Ok, after much consideration and scouring of a couple of forums.... I broke my cherry
I ordered a Planet Ocean with Rubber strap from Andrew. I emailed him about a couple of watches and he was very helpful and pretty honest about certain quality differrences between Swiss and Asian. so I thought i would try this watch in Asian to see how the whole process takes shape before ordering anything else.
Already I can see that you are a passionate bunch with a lot of group morale. (Unlike my350z.com who i am also an avid member of. If you you post something dumb, the wolves desend quickly with the FAIL attacks).
I am a keen car modder, and am amazed by the whole franken thing.
BTW you all use to many TLA's (three letter acronims) I am lost in half of these threads (ETA?SMP?AR?) what is AR?
I'll let you know how the rest of my first buy goes soon.
And Hearts are DEF not the $hit call your brother a Jambo from me. he should know what that is