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Whatever123

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  3. Friday Wristies

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    Ohhhhhh....... now that is very, very tasty!!!!! :thumbsupsmileyanim: I would definitely like to hear more about that beauty please :D

    It's a Sinn 903 ST, the Sinn "Navitimer". Actually it's not really just a "Navitimer-clone", it's got a little history of it's own: When the company Breitling was sold in 1979, the model rights and Navitimer production leftovers were sold to Sinn Watches in Germany. The continued to build this model and still do.

  5. buy lots cheap, or a few expensive?

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    I'm new at this but I suspect it plays out like many 'collectibles' hobbies or gear passions. Initially, you're like a kid in a candy store and you want to try everything so you buy a variety of low end products and start getting your feet wet. Over time, as you become more informed, you also become more opinionated and tend to ween the low-end stuff your collection, perhaps going for quality over quantity. In time, the fixation may wain and you end up with one or two top quality (if it's time pieces, probably gens) that serve as your workhorse, everything else either sold or gathering dust in the back of your sock drawer.

    However, I'm not suggesting that you jump straight to a high-end gen - it's the journey, not the destination.

    Myself, I'm still in the candy store stage and I'm enjoying owning and learning about a variety of watches. I can see myself buying a really nice gen some day, but at this time I'm not ready (sufficiently educated or opinionated) to make that plunge.

    Well said, mate! I second that... I'm in the later stage and got rid of most of my reps to fund some nice gens. I think I will never have more than10 watches at a time because I wear only 2 or 3 in rotation and the rest collects dust...

    Right now I'm in selling mode again and will probably downsize to 6 or 7 watches.

  13. Tropic 127 without cyclops?

    in The Rolex Area

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    I haven't seen any plexi cyclopses yet - but you don't really see the difference. When I had the mineral crystal cyplops glued on the plexi it looked perfectly right. I couldn't see or even feel a difference.

    I might try again with another cyclops - maybe it was just bad luck that the plexi cracked...

  23. Tropic 127 without cyclops?

    in The Rolex Area

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    Good job bro....This looks nice. You know one feature I've always noticed about the 1680 is how bold the date is compared to the modern ones. The date fills the window. I'm wondering if the crystal needs to be taken down just a little at the base. Thoughts?

    You mean it doesn't look magnified enough atm? Yes, maybe a tiny bit compared to gen pictures I saw. Anyway, it's good enough for me. I'm even not sure if I leave the cyclops on the crystal, I actually liked it better without I think...

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