What's your ultimate grail watch?

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Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Double Balance Wheel Openworked in steel reference 15407ST.OO.1220ST.01
(photo taken off watchesbysjx.com)

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grail watch.
maybe some day its the Glashutte Panorama date in blue

grail as in never ever is a Patek 5970

 
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A preproduction Seamaster 176.001, as depicted on an early version of the 1040 movement documentation. Thus, for my grail, I cunningly picked a watch that may very well not actually exist, so that I can keep my quest going forever!

 
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Dream Grail options would be as follows

And can't forget the 1942 42mm Rolex Rattrapant! It's believed that only 12 were ever made! I wish modern chronographs were this thin! 😉
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I live vicariously through Instagram. Any one of these would suffice as a grail:

Tissot went through a 4 or 5 year stretch where they produced (IMHO) the prettiest wristwatch dials ever.

They went nuts experimenting with gilt.

One of my collecting regrets is not buying the shit out of these examples when they were still "cheap".
 
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A true grail for the simple reason that it's the price of a (not so) small house:

£300,000 but I could time my morning pour over and an espresso shot at the same time! Unless I was wearing it backwards ... which I genuinely would ...
 
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A true grail for the simple reason that it's the price of a (not so) small house:

£300,000 but I could time my morning pour over and an espresso shot at the same time! Unless I was wearing it backwards ... which I genuinely would ...
Likewise - I truly would consider putting that strap on backwards and wearing it like that. The downside being that I might never get anything done. That's really lovely!
 
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A true grail for the simple reason that it's the price of a (not so) small house:

£300,000 but I could time my morning pour over and an espresso shot at the same time! Unless I was wearing it backwards ... which I genuinely would ...

It's between this and the ALS 1815 that I am thinking of....hmmm