mitchbaria

I made a deal with this guy to buy a vintage dial. The deal went bad and I never received the dial, winded up getting refunded by eBay and leaving negative fb. I've since learned the guy isn't in Miami as he claims on eBay but rather resides in Brazil. Before I try to straighten this mess out I would appreciate if you guys would look carefully at the items he's selling and tell me if he's for real and just had this one bum deal or he's up to no good. (comex.diver11) He's selling several high end items do please look at them all.......(comex.diver11) Thanks in advance.......

It is and forever will be a watch with a story, like my Hamilton. That's very much part of what makes a watch special and valuable. Maybe this will help the op in his understanding of why there's really no difference in rep and gen except gen has a certain dependability that is biult in with the name. In the same line of thought I think TC is answering the quality call for reps in big way as is the noob factory on a different level.

Well yes! Even the OJ watch, however, that's a little weird. A very interesting site that I love to frequent may be something that you guys may like also: http://famouswatches.blogspot.com/ This thread is very interesting because it shows that everybody loves watches for their own reasons, I do think that less value should be put on the brand but rather other factors that ultimately make the watch(es) valuable to the owner. Rep, gen? Whatever, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

There's another aspect to this also that is greatly overlooked. I love watches and spend hours at a time hovering over tiny moving parts that can barely be seen with the naked eye. My love for watches stem from my dad giving me a gold Hamilton that my grandfather was given for 50 years of service to the company that he worked for until the day he died. I was eleven. I've taken most every kind of watch imaginable apart in the last 30 years and it really boils down to this: A watches value cannot be measured in money alone because in the end they're just pieces of metal that measure the time one spends. So I submit this. Is a watch really a replica watch because of the name that it bears? Is the name on the dial what makes it special or is it the quality of the time that it measures or measured what makes it important to the owner of the wrist that it rides? If my grandfathers watch wasn't a Hamilton, would it have played any less of a role in my life or would it be less important to me? I like watches, I admire some, I love some, I want some, I own some and all for different reasons and I guess it has really never occurred to me to pay that much attention to the name on the dial to help me decide to value of a watch. I'm assembling a "replica" presently and honestly because of all the effort that it is required to get it the way that I want it I think it's going to be one of my favorites. I've also stumbled across TC since I found the rep forums so I ordered one and really like it very much but then again I'd like it just as much if TC would have put TC on the dial in the place of Rolex. Just something to think about.........

I am a regular on one of the other rep sites and have recently purchased a TC sub. For some reason TC doesn't get a whole lot of traction over there, so I've found myself hitting the RWG button more and more! Aslo there seems to be a better following of the 16800/0 series over here also and for me that's the holy grail of reps. Anyway, I wont take up anymore of your time. I mainly wanted to say hello properly and let everyone know that y'all caught my eye and I'll be hanging around and may even put my two cents in from time to time. Oh and it's nice to see you guys open for business again too! Congrats