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A new pic at Ucluelet British Columbia

You know what bugs me? Paying a shitload of money for something that is worth 10% of what's asked for it. Let's get real for a sec here. I love watches like the next guy, but aren't we getting carried away with the whole gen issue? I mean, no matter how much money you have, or are able to spend, aren't there better causes to spend your money on? People are dying of hunger all over the world, for god's sake, and we are talking about spending thousands and thousands of dollars on a glorified man jewelry? C'mon! And seriously, what is the difference between a gen and a rep? The design? Nope. The actual movement? Come on, who cares?! You are talking about the lost connection to the watch making? You are absolutely right. But that connection was lost by the Swiss companies as well, mass-producing the same designs with standard off-the-shelf movements and selling guys like us an illusion of craftsmanship and tradition, which in reality are swallowed by a cleaver, but faceless marketing machine. Connection to the watch making you say? Try finding a watch smith in your area. If it's not a 80 year old dude who takes care of watch once a month and switching batteries on DKNY pieces of cr@p, I'll cut my arm off. The modern "watchmakers" are no more than a simple paycheck workers for huge money making machines, who's connection to art or craftsmanship is lost forever. What's the difference between them and some sweetshop chinese guy in Xian? The shiny white costume they wear to work? I love watches. So next time I feel like spending some green on a beautiful man toy worth 10000 I'll email Andrew or Josh and get it for 358 + shipping and spend the rest of my hard earned cash on buying my kids a freaken truck of books and take them to a vacation in the freaken Amazon (not the dot-com), so they could see birds and an occasional jaguar, and not think it was a car. Edit: /rant's over

Saturday night was our anual Christmas bash, mainly old school friends and their partners etc. I was sat next to my best mates brother who ive know for many years but only see a couple of times per year. About half way through the meal he says 'WOW i just noticed that (pointing to my BK DSSD) do you mind if i take a look?' I handed the watch to him while he made coments like 'such a beautiful watch' and 'you can really tell why they cost so much, the quality is amazing'. Finally he came out with 'do you mind if i ask how much you paid for it?' now ive always said that if a friend of mine asks 'THE' question then ill tell the truth, so i did. Amazing how much his appreciation for the watch changed. I explained a little about the watch and the movement etc. (not trying to justify, just sharing my passion) he still thinks its a nice watch but the enthusism just went. Guess some people just dont get it!!!!!!! Fast forward about 2 hours (and a bottle and a half of wine later) and im in the bathroom washing my hands talking to a guy from our table. He's the husband of an old school friend who ive met 5 or 6 times before, nice guy but dont have mutch to do with him. He's a very successful guy with the business, the cars, the house etc.... As im talking and drying my hands he looks at my wrist with a confused expression. 'What's that?' he says. 'DSSD' i reply, at which point he holds out his arm to show me a Gen DSSD. I could see he was puzzled probably thinking 'how can he afford that'. His test was to say ' does yours do this?' at which point he opened the glide lock. 'Of course' i replied showing him mine. He then went on to tell me he paid 6.5K for his and its the best looking watch in the world etc. I didnt give him the chance to compare side by side or offer anything such as price etc (remember i said if a FRIEND asks) but he was convinced mine was Gen and some what disgruntled said 'look after that watch' as we left. The highs and lows of rep watches. Next time i'll wear my PAM 111 and see what they both have too say about that.

Nice Clapton, Hike!

'as least here there is a sense of honesty....being gen about replicas....rather than being fake about gens....' Now that's something I can agree on

Can I ask the average age at this party? In my experience, this sort of "Can I see", "How much $ you pay" talk doesn't happen when the average age of a room approaches 40.... Perhaps with increasing age of the wearer it is either assumed gen, or no one gives a fsck at that station in life.

Every few months, I question my rep collection. Having sworn never to buy a gen again, I've slowly started rebuilding with a couple of used gens and a couple of highly modded Frankens with gen Rolex movements. I've now identified (I think) which models are keepers and which are not. I will never buy a brand new watch in store again. There are always deals to be had. Back to reps, who doesn't like having a box full of watches to choose from? Buy one for $358, see if t works. If not, sell. All for $50-$75 loss. It's great. As others have said, the "getting caught" is in our head. What % of the population are WIS? Buy what makes you comfortable. Even $358 spent on something that is never worn is a waste of money!

This Is always what I was led to believe

thanks folks for your comments, Yes, with the steel bezel, the profile and the look is incredible with the domed plexi, Diesel, I like your 6263, very realistic,

Hey C. well it wasnt a party at 12800 ft below sea level In all honesty, my good friends know i dont have that sort of money to spend on watches,im a young(ish) guy with 2 kids and a wedding coming up so £8-9K on a watch would be a bit unusual. On the other hand i'm blessed with a great job that see's me flying all over the world on business so people who know me but not my entire life probably wouldnt find it that strange. I think the guy with the Gen is just one of those who has money and likes people to know it and he wasnt to keen on the fact that he wasnt the only person with a 'Rolex' on that night.

http://i.imgur.com/hTjtLs.jpg For pic references. Looks pretty cool though