Demsey

Quick question - Is it acceptable to jump straight in an approach a collector ( pulling the trigger?), or do you need to put in some groundwork and establish yourself on the scene first. Thing is, I have little to add at the moment, as I don't really have a decent watch to comment on.

Astute and considerate query. Back in the day, all of five years ago, I would have said 'yes'. As then it were more a covert, backroom enterprise. Today, it is more like a trip to the Tesco; web based sites like shopping Amazon.com. On the 'interboard' "Trading Zone" perhaps indeed you would need to establish a personal profile of trust to enter into a deal with another registered member. However, the 'collector's as you and the board term them, and the majority certainly are; of both replica and genuine pieces, are usually referred as 'dealers'. Simple free market jobbers. Your money is just as good as the member who has 6000+ posts and three years in. A visit to the "Watch Collector's Zone" and you are in the proverbial "Candy Shop", have at it. Certainly many registered members join, do their due diligence gleaning the infos here, make their own decisions, buy a piece, or two, or twenty, and never post.

However, you'll find that there are many subtle anomalies to 'similar' replicas, different grades of detail and function that are reflected in price. A quick and rash decision may leave you down, with certainly what you paid for, but not necessarily what you 'wanted'. At this point you may not even know what "what" is!. And too, the standard operating procedure among the many 'recommended' dealers is anything but. They all are legitimate (or they wouldn't be considered here @ RWG) but all tend their wares to their own set of personal guidelines and ethics with regard to 'trade'. There often exists a 'cultural' component. An open mind, thinking outside our own 'Western set standard' must be considered, yet, there are indeed dealers that reside Stateside, and too in U.K. You have to find a 'comfort zone'. This all takes time, and to do best by yourself, a lot of due diligence. That is the fun part. Discoveries, revelations, an incidental 'hunt' where you will stumble across particulars to the hobby you never dreamt, brands you never considered, and chararcters that will leave you in awe and inspired.

Kick and click around a while. They all come for the watches, but it is a WHOLE lot more. An then some.

Cheers!

Yes, then again, no.

"I've been to London, seen seven wonders. I know to trip is just to fall.

I used to rock it, sometimes I'd roll it. I always knew what it was for."

Robert Plant, The Rover

Great. The DW Daytona replicas are the most intriguing. Scary accurate. Stuff of legend should they be discontinued................................

It's frustrating coming into these great reviews as the '11th' reply, all the obvious compliments have been paid already, so at the sure risk of sounding trite and redundant;

Great review and comparison. I know how time consuming the photog can be, then to go the extra mile to be creative? Just great.

Eddy Lee was the Man back in the Days !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never a problem always a Gentleman .

Some say he is The Stick on Top Gear and Lives in the UK

Hi from Aruba to all the Old Timers from Back in the Day .

Kasi! What's up Chef!? What are you wheeling these days? Got Carrera?

How about Adam "chinatown" !!!

Bought my first rep from Neil (TTK) in 2004, but Eddie Lee was the One

Good call! Adam had a lot of good sources for rep jewellry Tiffany and the like if I remember correctly...........what's up 'omd'? I think I remember you........Mexico right?

If 'Tanfolio' can do it, anything is possible. Your kata must be strong!

JTB (accept no SUBSTITUTE...........your lies for fact I can see right through your plastic macI look all white, but my dad was black

My fine looking suit is really made out of sack)

Wicked awesome.

Don't forget to get your pets spayed and neutered!

OMG I laughed.

I remember that smoke filled room when a plan was hatched not that long ago. I remember the naysayers who said it couldn't work. I remember Thomas's courage to take on another board but most of all I remember the hard work and dedication of my old friends at RWG.

Looks like the plan worked......big time. Kudos to everyone.

Special shout out for Ken whose enthusiastic approach was what kept many of us believing.

JTB

Not much to add, aside; yes, Ken is the best 'sort', and it just looks cool to follow a JTB post. Image is everything.

HOGAN!

Sorry H, couldn't resist, it's an old inside joke.......................

Welcome and have some fun. 'Tis.

Still running strong:

Hey Doc!

One of the nicest 16520 sec @ 9 on the boards. The 'full gold' does a good job of camouflaging the subdial issues. Share where you sourced, there was a post here recently inquiring as to where the older issue Daytonas could be found....................

Here you go!

Serious replica jealousy going on D. What a great piece! I would covet that over a DW 6263. Never let that one go........................

For the noobs, some pics of the gen (not mine, I wish!)

a gen Solid caseback and correct Gen bracelet clasp to finish it off...

Wow, that's the ballz. Gimme a pic from the backside................solid. Yeah.

