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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Parker on February 05, 2010, 10:04:03 PM
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These watches are not your typical high end watches. They are conversation pieces, or convo starters like: Urwerk
http://www.urwerk.com/collection.asp (http://www.urwerk.com/collection.asp)
Or Franc Vila
http://www.francvila.com/ (http://www.francvila.com/)
And these are on the affordable end, Android
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Breguet, these are watches whose name bears the inventer of the Tourbillon
http://www.breguet.com/ (http://www.breguet.com/)
Piaget
http://www.piaget.com/ (http://www.piaget.com/)
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I can find a used timex or casio at a yard sale that keeps time better than any of the above mentioned watches.
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Watches are cool but wont run on me more than a few days. I heard that some people have some type of electric energy that nullifies the watches. I have tried cheap and expensive one all the same result. Anybody else had this experience?
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I can find a used timex or casio at a yard sale that keeps time better than any of the above mentioned watches.
Indeed.
Casio DW-5600E
THIS is one of the few WATCHES Qualified for NASA Space Flight Missions.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/DW-5600E.png/300px-DW-5600E.png)
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With that said, I do appreciate the craftsmanship and beauty of watches that Parker has posted and am fascinated by them. Porsche also makes some pretty interesting looking and functional watches.
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^ FLIGHT-CERTIFIED BY NASA FOR ALL MANNED SPACE MISSIONS:
Omega Speedmaster Professional 3570.50.00
FLIGHT-QUALIFIED BY NASA FOR SPACE MISSIONS:
Omega Speedmaster Professional X-33
Casio G-Shock DW-5600C
Casio G-Shock DW-5600E
Casio G-Shock DW-5900
Casio G-Shock DW-6900
Casio G-Shock Master of G G-9000
Timex IRONMAN Triathlon Data Link
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You people who seem so enamoured with these useless trinkets should read 'the millionaire next door' and come to the realization that the vast majority of the wealthy would never waste their resources on such over priced unpractical rubbish.
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You people who seem so enamoured with these useless trinkets should read 'the millionaire next door' and come to the realization that the vast majority of the wealthy would never waste their resources on such over priced unpractical rubbish.
What would the Billionaire on his own island say to that? 8)
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You people who seem so enamoured with these useless trinkets should read 'the millionaire next door' and come to the realization that the vast majority of the wealthy would never waste their resources on such over priced unpractical rubbish.
Actually the truly wealthy buy 40,000-400,000 dollar and up pieces of furniture and six, seven, eight figure wall art. Why? Simply because you can always re-sell it at a profit.
You can`t do that with cheap shit.
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I can find a used timex or casio at a yard sale that keeps time better than any of the above mentioned watches.
Maybe maybe not....many of these are not just time pieces, but men's accessories art statements and have a very aesthetic appeal. Before you say something about that or the extravagance, remember, nobody needs big muscles either, and we hail certain bodybuilders for their "aesthetic" qualities.
Also these watches have existed because of the rich. Piaget and Breguet have existed for centuries, and they have developed names for themselves. The uber rich and famous wear them and get specially designed pieces.
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Five different brands of chronographs were purchased and returned to NASA for testing. The Speedmaster passed NASA's numerous tests, which included exposure to extreme temperatures, vacuum, intense humidity, corrosion, shock, acceleration, pressure, vibration and noise, whereas the Rolex, Breitling, Bulova, Longines and Heuer all failed
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Special ops watches - cool looking and manly
http://www.specialopswatch.com/cart/products.cgi?category=2
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With that said, I do appreciate the craftsmanship and beauty of watches that Parker has posted and am fascinated by them. Porsche also makes some pretty interesting looking and functional watches.
Porsche also makes some interesting electronics as well.
