cornerstone

So who do you pick to score?

lol!

This is all a nice warm up for the main event this summer....

....yes, I'm talking about the Scottish Cup final. C'mon Gretna!

The Hammers were FA-CUP in Winners in 1964, 1975, 1980

Aye, but a few of those players have retired....

Poor little West Ham. It's like pitting a hamster against a tiger. And then have everyone pick on the hamster...

It was a sting!

why is a powerseller with 2000 feedback selling such a low quality replica and risk getting banned?

Exactly - why I suspected that they guy himself didn't really know too much about it. Even so, he must have suspected.

Item has been since been cancelled BTW.

Glad you made the effort though! Rushing is the difficult bit, but the adventure is the fun bit!

I've been to this area of Bangkok before - all the talk of your plans made me hunger for another visit!

You're right though. You've got to be canny on the street and in the markets - suffice it to say that they always saw you coming - and they're great at what they do (fleece you). This applies in a lot of stores in the Far East, not just when buying reps (tailors, electrical stores, 'antiques' - any tourist trap). The dealers take that crap on your behalf!

[Oh god - you had me worried there about what kind of picture you were about to put up!! A horse...or a shower!!]

Incredibly, the suburb he lives in doesn't even have a McDonalds....

Yeah, all the best brands plastic wrap their watches these days - keeps 'em fresh!

I'm not sure that the seller hasn't been a little bit stooged himself - seems to sell an interesting array of "antique" crap (sort of antiques Steptoe and Son might keep!).

Don't mind this though:

NSW Fire Helmet - Might help me look more refined down at Woolworths....

BTW: if anyone ever wants to find the guy - he probably looks a wee bit like this:

Seriously lol....!!!

hehe...

"Taking your rep Rolex to fool an expert is a bit like..."

....telling a stable girl you're hung like a horse!

Aye, so things are getting a bit heated in a couple of other threads - people posting reps on gen forums, and (troll talk?) tales of school trips to the local Rolex dealer. (This internet is a dangerous place - are there now schoolchildren posing as grown-ups to 'groom' us adults?!)

Anyway didn't really want to take these threads OT. [On a personal note, my perspective is that it's a bit mean-spirited to do anything that detracts from the pleasure that anyone gets from owning the genuine article - just as surely as I wouldn't appreciate them trying to get up my nose by suggesting I am some kind of lesser human for not owning one.]

"WHERE IS THE HUMOUR?" You plead......

Okay, this is the game:

"Taking your rep Rolex to fool an expert is a bit like..."

....taking out your fake [censored] and rubbing them in a plastic surgeon's face.

You get the idea....

I think we're seeing a lot of demand here for the next step.....modding it!

Great ideas: Google earth (tell the time as you zoom into your back yard), global warming-o-meter, snow globe, stars!!

But do you think it would be too much to add an orbiting moon?!

Hehe...it would be nice to be able to swap them over on a long haul flight! Although, of course, the true aficionado wears two of these watches at a time - one of top of the wrist, one underneath

Looking at the pic, Antartica does seem to dominate southern hemisphere watch; damn geography.

On a (silly) medical note - if you pull your jumper down over this watch I think you could pull off a great impression of a ganglion cyst!

Funnily enough it seems they thought of everything...

I think the minute hand is that red dot.

But even better - the original packaging contains a kit....to turn it into a desk clock! Smart cookies.

You tell the time by looking at your location on the globe and reading the number on the outside rim of the watch underneath.

In other words, on the east coast of the US, in the picture below, it would be about 8:30 or 9:00 AM. It's hard to tell at that angle.

Fred

That explains it! Thank you!

It's actually quite a good way to tell the time around the world - would be better perhaps on a desk though.

Mind you, I wouldn't want to boil an egg with this thing! Err, your egg's ready when Afghanistan hits where western Turkmenistan is right now!

Exactly - I'm not sure I would wear it - but I kind of wish someone else at the dinner party (yeah, right - pub) would!

River's Turning Globe Watch

Wow - it's certainly a conversation piece!

There is, I should add, another WS-1 model with the earth the other way up - for those of us that are that way inclined

Magic - thanks!

Yes!

Ex-Scotland too!

Ah, thanks for the kind words.

Actually, here's a question for all the folk that are into Lange's. I was looking at Gunnar's link last night and eventually gravitated to the Lange website, and realised that there are no official outlets (meaning nowhere you can buy a gen Lange with a warranty I think) in Australia, New Zealand or Japan. But there is an official outlet in Kazakhstan.

What is that all about? I'm delighted for Kazakhstan (really), but does that not strike you all as odd?

Being a bit more cheeky, perhaps there is a gap in the market for an official dealer in these countries - for RWG & Co !!

I hear what you're saying. They're not good 'replicas', and they don't look as good as the real thing.

On the bright side, the reps that are out there are gorgeous watches in their own right - and for a forty grand price difference I can just about bring myself to forgive the differences

I started out looking for genuine watches at the high-end jewellers (not uber-end), you know the sort of range (Omega, Rolex & co), and wasn't really taken with anything. I don't really like 'flash' and prefer leather straps. There was a Longines watch I didn't mind, but you need a bit more enthusiasm to spend a fair bit of money like that.

Then I saw my first photo of a Lange (online)....

Couldn't afford a real one, obviously, but I'm utterly chuffed to bits with my rep. My point is, I think my rep is better looking than all the gens I saw when I was out shopping. So from that perspective I win.

Sadly, I don't see the Lange reps getting better any time soon. Because the movements aren't available like with other brands, they will never pass close inspection. And because of this there is no demand for them at the high-end of the rep market, and without the demand I don't think you get the effort being made to improve them in other areas, if you know what I mean.

But bottom line - beautiful watches.

Magic link - thank you. Off to read about it now.