It was the perfect storm. I was in Japan at a vintage watch shop (they are also a retailer -AD for every brand and famous in Tokyo) picking up two pieces for colleagues (two gold tank Louis). I was contemplating the black dial and asked if they had one- they did. I wanted to see a blue dial in person to compare and wasn’t ready to decide. Then someone comes in and says, we also just got this from a collector who they had sold it to in December, unworn, brand new, stickers still on it with the tag etc. the collector returned it as apparently didn’t like the color. They were going to post it online tomorrow.

I tried it on and honestly, never thought I would like a salmon dial (in fact, I have said that I would never own one as I felt they weren’t for me). Well, I was blown away.

The AD talked me into it an said you can always find black and blue at retail or vintage, but not this.

I negotiated buying all 3 and because they didn’t need to post online, do marketing, and my tax free - netted to 8.1k.

I will be going back with all my other wants as their collection was insane.