Longines are beautiful in their aesthetic simplicity. Breitling, you know the deal. Heuer, um. Rolex' are too big and gaudy to me.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/OMEGA-Speedmaster-Professional-Front.jpg/250px-OMEGA-Speedmaster-Professional-Front.jpg)
Omega Speedmaster Professional
The Omega Speedmaster was the first watch worn on the moon, as Buzz Aldrin wore his Speedmaster 145.012 fitted with the Omega 321 caliber on 20 July 1969. (Neil Armstrong left his Speedmaster inside the lunar module Eagle during his famous first walk). It is the only watch flight-qualified for EVA use by NASA.[1] It is also the watch chosen for use in outer space by the Russian Federal Space Agencye Omega Speedmaster was adopted by NASA as the “Officially Certified Wristwatch For All Manned Space Missions.” At this point, Omega was completely unaware of these activities.
The Omega Speedmaster Professional first flew in space with Wally Schirra aboard Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7) on October 3 1962.
The first Omega Speedmaster Professionals were issued to the Gemini 3 crew, Grissom and Young. The watch was worn on the outside of the pressure suit with a long black Velcro band.
On Gemini 4, Edward White left the space capsule with an Omega Speedmaster Professional on his wrist to become the first American to walk in Space.
The Omega Speedmaster Professional was the first watch to be worn on the Moon with Apollo 11.
On April 1970, it was used to manually time the secondary rocket burns to bring the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft back to Earth.
The Omega Speedmaster, along with the Space Pen, are the only parts of the NASA astronauts' equipment available for purchase by the general public.
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Patek Philippe
http://www.patek.com/ (http://www.patek.com/)
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The difference in personal spending habits between the typical billionaire and the typical millionaire is enormous. of course you are talking about a difference a thousand times over and while glamourized tales of the average millionaire spending tens of thousands of dollars on furniture may seem like the norm, it is hardly factual, statistical based truth.
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The difference in personal spending habits between the typical billionaire and the typical millionaire is enormous. of course you are talking about a difference a thousand times over and while glamourized tales of the average millionaire spending tens of thousands of dollars on furniture may seem like the norm, it is hardly factual, statistical based truth.
Personally though I don`t see why anyone should question what someone spends their money on. I don`t see a point living miserably if you don`t have to or buying second best when you really want something better and can afford it.
You only live once, why live it miserably if you don`t have to?
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The difference in personal spending habits between the typical billionaire and the typical millionaire is enormous. of course you are talking about a difference a thousand times over and while glamourized tales of the average millionaire spending tens of thousands of dollars on furniture may seem like the norm, it is hardly factual, statistical based truth.
you know what would be funny, a actually Billioniare who is like a real life Scrooge McDuck. He has soo much money that he'd go swimming in it everyday. ANd he never spends any of it, alway the cheapskate.
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you know what would be funny, a actually Billioniare who is like a real life Scrooge McDuck. He has soo much money that he'd go swimming in it everyday. ANd he never spends any of it, alway the cheapskate.
Hetty Green. Richest woman in the WORLD (Billions in todays dollars) and monster cheapskate.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Henrietta_Green.jpeg)
Green was mainly interested in business, and there are many tales (of various degrees of accuracy) about her stinginess. She never turned on the heat nor used hot water. She wore one old black dress and undergarments that she changed only after they had been worn out. She did not wash her hands and rode an old carriage. She ate mostly pies that cost fifteen cents. One tale claims that she spent half a night searching her carriage for a lost stamp worth two cents.
rumors claimed that she ate only oatmeal she heated on the office radiator. Possibly because of the stiff competition of the mostly male business environment and partly because of her usually dour dress sense (due mainly to frugality, but perhaps ascribable in part to her Quaker upbringing), she was given the nickname the "Witch of Wall Street". She was a successful businesswoman who dealt mainly in real estate, invested in railroads, and lent money. The City of New York came to Hetty in need of loans to keep the city afloat on several occasions, most particularly during the Panic of 1907.
Keenly detail-oriented, she would travel thousands of miles – alone, in an era when few women would dare travel unescorted – to collect a debt of a few hundred dollars.
