Stephane

I ordered my overseas at PT (Precious Time). It should arrive within 2 weeks.

Cheers

Stephane

I got one and you can find pics and comments here...

http://www.rwg.cc/members/My-So-Called-Bes...00--t21180.html

Cheers

Stephane

I am sorry, but Elvis wore a Mathey-Tissot (more than One)

Ooops, sorry.

I'm not an Elvis fan myself and only reproduced information gathered from the Tissot book...

If anyone really wants to chance their eyes I can get many rep glasses but I take no responsibility for what they do to you.

Ken

That seems to be clear to me...

We should protect our eyes guys...otherwise how are we going to read RWG several hours a day

Flame does not educate...so why not forgive and teach...

I have been receiving some great advices myself...I wanna share them

Hi Pix,

You want a VC ?

What about this one:

That is the one I ordered...

Cheers

Stephane

Niaklah,

As a noob myself I would like to let you know the rules here as I experienced them before .

1. Get a membership (and pay some $ to support the board because if you cannot pay some $ to the community how could you buy a rep !)

2. On the top right of your screen you have a Search link: click it and type "best sub" . You will see hundreds of posts about best subs.

The question your are posting (about who has the best sub: where they sell best sub?) has been answered several times and pisses off long term members because there is no long term or permanent answer. It depends on what is available NOW. A best sub of one year ago is crap compared to the one of 6 months ago which is crap compared to the one of 3 months ago and so on...You will also discover after the fact that best sub does not exist, that there are MBW/WM/TW subs that are even better than "the best sub" but have other flaws...

So, don't take it bad when someone says: www.rolex.com, it's true that the best sub is the gen ;-) all others we buy thru this board are great but are reps.

Hope this helps,

Cheers

Stephane the noob...

CONCLUSION

Please follow the 2 above mentionned advices and you will perhaps enjoy it here.

If you only post questions instead of spending hours of reading, you will hate this place very soon.

Thanks guys for the QP. Seems great. Will probably go fot it.

However it's only 6 times a year ...what am I going to read waiting for the next issue ?

Stephane

Dear All,

I was wondering if one of you could recommend a great magazine (or severals) ?

I'm looking for something where I can read reviews and get nice detailled pictures.

In other words an RWG like magazine but with gens...

Many thanks for your recommandations.

Cheers

Stephane

St

@ Ken and Chief: thanks for reading and commenting. Funny that Paul Tissot was the only non Brandt familly member that was tolerated at Omega...kind of Swatch group spirit long before N.Hayek came.

@ Monty: an Alfa 166 JTD 2002, Nero Vulcano...my 6th Alfa and never again another brand...Congrats for your V6. I hope my next one will be one too. I'll have to wait for the 169 though.

Cheers

Stephane

Wow thank you very much for your nice comments Merci beaucoup !

Very much appreciated.

Cheers

Stephane

A PRS 516 @ 250$ with Swiss Original Eta 2836-2

Hi All,

It's been a while that I wanted to post a topic about this watch.
I simply love it and wear it very much.
I have been chasing it on eBay for months as I decided I would not pay more than 250$ and it always went for over 300.
But patience pays and I got it !

Pictures of mine are at the bottom ...I hope you'll like it as much as I do.

Cheers
Stephane

What do I like?

- The great Eta 2836-2, visible behind the nice sapphire case back, that runs 10 seconds to fast in 24 hours only which is the worst adjusted watch I have with that movement !
- The fantastic day-date feature which can be read easily
- The indexes that are suspended over the dial
- The beautiful 70's look SS band
- The heavy wait of the thing on the wrist
- The deployment buckle

From www.tissot.ch

PRS516 AUTOMATIC GENT
Reference of my white dial : T91.1.483.31
size: 40mm (but feels larger than a sub in example)
case material: stainless steel
water resistance: 50 meters
glass: sapphire
dial: silver
hour indicators: index (I would say flying indexes as they do not touch the dial)
bracelet: stainless steel grey
movement caliber: 2836-2 mechanical automatic
function(s): day/date
power reserve: 42 hours.
guarantee: 2 years

OK I'll shoot: the PO I got comes from PT and is Eta...

and, speaking of the group buy - where we at on that yo

oh yes, by the way ...my name is Buy, Group buy

I was just kidding, thought you prefer only positive threads. (P.S. this was before I read your reply on the other thread).

ah ah, well my goal wasn't "hey pls confirm I have the right eta or I'll start a fight with my dealer"...

And, Richard, yes we all prefer positive threads...aren't we ?

You do, I'm sure

Stephane why are you reading this? I thought you'd prefer not to know

Richard, Am I missing something ?

Thanks for the heads up Joe!! Am I the only one who wasn't aware of this? LOL

Hmmm yes this is really great that you discovered it.

I didn't think about taking a closer picture of that part of my PO but on this one it seems I'm lucky, am I ?

It's good to read about good and bad experiences so you can learn from others experiences and then make an informed descision who to deal with, or not deal with. (I'm talking in general here, nothing to do with this particular thread).

Richard,

Generaly speaking I agree (if nothing to do with this particular thread).

What I try to express as a Frog is that this board should try to stay a community where any and all member behave nicely ...

If one start to insult others it's never going to be different than real life of course.

