Stephane

The greatest band in history have the best sub..........

wow, that is 100% true, the greatest band in history.

Cheers

Stephane

the one who shaked Sir Paul's hand at his concert in Antwerp on april 1st 2003 ! ...and the one that didn't get his original Band On The Run Vinyl LP signed by as Sir Paul does only sign when a TV camera is there...at least I have a VERY VERY low res pic to remind me I didn't dream those 5 minutes (I'm not the left guy, nore the center, but the one on the right ).

Every man needs 4 colors of socks minimum.

White sport sock, black and blue dress and brown.

Sport Omega PO 42mm / Rolex SUB

Dress (Black) Panerai P212 Flyback Lemania Manual

Dress (Blue) Brentling Chronomat Evolution SS(Blue face)

Dress (brown) Baume&Merier Hampton Chrono white face

Comments and improvements?

Every man should wear black high ending socks from different qualities depending on the season....but, not one piece of skin of their legs should be seen by anyone...

Italian elegance.

Ciao

That's why I posted them.

Thanks Pug...I guessed though

@Stephane....thank you for you precisely detailed e-mail.....a pleasure to see......!

Thanks for this nice comment Neil.

To All

It's not that hard to be precise

This is what I did: copy paste from Neil's post and add comments.

A. Your chosen model(s).

BlablaModel

B. The reference number of the model(s).

BlablaRefNumber

C. A photograph of the model...( where available )

Photo

D. Your name and forum name.

MyName+Stephane

E. Your location

BlablaLocation

F. Your preferred method of payment......this must align with my available payment methods.

BlablaWhateverYouPrefer

G. Any special instructions.......such as....based in EU.....wish the item to be shipped to UK and forwarded.....!

BlablaBasedInEu

as for the picture, I must confess ...I copied and pasted one of Pug to my PhotoBucket and attached it to the mail.

Cheers

Stephane

hmmm, CC has never been that secured and probably won't ever be.

After all there is PayPal, MoneyBookers and more that acts as buffer between our CC and the virtual www.

And, when it relates to two of the most reliable dealers out there, send cash using Western Union or a simple enveloppe by registered mail is even better, isn't it ?

I agree with those of you who wouldn't use their CC in this illegal business.

Cheers

Stephane

I sincerely think I am going to buy a 1980 Yellow Lada Break and send it to him for mods so I can drive a yellow Maranello

Stephane-

But where is the watch?

I see only bare wrists!

And of course 1961 was a great year in Bordeaux. I recently opened my last bottle (see attachment). I admire your selection of wine very much!

Carl

(BTW Caillou 1961 is still available at the chateau at 115 euro- a steal!)

Hi Carl,

Sorry for my late reply...I never had a chance to taste that one.

And for the watch, well on one of the pics I see one but I couldn't say which it is ;-)

Cheers

Stephane

Neither Maria nor George will guarantee that either.......but I WILL......I will guarantee delivery.....!

OK, as a newbie, I took the risk and confirmed it recently by sending another PM.

Isn't the deal like this: get an MBW now for XXX dollars (whatever it might be) or try to source one for another couple of years ?

Cheers

Stephane

(And on top of this, I agree with Pug: shocking to see so few members jump on this opportunity).

a real looker there stephane - i guess it is the Asian version ?

have it my self on the steelbracelet - just LOOOVE it, real heavy metal........

wear it in good health

sweet collection you have...

Yeah, you're right: heavy heavy beast and 7750 (which is very good so far allthough I suspect not serviced at all).

It was a buy before I discovered RWG ;-)

sweet collection: I'm not sure it's that sweet yet but it will become now that I found RWG

Cheers

Stephane.

Stephane, I just hope that the name in those photobucket links is not your real name...

I wish it was

It's a very famous and popular radio and tv presentator of the 70's ...

Thanks for caring though.

Cheers

Stephane

he his around for sure. Just ordered a watch from him today.

It's your loss, especially when you're buying Chinese instead.

Good point

I'm still looking at the Black Monster on eBay but didn't yet decide...Now that I see more of your shots, hmmm, I might get one today.

Wow I have the same watch and the same camera

Hey Birdman,

Maybe you could do better pics ?

I intend to shoot my PRS516 today as I'm completely crazy about it...

Cheers

Stephane

Here are some pics of my 4 year old TT TW;

Hi Frontin,

Thanks for sharing them. Great watch indeed.

