I have thoroughly enjoyed reading everyones input and stories. That there are too many to single out.
For myself, I was a Rolex diehard to me watch making stopped at Rolex nothing beat them. If you had one on your wrist you had made it!
That was until one day I called into a Rolex AD (surprise,surprise) that I had never been in before.
And the manager who met me on that day and who by the way is now a personal friend (and so is his wife)
Introduced me to a completely new world of horology and at the top of the pieces that he showed me was Patek.
Until then I had never heard of Perpetual Calendars, Annual Calendars, Minute Repeaters & Tourbillion (not that he was able to show me any of the last two)
But it was enough for me, that when I returned home I started my own research on Patek Philippe.
It was not many months later that I said my farewells to my Rolex watches and hello to my first Patek.
And as they say "The rest was history"