Victoria
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New Order's Crystal
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Paul Oakenfold's album Bunkka (all of it)
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One more.
...guessing Ben & Jerry won't be coming out with this flavour.
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Well, at least you called them fag ends and not fag butts.
Now that would really have drawn snickers from an immature American like me!!
Wellllll.
Actually, MJ, at my university American Rhodes' scholars sometimes put on an "English" accent, which they would inevitably have at end of first term. No one would criticise them openly, but you know, it was a little ridiculous.
I remember one gathering when one such guy (a virulent non-smoker) in a very loud voice, yelled across the room -- "Hey, whose fag butts are these?!!".
Reply, "Yours ducky" in a very mincey tone.
Guess you had to be there.
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Great Advice as always Victoria.
Thank you both, so much.
I'd like to say something now, not out of false modesty, but because it's the truth.
My speciality on this forum is helpfulness. It comes easily to me, because I truly like to help people out. But please do not mistake my eagerness with anything approaching true knowledge about watches. I'm almost as much a newbie as you are, Lifter.
Sure, I know a little, and I've bought tonnes of rep watches, but it pales in comparison to the true experts here, like Sssurfer, Kruzer00, PamMan, and so many others.
So I'll always be active in these types of threads -- but knowing my limitations. There, wanted to get that off my chest since last night.
Good luck, though! Great choice, and spot on about the straps, Stormy.
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Umm....when it's over.
You said the 17th of Feb, right, Ken?
Just to note that the US has President's Day, and Canada has Family Day on Monday. There's always something!
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Laz,
works perfectly keep those pictures coming up.
Ditto, Laz. I think I saw you briefly too. Handsome!
One of my idiosyncracies is that I don't want to know how people look like online. I have a mental pic of them and that is fine. Weird I know. So I'll bow out of these threads "porsia", as Spaniards say.
May this GTG be the best yet, good luck all!
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Hi Vic!
He's cute....I wonder what he's wearing??? We need to see some of his wrist shots!
My powers of deduction tell me you didn't read the last Wristcheck.
Hike, I credited you because of your Valentine's .sig!
Night all.
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Lifter, if I could go back in time, and speak to my newbie rep-buying self, I'd say this:
Girl, save your money. Go for the best PAM you can find, even if you think it's RIDICULOUS to pay 390 USD for a Panerai rep. Once you buy the best version, that first watch you bought will never be put on again, after the second.
I beg you on my knees, Lifter, to consider buying the best version first. Be it Davidsen, be it TWP, be it Angus, be it whomever. And above all, READ READ READ the Panerai section, at least 6 months-worth. And the abbreviations list.
EDIT: Okay, I just read your reply about being glued. Yay!
Your baby steps have been taken by others, me included. If I had listened to the membership when I was asking the same question, I would've bought a Davidsen 112 straight off the bat.
But noooooo, I had to buy a fantasy Mini-Fiddy from Paul first just because it was $99. Ugh. I never wear it.
Others have told you the second set of Silix Fiddy photos are best. Agreed. Please know that Jay is one of my favourite merchants but speedy replies are not his fort
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Do I seem to be the only member who travelled into the future to take these wristshots???
Because they're so Old School, they're almost coming back in style?
I can deduce three things about your Wristcheck, but time-travel isn't one of them, Anton.
1- You've got a cat (or a feisty missus)
2- You like to work out (or is that not a treadmill but a pen in the background?)
3- You have great taste in watches
Anton Followup: Sorry, can't reveal that. You'll have to buy my forthcoming book, Secrets of the Wristie Code.
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I start driving in 9 hours
It's about 3-4 hours from Cologne to Amsterdam, right? How about Hannover to Brussels?
BTW, if I were going, I'd do it British-style -- make everything into a big joke.
I'd have had some seamstress do up ENORMOUS cloth Gold Stars, "Zings", and Disagrees, etc, and pinned them unto each guest as they arrived.
@FxrAndy below: Too right. Best foot forward. Knock 'em dead in your Armani -- good luck!
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114 (soon to be converted to an 010D) for Friday:
I don't get it. Why has no one replied with, "But isn't this a 113, Dluddy?".
:p@TMG below: The Speedy?
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WHY does that last picture remind me of Jane Seymour?
Because you've been horny since 1976?
*runs!!*
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FRIDAY
Llsteve and Shundi only just mentioned "Where did all the Movados go?". Well, they're with me!
A "vintage" Movado Esperanza, bought when I was a teenie!, next my Fendi tribal clutch.
Movados aren't a fave anymore, but hey.
