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What was your first rep purchase?

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d4m.test

Guest
Omega SMP. Beautiful watch that I bought and I overpaid dearly for it from another site. Good thing is that it brought me here.
 

mabmojo

Getting To Know The Place
21/4/06
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My frirst rep was purchased on the orignal forum, The predisesor to RWG,RWC, RWI. It was in 2001 on the Replica Watch Collector Club RWCC forum. From FDaytona, it was a white mother of pearl asian auto daytona, $150 bucks used. I think the only dealer that was around back then was maybe river, and my friend watchlover_david. Who no longer sells reps. The watch lasted about a year before i dropped it and smashed the crystal.


I was 17, and since then I have really enjoyed what this at first hobby has given me. Last year it brought me to guangzhou china. This hobby has turned me on to producing my own watches and importing other products from asia. And now I sell genuine watches. Go figure.

I guess it was a logical start for a modest kid from buffalo.
 

MK08

Renowned Member
3/4/07
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My first rep was a piece of junk Navitimer that was a completely inaccurate quartz abomination with a coke bottle crystal :lol: My first "real" rep was when I first discovered RWG and I bought a Pam 177 from Eddie Lee, it was all downhill from there :D
 

T@H

Getting To Know The Place
8/10/07
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My 1st rep was a Day/DaTe...Gift.... (1987)
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My first Rep Purchase was a Tag Link Chrono

:) :mrgreen:
 

MEYER8888

Renowned Member
19/9/07
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i WAS ABSOLUTE FAN OF BREITLING, and my first order of rep was this one. I was very satisfy, and she work today perfectly
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laxdef10

Getting To Know The Place
6/5/07
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my first rep was one i bought in mexico ... Yes the sub...it was so bad but I just bought it as a novelty , my first rep after this board a mont blanc timewalker :)
 

crunch

Getting To Know The Place
4/10/07
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My first rep was an Omega (not sure what model it was). Bought it when I was in the Rep mall in SZ, China a few years back. I knew nothing about watches at the time and the only reason I bought it was because I thought it looked classis and it was only about USD$30. 8)
 

bigmac

Getting To Know The Place
16/4/07
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my first rep was also in mexico, I left puerto penasco extremely hung over with a horseshoe crab sting, a sunburn, and a cheap all gold quatz cartier tank for $20. from the boards it was a UPO from Andew, still my daily beater
 

MSK13

Banned member, the goat does not approve
Banned
18/7/07
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My first rep was in 1996, I bought a fake quartz Rolex with Diamonds on the bezel. I also bought some fake oakleys.
 

njespo

Getting To Know The Place
29/3/06
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my first rep was a black face daytona from george (yes, THAT george!) from TRC back in 2003....it still runs like a champ.... :)
 

rogerwine

Renowned Member
10/7/06
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My 1st rep purchase was from a street vendor on Wisconsin street in Georgetown, in Washington D.C., in 1987. I bought a Rolli Day/Date a Patek and a Gucci watch for $20.00/each. They were Quartz and the damn things ran for almost 2 years. My 1st quality rep was a Breitling Ti Chrono Avenger, 7750 b1 from a guy in Ireland on Ioffer for $275.00. That was in June of 2006, just before I found RWI. Then I bought my Pam 187 from EddieLee.
Rogerwine
 

LIBBY

Known Member
8/12/06
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My good buddy got a sweet job on Wall Street, came home one night with a sweet Rolex Day Date. After a few hours, I noticed green blotches on his arm under the wristband. I busted him right then! He got me a sweet two tone DayDate the next day...I look at some of the reps I have ownded since then and laugh when I pull the first one out of the mothballs!
 

alw

Getting To Know The Place
5/12/07
79
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Something I´d rather not remember....from a scam site, two pieces of junk now residing in the bottom drawer... :D
 

IcedEarth817

Getting To Know The Place
31/12/06
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I bought my first from a rip off site but a decent watch...still works but the lume stickers are falling off. a Rolex GMT II. It was from the global-replica site. I gave it to my younger brother. Now I am an owner of 5 reps and two gens (Seikos). Thanks to this site !
 

WatchDog

Banned member, the goat does not approve
Banned
16/12/07
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First replica was on the original RWG about 3 years ago. I purchase a silver dial Mont Blanc Timewalker chrono. I was so excited to have found a replica forum I could trust and I made a purchase from the sales section for like $90 dollars. It was the faux chrono version and I already knew I wanted something better before I got it in the mail. Thus began this addiction I have today.
 

erdoc

Known Member
29/11/06
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Canal Street in the eighties, a Movado museum rep, so bad, the "crystal" was held to the case using 4 pieces of double sided tape! On the same trip I got my wife a Gucci rep with the red/green dial, quartz movement that is actually still working today. A couple of years later a friend mailed me a brochure from a place in Texas selling Rolex reps mail order. I bought a couple of quartz reps from them, complete crap. About a month later they were using my credit card in California for hotel rooms and theatre tickets. Boy have we come a long way.