Guys, I just received my PP Nautilus 1:1 ultimate edition today!!! Here are the pics:
The biggest tell on this watch is the movement, which is very nicely finished but isn't fooling anyone that has seen a picture of a real patek. That said, I still wanted a watch with a good rotor that looks gen enough. I rejected the first watch because it had that crappy straight rotor with a sticker on it, which just looked awful:
The movement itself was clean, but it will never fool anyone that knows what a patek movement looks like. That rotor is hideous! I always wondered why they didn't etch the rotor like so many other watches out there. Finally, a decent looking rotor!!!
The patek symbol is way to small and the florets at the end are not shaped the same as on the gen rotor, but it's a HUGE step up from that awful looking sticker and night and day from the straight edged rotor! The only way to get a good one at the moment is to get the more expensive Swiss version. For me, spending $500 for a SW200 with a good looking rotor is a better value than paying $350 for an A2824 with a crappy looking rotor. Note though that a lot of the sw200 have the crappy rotor too. You have to really hunt around (or your TD needs to hunt around) to find a good one.
The biggest tell on this watch is the movement, which is very nicely finished but isn't fooling anyone that has seen a picture of a real patek. That said, I still wanted a watch with a good rotor that looks gen enough. I rejected the first watch because it had that crappy straight rotor with a sticker on it, which just looked awful:
The movement itself was clean, but it will never fool anyone that knows what a patek movement looks like. That rotor is hideous! I always wondered why they didn't etch the rotor like so many other watches out there. Finally, a decent looking rotor!!!
The patek symbol is way to small and the florets at the end are not shaped the same as on the gen rotor, but it's a HUGE step up from that awful looking sticker and night and day from the straight edged rotor! The only way to get a good one at the moment is to get the more expensive Swiss version. For me, spending $500 for a SW200 with a good looking rotor is a better value than paying $350 for an A2824 with a crappy looking rotor. Note though that a lot of the sw200 have the crappy rotor too. You have to really hunt around (or your TD needs to hunt around) to find a good one.
