Longest quest for a watch

[Ezio]

So i Been looking for a TW daydate for 17months now and im beginning to lose hope 
 

been bumping wtb topics so long  

 

anybody Got some cool stories about patience paid off In The long run i Can cling on too ? 
 

best ezio 

[Nanuq]

Oh man, where do you want to start?!  I've got dozens of them.

 

It's a not too rare watch, so you have good chances of one showing up.  If it was a rare beast, I wouldn't be so sure.  But even then, it happens.  

 

I wanted a Pepsi 1675 GMT in the worst way, back in the mid 90s.  I had looked several years, when a friend of mine heard through another friend that I was looking.  He knew a guy who knew a guy, and before you know it I had a perfect example in my hands for $900.  I suspected it "fell off the back of a truck" but no, it was legit.

 

Same with my Doxa Black Lung, I heard rumors that Doxa had made these pieces with a USD logo on the dial.  So I looked high and low, and finally, just as we were going out of state for a vacation, one showed up on eBay.  This was before wifi and smart phones, so all I could do was place a big bid and cross my fingers.  Days later I checked my email and I had won!  So as soon as we got back home I sent the guy a pile of cash and he sent my baby.

 

It happens, almost always when you least expect it!