Nice. I found a minty Seiko Skyliner like your original ... sweet!

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

JuJu and I bought our "Santos-zes" in NYC & Chicago Cartier boutiques. They were eager to offer 20% discount, so we paid roughly $2K each. Now, they are $12,900 new and about $6K on the flip side. Translated: One can have one's cake and eat it too.

The gold/stainless version is far sassier than the all-gold model.

I don't know how or why I became a horological-monger, but there are a lot of us with this affliction. Perhaps fear of running out of time? Glad I started early. Today's prices are too foreboding to entice an aficionado to continue collecting anything.