Stephane

Another Tribalised beauty ! Congrats my firend...now I'm jalous !🥰

Oh, no. That is a very sad news. I'm so very sorry for your loss David. Your dad helped me often, he was a very good man, no question ! With love from Brussels, Belgium.

Olraaaajjjjjjt as they say in Malta (Molta) I'll try to get in touch with Mr T. Thanks Bob 🙏

Hey guys, This link contains many other links which are broken... I'm not sure if there is an easy fix to replace rwgforum.net with rwg cc in all those urls ? Any idea? Cheers Stephane

Oh, what a lovely piece indeed ! 🥰

Hello everybody. I'm still getting notifications and thus I'm visiting from time to time. But I must say my life has changed totally since I got sober (5 years ago) and broke (2 years ago) ! The brotherhood of RWG helped me a lot 2 years ago when I couldn't even imagine having a simple job back. You guys gave me a couple of watches and hundreds of euros that kept me alive till I found a job. I'm back on track, a radio presenter job during nights and weekends, still sober, publishing a blog about my alcoholism. I earn a very nice income, live in a nice flat and eat more than enough. I don't have the financial power to buy reps (and certainly not gens), but I'm more into spiritual living than I was before, so all is fine. Great to have news from you guys ! Keep safe, Stephane

My God. I paid mine back then around 3 k €. If only I had kept all my gens I would have made some serious money...but then, as I'm the asshole I am, I preferred to spend the money on drinks back then. To answer your question, I have only one information: a friend of mine here bought a 16610 from 2000 with the "swiss" dial, the exact same as mine, for 7.000 € recently. I bought mine 3.100 in 2008 and sold it 3.750 in 2014 So my guess 7.500 USD is the correct market price these days. Good luck!

Happy Birthday to us all ! We've made it so far 🥳 Many more 😍

Oh well, that is one nice build Tribal. I'll get in touch with you, I may have endlinks somewhere 😉

I wish I was 13 too 🙏😂 Happy Birthday all of us ❤️

Happy 2019 to everyone at RWG ! I thank you all for your support which has saved me in a very difficult summer last year. I made it through with your kindness and generosity ! May you be free of suffering, hunger and discord, live a joyful life 🙏❤️ Much love and peace, Stephane

Welcome back Ken. Very sorry to hear about your Dad and the misfortune that followed.

Well, I did some stupid moves in this hobby like putting 2K of parts in a franken that doesn't even had that much gen parts. Money wise, it's insanity and I would never do it again neither buy a rep over 200 if I had still some decent income. But I had a great time here with some of you guys building these great watches. I owned gen, for example 1680 or 16800 and had reps build of the exact same models: I would go for the reps I sold here rather than the gens at the prices they are now. I paid my 1680 (White, full box, paper, service history...silver date wheel, 9315....) less that 4 k (€). They go for 10k to 15k now....ridiculous. My rep 1680 which is the last one I sold costed me around 1,700 and in my humble opinion was as good/nice as my gen was. Gen vintage is too high now anyway! If I ever want and can afford a 1680, I would buy mine back (if the buyer would sell it of course) 😂 In the end I wonder why I went for gens, wasn't it to feel superior, better than, show off ? For sure, what attracts me in a watch is the design, not the "in house movement" rather than a cheap Chinese one. For the record, a friend of mine from RWG offered me what he calls a cheap Chinese Rolex recently. It's running within COSC standards and it has the design even with the various tells for your expert eyes! And guess what: two persons came to me to tell me I had a great vintage Rolex (which never happened with my gens by the way). One of them even told me "It's a 1978 one I think, you shouldn't have it polished" Go figure 🤣 Bottom line: out of the box rep, 2-300€ is fine, more is ridiculous. Photos of My 1680 and 16800 and 16610 and so on

Oh well, my current collection right now is a watch offered by the RWG community and another by one member of RWG Monsieur By-Tor 😍 My life has been a rollercoaster, due to my inability to cope with it, so I sold all the gens, the reps and the modified ones too...(some I could not sell as they are not worth the trouble to fix for the recipient though). As we speak, one is in a good friend's hands to fit some parts I still had around. The virus of collecting more is gone anyway. Wearing the gifts is another story: gratitude to be able to wear the design I like (Rolex 5513) and feel the kindness behind it ❤️ Priceless ! Be well!

I identify with your post! I've been trying to get as close to the gen as possible...to finally buy the gen...to come back to the idea that I should ask myself what is it that I like in the model. Answer: I like the model 🤣 In short: why the hell would I modify anything if I like this or that design? And yes, why wouldn't you alter a model to have something different? Makes sense to me. My grail would be a white Daytona with date @4 by the way 😄