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  7. Seiko.....woooooohoooo

    in General Discussion

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    ok i'm hooked! 

    It's so great to see after all there is a brand that doesn't need you to be rich to get the entry level watches, and they are beautiful! You can find great great items between 400 and 900$...  

    And they're not too much repped no? AND it's Panda dials heaven! 

     

     

     

     

     

    (i just tipped "panda watch" in Ebay: 

     

     

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  8. Seiko.....woooooohoooo

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    Posted · Edited by whoever

    Thanks for all these great comments! 

     

    So, do i understand i right, Seiko's are actually a great value and a great start to mod ? 

     

    M. there are various versions of the panda, which one do are you looking for? I am me to a huge Panda fan....and always poking for a better solution to my crap version of a speedmaster panda for 90$ with a crooked Omega insigna and and and....etc all is crooked! ;) 

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  10. Blancpain Fifty Fathoms (preview)

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    I see what's happening here......

    "Hey did you hear? The new Blacpain FF is gonna be about $500"

    All the various fora, reply "$500...Jeez, that' a lot of greenbacks, not sure i'll be paying that"

    A week or so later and the word on the street (surprise surprise) is that the new FF is actually gonna be $800

    "Spread the word....The new FF is gonna be $800"

    Sooooooo....everyone then thinks.."Well actually $500  big ones ain't so bad"

     

    ...and that my friends is how it goes........lol

    hhahahahaha

     

    Touché!

  12. Seiko.....woooooohoooo

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    While looking for a 50 fathom hommage i stepped over these beauties! I didn't know Seiko made these beautiful watches!!!!! :fool:  :crazy:
     

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    Is Seiko gaining value these last decades? I've been surprise to see some of their models at more then 1K.....(not these in the pics)

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  15. rate the last movie you've seen!

    in The looney bin

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    I'll start, just watched it and can say that besides full metal jacket this was the best Vietnam movie I've seen!

    "Rescue dawn" dir. Werner Herzog 2006

    Pretty much beautiful and so god damn well played by Christian Bale and others!

    True story of an air force pilote gunned down over Laos and emprisonned by the north vietnamese.

    Run and watch it!

  23. what about the price of the audemars piquet reps?

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    I would probably attribute the higher cost to the following:

    1) Unconventional design and materials relative to other reps

    The case, lugs, dial etc are quite different compared to subs and pams and all that. That added, AP reps are one of the few reps that incorporate things like rubber bezels, ceramics, DLC RG plating, hornback (albeit crappy) straps

    However, some people may notice that there are other reps that share similar unconventional characteristics but are cheaper, eg. Hublot, Richard Millle. I guess that's because -

    2) Sec@12 movement

    While the cost of the modifications of the A7750 for sec@12 configuration may be negligible, it is worth noting that the movement is (was) only available to Noob factory. How common this movement was is anyones guess, but it wouldn't be surprising if the extra cost came from high demand vs low supply of the movement. This brings us to the 3rd reason

    3) Noob monopoly on AP

    Ever since the first decent AP ROO rep by Noob came out around 2008, there has been no other factories who has made or even tried to make anything close to the quality of the Noob ROO. Again, this was probably due to the movement being only available to them, with no other factories bothering to make a decent rep of the ROO without the proper sec@12 configuration. As such, Noob was probably able to dictate the prices of the ROOs however they wanted. This is hopefully going to end very soon with a new seemingly very accurate ROO being made by v3 maker along with the sec@12 movement.

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    thanks for that, quite clear!

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