Fidestro

Welcome. Appears you are a long time lurker, first time poster. Good luck. You will be buying many more than the four eventually!

im more than 18 thank you very mach. and sorry if i sound rude, but what does my age have anything to do with the problem we have here?

i dont think im out of line to post my comments about whom i complain about. i am only trying to help out the community by telling you guys what happened.

if this happened to me, it could happen to you!

i dont think anyone would be happy to be out of 3 watches without any explanation.

maybe its only 3 watches to most of you. but guess what, those 3 watches i have paid for are nearly a grand. that to me is certainly not just a couple of dollars.

and moderator TT:

by being a mod, should you not try and look out for supporting members like us when there is a problem with one of the dealers that you hand picked? not only have you not helped in this situation, but you have also made other members scared to post in this thread about the current problem we have at hand. im sure im not the only one without my watches.

who knows, maybe someday this thread could become another "is jackob away?". by then would you still feel that im just whining? by me posting here, all im trying to do is warn other members not to send their watches to tomhighway anymore until he resolves the current problems. am i so wrong? I THINK NOT!

thank you for listening

TT does not "hand pick" any of the dealers on this site and as such is not responsible for whatever goes on between yourself and another individual. Think of this place as a newspaper classified section. If you buy a car from a seller in the newspaper and the car is [censored], do you blame the newspaper? I don't think so.

I don't mean to offend you, but I think you need to do some more reading. All of the supported dealers listed on the site have actual watch photos on their website. You will get farther by reading the guides in the individual sections than registering and requesting others to direct you.

Overall, it is a great place with a lot more to offer than just "who has the best xxx"

I have to chime in on this and say this is the one time in my life where I feel like a virgin, pure as the driven snow!

TT beat me to it. Dr.TuB, perhaps the customer service obtained by overpaying for a gen is more to your liking.

Really Well-Endowed Guys

I believe you mean to say Swiss 7750. The 7753 is an entirely different movement with different configurations of subdials, etc. and does not have an Asian counterpart.

There are Asian 7750 as well as Swiss 7750.

You mean bklm1234 I assume?

To play devil's advocate, how is this different than the earlier thread about drug testing people who receive government benefits?

Having a ton of kids is not illegal, drug use is.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/WomensHealth/...9355&page=1

I assume many of you know about the woman in the story above, the one who just gave birth to eight kids, already had six at home. All of the kids were created via in vitro, the woman is unemployed, unmarried, and living with her (also unemployed) parents. I was at dinner with my family yesterday, all of us are in the medical profession in one way or another and we had a debate on ethics and this woman's sanity.

Your throughts?

Pusher Man and Freddy's Dead by Curtis Mayfield

I have been to the Tourneau in the forum shops every year for the last four years and the sales people in there are extremely rude and ignore the customers. Tourneau is a good place to "window" shop but they won't give you much help and won't cut you a deal. They are most interested in signing people up for their credit card.

I spoke with a sales lady at another watch shop in the forum and mentioned it to her and she says that her customers complain about them all the time, so it is not just me. I ended up buying a Tag in her shop because she was great to deal with and gave me a discount.

If you are really looking to buy, check out the shops in the Venetian. They have two or three smaller shops that are great to deal with. Most casinos do have their own dealers but service is extremely hit and miss. I struck out at the shop in the Mirage before we went to the Beatles Cirque show.

Haha! You know who's ancient? Spidey's mom!

I know, I smacked her on the [censored] the other night and she farted dust!

watchmaker9.tv

Holy ancient thread batman!

I just bought the limited Debaufre 48mm from TZ (089/200). Fantastic watch, totally sterile dial, nice straps, nice box. You can find them second hand all the time on TZ.

For a new one, Debaufre apparently is creating a bunch of 000/200 watches for "friends." Kind of shady but they offered me one.

http://store.debaufre.com/Nav-B-Limited-Ed...-dw.03.08le.htm

I agree on it being shady, kinda takes the meaning out of a limited edition.

Well said! Every little bit helps.

As an aside, it chaps my ass when people say they can't afford then talk about the new Blacksteel or Super Avenger they just ordered!

I received a bum watch from a respected member and just ended up eating it, I let him know and never received much of a response.

Also just wanted to clarify, you are not really having it coated again. They strip off the chinese AR before they do an aftermarket AR job, so stating that it is coated "over" the rep AR is incorrect. Several people offer AR removal as a service but I have had good luck taking some really fine graded steel wool to the crystal to strip the rep ar.

There is also a coloring issue to keep in mind. Most of the heavy AR on the reps has a strong blue tint to it. This tint is more accurate to the gen on some brands and less so on others. For example, a gen Breitling will have a heavy blue tint so the rep is close to the gen in that regard, but an IWC will not have the bluish tint to in in the gen but the rep does.

I am surprised that I have not seen the "other Fiddy" yet, the Fifty Fathoms.

You did not mention Vacheron Constantin in your list, but you need to be making a good amount of coin to pull that off.

Financially it would most likely not be worth it. Citizen watches usually are not worth much used. I would not recommend trying the gold plating as that usually looks cheap and comes off.

Despite the financial aspect, it may be worth it to you to fix it up for your own personal reasons. If you are really attached to this watch then by all means go for it.

IWC, and I like the Gone in 60 Seconds ref

That woman must be related to the pompus bastard who posted photos of his PP on the private jet.

The lady above does nothing for me. As an added unnecessary display of wealth she is wearing the watch over her coat, begging someone to beat the hell out of her and steal it.

Give me a knockout in a t-shirt and jeans wearing a regular sub over that high maintenance Cruella DeVille look alike.