Agree

Hi Paul:

I think you conveyed my point a bit more clearly. I just received my 3520D from my AD yesterday, who initially told me when I wanted to order it that it was discontinued. Though the 5120 was basically the same watch except a bit larger and with an auto. 240 mvt., I wanted the solid back of the 3520D and the fact that it had the ultra-thin Cal. 177 ebauche which is a derivative of the F. Piguet Cal. 21 and AFAIK the only other outsourced movement by PP besides the Novoulle Lemania chrono movements.

I know that any company has to evolve in order to succeed and I commend PP on their many technical innovations. I just wish they would look more carefully at their styling decisions before entering what appears to me is more the 'fashion' watch market. No doubt that is where the money is as most of the other big players are here. However, to me PP was always a company more reserved and sober in its designs. Elegance and classicism reigned. A design choice which I personally liked and which lead me to PP in the first place. I don't think that PP is a 'me to' company, at least it hasn't been in the past. IMO, if they took their new automatic chrono movement and put it in a typically classic PP case and dial, they would really have something. A bit of the past married to a bit of the new. Which, to me, also represents balance.
Don