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Yeah, it is a great gesture and the watch is being fully enjoyed now. I agree, and although I don't participate as much as many others, it is the one reason I have a total of one post on the 4 other rep sites I've signed up on. Thanks! My mom actually liked the watch before she knew what was on the back. Now that she knows, she looks at it every so often and giggles like a little school girl. She was showing it off to her friends today and some of them looked very uncomfortable, it was a funny scene. We appreciate it tremendously, thanks. Thanks, I appreciate the sentiment. I always think that no matter how bad things may seem, someone is worse off than you are and try to be optimistic.

So last week in the VIP room, member deiselpower held a little contest for a free Jaeger LeCoultre replica which I was fortunate enough to win. Well, to my total surprise (a credit to deiselpower, Royal Mail, and Canada Post) the watch arrived yesterday. Only 7 days (5 business days!) from The United Kingdom to Canada! This is the fastest I have ever received a watch, excluding one that was sent in 2 days by Fedex. Deiselpower wrapped, packed, and posted the watch the same day - and that was for free! In my appreciation I have donated $10 to RWG on Deiselpower's behalf since he paid for the postage out of pocket (I wish it could have been more, but in addition to a few tragedies that have befallen our family recently, I have also become unemployed). Anyway, here are some quick snaps of the watch I took yesterday: And here's a shot on my massive wrist (actually, I have small wrists, but big arms and big hands). The watch is very small, but my mom saw it and loved it. She asked me if she could wear it so I gave it to her. She couldn't understand the concept of how someone half way around the world - whom I've never met - could give away a beautiful piece like this, so again I must thank deiselpower for his generousity and RWG for the great spirit in this forum. I made a little clip of the movement and put it to music. We all had a laugh when we saw the movement. I couldn't get a good angle because the watch is really shiny, but here it is:

I have to say, after reading over this entire thread, that although this stuff might be crap (to paraphrase some of the ideas presented) as a luminous agent, it might be worth the $30 or so just to get and ruin a couple of $20 watches. I mean, *if* you're thinking of trying this out as a hobby, you'll probably ruin 2 or 3 watches before you get one that's even acceptable from arm's length. Forget about being good at that point. So if you're going to practice on a crappy watch that you don't care about, why use the good stuff? When (if) you get good, spend the $100 or whatever SL costs and then do up your favourite PAM or whatever.

First, I have to say that I agree with just about everything you said, TTK. I bought most of my stuff on those sites, and even when you know what questions to ask, the sellers either lie, or pretend not to speak English. I got a couple of great deals on there (two tone ultimate BCE for $250 shipped, 116509 Daytona for $180 shipped) but they started off as low ball offers on $500 asking prices and took half a week of bargaining to negotiate. I got lucky and nothing went wrong. My first rep, however, was a Swiss Sea Dweller with "King size" box set for $200. I got an asian sea dweller with the small (cheap) rep box, no tags, no wallet, no anchor, no engraving on the caseback, and a seller who vanished after I complained. I think the "fish in a barrel" reference in this case just means it's easier to sell to a bunch of people who are actually/actively looking to buy the stuff. The fact that we are educated helps both the buyer and the seller. You'd be amazed how many people I know still believe you can buy "fake" watches for $20 and some of the offers I see people make on ioffer are absurd.

Cool, actually now that you mention it, it does remind me of a crosswind. (p.s. - I noticed a few posts, not necessarily yours, where the text repeats. Is that a bug or like a signature gimmick?)

That thing could use a hardcore sanding though.. but still very nice.

Very nice! You're killing me with that bracelet - when I bought my "ultimate" BCE back in June, I was told that a two tone rep bracelet did not exist.

Well put.

I think that's the misconception most people have about Photoshop. They equate "Photoshop" with "airbrushing". I agree that if you are smoothing, smudging, or otherwise manipulating a part of the picture to hide something in a trade ad, that's wrong. But in every other case most poeple's raw photo's look nothing like the actual thing that they're photographing. In real life , the only time you will see a "raw" photo is if you have a Poloroid. Even the tech at your local one hour photo usually "enhances" and "corrects" your pictures without your knowledge.