:-\Her frugality extended to family life. Her son Ned broke his leg as a child, and Hetty tried to have him admitted in a hospital charity ward. When she was recognized, she stormed away vowing to treat the wounds herself.
The leg contracted gangrene and had to be amputated—he ended up with a cork prosthesis. When he moved away from his mother to manage the family's properties in Chicago and, later, Texas, he became an ardent philatelist, who assembled one of the finest stamp collections ever in private hands. In middle age, he returned to New York; his mother would pass her final months with him. Ned ultimately married his long time "housekeeper," Mabel, of whom Hetty wholeheartedly disapproved.
Green's extreme respect for her own privacy aside, she entered the lexicon of turn-of-the-century America with the sobriquet "I'm not Hetty if I do look green;" this phrase is quoted in O. Henry's 1890s story "The Skylight Room" when a young woman, negotiating the rent on a room in a rooming house owned by an imperious old lady, wishes to make it clear she is neither as rich as she appears nor as naive.
Her daughter Sylvia lived with Hetty until her thirties. Hetty disapproved of all of Sylvia's suitors because she suspected they wanted only to get their hands on her money. When Green finally let Matthew Astor Wilks marry Sylvia on February 23, 1909, after a two-year courtship, the groom waived his right to inherit Sylvia's fortune, and received US$5,000 for signing this prenuptial agreement. (Wilks, a minor heir to the Astor fortune, entered the marriage with US$2,000,000 of his own, enough to assure Hetty that he wasn't simply gold-digging.)
When her children left home, Green moved repeatedly among small apartments in Brooklyn Heights and Hoboken, New Jersey,[1] mainly to avoid establishing a residence permanent enough to attract the attention of tax officials in any state.
In her old age she began to suffer from a bad hernia but refused to have an operation because it cost $150. She suffered many strokes and had to rely on a wheelchair. She also became afraid that she would be kidnapped and made detours to evade the would-be pursuers. She began to suspect that her aunt and father had been poisoned.
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you know what would be funny, a actually Billioniare who is like a real life Scrooge McDuck. He has soo much money that he'd go swimming in it everyday. ANd he never spends any of it, alway the cheapskate.
my grandfather wouldnt spend a dime on anything but had alot of money wtf for?
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You people who seem so enamoured with these useless trinkets should read 'the millionaire next door' and come to the realization that the vast majority of the wealthy would never waste their resources on such over priced unpractical rubbish.
The hilarious and sardonic thing about "The Millionaire Next Door"- If you live next door to a millionaire, in the same neighborhood and do not know that he is a millionaire, does it even matter that he is a millionaire if he is living exactly the same as you do and you are not a millionaire? What is the difference between you and him if you live the same lifestyle and spend the same amount and live the same type of life?
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Hetty Green. Richest woman in the WORLD (Billions in todays dollars) and monster cheapskate.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Henrietta_Green.jpeg)
Green was mainly interested in business, and there are many tales (of various degrees of accuracy) about her stinginess. She never turned on the heat nor used hot water. She wore one old black dress and undergarments that she changed only after they had been worn out. She did not wash her hands and rode an old carriage. She ate mostly pies that cost fifteen cents. One tale claims that she spent half a night searching her carriage for a lost stamp worth two cents.
rumors claimed that she ate only oatmeal she heated on the office radiator. Possibly because of the stiff competition of the mostly male business environment and partly because of her usually dour dress sense (due mainly to frugality, but perhaps ascribable in part to her Quaker upbringing), she was given the nickname the "Witch of Wall Street". She was a successful businesswoman who dealt mainly in real estate, invested in railroads, and lent money. The City of New York came to Hetty in need of loans to keep the city afloat on several occasions, most particularly during the Panic of 1907.
Keenly detail-oriented, she would travel thousands of miles – alone, in an era when few women would dare travel unescorted – to collect a debt of a few hundred dollars.
:-\Her frugality extended to family life. Her son Ned broke his leg as a child, and Hetty tried to have him admitted in a hospital charity ward. When she was recognized, she stormed away vowing to treat the wounds herself.