Cheers

Stephane

Some good lume on there! How long does the glow last for after charging?

Ok here we go. Please note I am in no way a photographer so it is disapointing.

I should have a photographer to do this...I'm doing it in full auto mode as I don't know where to change the Fxx on this camera!

I read from a member that it need F11 and I see F3.5 on my control screen.

I use a Sony Cybershot DSC-H2.

Sorry I can't do better.

11.56 PM

00.05 PM

Most accurate rep: When you wear the watch.

Least accurate rep: When the watch wears you.

JF

I like that a lot...I'm going to try and remember this

My god: that is the best definition I've heard. I'll try to remember too.

Ouch, time for sunglasses.

OOOOPS!

Forgot to mention: no photoshop at all, not even contrast ;-)

Hi All,

The Breitling Sisters: the story is after the pictures.

The Gen is on the left just in case you didn't notice, but I'm sure you did.

On the right, the rep (a fantasy model) but quite a good rep to my opinion at least ;-)

March 21st, 2006, I order a Baume & Mercier Classima Chrono at my regular jeweller (not an AD).

September 2006 the Baume & Mercier is still not there

He can't tell me why but keep saying "I will call Geneva today and check it out".

Bullshit as one can get it in 8 days from a web based dealer without calling the mother company of course.

Anyway.

He says "I have a great Breitling for you and it's a fantastic opportunity".

1.400€, new and with full warranty from today !

It was from a customer that changed his mind, he said.

I never liked these Breitling but say I will think about it.

I call him back after 24 hours and propose 1.200 €

He says yes.

I didn't really want the watch and propose it to a buddy.

He ended paying 950 € for that Avenger by selling an Omega that he didn't like at all to the jeweler.

Now, my buddy wears this watch every day and I never got my Baume & Mercier.

I never liked the TT but like the chrono pusher buttons of the Avenger better than the ones from the CE. But there ain't no SS Avenger except reps, of course.

So, I decided to get a Breitling rep from Andrew, just for fun, and changed jeweler.

Cheers

Stephane

Exactly how super is super super?

:-)

extra extra maybe

What do you think, is this super lume ?

Signed: TheTissotCommando

edited cause broken links

Oh...G.W. Bush this and that...[censored]

judging by the Stephane you are either French or worse Canadian so please be quiet. If you are Canadian your opinion is useless and if you are French your opinion is quasi-useless unless we are talking about Champagne, berets, or the best way to surrender in war. Worldwide economic stablily could and would continue without either of those states...

Now having said that...I like your watch and nice pictorial.

JEC

BTW-if the dollar is so worthless why are 30-year treasuries on a huge run...foreign buyers must still find the underlying credit attractive

Hi JEC ,

I'm from Brussels, capital of Europe and my country is called Belgium. I'm not a frenchie nor a canadian allthough my mother tongue is french.

Yeah, Belgium is a funny country of 10.000.000 inhabitants and we speak Dutch, French and German. So english is actually our 3rd or 4th language.

I have no problem with the US at all, I am a capitalist, a liberal, and love America and americans.

I really thank US, among others like UK and Canada, for their help in world war 2.

I only think that to have a great oil business in Irak and the region, there is no need to send soldiers to kill civils and to be killed themselves.

And this is nowhere close to what happened in WW2.

Besides that, the face of GWB is hilarious. He is looking so stupid !

I really wonder how one could believe that this guy is conducting anything by himself and for sure not such a powerfull country like US.

Now having said that ...I don't like arrogant americans thinking they are master of the world. But that must be like 0.05% of them if only that much.

And no, Canadian and French opinions are not useless, none opinion is useless.

God bless America

Cheers,

Stephane

I also wanted to stay away from this discussion, but I can't.

Blame it on the fact that for the first time a watch I bought from a respected dealer was caught by my local customs.

I'm a newbie here and I have been buying rep watches for 6 or 7 months before I even discovered RWG.

Actually I discovered RWG thru Andrew in a way.

I ordered a first watch @Andrew, received it and then started to read all the posts you guys have been publishing here.

Since then, I learned a lot, including the fact that I bought wrong watches (see my Pam 1950 post) before arriving here.

So, what I mean is that, like in "real life", everyone must make his own experience and improve themselves.

But, for sure, there is something that should be improved: delivery methods and routes.

When I buy an "almost not too bad but still wrong version" of a watch, well I still wear it (like my SoCalledPerfectSub that I wear for a week now).