Bergies, take note. Tribal clutches are the HOTTEST summer item in '08!
SATURDAY
UB7, you saved yourself a bundle. Here is that Manifatture Firenze Naturale Suede strap, similar to your PawMarker's. It's on the PAM 177h.
We have Slai Shots, but sideways Wristchecks are now "Scoobs Shots"!
SUNDAY
I had to put on my new Greg Stevens' Silver Scoopster IMMEDIATELY, so even though I was at lunch, I used a toothpick to change straps.
:lol: 
Worked!
It looks divine on the rarely used PAM 199.
...have a safe weekend everyone. Especially those at the GTG!
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I was thinking about this one from pam111 for my first rep.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Batten down the hatches! Damn the torpedos, don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!!
Just no.
http://www.rwg.cc/members/index.php?showforum=117
First few threads:
- Paul's Shipping Seized at Customs
Why Doesn't He Listen...
- Paul
chronology Part II
- Wrong Band / Bracelet
- Paul delivered a different watch
- Paul
chronology Part I
- Big problems with Paul @ wo-mart PAM111
Try Andrew, Josh, Silix, heck even Tony at Cquout whom I never used. Anyone, but not Paul for your FIRST rep. Or any rep (IMHO)...
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That is the english showing through, you should have seen the looks i got in New york and asked where i could get a pack of fags!
And was the answer "Near Washington Sq"?
Yeah, sorry about that guys. I am USUALLY very good about using North Americanisms alongside. I brainfarted.
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Thanks to River's spring bars, though, I wear it often. It remains one of my favorites
Wrong thread to ask, but that other one is poisonous...not returning:
Anyone know if River will continue selling his springbars, now that he intimates he's "retiring" from dealing in rep watches?
@Robi: Thanks so much!
...but I am receiving a package from DSN next week. I'll just ask him to send some more. Thanks though. -
Brilliant
You'll rarely find such a failsafe business plan. I wonder if they need venture capital...I'm in!!! Wasn't it Jfreeman who was a venture capitalist? Bling and gum. Could happen!
EDIT: Oops, Andrew! That should be butts.
Err...
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Are you kidding me?!? :lol:
Wait, wait this is good!
Found this via the NYC article on their site. There's an artist named Ben Wilson, who finds gum on the floor and turns it into art.
He doesn't pick it up. He leaves it there and decorates.
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Busy as a one-armed paper hanger?
You've been conquering Poland???
(Only history buffs will get this.
)Seriously, though, that last side shot of the "bubble" -- if you ever make that into wallpaper size, please post it. I'm so there.
FOLLOWUP: Thanks! My desktop looks gorgeous.
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Hey Nanuq! I asked after you only yesterday.
Who can spot the most things wrong with this piece? It can be YOURS, for only $15,000
Drat. I was going to use my cheat sheet.
http://bjsonline.com/watches/gallery/index.php
Not there.
http://bjsonline.com/watches/gallery/index...ex_Turn-o-Graph
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Obviously the (gen) Monaco now is pretty desirable and whilst not huge money still more than your average joe would pay for a watch so would this be the same in the 60's or is it likely that this sort of character would own a Monaco ?
Hey H-n-P. You don't post often, but when you do, it's always interesting.
I think we have to get rid of this idea in our minds, that characters in films will be able to afford the watches they do. Clearly, even in period pieces, actors wear watches their characters could never have afforded.
I am thinking of the vintage Vulcain in Atonement worn by (the largely working class) James McAvoy.
And I kept yelling during Gridiron Gang that how can a high school football coach at a juvie facility be able to afford a Panerai!
They can do that because most people who are not into watches don't notice. It's just a watch. I'm guessing that's the case with the Monaco, though I haven't seen The Bank Job.
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B-bbut, fag ends litter the streets much more!
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movement accuracy.
Let me tell you, I now have DSN's 112, 113, 127, and 232. Timewise, they don't miss a beat. ALWAYS on time.
TBH, that should be enough with most people, but it's not with rep watch owners. Shame, eh?
Chinese New Year
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Hey Sailingjack! Saskawatchan too. Guess they'll be watching Little Mosque on the Prairie.
Typical.
My boyfriend told me about this Family Day last night (he's in TO, as you know). I was teasing him how Canadians copy all the days off that Americans have (not true, of course), so they coincide.
After I posted this, I looked up Family Day on Wiki. This is Ontarians first year celebrating it??? Weird. I could've sworn there was another holiday in Canada around mid-February before. My favourite is still Victoria Day, though.
@Sailinjack below: There's only one problem with teasing him about his favourite hockey team. The Laffs are also my favourites.
