watch review

[wes]

I bet you have a car that is just cheap enough to get you to your AARP meetings and shoes good enough to not get your feet dirty and clothes cheap enough to cover your ass and a phone cheap enough to allow you to make calls to your dealer.  So what?

I`ve got decent cars,shoes,and clothes.......who gives a fuck if you can afford a Rolex just to impress some other slob ?

Status Symbol Of Peace

[robcguns]

I've built a decent collect of stainless steel watches but for some reason I am now looking for a good gold watch, something classic and not ostentatious like a AP Royal Oak, but just a subtle Omega or Rolex.  I would prefer not to have a gold band.  Would like a nice gold bezel, back and case but a watch face that is not gold with a good dark brown alligator band with a gold deployment clasp.

What are looking to spend i have great watch connections.

[robcguns]

Yes a thread like this pops up every few months and everyone not into watches thinks its a brag fest.I dont have a rolex to brag,i like them plain and simple.Funny how people assume things.Its a watch if i like it i will buy it.id say the guy juicing is more of a show off than a guy wearing a nice watch.

[El Diablo Blanco]

Yes a thread like this pops up every few months and everyone not into watches thinks its a brag fest.I dont have a rolex to brag,i like them plain and simple.Funny how people assume things.Its a watch if i like it i will buy it.id say the guy juicing is more of a show off than a guy wearing a nice watch.

Not about bragging though.  I own a lot of expensive watches, some are just for my love of complications and mechanics and rarely wear.  Then I have every day watches that I cycle through but the mainstays are my Rolex, Concord and IWC watch.  I have always had an obsession with overly complicated watches.

[valhalla]

Yes a thread like this pops up every few months and everyone not into watches thinks its a brag fest.I dont have a rolex to brag,i like them plain and simple.Funny how people assume things.Its a watch if i like it i will buy it.id say the guy juicing is more of a show off than a guy wearing a nice watch.

What Rolex's do you like/own Rob ?

[SF1900]

If I am going to spend a good amount of money on anything, its definitely not going to be a watch. I'd rather spend my money on something else.

Basically, pick your "poison." We all have certain likes and dislikes. For me, Ill take my money and do something else with it (for instance, going to Australia to meet Vince Basile). My cell phone tells me the time. That is good enough.

To each their own.

[valhalla]

Not about bragging though.  I own a lot of expensive watches, some are just for my love of complications and mechanics and rarely wear.  Then I have every day watches that I cycle through but the mainstays are my Rolex, Concord and IWC watch.  I have always had an obsession with overly complicated watches.

My dilemma is usually that many of the watches I would buy with passion usually depreciate a lot!
But some of my more "boring" Rolex's have actually gone up in value.

[ritch]

What is it with getbiggers and watches? Every couple of months a similar thread comes up. I just picture a guy wearing an affliction tee shirt with jeans with crazy color basketball sneakers wearing his $2000 Chinese counterfeit Rolex.  

Why not a thread on shoes and fine suits?  

2k for a knock off?
Fuck... I can't even afford the immitation version of being a douchebag.

[El Diablo Blanco]

My dilemma is usually that many of the watches I would buy with passion usually depreciate a lot!
But some of my more "boring" Rolex's have actually gone up in value.

there's a dip in appreciation.  The first few years the value dips slightly because its not new, then there is a major dip in value where the watch is neither vintage or new so stuck in the middle then it becomes vintage and the price jumps way high.

[SF1900]

there's a dip in appreciation.  The first few years the value dips slightly because its not new, then there is a major dip in value where the watch is neither vintage or new so stuck in the middle then it becomes vintage and the price jumps way high.

EDB, you appear to be a watch connoisseur.

[valhalla]

there's a dip in appreciation.  The first few years the value dips slightly because its not new, then there is a major dip in value where the watch is neither vintage or new so stuck in the middle then it becomes vintage and the price jumps way high.

True!
But some brands just go downhill fast..even being fantastic watches.
I have two Girard Perregaux, that even though I bought them second hand have gone down quite a bit.

My Daytonas from the 80's and early 90's hold great value.

[NelsonMuntz]

Don't need a watch just look at the lower right hand of my screen since I am on GetBig 24/7

[El Diablo Blanco]

Don't need a watch just look at the lower right hand of my screen since I am on GetBig 24/7

I'm calling bullshit on this since most getbiggers are homos that use Macs at home.

[robcguns]

What Rolex's do you like/own Rob ?

Right now i have the 116660 deepsea,never was into big watches but im loving it.Just got it a few months ago,traded a blue milgauss and a few grand for it.My favorites are 116660.116520,114060.ive had the 114060 around 5-6 times and the 116520 3-4 times.haha i get bored quick and flip then go back.how about you?then i will buy some here and there strictly to sell.

[WalterWhite]

there's a dip in appreciation.  The first few years the value dips slightly because its not new, then there is a major dip in value where the watch is neither vintage or new so stuck in the middle then it becomes vintage and the price jumps way high.

Like cars watches can be bought like new after they have depreciated. I have never lost a dime on a higher end watch.

Watch forums have areas where people sell watches and that's where I have purchased most of mine.  Watch Recon shows all the watches for sale on all forums.

My fave blue dial.

[Primemuscle]

Another "show and tell" watch thread.

I'm grousing because my watch is a beat up 15 year old Seiko that keeps on ticking. Nothing to show.

[valhalla]

Right now i have the 116660 deepsea,never was into big watches but im loving it.Just got it a few months ago,traded a blue milgauss and a few grand for it.My favorites are 116660.116520,114060.ive had the 114060 around 5-6 times and the 116520 3-4 times.haha i get bored quick and flip then go back.how about you?then i will buy some here and there strictly to sell.

Nice!

I have a steel Daytona, the two-tone Daytona pictured above and this Yachtmaster II.

I also own several breilings, AP's and GP's.

[robcguns]

Like cars watches can be bought like new after they have depreciated. I have never lost a dime on a higher end watch.

Watch forums have areas where people sell watches and that's where I have purchased most of mine.  Watch Recon shows all the watches for sale on all forums.

My fave blue dial.

Beautiful blue dial

[robcguns]

Nice!

I have a steel Daytona, the two-tone Daytona pictured above and this Yachtmaster II.

I also own several breilings, AP's and GP's.

I like that clear caseback on the daytona.i an a big fan of the ymii,been contemplating that one for a while now.

[Thespritz0]

This is mine, wanted one for many years since I saw Roger Moore as 007 with one in "The Man with the Golden Gun"... finally got it in 2002!!!

[valhalla]

I like that clear caseback on the daytona.i an a big fan of the ymii,been contemplating that one for a while now.

At first I had a hard time with the dial, but it grows on you and wears comfortably.
Great watch..i want the white gold one, but that will have to wait a while  

[SF1900]

I'm calling bullshit on this since most getbiggers are homos that use Macs at home.

I use a Mac. So does Basile. What are you trying to say?  

[Primemuscle]

I use a Mac. So does Basile. What are you trying to say?  

Good on me. I don't own anything Apple Inc.

[NelsonMuntz]

I'm calling bullshit on this since most getbiggers are homos that use Macs at home.

I took that screenshot of the net

IRL I live at Nasa, my GetBig screen is just a 3-d holgram which makes the WYHI threads scary when I get fooled

[Nails]