All About Watches

Leland is a 1920s railway worker, gramaphone merchant and overcoat designer.
 
Rambo said:
Wouldn't it be a pocket watch? A merchant of musical equipment would have to dress nicely.
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That's what I was thinking too
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fxh said:
They are mainly sold to Asian business men and Americans generally to wear with suits at work.
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Europeans and Arabs are also big purchasers. I guess only rich Aussie blokes are stuck wearing timex on nato straps. Keep fooling yourself son.
 
fxh said:
Let me get this straight.
There are watches that cost the price of a new family car that are called diving watches. They are made to withstand water pressure and look as fugly as possible. They are mainly sold to Asian business men and Americans generally to wear with suits at work. These days real divers don't use them. But some do. The diving watches aren't for diving but on the other hand they definitely are for diving.
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Accurate
 
doghouse said:
I really like that watch.
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Amazon has the best price, Seiya japan its not worth it, but get the clasp from them and a better leather strap. The other day I went to the Audemars boutique in Bal Harbor and the staff couldnt believe it was a Seiko lol.
 
Yeah, that's a beauty. I am partial to GMT watches myself.
 
doghouse said:
Until someone shows up with a Dufour, it's all small timers around here.
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Phillips are fine, so hard to get I have heard. My friends are into rolex, hublots, ap, pateks, and cartiers. One of them had a panerai, but when we all started telling him it was only for douchebags he sold it lol. Im the poor one lol.
 
Just tell him Foo likes Panerais, that should do it.

I'd also ditch any friends into Hublot. :truestory:
 
LKP said:
olo ****** no?
please compare royal oak and big bang prices
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We're on the same page. From a normal person standpoint, its a "slightly more rich" than normal that's hitting the Hublot. The truly rich are going for the AP's.
 
look at all those russians
got some corruption kickback money, bought an hublot
continue to live in their 1bedroom shitshole
 
I spotted this article recently:

http://www.executivestyle.com.au/swiss-watchmaker-greubel-forsey-cuts-price-of-entrylevel-signature-1-watch-in-half-gm8q6e

Gruebel Forsey has cut the price of its entry-level watch by 50%, from 298 000 Swiss francs down to 150 000 Swiss francs.

I thought that this quote was amusing:

"It was a good idea also that we could decrease the price for being attentive to some clients who can't afford a watch of 300,000 francs," Bernard said in an interview at the Geneva watch salon. "Many can't even afford a 100,000-franc watch. They look at Greubel Forsey and say, 'No way, I can't afford it'."

Looks like the reduction in corruption-rich Chinese buying Swiss watches is causing a global slow-down in the industry. Perhaps this will result in a levelling-off, or even a reduction, in the ridiculous price rises that we've seen over the past decade.
 
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