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: With that introduction, I give you three watches purchased this
: summer, all from dealers, all locally.
: -- One new, two preowned.
: -- One in house movement, two from other famous manufactures but in
: watches from manufactures
: -- Three brands
: -- Two stores
: -- Sales prices were all less than 50% of current or original
: retail
: -- Total investment was considerably less than a 50th anniversary
: co-axial Speedy

: 1970s Audemars Piguet Ultra Thin automatic with the AP
: 2120 inside

Reiteration of points mentioned above

Preowned

Calibre 2120 movement actually produced by JLC, but oddly, never used by JLC; only Patek, AP and Vacheron Constantin have used it; PP ceased some time ago, AP still uses it as a base for complicated watches, as does VC, but I don't believe this movement is still used for time/date watches today (but this occurred within the last five years); designed and first produced in 1967, it is one of the most beautiful automatic movements ever produced and obviously makes for a thin watch

From Store "A"

You would pay more for a new Speedy 3570 than for this watch

Only 32 mm, it wears much larger

I have a large wrist, and this watch does not appear tiny

The movement is amazingly beautiful

A perfect dress watch for being subtle

: 2007 Omega Deville Hour Vision with calibre 8500 fully visible from
: 5 of six sides

Reiteration of points mentioned above

New

Movement is the arguably "in house" coaxial calibre 8500, with dual barrels and a 60 hour power reserve

From Store "B"

Less than 50% of retail, and the most expensive of the three watches

The calibre 8500 is quite finely decorated

If you think of a watch as having six sides (up, down, crown up, crown down, 12 up, 6 up), there is a view of the movement from 5 sides

And you can clearly see the 7 beats per second (25,200)

: 1990s/2000s Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Self Winding 42002/000J
: with the VC 1312 inside

Reiteration of points mentioned above

Preowned

Movement is the Girard-Perraueax 3300 base, here vastly improved to VC standards as the VC 1312

From Store "B"

Least expensive of the three watches

The most outstanding feature is the "sunray" guilloche (these photos exaggerate the depth of the detail)

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