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Basic black Monday.

Unfortunately, mine shows leaving China well before CNY, on Feb 3rd. No tracking since. I'll wait till month-end and if it's still missing, will reach out to Ryan.

Yet another 20 inches of snow this morning. Great Pumpkin will be hunkered inside today. I've had more than enough of this winter!

SA Blacksteel for today!

Unlikely this will become a trend. US Customs is simply not staffed anywhere near enough to deal with the volume coming into the US. If they are chasing our small packages, they are ignoring something else...... Like full containers. They may target some period of time where they inspect a larger sampling of small packages, but it cannot become standard practice without a huge increase in people.

Pulled the Giant Blue Beast U-42 out of the watch-box today!

BFF for today!

Now you tell me! LOL!!!!

EMS

I've had just the opposite experience before this shipment. EMS and USPS tracking has been extremely good for all my previous buys. This one, not good at all. Hopefully you are right though and I'll get a nice surprise soon. ;-)

Pumpkin GMT on an Ostrich Strap today!

Yup. I have no intention of contacting Ryan until after CNY anyway. Fingers crossed! ;-)

After some 20 watches purchased from TD's, I think I may have my first "missing in action" piece. Tracking shows no activity since Feb 3. 2015-02-03 05:05:00 GUANGZHOU Despatch from Sorting Center Of course, now I'll likely have to wait for 3 weeks for Ryan (Intime) to return from Chinese New Year, before getting anything accomplished. I was sooooo looking forward to getting the newly released Pam 371! I guess my luck was bound to run out sooner or later. Timing is everything!

Pam 188 Daylight for this SNOWY, SNOWY Monday!

Another day for the Bronzo!

Ready!!!

Maybe I've just been luckier than most, but with ~~20 reps in my collection I have yet to have a movement fail on me. I have a mixture of Asian and swiss. All perform about the same, with nice smooth sweeping second hands, except for the one Miyota,which stutters a bit but keeps perfect time! A few of mine have been serviced, but most have not. Based on my small sampling, it seems like the Asian movements tend to gain a bit of time, as mine all gain between 20 and 30 sec per day. The Swis ETA's are slightly more accurate. The one 6497 I have is dead perfect, along with the Miyota. A $6k gen sub would absolutely hold (or gain) value and become an heirloom. However, I'd quickly tire of being limited to just a few gens and find myself much happier playing in the rep world. As you said above.... To each, his own!

Well, I guess I'll accept a $400 rep that should cost $100 as opposed to a $6,000 gen that should cost $800........... Only because of the name on BOTH........

Well..... If your only goal is to "fool" people into thinking you have a gen watch on your wrist, today's $400 reps will accomplish that for 99.9% of the people who look at it. You'll find that few of us in here have that as our primary goal in owning/wearing reps. There are really two groups --- Builders/Modders who accept the technical challenge of investing time, money and incredible skill in the quest to make the most gen-like watch possible. Often times, the cost outweighs the end value of the piece, but the satisfaction these folks get has it's own value to them. If you hang around here for a while, you'll come to appreciate the level of knowledge and incredible skills these guys have! Personally, I envy them as I don't (and will never) have the patience and skills to do what they do. Then there are people like me who simply appreciate the look, quality and mechanical intricacies of a nicely put together piece. I could afford a few gen's, but would never spend 5 figures for a watch that is priced that way for the sole purpose of creating exclusivity and status. My favorite piece is my Rep PAM382 Bronzo. IMO, there is nothing in the gen version to justify a price of $20,000+, except for the fact that only a thousand or so were made. I wanted a Bronzo, so I bought and proudly own a rep of it. What does a gen sub have that a TC sub does not, to justify 10x the cost? If approached by someone who recognizes what I'm wearing, I don't try to pass any of my reps off as gens. If they say nice watch, I simply thank them. If they ask about it, I don't hesitate to tell them its a rep. Everyone in my office knows I'm into reps. If they didn't and saw that I rotate ~~20 of them through on a regular basis, I'd probably be under investigation! LOL! I do currently own a gen Breitling Chronomat Evo and am on the hunt for either a gen Super Avenger or Blue Dial Seawolf.

Maybe if I break out the baseball strap Bronzo, We'll have an early spring??? -4F here this morning. I've had enough!

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I believe Andrew still shows the 507 on his site. Can't vouch for availability though.......

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Time for a Pepsi (on new Everest Tech leather strap)???

Good Planet received last week from via M2M deal!