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What got you into watches?
- Thread starter avenger007
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My dad started giving me watches for my birthday from my 10th and all through High school and college, mostly Gruens.
I went through the Swatch watch craze in the mid to late 80s, then Bulovas in the 90s.
I got my first rep once I got my first real job out of a college. A quartz movement Rolex Sub, from a guy selling them out of a brief case, at the corner of the building I worked in. It lasted me about 4 years.
I started collecting again in 2006 and have over 50 now, small collection of reps, and the rest are lower end gens.
My prized gens are a Movado 800 series chrono and a Hamilton Khaki chrono with a modified 7750 movement.
My prized reps are all of them lol
I went through the Swatch watch craze in the mid to late 80s, then Bulovas in the 90s.
I got my first rep once I got my first real job out of a college. A quartz movement Rolex Sub, from a guy selling them out of a brief case, at the corner of the building I worked in. It lasted me about 4 years.
I started collecting again in 2006 and have over 50 now, small collection of reps, and the rest are lower end gens.
My prized gens are a Movado 800 series chrono and a Hamilton Khaki chrono with a modified 7750 movement.
My prized reps are all of them lol
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my dad had a few watches and he gave me one for my birthday (I cant remember what birthday it was )but I got a lovely new watch that was black faced and told the time when you pressed the buttons ......my first digital watch , I loved it so much I would sit all night with it and guess what the time would be down to the seconds when I pressed the big buttons .............since then I have been hooked on watches . I just love them calms me down when im in a lot of pain and I go into my own little world looking after them,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
im hooked big time and love it ........
im hooked big time and love it ........
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My FIRST watch was a red plastic digital that my grandfather bought me from the Rose's discount store when I was about 5 or 6. I was so proud of it since you could hit a pusher and it would also show the date!! I just knew I had arrived. The watch probably lasted two or three days, tops. Good times.
here is my, somewhat short story
it started as a friend showing me a picture of the Audemars Piguet Survivor, which is currently my avatar
after that, my love for audemars piguet shot up, and my hatred for rolex shot up also!
So now Im just dying for a watch, so the same guy shows me Lum-Tec, and I went ahead and bought a bull45 A5
and then comes my first rep, my AP EOD, and you know the rest
it started as a friend showing me a picture of the Audemars Piguet Survivor, which is currently my avatar
after that, my love for audemars piguet shot up, and my hatred for rolex shot up also!
So now Im just dying for a watch, so the same guy shows me Lum-Tec, and I went ahead and bought a bull45 A5
and then comes my first rep, my AP EOD, and you know the rest
Back in the day I was like all the kids in the 80's with a couple of Swatch watches. But I never got into collecting watches, then a a few years ago my wife bought me a couple of Quartz Armitrons. Then I was flipping through the channels an saw some nice Invicta automatics being sold on a shopping channel. I purchased my first one and was hooked. I now own 6 Invicta's, 3 Chase Durer's, 2 Zodiacs, 2 MM's, 3 Parnis', and now I own 2 reps ( 1 pam and 1 B&R). A good friend of mine jumper617 introduced me to the darkside so here I am looking to buy my 3rd rep.
My first watch was cheap Star Wars watch when I was a lttle kid, got it for X-mas. (wish I still had it)But ever since then I had a love affair with watches and keeping time.My wife thinks I am crazy for buying watches all the time and not wearing some of them for a while.Actually she just bought one for my birthday today, go figure? I guess its the intrigue of how the movement of a mechanical watch that intrests me, very precise and fluid.
My very first watch was a swatch flik flak when I was a kid , but I started to be interested in automatic watches a few years back, when my grandfather gave me a Yema Automatic which belonged to my great grandfather. Regarding the rep world, it all begun with a street junk bought in Morocco while on holidays.
, but I started to be interested in automatic watches a few years back, when my grandfather gave me a Yema Automatic which belonged to my great grandfather. Regarding the rep world, it all begun with a street junk bought in Morocco while on holidays.Like some members in this post, what got me into watches is when i was a little kid every time i saw my grandfather i kept looking and playing with his watch, she was making this little noise, a little buz and i was fascinating by the smooth second hand.
Some years after, when i was really intersted in watches, i knew his watch was a Omega F300 with his tuning fork (like Bullova Accutron) movement. Now my father have it but she was broken for years and every watchmaker said: impossible to fix it...
The ironic part is i brought it to a member that i met here, he is now a friend and he takes care of every of my watches and guess what... he succeeded to fix it !! So i'm gonna give it back to my father this sunday, for the father's day
To me the second hand is smoother than every watch i saw, i think this movement is like 48 800 bph, here is the watch:
Some years after, when i was really intersted in watches, i knew his watch was a Omega F300 with his tuning fork (like Bullova Accutron) movement. Now my father have it but she was broken for years and every watchmaker said: impossible to fix it...
The ironic part is i brought it to a member that i met here, he is now a friend and he takes care of every of my watches and guess what... he succeeded to fix it !! So i'm gonna give it back to my father this sunday, for the father's day
To me the second hand is smoother than every watch i saw, i think this movement is like 48 800 bph, here is the watch:
Like some members in this post, what got me into watches is when i was a little kid every time i saw my grandfather i kept looking and playing with his watch, she was making this little noise, a little buz and i was fascinating by the smooth second hand.
Some years after, when i was really intersted in watches, i knew his watch was a Omega F300 with his tuning fork (like Bullova Accutron) movement. Now my father have it but she was broken for years and every watchmaker said: impossible to fix it...
