fraggle42

I'll stick with the reps of these straps (sort of!), under $50 and creamy smooth

If old threads are no good, why not delete them? Say "if all posts are more than 1 year old then delete thread"?

This YM is still glued to my wrist

Holy crap Freddy, I'm sorry to say but that is running just a tiny bit slow!

Oooooh, I can just see it now. Unboxing boxes videos! And if it's double packed, double the excitement! I don't think the WR will be up to much though

Supposedly we're not allowed to have nice swords and knives on display in the UK. Just in case some toerag breaks in and they could be used to cut someone. Duh. I've still got a samurai in the living room, another upstairs, broad sword in the dining room and a few knives scattered around, no ones ever said anything about them apart from compliments.

I'm glad I'm not alone, it seems so sad getting excited just waiting for a parcel, regardless of what's in it. Deckard - think of the basements you could build there!!! Loads of workshops, and talk about a vertical market! Pete - I was thinking about seeing if I could get interested in box collecting, or maybe something even cheaper like air collecting, anything, so long as it's cheap and still makes deliveries!! Hmm, I wonder if I could bottle some Swiss air and then sell it so anyone can build their own "franken" - rep watch + swiss air!

It isn't just watches, my friends. Watches, straps, movements, tools, watch winders, MIG welders, pens, books, gel seats, microscopes, heavy duty power sockets and wall boxes, 12V LED car spot lights... I just love browsing through EBay, Alibaba, online shops, Amazon, Google and anywhere else I can, talking myself into "needing" something, spending days researching something out and nailing down exactly what I "need" and finding the perfect fit, ordering it and then waiting for the delivery. Every morning at work I listen out for the front door aroundabout a certain time as I know that'll be the postman, and also when I see a delivery van drive up. And then I sit there half concentrating on what I'm doing, half concentrating to hear if I can hear Jo's (the receptionist / secretary) footsteps walking towards me to hand over a parcel. Lately she's taken to leaving the large parcels next to her desk where they're closer to the front door and only tells me when I'm on the way home in the evening, so if I'm expecting something big, a couple of times a day I'll wander the long way around to the kitchen so I can see if there's a box there that might be for me... I need two little metal adapters turned up to fit motorbike pegs to my bike, and I'm looking at £600 hobby lathes so I can make them myself. If this carries on I'll end up homeless but surrounded by millions of cardboard boxes! I definitely think we should set up a clinic where online shopping addicts can recover! Help!

Clem, they do a smaller 4 watch winder - basically half this one but it has a nicely curved top and comes in all sorts of wood finishes. I know cause I've got one which I'll be putting up for sale very soon on here, along with a dozen or so watches.

Hehehehe, yes that is true! The one great thing about quilts is it takes 5 seconds to make the bed - and even then sometimes I still don't do it

450 bucks for a service of an automatic? What?!?! I can only assume your shop is in Beverly Hills or somewhere mega expensive, cause if you get mugs.... sorry, customers happy to pay that, well, then there's one born every minute!

In situ and family has moved in:-

That's exactly where it's going Ben. There are a few advantages to being an elegible batchelor and this is one of them. My toys always take pride of place

I bought one of their 8 watch winders via EBay, they are selling some models off as "Ex Demo", and about half their RRP. Cost me £251 + postage from Germany. It arrived today - its absolutely HUGE! I saw the size of the box it came in and thought it must be 10 boxes inside each other or huge foam blocks. Nope. It's approx 24" wide, 12" deep and 10" high. 4 winders that hold two watches each, and further storage for 8 watches, plus enough room around the controls to stash half a dozen straps. Lovely dark piano gloss wood It's as new - it may be ex demo but I can't see any wear, marks or anything on it at all. The box had been opened and re-sealed, and it'd been taken out of the polystyrene packing side bits, but the thin polystyrene wrapping round it was original and unmolested. I like!

Tony, sorry, I didn't mean to imply you had used bad or angry language, just I find asking a question in a simple, polite, factual way works best - I leave out (or rather go back over and re-read what I've written before I post or send it) anything emotional or subjective. What I posted before was a perfect example of what NOT to do! I didn't write it properly and you thought I was referring to something you had already done and (rightly) took offense. Written language can be such a pain in the butt sometimes!

I'll be selling my $70 Pan skeleton fantasy super-uber-franken [1] rep soon. Unavailable now! Yours for a pittance at $550 [1] It's been filled with genuine Swiss air!

Just got a delivery from Rochest & Mary labelled "Watch"! LOL EMS delivery, you can't beat it, this was posted 3 days ago

AJ, you'll have to buy some decent watches for them now! :D

Franken doesn't mean anything definite, it's different to different people. Ok, there's obviously a kind of accepted meaning among you old timers but whatever that was has been diluted. I just completely ignore it and just see if I like the watch or not.

Just ask him on here, politely. State the date you last tried to contact, the name he knows you by, the watch you've sent, the work requested and the date sent. Check your PM inbox isn't too full, clear out your PM outbox, and give the man a week to reply. Most importantly, I think, is to be polite. No one ever got good customer service by shouting and swearing at the checkout girl in the supermarket!

Finn, with every post you're confusing yourself and everyone else more and more. You say "I waited patiently for 6 months (listening to an unbelievable number of excuses none of which explain a 6 month delay including the tragic death in his family)" and then a couple of paragraphs later you mention the fact there was a 3 month (or was it 4? I couldn't really care less at this point) delay whilst parts came from China. (Or rather didn't come, as you say you ordered them yourself after 3 months and got them within a week) So, you say you don't know of any reasons for the 6 month delay, and then state a valid reason for at least half of that delay YOURSELF. Sorry, but people telling the truth will state the same version of events again and again with no differences, and it all makes sense. I'm not saying your lying, but I am saying what you have said yourself does not add up, contradicts itself and casts doubt on everything else you say.

Oh I have no intention of only having one rep! This is very, very nice but it'll live alongside the other 20 or so reps I have. It's just nice having something that I don't get that itch in the back of my mind to upgrade the lume / dial / crystal / AR / movement....