https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/talking-watches-with-roni-madhvani The Patek 3424 and the AP are fantastic. Very cool to see something so off the charts.
The Gilbert Albert Pateks are from the 60s, the Ventura is from 1957. An old post from Roni about these watches http://www.watchprosite.com/?page=wf.forumpost&fi=11&ti=401151&pi=2397936
Me too. The Ventura is the watch that got me started on this. I had learned about its history (marketing works!) and I kept talking about it, so my family got it for me for my graduation. After that I learned more so now I see it as the not very good replica that it is. Quartz is fine in this case, but it is plated base metal, and not even very good, this was in the 90s, I think it was the first re-edition they made, today’s Hamiltons are much higher quality, but that’s what got me here today. I have often considered getting a real one but I’m not sure I want to deal with the 505 movement.
The breadth, vision, & courage, of those Designers at Patek, is frankly breathtaking & inspiring.............. They were trusted, and they took serious style risks, to produce something entirely individual, & devastatingly beautiful, ( agreed even then, expensive )......as opposed to simply returning to past glories, or a new spin on an old theme
I was really pleasantly surprised to see the Hamilton in the beginning of the video, and a little dissapointed to learn that it was just a Patek - boring