
: This shows they were humble enough to recognize that some more
: digging work has to be done, because Patrizzi is a name that has
: to be trusted. There's probably no chance nor intention of this
: becoming Heuer's Omegamania, still this definitely is a step in
: the right direction: one thing is to auction a watch with, say,
: wrong hands or crown; an altogether different one is to auction
: something most experts deem unfit or questionable.
: This of course does not offset the many errors to be found in the
: descriptions, but that's another story (and another thread here
: on Otd!).
: The outcry here and on Vetroplastica, in some instances outright
: bashing, has decidedly worked, I daresay.
: Cheers.
: Fabrizio