Adeodatus

Great watch and fantastic strap! Which is it, White?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck

aka The Thread lol

What movement is it? http://watchesandreviews.com/What_Direction_Movement_Winds.html

Which reminds me...

Why wouldn't he be satisfied with reps ? Sure he will. If you are looking for a good chrono check out this thread: There are plenty of good non chronos as well. You've mentioned dssd. black subs are good. omega planet ocean. Some iwcs are also good Read the reviews in each brand forum or in "other brand" forum, and deside for yourself. Also a good idea would be visiting the daily wrist check thread to see what members are wearing.

Check out Steinhart and compare it with some rolexes iwc etc. Steinhart is a classic homage brand. Homage uses similar or identical design of a well known brand, but puts its own branding on it.

As I said in some other thread here: "Homages, replicas, genuine, whatever - RWG is defacto the best watch forum on the web." Many here started their collections with gens, many others with reps, some have both, some only reps and homages. Some "franken" their watches themselves, some enjoy antiques repair. We don't care. We love watches, not because they are glorified luxury d!ck enlargers, but for what they are: marvels of human ingenuity, design and engineering. I'm sure you'll love it here.

...because 12 o'clock is reaaally overrated!

hehe Nice touch Andy!

Wait, what? This is not how you spot a rep?

I'd definitely by a rep of this watch, but you are 100% right , cougar. I hope it will be replicated, and I'll probably buy it as a rep, because the design is beautiful, especially the dial, but not 8000$ beautiful. But it doesn't worth the 8000$. It really doesn't. I got a used one, so it didn't have that new watch shine, so it felt like a very good used rep LOL.

I've started with collecting and being generally interested in watches after my dad and me have discovered my grandfather's WWII pilot's watch. The watch was and still is in a poor non working condition, because it survived a crash in 1944. My Grand dad didn't... Anyway in order to restore it I tried to read and learn as much as possible and fell in love. Initially I was collecting old or antique watches and till this day they are my true passion. A couple of years ago I stumbled upon the Oris Rectangular Titan and I had to have it, but this love affair didn't last long and I sold it to get the IWC Mark XVI Spitfire. While looking for deals on this watch I came across this site and never looked back. I think that today I'm 100% repoholic. As the matter of fact I've recently purchased a wonderful used Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Chrono for a very good price. I was really excited to have it, but after the initial excitement wore off I got bored with it. For my surprise it took me only two days - from high excitement to absolute indifference. On day 5 I was back to wearing my rep out-of-the-box "Ultimate 1:1 the best one ever was and ever will be" PO 42. Comparing the two side by side, while wondering why would I wear my 250$ "chinese crap" instead of my 8000$ new toy, I suddenly realized that on one hand it's just too perfect, it's not an old broken watch with interesting story behind it, while on the other hand it's quality was absolutely comparable to my chinese PO, so I couldn't, just couldn't, justify the price I paid for it. I returned the FF to the dealer today. After this experience I think that the right path for me is to continue collecting old / antique watches and wear my reps as daily beaters or more functional watches. This will keep me interested in watches, instead of simply purchasing them. Buying always bores me

Now that is a SEXY COUPLE!

288k day for me

Daaaamn....

http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/2726955/big_lebowski_dude_do_you_see_what_happens_do_you.swf

Wearing this gen Blancpain FF for the last time before it goes on sale tomorrow.

Kyboe Silver series KY 025

Holy sh....! nice one!

Reps are very profitable business. This will never end, as long as there's money to be made. They may close a factory, but more will open a week after that. Plus bigger, more established factories simply pay officials to keep things quiet.

Or maybe he sacrificed his house, his cars, his saving to pursue his true passion - watches. Maybe he's dedicated his life to buying top tire watches and spends his days staring at them in that 34.99$ watch box. or maybe not.

I guess we should say our good byes then. You'll get eaten by zombies pretty quick this weekend, woof Very nice as a collectible and historical item, crap as a firearm (Although I must admit that this "crap" did win some pretty nasty wars for Israel in 73 and 82 ) Is this IMI or Bernardelli?