capice Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Always great to see some familiar faces some similarities with Brussels 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted January 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Written my Mette: Dear all, I somehow can't get to the reply-thingy on the board; so here you go: Now for the extended review of our GTG jan. ’11: We gatered 11ish at the front door of the Rikketik expo. Everybody was already there when I arrived fashionably late! I did the phone-ringing trick to find our who the geeks where; there we’re some others at the door. Introduced ourselves and got going. The expo was a trip, sometimes back in time with lots of vintage and sometimes really nice minters. Amazing to see crap on one hand, on the other loads of really great HIGH end stuff like PAMS, Vacherins, Pateks Rollies and others. When I now think of it, I realise the guys in the back of the hall had a small fortune in watches for sale. The strangest thing I found was that where two, of which we knew, that actually sold REPS. One had them stacked in a hidden briefcase, the other had them displayed in a box just in front on the table, for every one to see/ touch/ inspect. I always had the assumption the GENS lovers would lite on fire if they would know there where REP dealers around?! Seems like the business is changing... After we gathered again and had a coffee we drove ourselves, as if it was a Military Colon, to Utrecht. The tall bronze ladies at the front welcomed us as we sat down at the ideal long table; as if they knew we where coming. Not long after the same table was stacked with everything that has to do with REPS: Watch boxes, tools, booklets, beer topped off with GEEKSSSS! Amaizing to find out you are not the only one to always have a cleaning cloth near your babies! Nice to see other brands, to be able to put them on your wrists, feel them, admire them and most of all get them smudged The D-man brought along some hardcover brochures of the brands we all luv. I took one of his Breitling books as this one had the original Blackbird model in it Capice took along Andy and Alex; watch-case maker if I am correct and watchmaker. They really know what they are talking about; Alex did a small hands on tuto on how the reversing wheel works, what the basic differences are in chines vs. Swiss etc. Very interesting! I also understood there will be the option to have workshop with Alex. He can train us to do our own servicing and regulating starting with a basic 2824-2. (correct me if I am wrong). Then it happened: D-man tapped his glass and D and Capice showed their CUSTOMS-FIOD-card: He stated we all had to give up our REPS! Every ones hart missed a beat, I am sure mine did ..... WE GOT PRANKED! BIGTIME! All in all a success as we already could read of our last posts. I hope next time there will be more GEEKS: not only the ones that show up, but also the ones that confirmed their presence here on the board, but never showed up at the GTG: too bad you guys missed on hell of an afternoon! A special thanks goes out to: - our Belgium friends that came all the way from Anvers and a little town near Hasselt, - Alex and Andy for giving us some very use full info, - Rogers for letting me touch his holy grail, - D-man for his nice presents, - RG DUTCH for the peace sign - Capice for his Photoshoppin’ (really like the way he managed to combine the brands to the persons) @ Mike; How’s it hangin’? Feeling better? Look at it this way: You get to spend more time in bed with the wifey @ Capice: Damn I missed out on the collection your brought: there really are some that would luved to have on my wrist: next time you will sit next to me! Thanks all for reading! Regards, IMMette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted October 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2011 Next GTG on the show 16th.10 at http://www.derikketik.nl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted October 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2011 BUMP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted October 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 So who else is joining!? Meeting at the front door 16th.10/10:30 on the www.derikketik.nl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted October 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2011 ..and then we go to: http://www.dewinkelvansinkel.nl/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted December 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2012 Next NL/BEN/D GTG; http://www.derikketik.nl/ 13th.01.2013 at 10:30 at the door (also posted on RWI/RWG2/WC/RG/RWI....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted January 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 9 days to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Wow! I never knew there where "so many" dutchies around here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martijnp Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 This is like 40 min from my hometown, maybe I'll be there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted January 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 This is like 40 min from my hometown, maybe I'll be there We will be standing out side at the left! The good-looking ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markiemark Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Now we have pretty much all Dutch members here, is there a watch smith among us from the Netherlands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theflyingdutchman Posted January 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Now we have pretty much all Dutch members here, is there a watch smith among us from the Netherlands? Maybe a german one! One day to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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