Waiting list for a watch!

[Grant Fondo]

Thanks but I’ll pass on that

No problem, £4900 thats my last offer.

 

[Grant Fondo]

[QUOTE 5106026, member: 76"]When I started reading this thread the banner advert was for Canon Cameras. Now look............

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No bentley otherwise would have bought a couple lol!

 

[User33236]

[QUOTE 5106026, member: 76"]When I started reading this thread the banner advert was for Canon Cameras. Now look............

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Have you been viewing watches online? Adverts usually link to your recent web searches.

 

[Beebo]

The fake Rolex I bought, from a street vendor in London about 20 years ago, is still going strong. Just had a few changes of battery in that time.

If you have to put a battery in it, it is not a very good fake.
The best fakes are self winding.
My old neighbour was a master watch maker at the Rolex service centre in Kent. Fake watches would be sent back to their owner in a Jiffy bag, having been smashed with a lump hammer.

 

[Dirk]

If you have to put a battery in it, it is not a very good fake.
The best fakes are self winding.

I'm not complaining, for a fiver. It's a cheap watch that has run for 20 years and keeps pretty good time.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I gave up on expensive watches some years ago but gave up on Rolex even sooner.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist (OCD) with such things and Rolex underwhelmed me tbh.

I purchased a Submariner and irritatingly the notched ring around the bezel was out of skew with the luminescent dot at the 12'o'clock on the bezel. To my mind either a peak or a trough on the notched ring should align with the centre top of the dot. Despite several attempts this proved impossible. To be fair to the dealer they didn't charge me for reinstating the ugly cyclops magnifying thingy that I'd had 'knocked off' prior to purchase.

Swapped to an Explorer 2 and this had a couple of date numbers that did not sit square in the little oblong aperture. Two new date rings later it still was not possible to have every date square within the aperture.

Gave up and switched to Breitling instead.

 

[User33236]

If you have to put a battery in it, it is not a very good fake.
The best fakes are self winding.
My old neighbour was a master watch maker at the Rolex service centre in Kent. Fake watches would be sent back to their owner in a Jiffy bag, having been smashed with a lump hammer.

My son tells me his local official Omega service centre ‘confiscates’ all fake watches they receive and send them to the crusher.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

What sort of watch is it then, do we know yet?

 

[Mrs M]

Mr M’s brother has a “funcy watch”
Cost £200 for a service
Don’t get it myself?

 

[Tim Hall]

What sort of watch is it then, do we know yet?

What watch?

 

[vickster]

[QUOTE 5106675, member: 45"]I got one of these when they were reduced. It's been going for years. I appreciate the workmanship enough to spend the difference on a car, or a couple of bikes, or an extension...[/QUOTE]
What sort of extension?!

 

[User33236]

My son has been having a dig that he’s already got his dream watch, an Omega Speedmaster moon watch.. I did point out though th it must be terribly disappointing knowing that anywho wants to can simply walk in off the street and but one

 

[Profpointy]

My son tells me his local official Omega service centre ‘confiscates’ all fake watches they receive and send them to the crusher.

Isn't that straightforward theft ?

 

[User33236]

Isn't that straightforward theft ?

Possibly but then I don’t know the the ins and outs of the processes they go through.

 

[User33236]

Got a call today from a jewellers to say they have a watch in for me!

Deposit paid. Will pick it up when I return from the a short break we have planned.