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Hey guys, Since the beginning of the X-mas Holiday I haven't been around that much. This due to a sh*tload of work and due to the fact that I have been sick for a couple of weeks, infected with a bacteria. All the food during the X-mas period did me no good! I will get back on track and follow up on the new threads. Since the end of November I had been on the lookout for a new piece. I had set my eyes on the 15300 rose gold with black gator strap and black dial. A few weeks later I found some. I also found an AP 26300 ROC Panda. One of my favourite pieces from AP as well (in my price range...). The ROC and RG RO were in the same price range. I love both and in the end I decided to pick the 26300 as it suits my lifestyle better. Next to that I feel the movement is a bit more complicated and the AP 2385 movement is one of the best out there in my opinion. So let's fast forward, I bought my piece around the 10th of January. It's a 2012 H-series and it was LNIB. Still under warranty I did not hesitate long and went for it. After some troubles with the customs I finally could lay my hands on my piece this week. I bought this piece for a special occasion as well. I turned 25 on the 30th of December. It's my birthday gift to myself . The 26300 is the follow up on the 25860. Basically AP redesigned the case (it still looks the same though) and they used new dial combo's. Blue, brown and white. The 25860 didn't have screws that went from top to bottom, the bezel screws were more placed for aesthetics than for functionality. The 26300 has white gold screws that go from top to bottom like the original Royal Oak design. An extra reason to pick this one. I also love the fact it's a bit thicker, makes the watch sporty as well. In my opinion an extremely versatile piece! I love it! Some pictures: Better pics, not mine: Thanks guys!!!

This one is purely cosmetic. JJ worked his magic as always, and I was quite specific with my desired look - the results do not disappoint. This was a planned walk in purchase on a summer trip to Bangkok (Brothers stag do) so lots of memories tied up in the piece. I have not had the time to photograph myself but was desperate to share the joy plus JJ's rolex angles and lighting probably cant be beaten. Anyway enough chatter here's the porn, enjoy. And finally a wristy on the 7836 from WI. Cheers, Arch.

I'm not married, so lots of women can laugh at my penis, thank you very much ...

Don't worry about it, it was probably only hand wound a few turns, and this makes all the difference.

Sunny but cold! Brrr

Well I can only speak for myself, but I didn't, I don't, and I don't or so I've been told ... Rides a bike and takes public transportation = no job, no money and lives with parents. Does that blanket generalization work for you? Some of us just happen to make enough money to have nice cars, and enjoy driving them. Some of us actually need cars to go places because there isn't public transportation or using a bicycle isn't practical. In addition to being a watch guy, I happen to be a car guy too for much the same reason. Awesome bits of machinery and I love the aesthetics of beautiful designs.

fraggle the reason that what AKtime posted makes no sense is that if you read that thread it is much the same. Inexplicable actions, things done that beguile reason it makes the person in question look both guilty as hell and innocent as driven snow. I do not envie the admins over RWI trying to sort this out.

Hope this gets resolved. One has to wonder if when the delivery company realises something has gone missing, if they try to avoid their responsibilities and insurance payout by "inventing" the delivery in an attempt to move the problem out of their area of responsibility. Sucks

Amount of red text on the dial also affects price...