But when my watch is stuck in customs and I have to visit them to explain how I got it, it really sucks.

One thru improvement would be for our dealers to find a way to ship from anywhere in the solar system but not from Peoples Republic of China.

Cheers

Stephane

I'd translate "Peter un Plomb" as "To push the boat out" or "to go wild"..

"A friend was coming around, so I decided to push the boat out and get some great wine in."

Thanks Pug, I'll try to remember that saying...I really went too wild !

Wow. A lucky guy. 1990 Lefite. 1961 Mission Haute Brion. 1996 Cheval Blanc. For those of you thinking "Hmmmm...Gen PAM or 3 bottles of wine...Well, that's a no brainer!" a wine lover says, "Gimme a PAM rep and the wine." Can't rep a Lafite, although believe it or not, the Chinese try. (They'll rep the cork and the label and swap them out on a very good but much cheaper bottle of bordeaux and hope people won't know the difference, which the majority of "trophe wine" drinkers wouldn't). I think I remember that The Wine Spectator magazine estimated that 10% of all classic bottles of uncertain provenance sold at auction are "reps."

BTW, how's the 97 l'Evangile drinking? 10 years ought to be enough for a '97, probably. I'm too much of a cheapskate to even look at most of those bottles, but I do have 1/2 a case of the l'Evangile, which was a fantastic bargain when it was released. $400 bucks a case, I think.

Well Archi, what can I say...

I discovered wine in the mid 80's. I was drinking Pichon Comtesse, Giscours, Léoville Las Case, Chateau Margaux, Chateau Latour (Pauillac) for 1.200 to 1.500 BEF (the old belgian franc which is say 30 to 40$ a bottle in these times).

I think I drank almost all Bordeaux premier crus and the entire Classement de 1855; the only ones I missed, and still didn't taste, are Petrus and Yquem.

When wines became a real luxury (if not an absolute stupid snobism) I started to discover the rest of the world as I couldn't afford to drink them: Italy, Spain, Australia, US, New Zealand, South Africa.. (not Opus One in the US of course) and said to my self: never I will [censored] away that much money in wines anymore, I'll stick with Elderton Winery, Turkey Flat, in Aus in example.

Then came teh 90s and the incredible 2000: crazy prices. A bottle of "young" Pichon, Latour or Léoville sunddenly became a couple of 100 $ or even much more (specially Latour). Then also came that guy, brother of a friend of mine back in the 70's, that was inviting me to taste all the wines you see on the pictures...we had great fun but I must be honest with you guys: I can't even remember the ones I prefered except, again, Pichon, Latour and Léoville. Mouton is great (and I think I must have drank 10 or 15 different millésimes), L'Evangile too, but still Pichon, Latour and Léoville are the ones that talk to me.

As we say in french, I wanted to thank him on several occasions and I have "pèter un plomb" that you could translate by "burned a fuse" and decided to buy some great Bordeaux again for him when he was visiting me. The worst one, price wise, but not only, was a Chateau Margaux @ 550 euros...I kept the bottle because...it didn't even made us happy. We were absolutely disappointed.

So, I've paid my tribute to snobism and fashion with Bordeaux wines, but that's it. Never again.

And yes, I now think: imagine the number of watches, reps or gen, I would have in my collection that would last for ever, for my son, his son, and so on after 25 years of drinking these wines ....wines will end in the toilet anyway, and not because I'm [censored], but because we all pee at a point.

Enjoy your Evangile, it is a great wine and don't believe what magazines says or even Monsieur Parker: the only way to taste, drink and enjoy wine is with friends, no matter if you should have wait for an extra year to drink "à son apogée". Pleasure is the quest, the rest is [censored].

Cheers

Stephane

PS: Forgot to mention: Cheval Blanc: I would describe this as a very powerfull mint candy. I mean (but my english is not that good enough to describe) it is so long in your mouth, like a mint taste would last for hours, that you need at least an entire evening to finish a single bottle with a couple of buddies.

I waiting for a box and certificate (no watch) from China, Tracking EMS shows:

2007-02-06 ------- Handed over to Customs.....

11 days later, still no delievery....

What shall I do ?, contact customs, forget the whole thing, wait, contact the sender and ask for a new delivery ?

Hi TMS,

In which country are you ?

I have the same problem and 19 days later I got a letter from belgian customs stating it's counterfeit merchandise.

It's a watch not a box though.

Stephane