I think it's fine to use Photoshop on pictures. It's the digital equivalent to a darkroom. Photographers use chemicals to change exposure, colour balance, contrast, saturation, etc when developing film and I don't think too many people would complain about that. Even the guys at your local Wal-mart or whatever do it. As long as your not smoothing out a scratch, or filling in worn parts, etc. I'd say it's even acceptable in ads. How many times have you heard a seller say something like "it's more brown than the pic makes it look"? That's what Photoshop is for.

Sounds like the hand is slipping. If that's the case, I think the only fix is to take it apart, remove the hand, and glue the hand to the hand tube.

Wow, that really is an awesome view! Which way does that face? A sunrise or sunset over the hill would put that over the top.

I get this: Moving... As you can see, nothing works.. We should be back some time this weekend, stay tuned -The Management So yes they're down apparently

Only if you trust someone who admits that they buy their [censored] from another seller and charge $300-400 more than that guy. (I think we can safely assume that he's not paying the published price for them when he buys them) Nobody's talking about contact info. It's a web site, and as such, has already been revealed to the www. I don't understand how sending an email to someone who publishes their address on their website would cause trouble for them. No part of that argument makes any sense.

A two tone bracelet for the BCE is about $2000 give or take. I wouldn't trust that any rep has solid gold mid-links. Maybe solid, gold mid-links (i.e. solid mid-links that are gold plated)

Like most I try to rotate my watches, but I had been wearing my lv16610 quite a bit untill I got a (fantasy) Breitling Emergency for my nephew. I asked the seller to put it on a leather strap since the bracelet wouldn't size small enough for his wrist, but it's still too big so I kept it and got him a guitar. I liked the strap so much that I find myself wearing it 24/7 unless I'm going out (when the BCE, Super Avenger, Daytona or Carrera get their time out). The Sub is my exclusive swimming/ hot tub watch. P.S. This thread should probably have a lot more pictures.

I've also noticed that some gay men like to wear pants...

Sometimes, it just is... ...I know after seing that QVC watch, I'll never look at a "bund" the same way again.

Putting on a PAM is like coming out of the closet. Real men wear Breitling. Flame away...

Glad you're happy with it. I think you might have just created a little spike in guitar sales on DHgate. I hope the quality of yours is a reflection of the general quality of the rep guitars coming out of china now. p.s. I like the headstock. If your fingers get tired from shredding you could turn it over and fire a couple of pucks around to relax, lol!

Awesome guitar, congrats on your purchase! I'm glad the guitar's solid and it shipped in a reasonable amount of time (unlike some of my watches!). I'm going to have to put some pennies together now and look into getting me a PRS. Can't wait wait to hear how it sounds (might be nice if you laid something down "out of the box" then played the same thing again when it's fully set up and modded using the same effects to get a before and after). ...and, in to keep it in true RWG style: Have you spotted the flaw(s) yet?

Sweet! Can't wait to hear all about it and see the pics. I read that escrow bit on DHgate, but (without jinxing your buy) I figured it only guaranteed that the seller would ship you something. Now whether it was what they advertised or an empty box is a whole other matter (not like that couldn't happen on eBay anyway). I hope the guitar ends up being as good as it looks.

I think a lot of them use babelfish. I bought "the exalted electricity of the guitar jewel Gibson"

It's not uncommon for people to own replicas of genuine items they possess such as watches and jewelery. Considering OJ's (former) net worth, a two tone Sub would compare to the average person owning a Casio. I'm sure he actually has a genuine sub, and turned over a fake just to [censored] Goldman off. Whether or not he was responsible for the two murders, you have to see it his way: he was acquitted by a jury and probably feels that the judgement against him is unjust.

tuh-may-tow or tow-mat-oh?