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Neill, another oneliner to be written in historybooks.....

Congrats Andy, I think it is a twowaystreet for every member, sharing knowledge, fun and( a few beers in Brussels....

Sorry, I know only workrelated examples so I don't know if it can be compared to your question about sponsored reviews I have a client owning a publishingbusiness for professional photographymagazines. Whenever a new camera, lens,printer ect is launched, they get the item to test it and review. Sometimes they can keep the stuff just to say tnx for their time. A friend of mine writes for computermags, same story there. There is a Professional Photographyacademy here where a few studyrooms are totally sponsored by the big brands, ie Canon,Nikon ect. Their name is on all the walls and that means the students will by the brand more easily, that's what marketing is all about isn't it? In your case I am sure the review would have been the same if the dealer send you the watch without you knowing his/her name but would that be interesting for the dealer? I don't think so....... Would be totally unbiased though if the dealers send watches for review to the admin for example and he /she would send it to the reviewer anonymously?

I don't think anyone here is questioning Pug's integrity besides a few cinics and there's nothing wrong with personal opinions. Like I said earlier, in almost all branches items to be reviewed are send to the reviewers and afterwards returned. In some cases the items are given as appreciation for work done, no matter a positive or negative review. Just to thank for the time invested. Here we are not only talking about our hobby. For us as collectors we do but for some dealers it is pure business in my personal opinion so a positive review will raise sales....... So whether it is biased or not, we as members will draw our own conclusions and will or won't buy... The reviews from the guys with more watchknowledge such as Pugwas, By-Tor, The Zigmeister ect are always interesting to me but I also read every other review of a watch I'm interested in whoever wrote it

great watch Pat, looks awesome, this will be my next buy......

good work Frank

congrats m8, magnificent watch and coating, good buy

great shot pix, I like the background with the building in ambient light

Isn't it always a personal opinion from the reviewer? Sponsored reviews, a good marketingpoint. No matter who writes the review there will always be a cloud of bias over it. If you want to avoid that, don't do it I like the idea of Eddy, a dealer just sends the watch for review and get it returned after that... By-Tor doesn't review watches he doesn't like, that's an hobest point of view. Every review can be linstructive to all of us, no matter who wrote it.

looks like a gen, compare it to the gens on www.breitling.com or pics of gens

Hope your account will not get frozen Pug, but I wonder what would happen if someone bought or sells a gen part of a Breitling/IWC or whatever.. would they then freeze it too? Strange organization PP...

somehow it doesn't appeal to me, I think because the layout doesn't look ok

beautiful piece for a first buy Doc, congrats m8

Hi Andr

nice explanation Lanakai and Taka, very informative, tnx

looks spot on m8, congrats

make a fake receipt or ask your dealer to mail you one for a toywatch or fakewatch worth 30 dollars, send the receipt to customs and pick up your watch Let us know how it went Good luck bro..

Good tip T, another thing learned here...

Imagine 400.000 people on Den Haag CS or anywhere, it would be chaos too...... I feel for those people, it's the only time to visit there relatives once a year

Ow, this sounds serious bro. Did you have contact with PT, what did he say? Tnx The Zigmeister, another thing learned.

wow, very nice, welcome to Panatime

good tip Carl, laserengraving would certainly work on this

Tnx m8

mine took 14 days from CN to Europe, it arrived while tracking said it was still in Shanghai...wahaha

uhuhuhuhhhhhhuh??? from Andrew???