What is your one realistic grail?

[frtorres87]

I’m basic AF, my grail is a Batman on Oyster and a Panda Daytona.


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[G3Z]

I’d be happy with the Explorer II 1655

[MCOSUB]

smurf

[Vipes]

Platona with diamond dial

[S.Explorer]

36mm Day-Date, maybe in white gold.

[JLM3]

I just need the Pepsi and I'm good

[dukie748]

Laurent Ferrier Galet Square Boréal

[noshake]

A 15407 SS would be very nice...

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[cvo]

The new SS GMT II Coke - hopefully 2021 will the the year.

[envuks]

Oddly enough I acquired my 2 grails. 116500 and 116718. I feel very lucky.

However, what I’ve always found in watch collecting is a new grail eventually appears.

I think a platona tips my list these days. YG, WG, RG Daytona are all nice too, but the platona is a full step up from where I am today.

Watches can make for a funny hobby


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[Bobcat Sig]

There is some great inspiration in here. I love the varying tastes and preferences.

For me, there are two that come to mind. The first and most specific is Pepsi GMT Master II on Jubilee. I have a good line on a 116710LN that will fill that gap until I can add the Pepsi to the collection.

I also have an odd affinity for luxury watches with a moonphase complication. I don' have a specific manufacturer or ref for that just yet. I only know I want one some day. Maybe one of the Omega Speedmaster variants?

[JSolution]

Originally Posted by Bobcat Sig

There is some great inspiration in here. I love the varying tastes and preferences.

For me, there are two that come to mind. The first and most specific is Pepsi GMT Master II on Jubilee. I have a good line on a 116710LN that will fill that gap until I can add the Pepsi to the collection.

I also have an odd affinity for luxury watches with a moonphase complication. I don' have a specific manufacturer or ref for that just yet. I only know I want one some day. Maybe one of the Omega Speedmaster variants?

I also am lusting for a moonphase. 🌓

5205r PP IS the one I’m really excited about.

[Jake85]

White Dial Daytona 16520 medium term.
PP 5711 long term.

[marlopez]

Originally Posted by DtownRRS

Platona - Got to try it on the other day. It's nice! I told my AD it will be purchased once I am done with college tuitions. 1 done this year and the 2nd done in 3. After that this will look like a bargain!

Great milestone and gift to yourself! Cheers


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[MAJ75]

Originally Posted by daOnlyBG

It's really, really ambitious, but it's one I think I can nab someday before retirement.

Classy choice that I concur with............

[marlopez]

Originally Posted by szabo_martin

Never say never, that's the beauty of grail watches... once you finally get it you find another grail to work toward

Agree!

Just got what I thought was my grail, but I know it’s too early to stop. So now my grail is a birth year GMT 16750 or Sub 5513 with box and papers. Totally achievable, just need to time it with a significant point in my life when to get it.


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[slillestrand]

I get what you are asking.......

In my mind, a grail is not a realistic purchase.....nor is it a rational one...

Patek 5270G-019 swapping out the blue leather strap for dark brown

[AEV]

For me it will be PP 5712/1A-001.

[zjd168]

if asked me 10 years ago when I started I can probably name one or two in not time.

Now I don't know the answer anymore :-)

[andschmi]

I think for me is somehow the Rolex GMT.

[alex.cicollo]

My first grail was....



Then it became ....




Then it became...




Then it became ..... the final ... I think!

[-dustin]

116710LN

or an engraved 14060M with a set of Yachtmaster hands to install.

[HippoPAPAmus]

Originally Posted by alex.cicollo

My first grail was....



Then it became ....




Then it became...




Then it became ..... the final ... I think!

Very nice pieces, but the constantly moving goal posts is something I think all of us here can relate to.


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[javo2999]

White Gold Daytona Blue Dial

[Krash]

Right now today I’d consider the GMT meteor dial as my ultimate grail. Next week I might have a completely different answer.


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[Robf52]

Originally Posted by TTalk

This.

[C0d]

Casio CA-53WF

[thlax]

Platinum Submariner


Hopefully i can look back at this post in a decade with a platinum Submariner on my wrist,
Laughing to myself about the time I predicted the future.

Honestly I've gotten to my "Grail" 3 or 4 times and times changes and feels change I change life changes and it's no longer a Grail. I thought a Smurf was my Grail before. Love love love it but not the end all be all. I thought owning a patek was my Grail. Nope. I thought owning an AP15202 ST was my Grail. Nope. White Daytona's ? Nope.

But in-between almost every watch listed about and in my signature i almost ALWAYS get a Submariner. So to me honestly, I just want my Sub (whichever one it may be at the time....I thought it was a last batch 114060 from 2020 but then I got offered the first 126610 SubDate from my AD.

Obviously purchased it. Took it home for a.week. Studied both intensely and decided on keep the 126610 for various reasons in the end. (Could only afford to keep one of them at the moment)


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[mtasquared]

This is the one for me at the moment, by Breguet. Retrograde seconds complication and winding rotor crafted of white gold are some of the things that made me decide on this piece. They say not to tell people your goals, or they don't come true. So I guess I'm making like Babe Ruth, pointing at the upper bleachers.

[Kigan]

1. Blancpain Bathyscaphe Mokarran,
2. Gronefeld Principia 1941.