Roman Sharf: We have an unboxing to do. First and foremost, major key alert. That was pointy as shit. Let’s start with something light. How about a couple of Rolex’s?
Two-tone Sub. So the question about these always was blue or black.
Marco Ferrante: Blue just pops more. The blue pop with the gold. I think this is a lot more low key and-
Roman Sharf: What would you think about… If this was a full gold color, I feel like, even but black markers, I think that would pop. I know Rolex is not going to take note, but just wishful thinking.
What they’ve never really messed with is the bezels, right?
Marco Ferrante: Yeah.
Roman Sharf: Rolex never really messed with the bezels and I feel like if they did, just get away from the black and the blue. Get into something a little … Rolex does the same thing year in, year out. They make slight changes to their existing watches, not a whole of a lot of change and you have a new model.
So here’s a Marco watch.
Marco Ferrante: No, this is beautiful… This actually was released just this year. It’s the 5320G with the salmon dial.
Roman Sharf: Salmon dial. Salmon is hot right now.
Marco Ferrante: Sorry, it’s not salmon guys; auburn or some BS like that.
Roman Sharf: No, we don’t do auburn. We do salmon. How do we say salmon in Philly?
Nicholas Einstman: Salmon.
Marco Ferrante: This is beautiful. Just look at, if you can get a closeup of this, the triple step lugs, and double step case.
Roman Sharf: Okay explain it for the people. Triple step. Double step.
Marco Ferrante: Yeah. So the triple step lug basically is three arches on the actual lug itself and then two arches on the actual case itself. And that’s one characteristic of modern Patek watches is that their cases are very well done because the Stern family who owns Patek were originally case makers from Patek.
Roman Sharf: They should technically, right?
Marco Ferrante: Yes.
Roman Sharf: So salmon is… Become that next collectible, I feel like?
Marco Ferrante: Yeah.
Roman Sharf: And with Patek specifically, the hype has come down on a lot of the Nautilus’s and Aquanaut’s and people are starting to see more and more value in watches like this. And I always wonder why Patek never made more sports watches. They always stuck with those dressy watches that weren’t just as sellable as the other guys, but they’ve always stuck to their true nature. And now everything goes in waves. And I feel like the next wave is these things.
Marco Ferrante: Technically this is very sporty still for being something like a very classical complication. You have that kind of pilot style indices, syringe hands.
Roman Sharf: You heard it here first. Alex, you knew that, right?
Alex Serrano: Yeah. I was just talking about that.
Roman Sharf: So in here we have a ladies’ Cartier. Ever since the success of the Crash, Cartier has tried numerous models that would sort of resembling that without being the Crash. This, I would say, is one of them. And they’ve yet to be able to find that type of success. There’s still a humongous clientele out there of ladies that will not put on a big bulky watch. And they tend to stick with pieces like this. This is a cocktail dress piece.
What is this boys and girls?
Alex Serrano: It is a Audemars Piguet. Reference number, Marco?
Roman Sharf: Yeah. If anybody guesses the reference number of this, I will… Now, this is actually circa the eighties. And this is a pendant watch. AP made quite a lot of these. A lot of these were made for the Asian market as well as the Middle Eastern market.
Marco Ferrante: It would’ve been like a broach, right?
Roman Sharf: It would be more like a broach. It’s not very practical because the retail prices on these things were outrageous and right now you can pick them up as deals. More of a piece of jewelry than anything else. I think it’s more of a piece of jewelry and the packaging job on this was just tremendous.
Marco Ferrante: That’s just amazing.
Alex Serrano: AP’s finest.
Roman Sharf: Yeah. Okay. Here we have… This is their hundred-hour power reserve. That’s what this is. And you can see the power reserve indicator, which is pretty impressive for such a small watch. This one’s a little bit more special because it was made for mainly royalty and it carries the Kanjhar logo on the back.
And we received yet another. We just like buying these things by the dozens?
Alex Serrano: Yes. They’re selling like hotcakes.
Roman Sharf: Is he trying to mimic me? Is that what he’s trying to do? All right. Another wonderful packaging job brought to you by, oh look, that’s another Blancpain. Do you know which one this is, Marco?
Marco Ferrante: That’s an alarm.
Roman Sharf: Yes. That’s the Leman alarm. I talked oftentimes about packing a lot of bang for your dollar in a single watch in terms of complication, Blancpain is one of those. These Leman alarms are, A) It’s an automatic, B) It’s a GMT obviously.
Roman Sharf: Okay. That’s fine by me. So Blancpain’s general… A lot of the stuff from the Swatch group I find, they’ve been out of the limelight. Give me a brand that’s been in the limelight from the Swatch group besides Swatch watch.
Marco Ferrante: Yeah, but they kind of do it to themselves. Especially Blancpain because they release all the best 50 fathoms in super limited… The Barakuda, Milspec, all in super limited quantities. I mean even Breguet, Breguet does Type 20, their nicest dress watch, all in like 20 pieces, 50 pieces.
Roman Sharf: It’s one of the newer Divers with the smokey blue-gray dial, I like to call it. Hell of a looking watch. And this is before the crazy hype, they needed to make something in between that Offshore, which was always a chrono. And then we needed to step down the retail. Again, the retail difference was only a few thousand dollars, a couple of thousand dollars, but nevertheless, it put an Offshore in under that $20,000 price range.
A couple of more Rolex’s to go through and I did leave something special for the end. Oh, it’s another Sub. So again, I guess we’re just buying these by the dozens nowadays. Still like the Sub no date. It’s just so much cleaner if you like.
Roman Sharf: Oh, look, it’s another Sub date. Wow. What an exciting unboxing this came to be. I feel like a magician with this little velvety bag. Like, pull the rabbit out of there. Oh yeah, Marco. Are you ready?
Marco Ferrante: All right. Ooh. Okay. Yeah.
Roman Sharf: Okay. So…
Marco Ferrante: What are you looking at?
Roman Sharf: The Automars Piguet Concept Sonnerie. Grand Petite Sonnerie, is arguably the best-sounding minute repeater in the market. I actually did a separate video on this on YouTube, guys, go check it out, where I break down, how this thing has been done with some fancy Swiss sound observatory in Switzerland. Obviously, they spent over a year researching how sound will resonate throughout the watch. The materials picked for this watch were picked purposely to see how exactly this watch would work. This thing is a unicorn that made a limited edition of, I don’t remember how many pieces. Does it say in the back?
Marco Ferrante: I’m sure.
Roman Sharf: Note they called this the Supersonnerie and the reason this is a Supersonnerie is because of the amount of time and research that went into actually developing this minute repeater.
Marco Ferrante: I think also represents AP’s watchmaking prowess period, which is very slept on. People just think they’re the Royal Oak company. Not really. You’ve said this time and time again, they started or Louis Audemars started the brand making expensive and complicated pocket watches for Tiffany and Co.
Roman Sharf: Other than that, I think we are done with today’s unboxing. Thank you so much for tuning in.