Legend

Dear Andrew Thank you, I am humbled. For your dial, can you please send a close up so that we can see and diagnose the problem better? Thanks A! Nothing that chicken soup and coffee can't solve brother.. I'll be on my way shortly.

Ah, its so enviable, lucky you! Are those iguanas free-roaming and are the beaches pretty? Lastly, is it a safe vacation spot for the family? Speaking of which, I haven't seen goodfella log on for a while now... hmmm..

Hahaha so for every 1 noob that registers, 1.5 do not know about the existence of this thread. I have a feeling you are going to be good stuff around here. :

She looks good to go.. perfectly aligned tachy/dial, reasonably healthy movement, no visible scratches and dings, bezel screws aligned well. The only problem I see is that she is going on your wrist, not mine. congrats, and enjoy her.

Dear Andrew Thank you for your kind comments. To be honest, I think that my humor was ill-applied after reading your cultured response to my obviously exaggerated satire... I did not mean any offense to the owners of the 44mm ROO blue dial, such as your good self. My only thought was to advise the OP, with whom I have become fairly acquainted with. So my apologies for the insensitivity, to you and whoever owns the watch. As a watch, it is definitely very nice looking, like the Micheal Schumacher series. My main gripe about this watch is the dial, or specifically, the white second-counter ring around the dial, just before the tachy. It is crudely printed, with incorrect spacings all around. The white base makes this flaw more obvious and it is based on this, and this alone, that I told the OP to reconsider his ever fickle choices (2014 safari today, 44mm RG tomorrow.... you get the drift) I can still be wrong, and have been on several occasions, and my opinion on the ROO is to be taken as my personal view, and my view here has equal weight to yours I think, as views can be rather subjective. So I appreciate and respect your opinion on the watch as much as you graciously allowed for mine. Thank you kindly. I was just being flippant and messing with the OP in my earlier post. My apologies to you if it caused any offence, it is never my intention to cause others to take umbrage when reading my posts.

I wouldnt exactly consider deliberately pushing a frog off a cliff, stupid as it may be to be dancing along the edge in the first place, "a little nudge". Yes there was a crowd wanting the same thing. But there was a prominent hand that pushed the little nincompoop over finally.. But yes, you have no idea how much fun it has been for me to go read the posts exchanged all over, and see a classic example of an idiot being PWNED. What really amused me was how the crowd would not stop kicking after the frog has been gagged and bound and ready for the frying pan. And again, you were the one casting the largest rocks. RWG has suddenly become alive again, in addition to becoming superlatively entertaining. For that, I thank you and the guys who threw the rocks. I never knew that mob justice could be manifested with such comic vigor.

Said the man who relentlessly tracked, hunted and stomped on the carcass of an amphibian without any compunction.

You sir, are a rare breed. This thread was made for noobs, but I think you must be one of the 3 noobs who bothered to drop by to read it. Welcome to RWG. I am impressed already.

The stuff you mentioned, did not exist prior to the kingfrog episode, and watching you relentless decimate the amphibian even when he is close to his demise, has had some inspirational effect on me. I have no wish to join kingfrog in the netherworld yet please. To be fair, The fair prince of Alaska mentioned only the about how you guys went back way back, and told me to take lessons subtly.

which means that I will eventually be banned by him. Have mercy O great one.

Eh? I mentioned phantom, snowking and troll-lord, and something tells me you were referring to phantom. That's easy sir. I heard about the phantom from the snowking.

I was about to do the facepalm thing brother, but I realized that you probably know that its not real platinum OK here's short and sweet advice: Don't bother with the blue dial 44mm ROO mate. The dial can be called out about 19.6miles away, by a half-blind goblin who isn't even looking at the dial. Besides, the sheen of platinum in real life is unmistakable once you know what it looks like. Wait for the J12 GP series, and get that platinum one if you like. The blue is a lot sharper. You can then try again to ask about plating the case in real platinum, I think the jeweller in unicorn land performs that service Now, don't say I did not try to help. Good luck mate!

Fine, you leave me with no choice Mr P. I have an innate urge to prove my independence fiercely. I am sending Mike a PM.

POTR does not stand for P*nis Of The Racehorse. Uh uh. No sir.

If that privilege is accompanied by appointing you as "official QC pics advisor for Noobs", then I guess I'll accept. Misery loves company.

That, was truly hilarious. You owe me the 1/4 cup of tea I spilled while reading your post. Lol

YOU! One of the poison posse, who keeps telling me "Bro you need to get this and that Rolex, go read up on the history, once you go down the Rolex road you'll never turn back." But its true mate.. I am really feeling it..I want to go out and buy myself a GMT 2 now. That idiot Folex isn't helping either. Anyway, just in case i still get those PMs, who DOES have the best sub please? AP in this case, would hopefully be Awesome P*nis.

can we go twice?