The leg contracted gangrene and had to be amputated—he ended up with a cork prosthesis. When he moved away from his mother to manage the family's properties in Chicago and, later, Texas, he became an ardent philatelist, who assembled one of the finest stamp collections ever in private hands. In middle age, he returned to New York; his mother would pass her final months with him. Ned ultimately married his long time "housekeeper," Mabel, of whom Hetty wholeheartedly disapproved.
Green's extreme respect for her own privacy aside, she entered the lexicon of turn-of-the-century America with the sobriquet "I'm not Hetty if I do look green;" this phrase is quoted in O. Henry's 1890s story "The Skylight Room" when a young woman, negotiating the rent on a room in a rooming house owned by an imperious old lady, wishes to make it clear she is neither as rich as she appears nor as naive.
Her daughter Sylvia lived with Hetty until her thirties. Hetty disapproved of all of Sylvia's suitors because she suspected they wanted only to get their hands on her money. When Green finally let Matthew Astor Wilks marry Sylvia on February 23, 1909, after a two-year courtship, the groom waived his right to inherit Sylvia's fortune, and received US$5,000 for signing this prenuptial agreement. (Wilks, a minor heir to the Astor fortune, entered the marriage with US$2,000,000 of his own, enough to assure Hetty that he wasn't simply gold-digging.)
When her children left home, Green moved repeatedly among small apartments in Brooklyn Heights and Hoboken, New Jersey,[1] mainly to avoid establishing a residence permanent enough to attract the attention of tax officials in any state.
In her old age she began to suffer from a bad hernia but refused to have an operation because it cost $150. She suffered many strokes and had to rely on a wheelchair. She also became afraid that she would be kidnapped and made detours to evade the would-be pursuers. She began to suspect that her aunt and father had been poisoned.
She had to have some type of mental disease. All that money and she never enjoyed it. ANd who got her pregnant, she looked like she wouldn't enjoy that either.
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^ FLIGHT-CERTIFIED BY NASA FOR ALL MANNED SPACE MISSIONS:
Omega Speedmaster Professional 3570.50.00
FLIGHT-QUALIFIED BY NASA FOR SPACE MISSIONS:
Omega Speedmaster Professional X-33
Casio G-Shock DW-5600C
Casio G-Shock DW-5600E
Casio G-Shock DW-5900
Casio G-Shock DW-6900
Casio G-Shock Master of G G-9000
Timex IRONMAN Triathlon Data Link
G-shocks are great watches - virtually indestructible and reasonably cheap.
I "traded up" for the Suunto Core All Black. It's loaded with useless gizmos I never use (Altimeter, compass in degrees, etc), has poor battery life, scratches easily and has shoddy build quality. Deffo going back to the G-Shocks when this one finally dies for good.
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They've got nothing on my custom made diamond Playboy watch 8)
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They've got nothing on my custom made diamond Playboy watch 8)
Nice, who made it?
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They've got nothing on my custom made diamond Playboy watch 8)
Hahaha! Unless you're Huggy Bear you're going to look a right gaylord wearing that ostentatious monstrosity.
Anything with the Playboy logo or diamonds on is for chicks. Fact!
Liberace would've even thought twice about wearing that.
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Hahaha! Unless you're Huggy Bear you're going to look a right gaylord wearing that ostentatious monstrosity.
Anything with the Playboy logo or diamonds on is for chicks. Fact!
Liberace would've even thought twice about wearing that.
I kinda was thinking that. Reason why I ask who made it.
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Nice, who made it?
I can't really remember the name of the shop, It's an accessories/jeweleries shop in Dubai. Nothing fancy.
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Hahaha! Unless you're Huggy Bear you're going to look a right gaylord wearing that ostentatious monstrosity.
Anything with the Playboy logo or diamonds on is for chicks. Fact!
Liberace would've even thought twice about wearing that.
