It's been a fun ride for me. I've been buying, selling and trading watches since way back before most of you were born, late 60's. couldn't afford but one at a time, so I started with a no date Airking, then a DJ, then a 1680. By that time I had a pretty good job, school was done, and I started buying here and there, did some "horse trading" for a couple of Day/dates a S/S Daytona (boy do I wish I had that one back!!) got into reps, of a roundabout, one of my friends wanted a Rolex, but couldn't afford a genuine. Back then, if you lived outside of the big cities, your only source was ads in the back of magazines. I found one, ordered the watch, got it and it was a pretty crappy rep, but he loved it! Didn't buy another one for around 10 years, by then the internet was in it's infancy,of course the scam sites were right behind the grand opening of the internet. I came across the old TRC, joined and pretty soon, I was into reps in a big way. Still am! Right now I have around 40 watches, about evenly balanced between reps and gens. Almost every rep watch I own has been modded.To me that's the fun of the whole deal. I love the hunt, finding parts, getting everything together and then enjoying the finished product.i will say reps
have come a looooong way from the first rep Rolex I bought way back years ago. The biggest positive with those older reps, was the movement. If you ordered an ETA movement, you got an ETA movement. It may have been dirty and dry, but you got what you paid for.
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