At the end we will all spend more time in these kind of threads than in the ones saying "Yippeee I got my new blabla" or "Can you tell me how I can get a jhgdtyf/15874/op/56 crown for my 32547-IT post 1995 BlaBla watch"...

...Imagine all the people, living life in peace ...

Cheers

Stephane

Hey guys,

I feel sorry saying this: 85% of the topics here are fun and instructive but they are spoiled by 15% of crap making me think of a permanent couple dispute between members and dealers.

A noob spontaneous comment:

- What I love to read on this board: real reviews (short or detailled) of reps I don't have (yet) or shots of reps that members did receive "today"

- What I hate to read on this board: all the crap about dealer/customer intimate relations...

- What I love to read about dealers: positive experiences from customers or vice & versa

- What I hate to read about dealers: negative experiences from customers or vice & versa

And, for sure, if a customer has a problem with a dealer he should act exactly the same way as he would with a close friend, collegue or member of his familly and TALK IN PRIVATE.

Same comment for dealers having problems with customers of course.

Talking about Neil, I'm part of the MBW group buy and yes I'm seriously anxious and looking forward to get them in my house instead of my $ travelling the world.

But why the hell should I post a topic with a daily update saying "Oh, I cant' wait, Oh, let's hope everything is going to roll, Oh I was expecting them yesterday, Oh I doubt I'm gonna get them..."

It's not gonna help me, Neil or any other member of the board.

So that was my noob spontaneous comment: I love to learn about reps...I'm not here to learn about humans; I see my Psy once a week for that

Cheers

Stephane

I'm considering taking the Timezone course so I can service my own watches. Maybe this would be a good idea for someone in Germany.

I would be your first customer ;-)

It's a pain in the *** her in EU where I am.

I tried several by phone and mentionned "nice ETA blabla, but not gen"...none would touch them.

As my PO was a [censored] to size, I even went to a low profile watch shop and the girl wanted to keep the watch for the day before she ask her "watchmaker" to remove links...

I ran away.

please consider carefully when you intend to ask for a "refund" from your dealer.... we are here to do business and we certainly wouldnt want to risk a bad transaction for all the hundreds of good transaction in time to come...

I too agree: thinking dealers are here for anything else than business is stupid.

Can you establish a friendly relationship ? Sure ! Time passes and helps humans we are to know each other better and eventually aprreciate each other.

Ask full refund for illegal goods having "too much flaws" is even more stupid.

How accurate is accurate in the rep world ? Gen only are super super accurate

The only situations that should be "negociated 50/50" to my opinion is loss in the mail or seized by customs.

The rest is obviously not very objective as a customer could not bother about that flaw where it's completely pissing off another customer.

The CG issues on the subs in example are a great example of flaws that everybody should be aware of before buying any of them.

We cannot call in a Judge can't we ?

Cheers

ok, here's my take... with the recent paypal issues going around affecting most dealers... and this translate to losing almost 40% of sales volume (maybe its just me)

I hate complaining people and for sure people that are going to PayPal to raise a dispute.

It hurts the entire community.

As a noob I can certainly call out other noobs doing so, even if not all of us are a**h****.

Maybe RWG fav dealers should simply avoid to do business with noobs for a while or only accept WU or whatever other safe mean as a pmt.

2 months ago I was prompt to post my "difficult experiences about cutoms and delivery"...

Today I do not even talk about it on RWG but email back and forth with my dealer.

I didn't even follow up after my meeting at customs.

In the only bad case I experienced so far my dealer and I found a solution to make both of us happy.

Cheers

Stephane

I spent two weeks in Greece during the summer 2006 and I was swimming every day with my "cheap" sub rep.

It's was not my "So called perfect from Paul though".

The watch did not have any problem but the pearl fade away totaly.

Most of reps I have are ok to swim with, surely not to dive I guess, but my position is to avoid to swim with watches in general.

If it's in a pool, there are too many products that can hurt the watch and if it is the sea well it's the salt...

Depending on what you prefer: keep them forever in good state or...

Cheers

Stephane

OK, let's continue to post horrors, which is in my thought, bad reps...not specially very hugly watches

In one of the pack I got from that one shot chinese seller of ebay, I got a rep of a Baume & Mercier 8502 (Capeland S).

The gen looks like this:

I have always looked at two brands: Jlc and B&M.

The reason is that my mother had a JLC (Joaillerie) and my dad a B&M (full gold).

Now that they both passed away, I decided to buy a "modern" Gen one (that you can find in the trade area by the way).

It looks like this

Now, the fun is that I do not really wear that gen and of course do not wear the Capeland rep neither.

Let's look at the very bad B&M rep now @ 40$:

Did you pay attention to the great sub dial @12 ? Cool no ? I have no idea what that is measuring !

But, when you press a chrono button, the hand is turning, and quite fast, "Fasten your seat belt"

The sub dial @6 is funny too

The not sweeping seconds are in fact the middle hand (the one that is suppose to be used for chrono features)

What a lovely crown

And of course, this is a waterproof watch up to 1000 M. Lucky I am...the gen is only 200 M .

I must say two positive things: the strap is great looking and the time keeping is great: it's a Quartz movement, which of course is not accurate at all!

Having said all this, I will never wear it but will keep it because it's too much fun.

Cheers

Stephane