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Here's an old story from awhile back... repeated just for fun. This happened on one of those harbor tours out of Seward, Alaska. This is what reps are for! I was with my brother Dave on one of those glacier cruises where the boat takes you right up to the face of a glacier and toots the horn so the thing calves off big chunks of ice and scares the hell out of the tourists. I was wearing a newer model Sea Dweller from Andrew, and we were all up on top of the boat, there were lots of tourists milling around in gore-tex and down parkas. I had already noticed a few times that the watch would leak and fog up, and I hate that. So I nudged Dave and whispered "watch this". I held my arm up to ostentatiously check the time, and Rolex Stainless Steel glistened and glittered in the sun like God's Own Bling. I then sucked in my breath in alarm and said "IT STOPPED! Look, this thing stopped again!" and showed it Dave. He clucked his tongue, shook his head, and said something about "as expensive as that thing was, you'd think it would work!" and I agreed loudly. A couple of heads turned toward us. So I shook my wrist a few times, and held it up to my ear. Shaking my head in disgust, I took it off and waved my hand around wildly to "wind it" and got lots more people glancing at me nervously. Then I unscrewed the crown and wound it up madly with exaggerated motions, elbows flying, and listened again. "It's STILL dead!!!" I said to Dave, and I could see him suppressing a laugh. More people looked, so I tapped it a couple times on the railing, and held it to my ear again. DING DING DINGGGG!! Dave was dying by now, trying not to laugh. When I tapped the railing the metal pipe sort of rang a little, and more people looked. I listened to the watch again and said "This bloody piece of @#!*$%" and hit it harder on the railing. Dave was biting his lip and people were starting to stare. I held it up to my ear again and said loudly "YOU MISERABLE LOUSY CHEAP ROLEX!!!" and I turned and bashed it really really hard on the railing 5 or 6 times, WHANG WHANG WHANG WHANG!!! and the pipe was ringing and people were stepping back. Everyone was staring, and I held it up to my ear for a moment, the pipe was still ringing, and I shouted "YOU LOUSY PIECE OF SWISS CRAP!!!!" and I drew my arm back, big pause for effect, and threw that watch as far as I could out into the ocean. It made a really nice high arc, glittering in the sun, and landed with a nice big splash. Dave was nearly wetting himself, tears were rolling down his cheeks, and I stormed down the steps to the lower deck as people parted and let me through, their mouths gaping in astonishment. It was glorious.

I honestly couldn't care less about being called out, most of the time if I am, I will say a rep is a gen and a gen is a rep....that usually confuses them. Honestly most people don't care enough about watches to have any interest, if you are wearing a rolex rep and dressed in 'chav' clothing then you are probably asking for it. I have a few friends who are semi into watches, and they get the whole rep thing and have even bought a few they were so impressed with the quality. I do have one 'friend' well he is more a friend of a friend and one day a couple of years ago at a party he drunkenly tried to shiit on me and the rep game and 'Chinese' crap watches in a lame attention seeking attempt. I drew attention to his pride and joy Armani watch and told him that my piece of crap Chinese watch is much better made than his Chinese made Armani piece of crap bling fashion watch...that shut him up.

It's a 1680 kind of day today.

I get called out all the time, which is why I always carry a gun (& move alot)

Wearing the Ebel 1911 BTR again. Love this one.

creamy snowflake

Install a SRSD-Dial and you got the rarer watch Dee

Gorgeous Tudor J!!! Tudor for Tuesday for me as well:

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