Hello Jeff, I agree this is a major breakthrough and does achieve a nice and delicate balance between nods to the vintage community, heritage and modern technology and trends.
It has a very clean design and the dial is impressive.
Still to go from here to the 'grail' status can be a very long and winding road, and often quite painful as well.
I think this 'grailness' (as it were) can only be achieved in retrospective, and we think about it all of them from the Autavia to the Speedy 376.0822 (i.e. Chuck's grail) were quite disappointingly commercial failures at their times.
Let's hope this is not going to be the case for the new Carrera!
Cheers,
Fabrizio