Starting off with the old school Speedy Moon for Friday

Could you share some particulars of this watch D ? Seems plexi-dome, frozen sub @ 6? Solid case back? This must be an old, old purchase. I hesitated back in the day buying one with the aforementioned particulars, now it seems all that is offered are the slaved Venus/Seagull bi-compax mvnt. with flat sapphire, off colour markers, and see-thru caseback.................

Still this watch;

I don't seem to change watches as often as the median membership. I usually wear one until it gets well beat up (weeks/months), then a buff out, rebrush, polish, and back in the gun safe..................

LUXURY! Ay...we dreamed of having a box...and if only I could have had 4' of snow to call my own.

Back in my day, we had to walk to across the country over to the ocean in order to bring back the water in the pockets of our trousers. We'd then spend all night in our wet trousers outside until they froze and we had enough ice that we could make the snow in order to have something to shovel. And did we have shovels? No...we had to use the backs of our hands.

Methinks we have hijacked Andy's thread

Of course in my day we didn't have threads we made our pants from dried weeds.

Ken

OMG I laughed. Hard.

Young kids don't know how easy they have it. Back in my day, we had to clear off 4' of snow with our toothbrushes and barefoot, 10 minutes before we woke up.

You had feet? Sheer luxury. Our father took our feet when we were born, and pawned them to pay the mortgage for the box we lived in. In the middle of the high street. Under 4' of snow. Snow, or as it was referred; 'dinner'.

At first I thought you had just returned from the Hajj. If you consider the comparison to the Windy City, I think you probably maximized your vacation dollar.

Good post!

................. aint no one here that can cut through a steel bracelet with a razor blade!

I think 'redbigjoe69' did that one time. One time.

So if he'd been wearing a Patek we could have been spared many years of cinematic misery?

Remember that grainy 'nightvision' porn film with Paris Hilton? The dude was Jetmid. Wearing his Patek. If you don't belive me Google the mpeg and watch it. It's an underrated piece of cinematography. I went through all the emotions; laughing, laughing really hard, laughing until I pee'd myself. Like the first time I reviewed 'Eraserhead'. Great, great, stuff.

Don't buy a souless 'quartz' watch. They will ban you if you do. Or at the very least; laugh at you from behind the velvet rope of the VIP room.

Buy a Rolex Submariner w/21j Asian movement.

Someone bumped an old thread from 06 regarding Eddie Lee. This was the first replica I bought, sourced from EL. I haven't worn it it years, but thinking of EL and the old days it's seeing some sun light.

As an 'out-of-the-box' '04 rep it has serious flaw with regard to today's standard, especially considering the company in this thread, on this site, but, for the personal history on these boards it represents I wouldn't trade it for anything less than a genuine. Even then it would be a push.

My first replica, bought from EL in '04, still reeling from getting stung by 'onlinereplicastore.com'.

Still runs well, I think I'll break her out for the mid-week wristie thread...................

lol, as a once bitten twice shy noob I sent him about four leading emails trying to suss out his legitimacy........................after a while he got fed up and wrote;

"Noob, buy a watch or not buy a watch, it's all the same to me, I have a 1680 replica, you do not." I laughed out loud and ordered. I used to love when my watches got hung up by customs ordering from EL. It meant a string of PM's and emails that would leave me in stitches. I always got my watch at no extra premium other than the contracted 'deal'. Ever.

Remember the old days? With dealers like TTK, Eddie, Efren, River, Scotty? There we no 'Perfect Clones', 'Abay e-shop', web sites, just photobucket albums or posts in GD of RWG. You approached dealers by email and asked them kindly if they could source you a watch, like you were asking for a favor, which you were, they were taking all the risk. Worst case; you may be out the cost of a dinner. Them? Hate to think. It turns my stomach all this talk as of late with "Consumer Advocates for Contraband", boycotts of cartels, consumer leverage en masse`, phooey.

Anyhoo, this thread is about EL. A lot of names in here of folk I remember but have since lost track of. It's a good thread.

"GREEN! Mon dieu!

At a 71% coverage of Ocean, why do they even call this planet Earth? I hope catastrophic global warming reclaims the globe to the Dolphins and Whales. Then they can call it what they want.

Nice watch.

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiize.............

My second replica purchased. Dealer Eddie Lee, 2004, ETA/TWB LV, upgraded WM insert. Horrible CG's. Never serviced, goes in and out of C.O.S.C Hmmmmm.................

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Watch Material............

Nice Vach 'billkuk' ! 'Vacheron Constantin' A gentlemen's watch for men!

Quite the role model for them.

Other failed marketing attempts;

Che` wore a GMT Master