I know, I only used to wear it when I went clubbing in Dubai , the "bling" shiny reflections with that watch is chick grabbing. And the best part is that no one can recognize the bunny in the dark.
That said, I still believe It's gay,even gayer than David Beckham's male fan base.
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That is a awful looking watch dude.
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These are among the best time pieces made today
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These are among the best time pieces made today
Damn ND has pics of anything known to man
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Damn ND has pics of anything known to man
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These are among the best time pieces made today
dam those watches give me blue balls :D
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wtf is the point, who cares there are clocks everywhere, do you really need one attached to your arm?
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wtf is the point, who cares there are clocks everywhere, do you really need one attached to your arm?
i said that to someone yesterday. yet i wear watches. it's the only jewelry i wear.
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(http://jamesonscribbles.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/sundial.jpg)
anything else is too over the top and not in tune with nature...A sun dial watch is the only way to go.
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Personally though I don`t see why anyone should question what someone spends their money on. I don`t see a point living miserably if you don`t have to or buying second best when you really want something better and can afford it.
You only live once, why live it miserably if you don`t have to?
well i dont think he meant that you should live miserably, but that certain things monetary value are vastly inappropriate...like a da vinci painting...its monetary value is enough to feed a starving nation for years. if used correctly. now which is more valuable, a canvas with paints arranged in a way to represent an image of reality, or giving malnourished humans food to sustain their life.
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My Seiko 600m dive watch was the best one I ever had. That was stolen at the gym many years ago. I have a Casio Pathfinder like the photo now. I really like it. The Breitling i got as a present I never received cause we broke up just before I was to get it on my birthday. Oh well I should have hung in there a few more weeks.
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well i dont think he meant that you should live miserably, but that certain things monetary value are vastly inappropriate...like a da vinci painting...its monetary value is enough to feed a starving nation for years. if used correctly. now which is more valuable, a canvas with paints arranged in a way to represent an image of reality, or giving malnourished humans food to sustain their life.
That entirely depends on how the money is spent. A million dollars for 2 million people is nothing and relatively futile. A million dollars concentrated perhaps, but that still puts the inequality in the hands of the recipients. What then of the ones who did not get a dime? And once one or a group is fed, hunger will strike again if the entire structure is not changed in the first place and the unlucky who did not get anything initially will already be dead. So in a sense that million dollars may just be prolonging misery and what is inevitable unless there is fundamental restructuring that a one time donation cannot make.
Now if that money is spread amongst a thriving economy, money will not only benefit those that it trickles to, money will also beget more money and beget more money and on and on. So in a sense you will benefit the most people by spending your money in a thriving and civilized economy.
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That entirely depends on how the money is spent. A million dollars for 2 million people is nothing and relatively futile. A million dollars concentrated perhaps, but that still puts the inequality in the hands of the recipients. What then of the ones who did not get a dime? And once one or a group is fed, hunger will strike again if the entire structure is not changed in the first place and the unlucky who did not get anything initially will already be dead. So in a sense that million dollars may just be prolonging misery and what is inevitable unless there is fundamental restructuring that a one time donation cannot make.
Now if that money is spread amongst a thriving economy, money will not only benefit those that it trickles to, money will also beget more money and beget more money and on and on. So in a sense you will benefit the most people by spending your money in a thriving and civilized economy.
i would point out that a person has the ability to make a real impact, like "fundamnetal restructuring" for example. a big donation, like say the price of a da vince original, could definitely put into place some kind of lasting infrastructure to keep the hungry fed. your certainly right, one purchase of food supplied to a nation of hungry will not do anything but postpone the inevitable.
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Breitling, only way to go, I have owned a couple of these and made very good profit on them all, and amazing quality and craftsmanship
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Ooooh, I love watches. an expensive hobby, but damn fun :-)
This is what I sport:
(http://www.watches.co.uk/watch_pics/largepics/tag-heuer-indy-500-ta8844.jpg)
I also have an automatic Omega from 1976 that my father gave to me and I fixed it up (I don't wear it too often though), a gold Longines, and a Links of London with black straps.
