Great thread B...If I remember correctly I was looking for a Panerai lol...It was a fantasy watch but I was obsessed with it's movement...Still am actually. Seagull St-19 Manual wind.
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What was THE watch that got you here?
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Navitimer.
Months later still not bought one, as the knowledge on here gave me too many reasons not to get one!
Months later still not bought one, as the knowledge on here gave me too many reasons not to get one!
Thanks. I'm surprised this thread is still going......it's over twelve months old.
Nice to see the comments coming in though. If it wasn't for the PO I probably wouldn't be here. One certain individual would be thankful for that. :lol:
Keep 'em coming guys.
Me? When I first bought a watch from ShopNBC: Croton chrono diver; then came Invictas; then wifey bought me a gen DJ; THAT did it. Two scams later (one ok; the other a POS -- which will be profiled in Monday's wrist-check), I discovered the safe haven that is RWI.
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A little of the same for me...Timex...Fossil...Invicta.. Then to my Locman (which was a huge mistake in buying because I got SO ripped of for what it was, but only learned that AFTER I found RWI 6 years later)...Then to my Tissot...
I saw John Mayer and he was wearing this watch that was to me amazing (Big Pilot 5002) And that began my quest..I found "Herc" and got a Pam and BP rip off and the Pam-joke broke the very next day after playing drums....and the BP-wanna-be is still kicking...Gave it to my brother in-law...
I found RWI shortly after that and I can't even remember how...but I know it was to find a "Panerai" of some sort...Funny, the search for a Pam and Big Piot brought me here but my LOVE for the BP is still so strong...Pams not as much..SORRY all of you, I know that's not cool.. However, I used to be really down on Rolex and now I have more Rolex than anything!! My wife just said that..."man, for someone who really disliked rolex, you have quite a few of them now..." haha...what's that mean?!
Thanks, great thread...
I saw John Mayer and he was wearing this watch that was to me amazing (Big Pilot 5002) And that began my quest..I found "Herc" and got a Pam and BP rip off and the Pam-joke broke the very next day after playing drums....and the BP-wanna-be is still kicking...Gave it to my brother in-law...
I found RWI shortly after that and I can't even remember how...but I know it was to find a "Panerai" of some sort...Funny, the search for a Pam and Big Piot brought me here but my LOVE for the BP is still so strong...Pams not as much..SORRY all of you, I know that's not cool..
However, I used to be really down on Rolex and now I have more Rolex than anything!! My wife just said that..."man, for someone who really disliked rolex, you have quite a few of them now..." haha...what's that mean?!Thanks, great thread...
Rolex SD got me into these hallowed walls of faux horology. At the time Trusty was a dealer here B.C. (before cartel) So, I ordered a "best version" SeaDweller from Andrew and was instantly hooked. About a year ago I put a genuine 2824 in it and it gets a lot of wrist time. Little did I know at the time there would a "best version" then "ultimate version" then "perfect version" then "exact copy made with with 1:1 genuine as sample" wah wah wah blah blah. I used to believe all the dealers descriptions of the watches, after all they were trusted sellers. Boy what Nooob I was (am) : )
Fun thread BB.
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Fun thread BB.
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awesome thread, just read through the whole thing.
I stumbled here when looking for Tags...then Breitling snagged me, followed by Rolex, and then Panerai snuck up behind me and slit my throat.
I stumbled here when looking for Tags...then Breitling snagged me, followed by Rolex, and then Panerai snuck up behind me and slit my throat.
Bell&Ross BR01-92 (black dial) was something I loved but I didn't realise how much it was. When I did I started looking at other options, and a guy on another forum I was on pointed me to RWG2. After plenty of noob questions I bought an IWC Portuguese 1939 from Eurotimez (which took about 3 months) but it was a good watch and did eventually arrive!
I still don't have a B&R and the B&R homages I do have I don't wear very often... I do however now have loads of Rolex and Rolex homages, despite always saying I hated Rolex because I hated the smug, 'I'm so great' people who used to wear them, and I also now have quite a few PAMs and homages, despite thinking they were a bit 'meh'... :facepalm: :lol:
Reps really are a great way to work out what you like I would have been ******* gutted to have spent £2k on a B&R and then realised a couple of months in that it's not that much of an 'everyday' watch!!
