ciaca
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I mostly agree
Mar 16, 2015,16:46 PM
The 240, like every other ultra thin movement, is not a workhorse of course.
But Patek has never produced professional watches which have in strength and robustness their prerogative. It's not their target and i think it shouldn't neither because there are other companies in that field with a solid and stronger tradition.
Watches like the nautilus (but the same consideration can be made for other ones of the same kind) despite their sporty and casual look still remain high end classy watches (or at least they should be) to be used with the usual care given to this kind of stuff.
About the remaining part of your statements i have to agree with any objections, it's the same thing i've thought since a long time.
We have to admit, anyway, that as long people still keep on buying their products, the guys at Patek won't be forced to change their strategy, what they do and how they do it.
The 215 is a brilliant evidence in its way; a cheap, modest, ordinary bread and butter manual movement (not the thinnest, nor the most originally conceived, with a pretty ordinary architecture neither the most opulent of the various iterations in which this JLC 818 ebauche has been made in its long history) used in so many references in the last 30 years i can't even start to count them. But how many people care about it? How many people is able to recognise the value of what they buy, what is and how is made ? How many people spend a lot of their free time to learn about this kind of stuff?
A few, very few. So, i guess, there will be no major changes in how the things go on (and not just about Patek), at least at short term, without more conscious buyers.
Regards
This message has been edited by ciaca on 2015-03-16 16:49:56