I am SOOOOO confused and in need of help! I have Portuguese Perplexion!

Yes you're right KS, stay with the trio Dick.

If you follow the current economic recession (depression) in Portugal, Portuguese Perplexion is a condition afflicting the majority of the Portuguese, who can only hope to be faced with your dilemma. :-)
I, however, am the last person to dispense with advice as, in thie matter, I subscribe to Oscar's motto, The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it..

I would sell the 5001 and get me a 5000. Steel would be fine, rose gold, special!

Or else, I'd go backward, I'd sell the 5001 and the Pisa, to help me getting a ref. 325... By a good friend of mine! :)

Oh, don't you know it! If it had a white dial we'd probably be talking by now! :-)

Thanks for all the input, guys! It is great to be able to hear thoughts from a group as distinguished and knowledgeable as you are!

After thinking about it overnight, the decision seems clear. I will stay with the ones I have and the SS Jubilee will have to wait for another time.

The 5001-14 was serendipity. A collector offered it for sale. He happened to be in a distant US city. Funny thing, I was going to that very city on a busines trip the next week! So we met in person, and the deal was done. Sometimes events and timing just cause things to happen. Plus, it provides better balance in my collection than a SS Jubilee would right now.

If ever there was a watch demanding a brown Santoni strap, 5001-14 is it. A Santoni or two are next on my shopping list!

Thanks for the input and advice. It really did help me clarify my thoughts.

Good choice...looking forward to seeing the transformation a Santoni strap can make.

:)

So you like white dials.

If I had the money, I would buy it even if it was green! LOL!

Seriously, you have a wonderful trio, I prefer 5000 just because of its representativeness in IWC's history and its rarity also.

It's just a matter of tastes.

+1. agreed - the more I ponder, the more I want a Portuguese 5000 - and the steel with black dial.

Love the panda...

You had your chance. It's too late now. It's gone to finance the acquisition of another IWC icon.

Infact I wrote: "If I were...". Unfortunately, I'm just me.

Good to know the watch availed your purpose, can't wait to see the replacement!

I think the gold jubilee is fabulous and a watch that is a 100% keeper. The 5001 that you have I put a light brown short Santoni strap to it with all the colours that exist on it from light honey to quite dark brown. My reasoning was that brown straps usually darken with time. They have the same rigidity as the original black factory strap that comes with the 5001. What ever the LE of the 5000 versus the 5001 I would still opt for the 5001 even if they were the same £€$¥ in that the 5001 has the date and a sapphire crystal as against no date and a plexi. It is quite a thick watch and therefore plexi might get scratched sooner rather than later. You have a steel Pisa, a steel Jubilee may be beneficial but adds little to what you already have. Sleeping in the garden shed or on the sofa comes with other disadvantages other than being uncomfortable. A cold atmosphere can prevail through the household for ages and neither central heating nor a heatwave will make matters better.
PS flog the BP, bank the funds towards the next Portuguese!