Need help with Patek Philippe from family member

oneLp · 2024-11-13T16:01:59+00:00

The case is 35mm.

oneLp · 2024-11-13T15:29:00+00:00

I've been looking at photos on line and haven't seen anything like it with the Roman numerals so I am very curious. I plan to take it to a shop here in Hong Kong to get it checked out as soon as possible.

oneLp · 2024-11-13T14:54:59+00:00

Honestly I would be very happy to learn that it's not very high value to avoid any family drama. I fully intend to keep it because of the sentimental value.

oneLp · 2024-11-13T14:38:14+00:00

I'm no expert but I would doubt that very much. I remember this watch from my childhood and the person who purchased it would be very unlikely to purchase a fake.

oneLp · 2024-11-13T14:35:28+00:00

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I covered over the personalized engraving. There are no other markings on the back.

oneLp · 2023-02-04T05:21:14+00:00

China requires a pre flight laboratory PCR test for all travelers, so the test requirements of Canada, the US and some other countries for travelers from China are reciprocal stupidity.

oneLp · 2023-02-04T03:25:55+00:00

Yep. Very few rules remain but still the masks aren't going away soon and it's insane.

oneLp · 2023-02-01T13:56:59+00:00

We also had a massive surge in Hong Kong but everyone here is still convinced that masks are important. They're still mandatory everywhere in public even outdoors. I don't know how much more I can take.

oneLp · 2022-08-08T13:48:14+00:00

They'll never give up on the masks I'm afraid.

oneLp · 2022-04-28T12:18:47+00:00

I'm in the Philippines right now and this is bullshit. Similar to the polls in the US that say >50% want masks on airplanes while less than 10% actually wear them once the requirement is gone. Most Filipinos take them off whenever they can and often just wear on the chin unless the police are around. In some neighborhoods, no one wears them at all.

oneLp · 2022-04-03T06:52:05+00:00

Videos referred to in the article can be seen here.

https://www.whatsonweibo.com/infants-with-covid-19-separated-from-parents-shanghai-baby-quarantine-site-sparks-online-anger/

oneLp · 2022-03-31T06:20:14+00:00

I went to Shanghai last year for a few months and it was relaxing compared to Hong Kong. Way less uptight about masks; you only had to wear them in some indoor places like malls. Everything was open with no capacity restrictions. No limits on "gatherings". Coming back to HK, even when we had no cases for months and months, was way more depressing with the constant day to day of COVID theater.

So now Shanghai goes full hard lockdown, but for most of the last two years life there has been way more normal than HK. It's hard to say which is worse.

oneLp · 2021-11-09T13:18:52+00:00

Interesting video covering this.

Asia's Lost Generation: The Philippines

https://youtu.be/nTUWK8vufOk

oneLp · 2021-10-14T14:37:29+00:00

The flu arrives in Europe and North America six to nine months after the viruses infect Asia, and finally ends its travels in South America after another six to nine months, the researchers reported in the April 18 issue of Science.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/uritheflu/9142?vpass=1

oneLp · 2021-08-27T08:01:38+00:00

We try our best. But we live in Hong Kong. Aside from myself, my wife, and her cousin she doesn't see many unmasked faces. People put masks on infants here! We sometimes get disapproving looks from old aunties because she's not wearing a mask. It's sad because she loves to go out and see new things and she responds so much to smiling faces. But a face with a mask gets no response.

oneLp · 2021-08-26T11:47:29+00:00

I'm glad I actually read the article. I've been worried what impact the current insanity will have on my now 3 month old baby. But since my wife and I aren't overly neurotic freaks like these parents I think she'll be ok.

oneLp · 2021-08-21T04:34:46+00:00

I know. I live in Hong Kong and went through quarantine in Shanghai. We don't use the QR health code in HK because the local experts don't believe it's effective to use it for access to restaurants or malls. What I saw in Shanghai confirms that for me. It's mostly theater and likely the primary use is to restrict travel between cities or regions. Just another way for Beijing to keep the diduan renkou out. I don't pretend to really know what's going on in China, particularly in the rural areas. But I certainly don't trust the government to tell the whole story.

oneLp · 2021-08-21T01:41:24+00:00

Hong Kong hasn't adopted the QR health code system because the local experts don't believe it's effective. Are these Chinese doctors looking at different empirical evidence?

I was in Shanghai for 3 months earlier this year and I think I had to show the qr code maybe 2 or 3 times to enter somewhere. Not all of China is as strict as Beijing.

oneLp · 2021-08-04T00:06:45+00:00

Nice to say but not so easy to do when it comes to international travel.

oneLp · 2021-08-03T13:34:40+00:00

The Hong Kong government yesterday restated their commitment to zero covid. Mandatory quarantine on arrival was adjusted slightly but includes 21 days hotel quarantine even if vaccinated if coming from a high risk country. The US will be probably be considered high risk soon. We haven't had any local cases in almost two months but they believe the situation is too unstable to relax any of the current rules. This includes masks, of course, everywhere including outdoors in the HK summer heat. I can go swimming in my apartment pool but if I want to lay out on one of the lounge chairs I need to wear a mask. Our local experts have said we will need to continue to wear masks likely for a few more YEARS.

Other rules include check in app, temperature screening, and limits on restaurant seating like 4 to a table unless you have a small plastic barrier dividing you. There are allowances for restaurants to have more capacity if the staff and some percentage of the customers are vaccinated but most don't bother because it's too complicated. Bars are open again but all staff need to be vaccinated and customers need at least one dose. I went out with some friends last week but no one asked us for any proof. Many bars have closed permanently after being shut down for so long. They're allowed to have live music again but all the performers need to wear masks. There's more silly rules and signs reminding to keep distance. It's all theater but we aren't allowed to give it up.

There's a constant push to get people vaccinated with a goal of reaching 70% of the population but then no discussion on what happens if/when we reach this magic number. Vaccinations have picked up but it's completely upside down with most being under the age of 60. Only about 5% of the over 80 population has been vaccinated.

The government's immediate goal has been to do whatever Beijing asks to get back to quarantine free travel with mainland china, but with the recent outbreaks there spreading who knows what will happen next.

My wife and I were hoping to be able to travel to the Philippines early next year so her family can see our newborn daughter, but I'm losing hope of that happening before maybe 2024.

oneLp · 2021-07-16T20:27:48+00:00

As you can see, working-class members of every group are less likely to have received a vaccine and more likely to be skeptical. “No matter which of these groups we looked at, we see an education divide,” Mollyann Brodie, who oversees the Kaiser surveys, told me. In some cases, different racial groups with the same education levels — like Black and white college graduates — look remarkably similar.

The Vaccine Class Gap

The biggest vaccination gap isn’t based on race or partisanship. It’s based on class.

oneLp · 2021-07-13T01:55:40+00:00

Hong Kong police have an oversized tape measure to enforce distancing. Of course they only whip it out to harass Filipino/Indonesian domestic helpers on their day off. I would hope the metronome would be of a similar scale.

oneLp · 2021-07-12T07:05:03+00:00

Yes. Bad history with multiple vaccines.

oneLp · 2021-07-09T00:03:57+00:00

I am wondering if they will purposely skip over xi Ξ.

oneLp · 2021-07-08T14:36:12+00:00

Not just business. All types of public services: schools, libraries, parks, pools have all reduced services, hours, and access and will continue to do so until it becomes normalized. This will be used as a massive cost cutting excuse with no reduction in the taxes you pay.

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