Lollipop
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Absolutely stunning with the new Improved Asian 7750! This will be my next watch.
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20, found RWG1 last February and now with 25 watches in my collection.
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They also lack an enzyme that allows them to metabolize alcohol at the normal rate of one ounce per hour so I guess this explains the lack of Chinese Vodka and Bourbon on the market. It does make for interesting happy hours in Bejing and other asian countries. I never saw so much public drunkeness and vomiting as I did in my trips to Tokyo. You can get quite a buzz on a six pack if you lack the proper genetics to metabolize it!
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/127/5/376
Alcohol Metabolism in Asian-American Men with Genetic Polymorphisms of Aldehyde Dehydrogenase
Tamara L. Wall, PhD; Charles M. Peterson, MD; Karen P. Peterson, PhD; Mona L. Johnson, BA; Holly R. Thomasson, MD, PhD; Maury Cole, BA; and Cindy L. Ehlers, PhD
I thought they have 'rice wine' for that?
ETA makes the movements in China. They are shipped to Switzerland and usually one cog (50% of the value due to the cost of Swiss labour vs Chinese labour) is changed. In doing this, they can call it "Swiss Made".Don't kid yourself that ETA movements are made by hand by old yodelling men in lederhosen chomping on chocolate and holey cheese while their nazi-gold-powered cuckoo-clock chimes the hour ...
Now, when people like IWC get them, they rip them apart and tweak them to buggery, just to add value, but the ebauches are shipped from China directly to their mountainside fondu-smelling cottages.
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They do it on purpose... just [censored] us off. Just like the HE valve in all SMP's and Sub crown guards.
You can just move the logo with tweezers, shouldn't be a big job.
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I just saw this in Woolies - is the Alfredo pasta any good?!
Not very good actually, there's a lot less pasta than the old red ones.
There are literally THOUSANDS of hours put into the research and reviews/pictorials of reps by the members. Submariner is the most popular replica watch so finding information of it shouldn't be too demanding. Why do people need to be annoying and break the first and foremost rule of every message board: Hang around a while, learn the basics before you make your first post? wink.gifThe problem is that there are no definitive guide of Submariner reps here in RWG, while we all say 'MBW/DW are the best' only Luckyy has them and he's not a regular dealer here. There isn't anyone comparing the dozens of Submariner variations from Paul/Josh/PT and others. Paul alone sells 3 different types of the plain black Sub.
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Unfortunately, I am due to be laid off from my job on June 9th, along with 5 others in my workplace. I think that my boss chose to fire me because I was away for such a long time doing jury duty, as he noted at the end of 2005 that I had the best performance and productivity of everyone in the firm.
Oh well, life goes on. But, I can say goodbye to my salary, since I was with the firm for such a long time, I had seniority benefits. I just hope it won't be too hard to find a new job again, and I'm even considering moving back to London for a change of life.
There's always time for a fresh start, perhaps it's time to do what you really want to do, like a change of careers, starting a new business or going back to school.
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Scandinavia punching well above its weight with 3 members, that's more than France and Germany combined!
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P.S. I'm a really hot chick! Who has the best Subs!
How about a Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki Sub from Subway?
Or do you prefer more 'solid' ones?
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Let me present you the biggest and the most detailed diecast model of a bus! I paid US$230 for this monster, a 1/24 China Motor Bus (Hong Kong) Daimler Fleetline DMS with a Park Royal body. Reg DA6535/XF187, in service between 1976-1993.
More info here:
http://www.omb-fleetlines2.wanadoo.co.uk/05242.htm
http://www.omb-fleetlines2.wanadoo.co.uk/05241.htm
Here's the place I brought it from:
The real XF187:
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I think Paul (Or whoever he is) is saying the 'original style movement' which was used in the Rollies is now in this Omega.
I agree with r11co it's a POS.
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Are the ones above 43mm or 45mm, or both?
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who has the best bus?
LOL
Here's my new toy, a 1/24 diecast rep of a China Motor Bus (Hong Kong) Daimler DMS: 
And the real thing for comparision:
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If she like the minimalist look there's always the Guccis.
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Now here's a contentious topic....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5033648.stm
Haditha: Massacre and cover-up?By Martin Asser
BBC News
Haditha is an agricultural community of about 90,000 inhabitants on the banks of the Euphrates north-west of Baghdad.
It lies in the huge western province of Anbar, which has been the heartland of the insurgency since US troops led the invasion of Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein in 2003.
It is a dangerous place for the US marines who control this part of Iraq and for the inhabitants, caught between insurgents and American troops.
On the morning of 19 November 2005, the Subhani neighbourhood was the scene of an event that has become like the pulse of the insurgency - a roadside bomb targeting a US military patrol.
It killed 20-year-old Lance Corp Miguel (TJ) Terrazas, driving one of four humvee vehicles in the patrol, and injured two other marines.
A simple US military statement hinted at the bloody chain of events which the attack started - though subsequent scrutiny showed it to be far from the truth.
It said: "A US marine and 15 civilians were killed yesterday from the blast of a roadside bomb in Haditha.
"Immediately following the bombing, gunmen attacked the convoy with small arms fire. Iraqi army soldiers and marines returned fire, killing eight insurgents and wounding another."
Video footage
The tragedy of Haditha may have been left at that - just another statistic of "war-torn" Iraq, a place too dangerous to be reported properly by journalists, where openness is not in the interests of political and military circles, and the sheer scale of death numbs the senses.
However, a day after the incident, local journalist Taher Thabet got his video camera out and filmed scenes that - whatever they were - were not the aftermath of a roadside bomb.
The bodies of women and children, still in their nightclothes; interior walls and ceilings peppered with bullet holes; bloodstains on the floor.