Recently though, my wife got me this watch for christmas, and it gets way more attention than my "fancier" watches:
(http://www.shopforclothes.com/dbimage/product/300x300/12079803.jpg)
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Ulysse will be entering the phone market soon :o
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Ooooh, I love watches. an expensive hobby, but damn fun :-)
This is what I sport:
(http://www.watches.co.uk/watch_pics/largepics/tag-heuer-indy-500-ta8844.jpg)
I also have an automatic Omega from 1976 that my father gave to me and I fixed it up (I don't wear it too often though), a gold Longines, and a Links of London with black straps.
Recently though, my wife got me this watch for christmas, and it gets way more attention than my "fancier" watches:
(http://www.shopforclothes.com/dbimage/product/300x300/12079803.jpg)
currently I don't own a watch, I am always near a computer/phone or electronic device that has the time displayed.
these days a watch is an accessory like shoes instead of a needed device. I can't believe that people actually notice your watch.
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This looks just like the Omega my father gave me, except mine had a blue dial (its from 1972, not 76):
(http://omega.watchprosite.com/img/watchprosite/omega/66/scaled/omega_image.1278966.jpg)
The gold longines (also given to me by my father for one of my birthdays):
(http://images.watchfinder.co.uk//images/Longines/L4.709.2.32.8.jpg?w=500)
Can't seem to find a picture of the Links of London one!
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This is mine, not too flashy, but has been a great watch:
(http://www.watches.co.uk/watch_pics/largepics/rolex-gmt-master-II-ro8832.jpg)
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currently I don't own a watch, I am always near a computer/phone or electronic device that has the time displayed.
these days a watch is an accessory like shoes instead of a needed device. I can't believe that people actually notice your watch.
Why can't you believe that people actually notice my watch?
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I have used this watch for 25 years. I wear it swimming in the ocean and to time my runs/workouts. It just works. You can throw it 20 yards and it works perfect. I sometimes even punch a heavy bag wearing it. Try that with a $1000 dollar watch.
Indeed.
Casio DW-5600E
THIS is one of the few WATCHES Qualified for NASA Space Flight Missions.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/DW-5600E.png/300px-DW-5600E.png)
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I used to have G-Shock back in the day! Watch lasted for like 10 years!
Nothing beats this though:
(http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/watchd14.jpg)
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Why can't you believe that people actually notice my watch?
how much did that Tag run you?
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how much did that Tag run you?
Was listed as 1100, I talked it down to 900 - you can find it online for cheaper now!
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The problem with luxury watches is that China is putting out so many counterfeits. I was talking with a jeweler and he said the fakes come in all the time for repairs and the owners are shocked that the $2000 Tag they bought for $250 is a fake.
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The problem with luxury watches is that China is putting out so many counterfeits. I was talking with a jeweler and he said the fakes come in all the time for repairs and the owners are shocked that the $2000 Tag they bought for $250 is a fake.
Never was a fan of Tag's personally, especially since they use a plastic movement piece, kinda cheap for what you pay for them.
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When I bought my tag, it was between it for 900, and 1250 (firm price) for an Omega seamaster (007 model), a part of me wishes I went with the omega..... but it was hard to drop 1250 at that time!
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When I bought my tag, it was between it for 900, and 1250 (firm price) for an Omega seamaster (007 model), a part of me wishes I went with the omega..... but it was hard to drop 1250 at that time!
could you link me the tag model? i like the look
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i got that one when i was a kid ;D could play tetris on it :o will remember it with nostalgia until my dying day :-[
(http://blog.martincrownover.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tetris_watch.jpg)
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could you link me the tag model? i like the look
http://www.prestigetime.com/items.php?brand=25&series=1352&size=1
This is a legit site, but I know on Ebay they are cheaper dunno about authenticity though!
I have the one on the far right!
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I'm really surprised Breitling failed NASA's criteria.. shocked actually... Omega makes phenomenal watches..
