Victoria

"I can fortell that you will have a long, varied and eventfull life....

Now let me read your palm....

Oh

I see you aready have!"

I would post a photo of my palms, save for the fact that they're now quite horrid, and I fear the RWG palmists who could tell me I am going to croak at 53.

Weirdly, my left palm is more wrinkled than the right, though I am right-handed...I hate Cape Cod cloths!!

I read that article too... and those guys dare call the rep trade a scam!!!

There's a saying in Spanish.

"Just because my house isn't clean, doesn't mean you're not dirty."

I don't think there are many clean hands in business, anywhere.

Interesting.The Wall Street Journal ran a very nice (and rather extensive) feature on high-end watches on Saturday. Several articles on different aspects of collecting, values & auctions. If you can find a newsagent that still has a copy, I would recommend picking it up. Well worth the trouble.

Or you can go to the public library, and read their copy there. I certainly will do that, and thanks for the heads up -- both of you!

Sweet, just made it my wallpaper as well!

Thanks

-J

Ditto, JJ -- thanks Jiro!!

Oh my. I am.

You'll need your balaclava going up the Dolomites again.

Either you have been a bit of a lurker before registering here, V, or you have great search skills. Congrats.

Check the date. 13 June. I joined a few days later, and that was one of the first threads my boyfriend pointed out: "Do you wear your watch during Sex?".

I knew I had found my home.

My dear Ms. Barrett, how nice to see you once more. To answer your many questions, I have been away at the Russian

Federation outpost near by the south pole. There is just some strange and delicious combination of close quarters and

all those love starved, healthy young men.

Yipes. Vladivostok sounds like Stoke-on-Trent, only with less alcoholism, obviously.

Now I see it is time to whip some sense back into my succulent salmon... he has been apparently a naughty boy in

my absence.

Am I to understand you are trothed to Nanuq? Just between you and me, Miss Understood, he'll never love you like unless you're beaten up old thing of over 50 years old.

And clearly, you're not a hair over 29.

Ahhhhhhhh, now I can die a happy man.

My toes are forever enshrined in the icebox of poor decisions.

Alongside the Charge of the Light Brigade, New Coke, and allowing Teresa Heinz Kerry to open her mouth in public, yes.

Oh, my. Are those the nude toesies of my succulent salmon?

It does give a lady the vapors.

Miss Understood, you are SO missed. Come back!! Pleasssssssse.

One wonders what you do when you're not on RWG.

Do you watch Oprah? Do you laugh at Dancing with the Stars? Do you give the lovelorn librarians at your local branch some sage advice about Listerine and some lipstick?

Well, aren't I the nosey parker. Oh, I did apply for your job vacancy as Miss Take, but my heart was never really in it. You're the best!

Ask and ye shall receive.

WINTER IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 28F right now and dropping like a brick!

NANUQ! You are mad, bad and dangerous to know! It's 28F out there!! You'll catch your death, your toes will get frostbite, your Rollie will freeze over, and your kno.b will drop off!

Nice shot though. My God, you're a real Man.

What irritates me (people not wearing timepieces is not one) is some one wearing a watch; and are always habitually late to appointments..

The mark of a mal elev

Vb-

One of my co-workers knows that I wear (what appear to be) expensive watches every day. He asked me why I did, since cell phones and other electronic devices many people carry, can provide the correct time at any given moment. For me, it boils down to something a famous radio personality said once- maybe Paul Harvey- that if you pay more than $30 (?) for a wristwatch, you are buying it to be worn as jewelry.

I think he said a very true word. This is why, if I were rich, I wouldn't mind paying for a $20,000 watch. Heck, I'd pay that for a bracelet or a ring which holds inert jewels or metals, why not a stunning, almost living mechanism like a timepiece?

(Nice Paul Harvey reference, BTW!)

I know you're a PAM enthusiast, but wouldn't Sienna have looked better in that photo (other than the underwear) if she was wearing one of these?

Wow, Arty I just bought this watch!

But I have nothing good to say about Miss Miller.

Not only did she attend the school which recently gobbled up my old boarding school (a pox on their House!), but I think it's despicable that when you're famous wearing your knickers on the outside is "fashion", but when you're poor, they call the Vice Squad on you.

Up the Revolution!

Can't we all just get along, and love all timepieces, of all shapes/sizes/brands?

Burn the witch!!!

on a lady: oh, we are halfway to the bed already

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=261157

"Yes, but not on my wrist..."

I never forget, Sssurfer, NEVER. Be very afraid.

For an 8th grader it was very well done--not-too in depth, lots of eye candy (or quality kills, as my sone would say) but for anyone who's watched the History Channel or TLC a couple times, sort of run of the mill.

Instead of my usual Family Guy at 9 PM I sat down to watch my other PBS station's documentary of "America in the 1940s".

It beats the Ken Burns documentary BY A MILE in terms of interviews, and recreating the atmosphere of the times. Wow, I'm shocked. I highly recommend any of you to watch this.

We had Tommy Dorsey, Frankie, jitterbugging teenagers, the draft (JFK was the 18th guy drafted in Frisco! I didn't know that, and I know EVERYTHING about him), and even just now, the story of a conscientious objector from South Carolina.

