Dear John, I love your videos! They are a much welcome, and essential, break from the problems of day-to-day life. Your efforts help bring people return to center where they an hopefully experience a few, much needed minutes of sanity, wonder, history, as well as respect and embrace of tradition, that most true watch enthusiasts crave in a world that has emerged as simply mad! Thank you!
John, those are impressive Patek Philippe watches, showcasing the mastery of Patek Philippe craftsmanship. Congratulations on making them available. Maybe one day...
This is how it starts...better lighting, 2 camera angles...new watches...golf shirt. NEXT: John will be wearing a "badass hoodie" and baseball cap with collectability logos, slinging RM's and Hublot's and showing us "day in the life" video's with $15,000 steak dinners... unblievable...BUT TRUE!
A Collectability Ellipse hoodie would be nice to go with my branded Collectability Ellipse caps... but sorry to disappoint but my next videos are going to feature academic content on 19th century Patek Philippe watches as well as a video on 12 Pateks under 12K usd.... literally every Patek will be priced less than a price of a 15k steak dinner, lol. Anyways, thanks for watching!!
5004A! Incredible. Is the deployant also stainless steel John? I believe the 5935A was the first series production (non limited edition) Patek to have a stainless steel deployant clasp. Can you confirm? Thanks
The 5004A deployant clasp is indeed steel. When I put on this watch, I am struck by how light it feels on the wrist. I agree I think the 5935A is the first series production Patek to have steel folding clasp. I believe the first non-series steel folding clasp was made for the Only Watch Ref. 5016A. Great name by the way - I should be asking you!!
No offence, John, but I reckon it should be taboo for a person who gets allocated something as hyper-sought-after as a Green Nautilus at retail price to resell it so relatively quickly! I always thought that Patek go to great lengths to ensure that such pieces end up with very serious deep-pocketed collectors? (Because otherwise they might just as well write the first buyers a cheque for quarter of a million dollars!!)
No offense taken and no surprise that some modern cherry pieces are resold within the first few years of initial purchase. As @golfinguro wrote, sometimes these collectors are so big that letting go of a few big pieces is just a drop in their overall collection bucket.
Everyone has their reasons why they sell and they are typically not what most people expect! Someday I might write and article on the psychology of why people sell major pieces, collections, etc. It is a fascinating topic about which I have considered since my auctions days. Surprisingly, it's often not about the money.
@@johnreardon3158 I was referring to the 5004A but I suppose it applies to the green dial Nautilus as well (though a standard 5711a is less than its r counterpart). I understand the market I just, like you, think a lot of it is illogical. It turns into an ego contest between these whales who want to flex the “rarest”, meanwhile, the horological significance (which is often substantial) is left in the dust. The steel 1518s and rose 2499s come to mind as well.
@@johnreardon3158 when collectors talk about “the best” they reference these models, forgetting that there is nothing that makes a pink 2499 intrinsically better than a yellow one besides rarity. We know this is true because, for the 5970, it’s the reverse (yellow is rarer and sells for more). It’s all a bit silly to me (a la Pokémon cards) but this isn’t my playground and I can’t empathize with them like maybe you can as a dealer.
It's interesting Patek gets all the glory and Philippe is always forgotten! Nice to see to see Philippe's name mentioned first for once... in all seriousness we'll fix it as soon as possible.
Something in here doesn't make any sense, he wears a Nautilus and swears on it as being very nice, and also says that Patek is either one or two top brands!
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Dear John, I love your videos! They are a much welcome, and essential, break from the problems of day-to-day life. Your efforts help bring people return to center where they an hopefully experience a few, much needed minutes of sanity, wonder, history, as well as respect and embrace of tradition, that most true watch enthusiasts crave in a world that has emerged as simply mad! Thank you!
What a line up!!!
John, those are impressive Patek Philippe watches, showcasing the mastery of Patek Philippe craftsmanship. Congratulations on making them available. Maybe one day...
Thanks Marcio for watching!
All are beautiful.
This is how it starts...better lighting, 2 camera angles...new watches...golf shirt. NEXT: John will be wearing a "badass hoodie" and baseball cap with collectability logos, slinging RM's and Hublot's and showing us "day in the life" video's with $15,000 steak dinners... unblievable...BUT TRUE!
A Collectability Ellipse hoodie would be nice to go with my branded Collectability Ellipse caps... but sorry to disappoint but my next videos are going to feature academic content on 19th century Patek Philippe watches as well as a video on 12 Pateks under 12K usd.... literally every Patek will be priced less than a price of a 15k steak dinner, lol. Anyways, thanks for watching!!
The alternate universe collectibility where john is a hublot connaisseur
@@johnreardon3158 All Patek content looks better when filmed in a lime green lamborghini, or at least a g-wagon with red leather interior.
5004A! Incredible. Is the deployant also stainless steel John? I believe the 5935A was the first series production (non limited edition) Patek to have a stainless steel deployant clasp. Can you confirm? Thanks
The 5004A deployant clasp is indeed steel. When I put on this watch, I am struck by how light it feels on the wrist. I agree I think the 5935A is the first series production Patek to have steel folding clasp. I believe the first non-series steel folding clasp was made for the Only Watch Ref. 5016A. Great name by the way - I should be asking you!!
Thank you John. Do you know what clasp was used on the 5004T piece unique for Only Watch? @@johnreardon3158
No offence, John, but I reckon it should be taboo for a person who gets allocated something as hyper-sought-after as a Green Nautilus at retail price to resell it so relatively quickly! I always thought that Patek go to great lengths to ensure that such pieces end up with very serious deep-pocketed collectors? (Because otherwise they might just as well write the first buyers a cheque for quarter of a million dollars!!)
If the collector is large enough I reckon they don’t care.
No offense taken and no surprise that some modern cherry pieces are resold within the first few years of initial purchase. As @golfinguro wrote, sometimes these collectors are so big that letting go of a few big pieces is just a drop in their overall collection bucket.
those are big daddies. wonder why the owner wanted to sell. has to have a monster collection
Everyone has their reasons why they sell and they are typically not what most people expect! Someday I might write and article on the psychology of why people sell major pieces, collections, etc. It is a fascinating topic about which I have considered since my auctions days. Surprisingly, it's often not about the money.
I agree i bet it's interesting story. But I'm sure the collection left over is wild@@johnreardon3158
It’s hilarious to me that steel Pateks sell for more than precious metal solely due to rarity.
I agree and the fact that a 5711/1A-014 is 'worth' more than a 5204R is simply not logical.... and the 5204R is more rare than a 5711/1A-014!
@@johnreardon3158 I was referring to the 5004A but I suppose it applies to the green dial Nautilus as well (though a standard 5711a is less than its r counterpart). I understand the market I just, like you, think a lot of it is illogical. It turns into an ego contest between these whales who want to flex the “rarest”, meanwhile, the horological significance (which is often substantial) is left in the dust. The steel 1518s and rose 2499s come to mind as well.
@@johnreardon3158 when collectors talk about “the best” they reference these models, forgetting that there is nothing that makes a pink 2499 intrinsically better than a yellow one besides rarity. We know this is true because, for the 5970, it’s the reverse (yellow is rarer and sells for more). It’s all a bit silly to me (a la Pokémon cards) but this isn’t my playground and I can’t empathize with them like maybe you can as a dealer.
Who is Philippe Patek?
It's interesting Patek gets all the glory and Philippe is always forgotten! Nice to see to see Philippe's name mentioned first for once... in all seriousness we'll fix it as soon as possible.
Something in here doesn't make any sense, he wears a Nautilus and swears on it as being very nice, and also says that Patek is either one or two top brands!