I collect watches , have 37, most are just standard $100-$200 timepieces, but I do have a few select very nice items, namely Breitling Navitimer, classic ESQ, Tissot PRS300, really incredible Seiko chronograph and a really nice Citizen nighthawk that I got in the Caribbean. Also few Casio G-Shock's... which are really well made and versatile, great camping watch.
Always wanted a Rolex Daytona but now think they're played out..plus too many fakes, probably 9 out of 10 people wearing 'Rolex' are wearing a fake.
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I'm really surprised Breitling failed NASA's criteria.. shocked actually... Omega makes phenomenal watches..
I collect watches , have 37, most are just standard $100-$200 timepieces, but I do have a few select very nice items, namely Breitling Navitimer, classic ESQ, Tissot PRS300, really incredible Seiko chronograph and a really nice Citizen nighthawk that I got in the Caribbean. Also few Casio G-Shock's... which are really well made and versatile, great camping watch.
Always wanted a Rolex Daytona but now think they're played out..plus too many fakes, probably 9 out of 10 people wearing 'Rolex' are wearing a fake.
My dad has a Rolex Daytona, ran him 15 grand! He used to have a gold Oyster Perpetual which cost him more than the Daytona, the Oyster was stolen when someone broke into his condo, he called the police but it was never recovered, shame!
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Indeed.
Casio DW-5600E
THIS is one of the few WATCHES Qualified for NASA Space Flight Missions.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/DW-5600E.png/300px-DW-5600E.png)
Thanks, maybe I'll use
this for my next trip to
Zoltan 9X.
It's this thinking that
had the Americans spending
Zillions of $ to develop an
anti gravity space pen, while
the Russians used a pencil.
You never know when
your next space trip
will be.
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Why can't you believe that people actually notice my watch?
don't get me wrong, I am sure that your watch is a fine watch. I am shocked that an adult would notice or take the time to notice another adult's watch.
I guess that I am judging by my standard that a watch is just watch and any old watch will do, but clearly I am wrong.
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Was listed as 1100, I talked it down to 900 - you can find it online for cheaper now!
do these watches increase in value? if not then why spend that much? does it tell time better than a $25 watch?
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do these watches increase in value? if not then why spend that much? does it tell time better than a $25 watch?
Some do, due to them being limited pieces. Some because of what they are made of, who made them, or their complexity. And also because, they can be passed down from father to son, like in big Ach's case. In some circles passing a watch down to your father, means you are "man" enough or mature enough. There are many sayings about men who don't own or wear watches. I have Fossils, Citizens, and a few Kenneth Coles, more low end, but they look good. I tend to like the skeleton look as well.
I was jst reading an article on how watches are getting too big. And itvwas talking about how, watches like rims, are equal to blingage. A lot of the high end Tags, Rolexes, etc, are 40 mm across, which is huge. Some like Bell&Ross are 46+ mm across.
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Indeed.
Casio DW-5600E
THIS is one of the few WATCHES Qualified for NASA Space Flight Missions.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/DW-5600E.png/300px-DW-5600E.png)
omega speedmaster, my know it all friend. first watch to the moon.
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Some do, due to them being limited pieces. Some because of what they are made of, who made them, or their complexity. And also because, they can be passed down from father to son, like in big Ach's case. In some circles passing a watch down to your father, means you are "man" enough or mature enough. There are many sayings about men who don't own or wear watches. I have Fossils, Citizens, and a few Kenneth Coles, more low end, but they look good. I tend to like the skeleton look as well.
I was jst reading an article on how watches are getting too big. And itvwas talking about how, watches like rims, are equal to blingage. A lot of the high end Tags, Rolexes, etc, are 40 mm across, which is huge. Some like Bell&Ross are 46+ mm across.
