To Nicholas...
Nico, I hope you get a chance to read this, Perhaps I should send this to you directly but I thought it might help others to read it as well...especially any who have felt betrayed or left behind for one reason or another....
I realize you are angry right now and obviously your feelings have been hurt...I can see from your post on P.com that you feel betrayed and cast aside.
That may well be...but can I offer some words of advice that may (or may not) ring a bell inside you....
Try to remember ( and it won't be easy right now ), what it was that captured your emotion and love for your first Panerai...and what it was that pulled you in deeper and deeper to the point of building a "world class" collection....The time and care you took in your research and the love affair you had with each new timepiece as it landed on your doorstep...
Was it the design and then some history and then some comraderie...then more research and more etc., etc., etc...
Was it ever really about the "Corporation of Panerai" that you fell in love with or was it the timepieces themselves....
Nicholas, Please try to step away for awhile, weeks or even months, before you decide on your next course of action...those things that you originally loved about "your" Panerai's are still there...they are just covered over right now by a blanket of anger and sadness...
We all want to feel special and based on your recent experience you have found that sometimes, in fact, every time, there is a bottom line and a walk away point for everyone, be it a person or a company regardless of how good the relationship was in the past....
If you have hit your "walkaway" then make sure you don't hurt yourself or damage your future hapiness...
"""KEEP YOUR WATCHES""" or sell of a few if that helps purge the experience....
I too left Panerai and sold off my collection ...except one...Thanks to Milan I kept my 201A...after I was away for awhile i found a new perspective and realized that it was not about "Panerai" the company but about "My Panerai's" and what they mean to me...
My love of the timepieces themselves did not go away and alas..I have rebuilt my collection from a different perspective and they mean ever so much to me than before...
I now participate from a different perspective and enjoy the friendships that I have built even more than before....
As I said, I hope you get to read this and I hope you will step back for awhile "before" you purge the collection you built out of your love for the timepieces....
Respectfully
Mark in California
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