There were 34 million American males who were drafted in WWII, and only 217 conscientious objectors. He was one of them.

Though I absolutely hate what he did, the letter his dad wrote on his behalf because he was being sent to gaol -- saying that his other son was serving with pride in the Navy, but that this son had religious scruples, and he was proud of him too -- brought a tear to my eye.

No matter if I would die for the US if needed (and I would), I'd like to think I'd write that exact same letter for my kid too.

Next documentary is "The Depression".

Even though neither of these topics is cheerful, one about war and all its horrors, and the other, the worst of times economically for the world, there is a certain...unbelievable happiness...which radiates in these documentaries.

I love how remembering our youths makes us happy, even if we were miserable during it.

EDIT: HELLO! The Depression is about manic depressives, not about 1929-1939. WTF! LOL.

2006. But I do wish it had the 2007 caseback.

Just bought the IWC Cousteau 2007, with the school of fishies around the Diver.

(It was the super cheapie version, A12j, to see if I liked it. TWP has the one I want one day. Still would get the 2007 version though. It looks more "diverish")

I'm so excited -- my first IWC! Welcome me to the fold, brothers and sisters!

justmy2centsforwhatitsworthwhichweallknowaintmuch

Wait, TT, was that a bid? $220.02? Damn, you're cheap.

Thanks and I don't care what anyone says about you, you're alright in my book, Victoria. Here is a little something for you (since candy & flora are out)

Wow, good memory!

:wub:

Hugs.

I inspired something? That is sort-of way cool.VB, I still don't have a chance, do I?

Still taken. Almost off the market. One-man woman. So answer...maybe.

I don't see the correlation between not wearing watch = illiterate. However, I do appreciate if I'd have met someone who is a watch connoisseur and having a nice watch on his/her wrist, whatever the brand is.

Oh Takashi, don't be such a stick. I was being irreverent.

Odd you mention that. My grandfather gave me my first watch when I was 6. An Accromatic self-winding mechanical watch made by the Accro Watch Co., which I not only still have, but it is presently sitting on my table (in pieces) undergoing an overhaul.

Aww. I like you better now.

In case you missed it:

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=304639

I only wear a watch when I need to know the time (and I generally do not carry a cell phone anymore), so it does not bother me in the least whether someone else wears one or not.

Hmmmm..............maybe this should be a poll? Hang about.

BTW, I think you're crazy, just for the record, Freddy. Yeah, I know it's mutual.

I don't give it a second thought. I know plenty of men who don't wear watches and women who prefer bracelets. They typically are under 35, single and perpetual users of cell phones or blackberrys so they use that for telling time.

Whatever happened to buying your first watch as a kid? The excitement, the curiosity.

I remember a girl at my school who felt all grown up, when her mother gave her a watch to wear for the first time. Did she have appointments to keep? No. She was 8 years old.

But it's a rite-of-passage, dammit!

That they don't know what time it is!

Bad. Bad. Bad.

Knowledge of time is precious and took us millenia to conquer. Did they not read "Longitude" by Dava Sobel!?? On top of having no taste, people who don't wear watches regularly are illiterate. Humph!

But sometimes it's better to wear nothing than to wear a fossil. I feel especially bad when people wear a watch, and it is a Fossil.

I don't want to be unkind to anyone here, but I am with Corgi. I frikkin hate people who wear Fossil watches. Invictas I can understand. Swatches are kitschy.

But Fossils are ugly, and wannabe cool watches for people without imaginations. There. I said it. Hope they go into rehab because of my words.

This post idea is inspired by Jon Fort's recent thread on people who wear their watches loose. It got me to thinking -- chances are good we all like watches here.

So, what goes through your mind when you see a person without a watch on their wrist?

(Pretend they're not carrying a mobile to tell the time with either)

When they're talking to you, is your inner monologue racing in your head, wondering if they forgot to put a watch on that day, or they just don't care, or are they completely nuts -- who wouldn't want to wear a watch?

I don't know about you, but I feel nekkid outdoors without a watch. I'd rather go out looking like Sienna Miller with her pants outside her clothes...

...than not wear a watch. You?

He should just admit he cannot make a dial to save his life and get some help.

I would be first in line for one of those watches.

I believe he has been given advice recenly on some dials. The member himself recently said so in a related DSN thread.

When buying such a pricey watch one must use common sense -- I compared photographs for hours, as well as mined the knowledge of Paneristi here and in other forums.

I bought the two DSN watches which are closest to perfection -- the Fiddy, and the 112. I am waiting for a better 249, but I believe his 232 is very good too.

3) There is a lot of "China bashing".

This has always bothered me. When American goods are faulty, people pipe up like there's no tomorrow and bash America. But when Chinese products are at fault, not just Mattel's but others, somehow it's gloves off for China? No. Either we (irrationally) target both or neither, when needed. As I said, it's irrational, but at least given the propensity to yell at America, it's fair.

As for the question at hand, I know of no problems YET with Rep watches themselves. However, please read my "Rash" post:

http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=326810

I used Cape Cod cloths, diamond paste, and leather conditioner one Sunday night, all together without gloves, and by Tuesday I looked like the Elephant Woman. My palms are peeling still -- though my hands are back to normal (thank the Good Lord), my palms look like they're aged 50.

Such is life. Live and learn...