That's great let's hope the date is flush

2011 Audi A5 Cabriolet with an S package and much work to increase horsepower. Been doing the Audi cabrios the last few years. All wheel drive and drop top. I am really a muscle car guy. Mostly old Vettes but got sick of maintaining a Corvette and a SUV for winter so went the the Audi's. Presently looking for a 69 z28 resto mod just for fun...or another old Vette. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey guys, after skimming through earlier posts, I thought I'd open another thread on buying watches in China in general and especially on the wholesale market in GZ. Hope everyone can benefit a little from our experience. I thought of some Do's and Dont's and I'll end my post with a write-up of my experience that i posted on another forum already Do's: do your research beforehand about make and build, also prices online (it's not so much about the savings but the fun of finding your watch) set yourself a price/piece limit or a goal use photos to show and compare. Smartphone or Laptop does come in handy haggling is more prominent in typical tourist stalls. At the wholesale-market, haggling is not so common, but still possible if buying cheapos: haggle hard! starting prices are often astronomous. you can pretend to walk away if you're not interested if buying quality reps: ask them if they can get you the good stuff. quality reps are never on display, they'll have to fetch it for you or take you to another place express sincere interest! Only then will they show you the good stuff or fetch it for you, but do tell that you're buying only if the price is right bring a loupe or buy one, there are enough around at the GZ market be prepared to pay in cash (obviously) be careful and watch your stuff! Sometimes they will take you to different locations, from my experience its safe. I like to pick my watches and then go to the ATM after i know how much i need. have them hand their business card. you might not find their stall again, so you can ask for directions or call bring a chinese friend dont... show disrespect to the seller or his products cause a scene expect you can get a quality rep for the price of an apple just because youre nearer at the source. if they fetch the stuff for you and it isn't right, tell them politely but assertively (dont let them mistake it for haggling) buy out of guilt for their time waste your own and their time Chinese pronounciation for brands can be quite tricky. e. g. TAG HEUER is written 豪雅 (hao2 ya3) and only distinctly resemble "Heuer" in sound. If you want good reps, you will have to ask specifically. If you're really into it, look up the brand names you're interested in. Use google or nciku.com (major brands are listed there) vocabulary & names: will edit this another time if enough people show interest you might help me with a list of what you wanna say location in Guangzhou: 广州站西钟表城 Guangzhou West-Station Watch City (actually just next to the central station. Take the sub to central station to avoid traffic) Here's a short report I wrote, sorry for any redundance: Thankfully I travel to Guangzhou on a yearly basis and so it didn't take long until I was combing through the wholesale Watch centers next to the Guangzhou central station, armed only with my laptop and my iphone with detailed photos to show and to compare. I did have extra trouble to find suppliers for the real gems at first (you know, no one keeps the good stuff there in case there's a "raid" and they wouldn't even admit they had that stuff). Their customers are mostly chinese with a few asian and african buyers (Im ethnic chinese). I do not recall encountering a single "white devil" and I did frequent those places quite a bit. The sellers in the centers buy from their distributor nearby. They do occasionally have some what we would call "beginner watches" behind the corner, but normally thats as good as it gets. If you want to have the gems, you will have to explicitly ask for the best they can get. They must be "borrowed" from the distributor since they can not afford to stock ceramic HBBs and theres usually little demand for good fakes and they for sure wouldn't risk storing them behind their counter, so unless you call them up beforehand chances are you will have to make the same tour again another day. If you don't speak chinese... well all sellers have catalogues with pictures, but it'd be better to bring a chinese friend. For example, I had them show me a lot of TAG carreras (all had imperfections, they were quite good overall, but the best i had seen i had to order first and wait for them to call me when they had the stock) while only few could get a ceramic HBB Tempus to show. The TAG had a slightly misaligned bezel and a misaligned index around the 5 o clock dial. They sent it to a watchmaker (i.e. watch repairman) and had it fixed. Same with the HBB Tempus ceramic. The movement had blue screws, i had them exchanged for metal ones and I also had them replace the saw-toothed rotor with a smooth one. Unfortunately it wasn't until i got home that i realized the watchmaker had only replaced the easily accessible visible ones, leaving 3 blue ones which are hardly visible at first because theyre obstructed by the mvmt. I could have gone back but it didnt bother me so much as to wait another hour or so to have them change it. My point is, you have to be very patient and invest a lot of time. Although I wouldnt have wanted to wait anyways, I still failed to spot that there was 1 visible screw left because I grew impatient. Prices generally vary greatly from the distributor, many sellers have the same watches but they are often not made by the same factory. Usually I couldn't haggle considerably, but it might be different if you come there as a "foreign devil" tongue.gif Prices are considerably lower than the usual HK around the corner "shhh, want rolex?"-run 5 blocks through a maze- shop whose prices may easily be higher than those of the best online traders here. Still, if it's just about the money, and you're buying only one watch, the money you'd save buying there alone doesnt justify the time invested at all. But a RWG enthusiast would have his fun there i guess