I got the best alarm clock. The alarm sounds can be programmed as bird tweets, rhino grunts, or noobs screaming "who's got the best sub!" in a highly nasal voice. Sent from Mars using tapatalk

I had no idea, that the phantom and the snowking were level 100 troll-lords. Sent from Mars using tapatalk

Well, Mr Phantom, I think Nanuq does if you really have to know. Sent from Mars using tapatalk

I'll be surprised if my very taciturn friend replies to you lol Sent from Mars using tapatalk

Dear Newbies, Thank you for your PMs. In 4 days, I have received about 9 PMs from 9 newbies asking me, variously, who has the best sub, best GMT, best Omega Seamaster, best Asian fare in Singapore. I do sincerely apologize for ignoring each and every single one of the PMs, and for the guy asking me about the best Asian fare in Singapore without leaving a name or having the courtesy of even a brief introduction, the answer would be "Come to Singapore, and you will become the best Asian fare. A salient percentage of us are secret cannibals, and we love exotic foreign flesh". To the rest of you asking about where the mysterious "best sub" can be found, it would help if you could first explain why you are singling me out for your innocuous, but misdirected questions. The "Legend" that my forum name refers to is "A classic and wonderful tale", which is how I hope my life turns out, sans the dragons, unicorns and noobs asking me about the best subs. It does not refer to the "an explanatory inscription accompanying an illustration" type of "legend", or "map legends".. you know, the type of text that explains to reader about drawings or maps or symbols or where the best subs are. For those of you who write without a brief introduction, or leave a name, or initials, please note that: PMing "Where can I buy the best sub?" to me is often interpreted in my very capricious language as "The sender of this message has severely handicapped manners. He needs a 19 day course on manners and forum etiquette more than he needs a sub." So please, I would like to think that I am a helpful and nice chap, one of the useful fellows to have when you need information about the secret lives of mountain goats or which dealer to buy from. Its just that I do not respond very well to random and sporadic questions, without any courtesy of the briefest of introductions. If it was a genuine emergency, like "My ass is on fire, where to find the best fire extinguisher?", I would definitely excuse the curt question and answer it rightaway I promise. But if you have the time to send me a PM, perhaps it would be useful to utilize a few moments of your precious and valuable time to say please, thank you and let me know that I am not communicating with a pair of disembodied arms floating over the keyboard. It would be reassuring as well. I eschewed communicating with disembodied limbs since I was 12, and I have no desire to relive that childhood. So please kindly pardon me, dear newbies, as the sometimes curmudgeonly Legend ignores your PM. Besides, there are many here way more qualified than me, especially in the areas of the the Rolex sub. I only started dwelling into Rolexes lately, thanks to the poisonous posse consisting of @folex, @Ezio, @watchfreund, @Mike on a bike, @sgtguk and other conspirators. Forgive the digression. My point is, I am probably newer than you in the realm of Rolex and the next time you send me a PM asking me about the best sub, please include also a helpful hint on what the correct answer should be. It confuses me if you guys are testing me like a initiate, or asking me a genuine question. Actually, I would have happily directed you newbies wanting the best sub to seek help with member @kingfrog, had his term in RWG not been abruptly, cruelly and wickedly cut off, despite his obvious love for RWG and the Rolex Submariner. He owns a genuine $6000 submariner of which he is very proud of, but sadly, it gets tiring after hearing about the same lonely watch for the 9,486th time. Alas, Kingfrog would have been a poor teacher to you guys, displaying the usual amphibian traits of having a large mouth, a relatively small brain useful for storing and repeating facts about himself ad nauseum, and the tendency to croak. He has certainly croaked off RWG now, so I guess that leaves only about 50,000 happier RWG members to send your perennially classic question to. I did do my part and tried to suggest to the Admin staff here once to create a sticky obviously titled "Who has the best sub" but the debate became rather violent, resulting in the demise of all the useful answers, a broken table and teacup, a cover up of the incident, and the eventual underground escapement of the question. Occasionally, it surfaces in the shoutbox and in PMs, but believe me kindly when I tell you that if you do a search, you can find fragmented remnants of The Question That Shan't Be Named. The same does apply for the best AP, Hublot, Breitling, et al, and in fact any question that all.. Seek and ye shall find. And if you do not, then yes, a tip for you: PM someone and ask nicely if you expect a meaningful answer. Thank you kindly for reading this strange and convoluted rant of mine. Age sometimes does catch up, with wisdom lagging a year or two behind.

Lol I'm not even going to ask where you got that pic, but it sure sums up everything very well hahaha Sent from Mars using tapatalk

Oh don't worry mate, when it comes to AP reps, there're very little "correct versions" If you can those FC parts, perfect. Else you might need to get the j12 models and do a transplant. It might turn out to be a better rep than the noob one with the FC parts in the end. Take heart young one! Sent from Mars using tapatalk