I still don't have a B&R and the B&R homages I do have I don't wear very often... I do however now have loads of Rolex and Rolex homages, despite always saying I hated Rolex because I hated the smug, 'I'm so great' people who used to wear them, and I also now have quite a few PAMs and homages, despite thinking they were a bit 'meh'... :facepalm: :lol:
Reps really are a great way to work out what you like
I would have been ******* gutted to have spent £2k on a B&R and then realised a couple of months in that it's not that much of an 'everyday' watch!!
A Panerai 212 >>>
A total POS that I never was able to regulate any better than +/- 4 MINUTES /day!!....
It taught me all I needed to know about A7750 lo-beat movements!!!
Oh and BTW...After maybe a couple of hundred buys and sells, over the ensuing 5 or 6 years, guess what I bought last month...???
Yup!!! :
ANOTHER lo-beat 212!!!....I must admit...They have improved the movement a tad...Now it's only +/- 2 minutes/day!!...But since I only paid under $100. for it, and it wears so frikkin' nice, I can stand to have it hanging around now!!
In fact, I'm wearing it as a daily beater, at least until my "bargain" Big Pilot from Reg arrives in a week or so....
A total POS that I never was able to regulate any better than +/- 4 MINUTES /day!!....
It taught me all I needed to know about A7750 lo-beat movements!!!
Oh and BTW...After maybe a couple of hundred buys and sells, over the ensuing 5 or 6 years, guess what I bought last month...???
Yup!!! :
ANOTHER lo-beat 212!!!....I must admit...They have improved the movement a tad...Now it's only +/- 2 minutes/day!!...But since I only paid under $100. for it, and it wears so frikkin' nice, I can stand to have it hanging around now!!
In fact, I'm wearing it as a daily beater, at least until my "bargain" Big Pilot from Reg arrives in a week or so....
I came here because of Marvin D. Bot. I heard about him from a famous moviestar from Bollywood, who had previously used Marv as a toilet cleaning robot in his summer residence in new delhi.
when his plunger arm went defective in a work related accident, the actor/star (whos name I can't reveal here) gave the bot to Col, as Col had a plan that he wanted to make marv into a movie star.
following clip shows marv and a few RWI staffers in a scene recorded in the RWI Control Epicenter. (this clip was later used in a famous motion picture.)
this is your chance to actually see what goes on behind the curtains here :
anyways, this amazing little fella is what brought me here. I have never regretted that for a second! -he's just a little guy who brings beers makes homemade cigars and wants to create raffles for his fellow rwi'ers. just don't ask him to fix a clogged toilet.
ooor... I came here to get a nice DSSD.....
when his plunger arm went defective in a work related accident, the actor/star (whos name I can't reveal here) gave the bot to Col, as Col had a plan that he wanted to make marv into a movie star.
following clip shows marv and a few RWI staffers in a scene recorded in the RWI Control Epicenter. (this clip was later used in a famous motion picture.)
this is your chance to actually see what goes on behind the curtains here :
anyways, this amazing little fella is what brought me here. I have never regretted that for a second! -he's just a little guy who brings beers makes homemade cigars and wants to create raffles for his fellow rwi'ers. just don't ask him to fix a clogged toilet.
ooor... I came here to get a nice DSSD.....
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I wanted to know who can I trust to get the watch from... But its too expensive lol.
I wanted to know who can I trust to get the watch from... But its too expensive lol.
Rolex day date. Was surfing for a rep, bought one off a questionable site but also found this place in the process.
Not a watch in particular, I think I googled "replica watch forum"
But it was a JLC Reverso that I was looking for in the first place...
But it was a JLC Reverso that I was looking for in the first place...
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Lol, I feel your pain!!!
Some nice frankens around though!
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I remember I saw an ad for the Navitimer at the mall once and I was hooked. I would marvel at them on unknown random rep sites and never had the courage to take the plunge. On a Mercedes forum one member mentioned that there was probably a forum for every thing..... And that's when it hit me and I found RWI.
My first rep was a Milgauss that I'm not happy with, but I caught a Pam bug and tool the plunge on it and a noob sub. I never knew why the hell people liked Pams on this site, but now I'm in love with Pams because of a breitleing
My first rep was a Milgauss that I'm not happy with, but I caught a Pam bug and tool the plunge on it and a noob sub. I never knew why the hell people liked Pams on this site, but now I'm in love with Pams because of a breitleing