I'd like my dad to pass down his Rolex Daytona LOL
In all seriousness, lots of great points made. I'll use an example, my dad has these to friends, they are brothers, and both of them are EXTREMELY wealthey, one of them wears a 50 dollar digital watch, the other wears a 50,000 dollar gold rolex (diamond encrusted and everything). The brother who wears the 50 dollar digital watch, says a watch is a tool that is suppoed to serve one purpose and one purpose only, to tell the time. The brother who wears the rolex says that a watch is more than just a time-teller its a status symbol, and as important in qualtiy as a car is. lol
I bought my tag not to show off or anything like thats, its just that I wanted a fancy watch for sometime, and I really liked the way it looked, it was in my budget so I went for it. Its a nice watch that all it is.
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I'd like my dad to pass down his Rolex Daytona LOL
In all seriousness, lots of great points made. I'll use an example, my dad has these to friends, they are brothers, and both of them are EXTREMELY wealthey, one of them wears a 50 dollar digital watch, the other wears a 50,000 dollar gold rolex (diamond encrusted and everything). The brother who wears the 50 dollar digital watch, says a watch is a tool that is suppoed to serve one purpose and one purpose only, to tell the time. The brother who wears the rolex says that a watch is more than just a time-teller its a status symbol, and as important in qualtiy as a car is. lol
I bought my tag not to show off or anything like thats, its just that I wanted a fancy watch for sometime, and I really liked the way it looked, it was in my budget so I went for it. Its a nice watch that all it is.
I'm kind of in the middle of that... I wear a watch as a time piece but I like the watch to be well made, durable , etc. so I try to go for the in between, I would NEVER spend 50,000$ on a watch, that's just retarded and pointless...but at the same time I'm not crazy about $50 watches, a good midle of the road for instance is like Tag, Omega, Oris, Tissot, ESQ, etc.
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do these watches increase in value? if not then why spend that much? does it tell time better than a $25 watch?
the funny thing is, Rolex' don't keep as good time as a quartz gut watch. i have a few and not only do they lose a few minutes a month, but if you don't wear them for a few days they stop and need resetting.
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i think people should concentrate their energies on a nice house first, then a nice car, then a nice watch, then nice clothes, etc.
usually it's the complete opposite with some basement dwelling 30 year old showing off his rolex at "da club" (see: cast of jersey shore).
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the funny thing is, Rolex' don't keep as good time as a quartz gut watch. i have a few and not only do they lose a few minutes a month, but if you don't wear them for a few days they stop and need resetting.
They stop and need resetting if not worn for a few days because they are automatic watches and work off of kinetic energy (movement) - they have no battery...
Thats why they have these automatic watch winder boxes to keep them running: http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Watches/High-gloss-Black-Plastic-Single-Watch-Winder/3418918/product.html?cid=123620&fp=F&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=11499464
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They stop and need resetting if not worn for a few days because they are automatic watches and work off of kinetic energy (movement) - they have no battery...
Thats why they have these automatic watch winder boxes to keep them running: http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Watches/High-gloss-Black-Plastic-Single-Watch-Winder/3418918/product.html?cid=123620&fp=F&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=11499464
yeah, i haven't gotten around to buying one yet. there are some cases that hold several watches and display them while keeping them wound (winded?)
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I have met far to many guys that drive fancy cars and clothes while living in a hell hole. A buddy of mine was a divorced late 40 something year old who always had a new corvette but he lived with his parents. The women thought he was loaded driving a car like that living in a well to do town. The reality was that he had nothing but that car. Now with renting (leasing) any one can give the appreance of having money. You're right in that people's priorities are messed up.
i think people should concentrate their energies on a nice house first, then a nice car, then a nice watch, then nice clothes, etc.
usually it's the complete opposite with some basement dwelling 30 year old showing off his rolex at "da club" (see: cast of jersey shore).
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rolex
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i think people should concentrate their energies on a nice house first, then a nice car, then a nice watch, then nice clothes, etc.
usually it's the complete opposite with some basement dwelling 30 year old showing off his rolex at "da club" (see: cast of jersey shore).
thats nice ::)