Vuggy

Grate thanks, yes I realize it's not going to be very realistic but all it has to do is look decent from about 6 feet away. Nobody will be holding it.

Hi, I'm looking for an inexpensive all-yellow-gold Rolex under 40mm, such as a DayDate, DateJust, Oyster, etc.

I've narrowed it down to these two Day-Dates... which would you get (don't say neither )?

38mm with Sapphire crystal, 21J - $88

http://www.timesshop.net/10049-ro4850-rolex-day-date-full-yg-gold-dial-asian-21j-automatic.html

or

36mm with Mineral crystal, 21J - $108

http://www.watcheden.net/rolex-day-date-automatic-full-gold-with-golden-dial-i-15183-p-1.html

Is the second one worth $20 more, even with the inferior crystal? If I recall the 36mm is the more accurate size than the 38mm, or is that wrong? I like the white background of the day & date on the second one more than the yellowish background of the first one -- is either one more accurate?

Thanks very much! I have two subs from timesshop but need an all-gold cheap Rolex asap.

1. Super Sea Dweller.

How can they replace the beautiful, attractive classic Dweller with this mumbo-jumbo watch? I tried on the genuine yesterday and it's utterly terrible, with all those cheap gimmics. The only thing missing was a radio antenna suddenly popping up from somewhere. It's been popular replica on the forum though.

People who post on forums like huge watches for some reason. I'm learning this more and more. Perhaps people who post on forums are all extremely large people? Anyway, even if you like huge watches, the bracelet on the DSSD is tiny in comparison and looks weird.

The entire ceramic line is crap, IMHO.

3. ROLEXROLEX rehaut engraving.

Now that was just plain stupid idea. It destroys the smooth and beautiful rehaut shine.

This was an anti-counterfeiting measure, pure and simple. And so far it has worked. Rep rehaut printing is terrible.

4. Fat lugs on the classic Submariner.

This is like the Porsche 911 -> 966 transformation. Water cooled engine and Boxster headlights. Purists say NO. Porsche quickly moved back to the traditional headlights later. People say how the clasp has been improved and blahblah. The fact is that you can't update perfection.

I agree, now the nice lines of the Rollies look like a square cracker.

5. Yacht-Master II.

Maybe the ugliest watch Rolex has ever made.

Totally agree.

I'm just about to trade in my blackberry fo' an iphone

she needs to load her revolver is what she needs

You know what, I don't even care about the back, they could use a hand-wind movement. Nobody's going to see it anyway. But I don't understand why they can't or won't bother repping the dial and the watch in general (accurately!) It would be easy and it's one of the highest class watches in history. World leaders have been wearing it for 80 years.

Come on, how hard is it to rep this????????

I mean, if they can rep this horrible thing.....

...surely they can rep something as simple as a Patek Calatrava..

There's something I kind of dig about the turn-o-graph (other than the name). It's sort of the "missing link" between the dress rollies and the sport rollies. I wouldn't say it's a beautiful watch, but it's definitely eye-catching.

That's one beefy wrist

Here is the break down of what Rolex charged me for my full service a couple of years ago on my 2001 116610 Sub. ...................

That's quite a story, good service but you're paying for it.

Pam man eh?.....

But dude, what are you going to wear when you're 12000 feet below the surface?

So if you send it to rolex service centers and pay, say, $1000 a pop every five years for the next 30 years (amt includes inflation), rolex makes almost as much off you after the sale as they do on selling you the watch itself.

And, if your child dies tragically in his teens, you get to keep all the watches!

Cartier Tank, no question the broads love 'em.

The last line of his post was not required unless for one reason. Thats where the topic takes a whole new meaning.

You am so cynical

I have to admit I donut understand the appeal of putting this much work into a frankenrepgen. To me, the beauty of reps is that you get something for nothing (or at least nearly nothing).

well all these shenanigans thwarted my attempt at a purchase, and while I was waiting I saw something on the bay and spent my money on it, so yeah they do have an effect.

Probably whenever t-shirts go out of style.

I don't think I agree with that. T-shirts are cheap and simple, big watches are expensive and gaudy. Kind of like these were:

And the most disturbing thing about them? The people who wore them thought they looked great. Incrementalism breeds monsters.

When I try to talk people out of spending much money on big watches, I feel like I'm back in the 1970s talking a friend out of spending $thousands on wide lapels and bell-bottom trousers. It's a losing battle until a decade later people stumble upon my posts and go "Hmm, why could Vuggy see the cycle and nobody else could?"

If you have huge wrists, then fine you should probably be wearing big watches. But if you don't, yet you think that big watches "look good" for some reason that you can't quite comprehend, you're just like those poor shmucks who bought into the 6-inch-wide tie phenomenon in 1976 because everybody else was doing it. I don't know how else to say it, and the fact that more people don't understand it makes me very nervous.

I agree that Rolexes are the best reps for the buck at this time. Simply because they're so popular and have been for so long, rep 'factories' have gotten pretty good at generating them.

So the question now is: where will it end? Just as bell-bottoms died a crashing death in 1979, when will folks go back to the under-40mm watches of, well, basically the entire 20th century? Will it take a double-dip recession to do it?

My theory is that the more irrelevant wristwatches become (due to basically everything else in our lives having a clock on it--ipods, phones, DVD players, cars, computers) the larger they will become. Because they no longer have much functional value, they now inhabit a place that is pure ornament. And with men, anything that becomes pure ornament--hence a status signalling device--gets bigger and bigger and bigger.

Like this

Hard to believe this article is almost a decade old:

NOTICED; Telling Time Is Not Enough: Some Watches Stop Traffic

By WARREN ST. JOHN

Published: March 24, 2002

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/24/style/noticed-telling-time-is-not-enough-some-watches-stop-traffic.html

Unfortunately the rep is 40mm whereas the gen is 36mm. Sux

great for those with 11" wrists!