Mr Thabet's tape prompted an investigation by the Iraqi human rights group Hammurabi, which passed details onto the US weekly magazine Time in January.
Before publishing its account on 19 March, the magazine passed the tape to US military commanders in Baghdad, who initiated a preliminary investigation.
Following their findings, the official version was changed to say that, after the roadside bomb, the 15 civilians had been accidentally shot by marines during a firefight with insurgents.
Nevertheless, on 9 March the top commanders in Baghdad began a criminal investigation, led by the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS). Its report is expected within days.
On 7 April three officers in charge of troops in Haditha were also stripped of their command and reassigned.
Pretended to die
Eyewitness accounts suggest that comrades of Lance Corp Terrazas, far from coming under enemy fire, went on the rampage in Haditha after his death.
Twelve-year-old Safa Younis appears in a Hammurabi video saying she was in one of three houses where troops came in and indiscriminately killed family members.
"They knocked at our front door and my father went to open it. They shot him dead from behind the door and then they shot him again," she says in the video.
"Then one American soldier came in and shot at us all. I pretended to be dead and he didn't notice me."
Hammurabi says eight people died in the house, including Safa's five siblings, aged between 14 and two.
In another house seven people including a child and his 70-year-old grandfather were killed. Four brothers aged 41 to 24 died in a third house. Eyewitnesses said they were forced into a wardrobe and shot.
Outside in the street, US troops are said to have gunned down four students and a taxi driver they had stopped at a roadblock set up after the bombing.
Damage
The Pentagon has said little about the Haditha deaths publicly, and in Iraq the incident has caused little controversy - US troops there are already routinely viewed as trigger happy and indifferent to Iraqi casualties.
But politicians in Washington who have been briefed on the military investigation say it backs the story that marines killed civilians in cold blood.
The chairman of the Senate armed services committee, John Warner, says it will hold hearings into the incident and how it was handled.
Media commentators have spoken of it as "Iraq's My Lai" - a reference to the 1968 massacre of 500 villagers in Vietnam.
Democrat congressman John Murtha, a former marine and war veteran, has said the Haditha incident could turn out to be an even bigger scandal than the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
The Marine Corps has responded to Mr Murtha by saying it would be inappropriate to comment on an ongoing investigation, but would do so "as soon as the facts are known and decisions on future actions are made".
IMO those Marines are out of luck this time as a journalist just happened to be filming the aftermath, I'm sure that many more civilians were killed just like this but were never reported. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Oh well........war is hell, soldiers kill innocent civilians (and their comrades too, remember Pat Tillman?) and then their commanders try to cover it up, how typical.
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That's excellent ... for you.
It's fairly obvious this was not the norm, however.
What happened was Paul screwed up on the crazy sale Pam shipment, he tried to get the orders in before he had the stock and when things all went to custard people started to complain to Paypal, which then locked his account for a significant period of time. All other shipments (i.e. Rollies & Omegas) during the crazy sale were not affected and that's the reason why I got my Cartier within a week.
This time the crazy sale wasn't as big as the last one, with only a $30-$50 drop on price on the most common Rollie, Omega and Breitling reps. And as Sichuan mentioned $100 including shipping for an ETA Rollie can be done.
You'd be surprised how much the dealers mark up their offerings, sometimes over 100%. I got my CN 111H from Silix for $110+$8 shipping (Shipping@Silix $16 for 2) when the same rep from Joshua will set me back $168 plus at least $10 for shipping. (Shipping@Joshua $30 for 3) You do the math.
See the prices for yourself:
http://perfect-clones.com/product_info.php...products_id=796
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Intresting thread......
.....What will happen when Aspire's customers start receiving their watches, with no problems?BTW I purchased a Santos 100 from Paul during his last crazy sale, I got it within a week.
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I dont think any one is even making 1:1 1950 cases any more. the last batches i have had the case is differnt. It usses a metal spacer instead of it bing part of the case .
I find it very odd when a rep maker makes a 1:1 case and then suddenly stopped making them after a few months...
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The reason your dealers can't get the 187 and other 'exclusive' models.......is that the Japanese market has been swallowing up product from the factories......the 187 for instance is now becoming available to our dealers.....( well me for a start ).......why?....saturation in the Japanese market......!
The reason your dealers can't get the 187 and other 'exclusive' models.......is that the Japanese market has been swallowing up product from the factories......the 187 for instance is now becoming available to our dealers.....( well me for a start.....unfortunately most of my stock will go to private buyers in the UK.. ).......why?....saturation in the Japanese market......!
You remind me of the wait I had to go though in order to get my Coldplay X&Y album, The Japanese got it days before the rest of the world and there's even a bonus track just for them! Although the album costs 2-3 times more.
It seem like the Japanese are much more willing to pay more $$$ in order to get the cool stuff first.
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Don't forget that there are non-chrono Asian 7750s out there, like the Arktos.
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No Rollie GMTs for $109...... All of them are at least $150 so no change.
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I can imagine a maximum of 20 people on this board getting one, but the dealer will have to carry the rest....unlikely to happen I think.
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Because if it is 900$ there is nothing new here
At least he's a reliable dealer.
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Perhaps one of those green balls that Narikaa talked about?
(Pics are near the bottom)
Are Luxury Watches Worth Their Prices?
in General Discussion
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Try Ulysse Nardin, their ADs often has to offer big discounts as their watches are not very popular.
Many Rolex ADs do offer discounts of up to 20%, especially in places like Hong Kong and perhaps Dubai where competition is more fierce.
Of all the brands Louis Vuitton is the best at keeping the prices high as they don't have any authorised dealers apart from eluxury.com, they only sell their watches in their own boutiques therefore they're much more valuable at the 2nd hand market.
Edit: eluxury.com is actually owned by LVMH, the parent of Louis Vuitton so they're not actually an AD.