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Listening to Keith Jarrett, the famous and perhaps the best concert from Cologne in the 70s, inspired me to write something.

Why am I here, on Homage forum as well as RWI. Why did the world of homage watches absorb me at all.

At first I wondered that maybe it was about replica watches that I would like to have and I felt sorry for the money, or maybe I would just like to try to have them for a while.
That may be so, maybe if it is about ordinary watches, then maybe it is the right answer. Meanwhile, when became seriously interested Panerai, it turned out that it is something else.
Today, when Panerai does not make such watches as I imagine, modern Panerai watches do not make any feelings on me, just a watch, well, a good watch, but just a watch. Then there is a fascination with old models, unavailable, rare, from the times of the brand's glory. Suddenly I find enthusiasts building dials, case, hands, modifying mechanisms, reproducing the geometry of casings, glass or know-how from those times without documentation.
Or enthusiasts like me thinking like "what if ..."
And slowly the answer appears, at least the answer for me, why, this passion leaves such a deep impression on me and my colleagues, sometimes occupying our heads for hours or days in search of the grail build.
And here the question arose what is happening to this world of values, where on the one hand there is ostracism against buyers of counterfeits and on the other hand the quality of original products decreases from year to year.
Then there are news that the biggest brands are caught out on outsourcing production to places where these replicas are made.. it really doesn't work anymore.
I come to the conclusion that the most important thing is spirit and emotions. It's not there anymore passion, feelings, spirit today in a new product of large, luxury watch companies (so I do not mention names:)) and here in homage world we have all what big companies lost.
I find it - when I build, I order a watch from colleagues who put all their passion into the watch in every detail, reaching a kind of perfection, even if we never reach the heights of hi-tech production, in such a watch there is something elusive that I look for in a watch, good jewelry, painting or sculpture - artistry and emotions - this spirit given form individually transmitted by man to matter...
I remain happy that I can allow myself to be absorbed by this passion and have so many friends here. Greetings to you all.

more to come someday :)

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Well said…
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I couldn't agree more, especially concerning rare and valuable unobtainable watches
Let's face it, we, without us, could never own a millemetri
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south105323 wrote:Well said…
Damn south I still remember your dials and CG..


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Thank you for sharing, the world is heading fast with new technologies, to touch a piece of history in a creative way attracts me...
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I also agree , I like the idea of a little machine running on my wrist letting me know what the time is .Rather than a micro circuitry with a battery pulsing a quartz crystal dependent on a battery .
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Thank you 23Zen23 for a thought-provoking read.
look forward to your next....
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Post by straps68 »

Very well said, indeed. The original Panerai watches are something else, to be sure. And the homages we make are even more unigue, in a way, then the gens were.
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