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Hindsight is 20/20 and watches index inflation really well so at the time I thought I was doing quite well for myself. The money I made flipping them allowed me to continue buying new watches. I would never have been able to afford all the watches if I kept them all.

This is going to turn into a picture dump and after I"ll attach stories to each watch. First Watch I ever bought White Dialed Gen SOSF. Sold it and bought it again and have since sold it Old new Then I owned a black dialed AP millenary, still wish I never sold it as they are really hard to find at a good price Next was a Gen Breguet XX Ti Chrono that a beat the heck out of for about 5 years and then sold it for what I paid for it 5 years ago. Gotta love Gen Watches for holding their value Up next was a grand Seiko quartz that I bought for cheap and sold for breakeven and to this day regret selling it. I can't find one for less than double what I sold it for. Bought a Rep Vacheron which had been completely redone with a lumed dial and the cross placed in the correct spot. I once again should have never sold this watch. Custom Yggdrisail (sp?) painted dial of the back of a watch movement that I had custom made. Wish I hadn't sold it. I wonder who has it now? REP Omega Broadarrow AND it had the engraving on the movement REP Hublot Big Bang Tuiga Girlfriend at the time (now wife) got me this Seiko Spring drive 600m which is an incredible feat of engineering. one of my biggest regrets ever was getting rid of this RXW Plasmir. If anyone has one that is willing to sell let me know. Rep Dewitt Academia that I have now owned 3 different times. Keep coming back to this watch. I wish the gen wasn't so outrageously expensive for what it is. but the rep's crown would dig into my wrist something fierce. I bought the tools from Andrew to change the strap and to get at the caseback but even with a new croc strap the crown issue always had me selling the watch. REP Roxex GMT II that I bought at Kowloon while in HK .its sooooo crappy but the experience was so fun REP Panerai 229 Firenze, with a gorgeous blue dial that wasn't purple. I replaced the crystal with a newer Cartel Crystal and it looked fantastic, but because the dial was a 2 piece the datewheel was recessed and I couldn't get over that so I Sold it. Fantasy Franck Mullet Tourbillon. This didn't last long as the movement was obnoxiously loud Cool custom Pilot watch from the guy who wound up making the LUM-Tec brand Had a REP Chopard MM panda that didn't last very long. Great watch, lume was fantastic but was heavy and thick Rep Breitling Skyline Avenger that didn't last very long on the wrist MBW/MBK aquanaut which led me to buy a Gen 5066A but I Can't find the pictures (Place Holder for GEN Patek 5066A) Gen Ebel chrono, bought it for cheap and was going to turn it into a Franken 16520 but wound up flipping it REP PAM 112 Little Hero MBW/MBK Rolex DRSD liked it, but didn't love it Next was a Gen Ulysse Nardin Maxi marine. I owned this watch previously for about 3 weeks, went to vegas, got drunk and left it outside the pool when we all went for a 4am swim, never got it back. So I bought another one. Old New Got this Gen Tag Heuer Grand Carrera Tourneau Special Edition that I had for maybe a month before selling it to a friend Franken Rolex 1675 bought it from someone who took a cartel 1655 reshaped the case and put a gen bezel and gen dial. Love this watch Gen JLC Moonphase tried but I always feel dumb with gold watches. Gen JLC REVERSO SUN/MOON still can't do the gold watch GEN Rolex 16750 TT Brown dial with brown bezel. I posted a thread about how I bought it on a whim off crappy pictures on e-bay and had it fixed up and the bracelet sent to Michael Young to get refurbished and this is how it came out. Made a pretty penny on it but probably should have kept it. Franken PAM 024A I enjoyed it while I had it, but couldn't get over the crappy DSN pearl and couldn't find one of the old school cartel cases so I sold it. Gen PAM 024G Loved it but just didn't quite do it for me. Gen PAM 072 Loved this watch but found myself never actually wearing it so off it went to a new home Tried a PAM 121 but that didn't stick either. It was untouched when I bought it and couldn't bring myself to wear it out at all. White Dialed Heuer Monza. Impuse buy while at Seregens fine time in SF. got it for a decent price. Only stayed with me for about 6 months and I sold it. Bought this Blancpain Perpetual calendar in white gold and flipped it when I should have kept it as this was the perfect dress watch, the prospect of making a lot of money in only a week kept me from doing so. REP PAM 201A build, with WOLF case, LH CG, FGD Dial, JAkob Caseback My baby my custom made PBDad Milsub GMT rolex I love it My gen 16800 that the wife got me whose serial matches up pretty close to my birth year Glashutte Senator Chrono Limited

Guy has gone on every rep forum and posted this.....

I think I am going to attempt this. You are the man for showing me how.

Do you really need the money? It will do a really good job indexing inflation over the years. I'd just lock it up in a Safe Deposit box and check back in 25 years and sell it for my retirement.

man freddy, i'd probably drop some serious coin on that if you ever decided to sell that albino

Yeah and they came out with this one as well.

99.999% positive that's not a rep.

(Picture was awful so I'll take a better one tomorrow when there is good light)

Its funny, there are those that treat watches as a status symbol and those that are true lovers of Horology. When I lived in NYC and approached people I was acquainted with regarding their watches, I have had utter douchebags wearing AP's, Panerai's and Rolex's make condescending comments about whatever gen I had on my wrist, all were done out of ignorance and many times my watch was worth more than theirs. Similar conversations have resulted in me trying on 50k+ Patek's and ALS's. It truly depends on the person and why they are wearing the watch.

I'm interested

That's what the guys wife said.

Wow they did a great job! I don't know what the extent of the damage was, but it doesn't sound too unreasonable

A watch like that deserves better than cell phone pics.....

Why would you not warn him if its a friend?

Christ you opened an account just so you could complain? WTF is wrong with some people. THis is a COMMUNITY not a F#@%ing forum to [censored] and moan that your counterfeit good hasn't arrived in time.

pardon my ignorance, but what are these scratch pens?

I have had now 5 priority packages shipped out that have taken about 7 days to reach people. I have had 2 shipped to me that have taken the same amount of time. I have a watch coming in from Australia that reached the US on the 9th and still hasn't been released. Granted my sample size of 8 is small but i'm starting to think I'll be shipping FedEx from now on. Anyone else been having these problems?

newest pickup... I'm pretty excited.

Just bought a super nice example from the forum (a wolf case) and I'm floored by how awesome it is. Fantastic build.

How does that give them plausible deniability? I thought the words Authentic Panerai Strap would imply that it is genuine.

Really Really Really awesome. I always thought the triple zeros were super cool. Fantastic build.

Not quite Friday yet for me but wore this out to dinner.