Hey Matty,
The only reasonable and logical solution to your problem is to buy them both and do a rather lengthy and detailed review of them with lots of mandatory pictures. Or your account will be deleted... hehehe j/k
Sorry can't help you there Matty as I'd probably buy them both and stare at them while you tune out your girlfriend's voice. Sorry couldn't help you there either. This hobby is a serious business. Welcome.
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I've thought about this as well. So far I haven't found a resolution yet. I'd like to find a watch smith that's rep friendly within the next few years so I can have a dependable individual service my reps. What I've seen so far though is that there aren't many rep friendly watch smiths around. So if I don't have any luck finding one in the next few years they'll just go unserviced or get the boot when they die. What other recourse do I have?
Welcome. If you can't find info about the watch you want here I really don't know where else you could. Great info here along with even better members.
Wait... brittt1 did you really buy one of those? If I may ask, how much did you pay for it? Also, can you just walk into a Seiko AD and buy one? Thanks and enjoy her.
If you've ever worked on a watches before a swap of an Asian 6497 clone with a Swiss version isn't too difficult, but if you've never done a swap before I'd suggest that you leave it to an expert. Good luck.
You know I really couldn't care less who wears what or doesn't wear what. I wear what I like, period. But it does get my juices flowing when I see someone famous wearing a watch I like though, especially some hot chic wearing a large men's watch. Now that's HOT!!!
Sometimes when I'm out helping my buddy coach his cubscout troop I gather the buggers around a circle, pull out my watch and say... "now let's syncronize watches". To this they look at me like I've been smoking the good stuff. You should see the looks on their faces.
I'm a lume freak so I lay all my watches under a light and charge up the lume. Then I turn the lights off and just stare at the awsome sight that is lume. I sometimes do this for 30 minutes.