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10-29-2014, 08:50 AM
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To all you guys with Rolies:
What do you do for a living? I need to reassess being an engineer it appears... 
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10-29-2014, 09:18 AM
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sure are some very fine pieces on this thread
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10-29-2014, 10:00 AM
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 I got this. A serious lookalike, the movement is the Chinese built version of the Breitling Chronomat.
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10-29-2014, 10:06 AM
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i was a watch nut long before i was a bike nut. i love mechanical watches.
here's a great picture - me, drinking, holding my #1 lady and showing the watch. 
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10-29-2014, 10:38 AM
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I actually don't make enough money to collect at the level I have been able to, I just got lucky: I was turned onto watches by a great watchmaker who lived near me and who was a master technician for both Omega and Rolex watches. I pulled up to his shop in a Porsche 911 I owned at the time, and that did it: we talked for about two hours. Turns out that,like me, he raced vintage Porsches and he used to run with Paul Newman and actually repaired the Grail of Daytonas himself. He was very free with his time and taught me how to do maintenance and basic repairs. That was at the dawning of eBay era, when nobody took good pictures of their items, people were reluctant to buy items without pictures, and from out of the country. I started buying watches and took a number of chances and got lucky more times than not. When I bought an Omega Speedmaster 2915 (The collectors will know this is a biggie) for $3500, I thought my wife was going to kill me. I told her it was an investment, and when I sold it 4 years later for $17,000, she was much less upset. I have done well with the buy/fix/sell model since, and was lucky enough to get it on the ground floor of the popularity of collecting vintage watches.
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10-29-2014, 11:52 AM
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10-29-2014, 12:05 PM
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10-29-2014, 01:14 PM
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Re: Who likes watches?
I bought my first Rolex in 1990 for $1700. Explorer 2 model. .I bought it in a jewelry store that was no longer carrying the product t line and the we're clearing out the inventory. ..I sold it about 5 years later for $3500.
I've had 3 different Rolex models since then...currently wearing a GMT Master with ceramic bezel.
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10-29-2014, 01:15 PM
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10-29-2014, 02:25 PM
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I've bought, sold, traded, and fixed high grade watches for a very LONG time. Before 1980, I'm sure. I've owned so many that I can't count them anymore.
I have it down to about 12 or so these days. They come and they go, it's no big deal. Today I have been wearing a RGM,tomorrow, who knows.
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10-30-2014, 11:56 AM
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Suggestions for a person interested in getting his first real watch appreciated.
Budget 2500 A few preferences Mid size body. Nothing too large Thinking a stainless body and band Like look of rolexes and omegas but doubt I can afford Suggestions of what to get and where appreciated.
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