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Does anyone know if the guy at the tailor at the Raymond's showroom any good?

Talk about bling-bling watches... Wanted to buy a watch for mom. I went around so many stores... Couldn't find a decent sized dial on a ladies' watch. Huge dials encrusted with bling! Sheesh!

Finally, found a sweet Rado I loved (but Mom does not like Rado)... Got her a Burberry (sans their trademark plaid)

Absolutely boring Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse...understated and minimalist...tag price...Kuwaiti Dinars 15,000/-.

It is not the watch, it is the history (look it up, please...hmmmm....somebody here is interested in that subject, right? )

That's a lovely watch. But of course, way beyond the reach of many.
I refuse to pay more than a month's sal for a watch. Can't afford to considering, I buy one at least every 3 months.

Understated elegance comes with a hefty price tag!

I saw a Patek Philippe recently that costed 95000KD !

That is a relative statement. One person's one month pay may be equal to the salary of the entire life of another!




But of course. That is why you buy only maybe one watch your whole life, but treat it as any other investment, and invest wisely!

There is good news, KK. We have eaten our way out of many of the present species. Tuna will be a mirage for future generations.

Yep... It is a relative statement. It is how I budget my watches. I like good watches and need them to fit my mood and dressing style of the moment.
The elegance has to fit my pocket. Of course, there are times I save up for a specific watch... A Maurice Lacroix for Papa... Well, still in process.

A little history about the Patek Philippe Golden Ellipse

In 1868, Patek Philippe crafted the very first Swiss wristwatch. It was a delicate jeweled timepiece. One hundred years later, wristwatches were ubiquitous, and there was hardly any shape that designers had not yet tried out. The spectrum of case styles ranged from classic round to rectangular and square as well as to triangular for Masonic watches. It almost seemed as if the creatives had reached their wits’ end – until the day when the eminent Genevan manufacture Patek Philippe unveiled its Golden Ellipse in 1968. It was rounded without being round and rectangular without having corners. In a way, it was a hybrid of both forms, and the case-width to case-length ratio was 1.618033988… the mysterious golden section in which the combined length of two lines is to the longer line as the longer line is to the shorter one. Hippasus of Metapontum, a Greek mathematician, first described this ratio around 450 B.C. while he was analyzing pentagrams, and in the process also discovered the so-called irrational numbers (numbers which cannot be expressed as fractions and thus have an infinite number of decimal places). It turned out that many forms in architecture and in nature which people perceive as harmonious actually have shapes based on the golden section. The ratio was therefore soon referred to as the divine proportion and remains one of the most fascinating natural and cultural phenomena.

More about the Golden Ratio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio