To me any argument that rests much of its case on a watch manufacturer authenticating a "vintage" piece is to some degree flawed.

I suspect 5-10 years ago there was much more belief that all the watch brands had experts of their vintage timepieces working within their service departments, hopefully we realize now this is just not true (or at least for most brands). They all like to take the glory of the vintage pieces, but for most of them it is only really for marketing purposes.

I'd much rather trust a balanced view from a balanced collector who researches such things continually which is the value of a strong community of such like minded people.

Cheers
Richard

: Maybe that not everybody knows that Mayer is not just a
: collector with unlimited spending power... Like many of us, he
: is a regular of watch forums and an expert himself.

: Reading this notice made me resemble immediately his very
: interesting post, dated 2007, about his controversial 'Mayer
: dial'