The ironic part is i brought it to a member that i met here, he is now a friend and he takes care of every of my watches and guess what... he succeeded to fix it !! So i'm gonna give it back to my father this sunday, for the father's day
To me the second hand is smoother than every watch i saw, i think this movement is like 48 800 bph, here is the watch:
what a gift .your father will be over the moon mate, he will be so happy to see it running again after thinking it was imposable to fix............
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My first was a non decript Timex for my birthday in 6th grade, manual wind and I thought I was a high roller! Wore that all through high school and never failed me. My first foray into reps was 1969. Graduated high school and a buddy and I drove to Nogales, Mexico from Phoenix where we lived. Found a street vendor selling "Rolex" watches (lol). Got him down to $2 and had my first solid gold Rollie (Customs guy just chuckled when I declared it). Within 2 days the thing was gaining about two hours a day and within the week, the hands fell off!
Ever since then have been fascinated with how they can make all those small components keep time!
Ever since then have been fascinated with how they can make all those small components keep time!
Unlike anyone who has posted so far, I came to replica watches through my wife's desire for designer handbags. After buying a few of those horribly expensive handbags for her I received an e-mail spam advertising replica handbags. I didn't even know such a thing existed. Did a lot of research on line. Tried a few places and found some really quality suppliers whose bags were indistinguishable from the genuine. Somehow in this process I happened across replica watches. Again, lots of research and reading RWI plus others lead me to the noob factory and Fakemaster watches which were the first ones I purchased. The noob factory watches looked great but did have a significant failure rate. The Fakemaster watches had a zero failure rate (after about 20 Fakemaster's purchased so far). So I concluded noobs had the higher quality exterior in terms of accuracy to gen but Fakemaster products had the higher quality in terms of reliability. Since those early days I have purchased from many dealers and also from member sales. I am thinking it is about time for me to stop buying watches and move on to something else.
When I was young like under 10 years old, I went to the grocery store with my mom a couple weeks before Christmas. I looked at toys and stuff while she shopped. A display of watches on sale for $10 from $20 caught my attention. Spent the rest of the time looking at them and how cool they were. An older guy came up and talked to me. Years later I realized he was wearing a Rolex. He asked which watch was my favorite and was like good choice. It had a blue dial with red and white USA across it and fake diamond hour markers. He picked it up, bought it, handed it to me, and said "Merry Christmas." I thanked him so much and right after he walked away, my mom came back going crazy that I had put on one of the watches. I told her what happened and she asked the cashier who collaborated my story.
Those same years later, I was heading into my first LSD trip. I ended up finding the watch in a junk drawer after years without use. That memory came back so vivid and just like stuck with me. Ever since, I went through many budget watches (<$50) and then got a nicer bulova smooth rectangle watch as a birthday gift.
I still hadn't gotten in depth with watches until another acid trip a few years later. I got really into them and figured I could get one nice watch since I had my first job. I found a Hamilton Khaki Field Auto Chrono at an online sale on Jomashop for $635 during black Friday 3 years ago. My mom paid for some as a birthday/christmas gift and I paid the rest. And that's when it really began. I'm almost 21 now and have spent close to $20k on around 30 watches. I've bought, sold, and traded Gens, homages, LE, vintage, cheap, expensive, and now I'm getting into REP watches haha shit.
I have no REPS yet, but I'm looking into the JF V2 blue dial SS AP 15400, ZF V3 IWC 7 days (black dial SS?), ZF V2 Tudor black pelagos, Tudor black bay red and blue, maybe a Breitling Blackbird (or cockpit, but not much for reps) or other big date watch, and I'd really like a submariner. Although I love the red ceramic bezel on my Trident c60 pro 600, I really love the black aluminum bezel on my squale 20 atmos and blue aluminum bezel on my Omega SMP. I'm leaning towards the 16610 over the 116610, but not sure if I want to put down the dough for a TC v7 extreme or wait and decide on a bk or jf. Maybe I'll just save up for a GEN 16613?? Too bad there aren't more triple date watches. I insanely miss my Wakmann gold triple date with an ORIGINAL BRACELET that was stolen. Haha I love watches.
Those same years later, I was heading into my first LSD trip. I ended up finding the watch in a junk drawer after years without use. That memory came back so vivid and just like stuck with me. Ever since, I went through many budget watches (<$50) and then got a nicer bulova smooth rectangle watch as a birthday gift.
I still hadn't gotten in depth with watches until another acid trip a few years later. I got really into them and figured I could get one nice watch since I had my first job. I found a Hamilton Khaki Field Auto Chrono at an online sale on Jomashop for $635 during black Friday 3 years ago. My mom paid for some as a birthday/christmas gift and I paid the rest. And that's when it really began. I'm almost 21 now and have spent close to $20k on around 30 watches. I've bought, sold, and traded Gens, homages, LE, vintage, cheap, expensive, and now I'm getting into REP watches haha shit.
I have no REPS yet, but I'm looking into the JF V2 blue dial SS AP 15400, ZF V3 IWC 7 days (black dial SS?), ZF V2 Tudor black pelagos, Tudor black bay red and blue, maybe a Breitling Blackbird (or cockpit, but not much for reps) or other big date watch, and I'd really like a submariner. Although I love the red ceramic bezel on my Trident c60 pro 600, I really love the black aluminum bezel on my squale 20 atmos and blue aluminum bezel on my Omega SMP. I'm leaning towards the 16610 over the 116610, but not sure if I want to put down the dough for a TC v7 extreme or wait and decide on a bk or jf. Maybe I'll just save up for a GEN 16613?? Too bad there aren't more triple date watches. I insanely miss my Wakmann gold triple date with an ORIGINAL BRACELET that was stolen. Haha I love watches.