Show me your posh watches

j3w3ll3r said:
LOL, Springdrive.......really

i was at the sale of the very first one it sold for 17K euros I think and was inline to be 1 of 7 stockists on the UK, thank god I saw the light and bailed out. Its a lemon of a watch, although liked by the watch geeks over at TZ or Breitlingsource
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It depends what you want from a watch. I have a Seiko Chrono I bought new over 18 years ago - never been serviced and gains less than 30 seconds in a year .

None of the posh watches will come near that performance and will need expensive servicing periodically. At over £3K new I doubt the spring drive chrono is a lemon unless you're looking at it in terms of investment which the OP isn't.
 
j3w3ll3r said:
I was a Stockist :bang:

they are distributed in teh Uk by the company that distributes Raymond Weil, TW is actually a decent seller in some place (just not our shop lol). They are a cheaper copy of U Boat watches really
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Raymond Weil - another great way to throw money away needlessly :lol:
 
CT said:
It depends what you want from a watch. I have a Seiko Chrono I bought new over 18 years ago - never been serviced and gains less than 30 seconds in a year .

None of the posh watches will come near that performance and will need expensive servicing periodically. At over £3K new I doubt the spring drive chrono is a lemon unless you're looking at it in terms of investment which the OP isn't.
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Ahhh, yes I agree completely, If you want a watch to tell the time then buy a Seiko or Citizen, however the OP wants to spend £3300 so this opens up a whole new set of criteria of which time keeping is only a very small bit

Lets relate this to cars, would you spend £40k on the top of the range Citreon C6 or Vauxhal Vectra (or what ever the new model is) with every single option including funky paint, TV, Sat nav, Bose etc or would you buy a BMW, Merc or Porsche with less options
 
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Flash In The Pan said:
Raymond Weil - another great way to throw money away needlessly :lol:
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lol, you will notice i never recommended them anywhere, that said to this day my all time favorite watch is the Parsifal Chronograph watch although I could never bring myself to buy one
 
j3w3ll3r said:
Ahhh, yes I agree completely, If you want a watch to tell teh time then buy a Seiko or Citizen, however the OP wants to spend £3300 so this opens up a whole new set of criteria of which time keeping is only a very small bit

Lets relate this to cars, would you spend £40k on the top of the range Citreon C6 or Vauxhal Vectra (or what ever the new model is) with every single option including funky paint, TV, Sat nav, Bose etc or would you buy a BMW, Merc or Porsche with less options
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LOL Unfair question - my approach to cars is somewhat different to my approach to watches :D - but yep- I see what you're saying.
 
CT said:
LOL Unfair question - my approach to cars is somewhat different to my approach to watches :D - but yep- I see what you're saying.
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lol, the principles the same, so is the depreciation :eek:

I also have Citizen EcoDrive watch which i use for knocking about in and its absolutely brilliant for the money
 
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LOL I also have a G-Shock which I think I paid about 80 quid for a few years ago - it's radio linked to the atomic clock thingy, so accurate to within a second a day-I set it up when I bought it and haven't touched it since! Date changes, daylight saving etc is all done automatically, and it's solar powered. I dunno why I even bother looking at anything else.

Funny things watches - a bit like cameras -they can definitely part you from large bundles of your hard earned wonga! :D
 
obviously Stephen knows his stuff..........

Personally have always loved Tag's and bought one 2 yrs ago when made redundant....... compared to your £3300 budget i paid peanuts, <£500 and it was from a retail outlet centre which was showing last years stock.... but genuine and Tag, and I liked it. I will confess to deliberating for an hour or so befor ebuying it, as well, hell, my phone tells me the time.....

Wear it as the day to day watch......... which is mad because the watch my wife bought me as an engagement pressie was approx 1/2 the price and a rotary limited edition.

I believe they are called skeleton's as completely see through , all the movements etc etc, and can see my arm through it when I wear it for special occasions.

It;s all down to personal taste and personal budgets. For example there is a gorgeous Rolex on sale in Windsor Bishop in Norwich for £20,750....... been there a while for some reason...:lol::cuckoo:

I am guessing you could pay a lot more.........
 
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Not particularly posh, but different -

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CT said:
LOL I also have a G-Shock which I think I paid about 80 quid for a few years ago - it's radio linked to the atomic clock thingy, so accurate to within a second a day-I set it up when I bought it and haven't touched it since! Date changes, daylight saving etc is all done automatically, and it's solar powered. I dunno why I even bother looking at anything else.

Funny things watches - a bit like cameras -they can definitely part you from large bundles of your hard earned wonga! :D
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This is very true, i have finally got over my obsession with having to have the best/most expensive watch as its just part of my job, the only problem is Cameras have taken over :bang:
 
Lynton said:
obviously Stephen knows his stuff..........

Personally have always loved Tag's and bought one 2 yrs ago when made redundant....... compared to your £3300 budget i paid peanuts, <£500 and it was from a retail outlet centre which was showing last years stock.... but genuine and Tag, and I liked it. I will confess to deliberating for an hour or so befor ebuying it, as well, hell, my phone tells me the time.....

Wear it as the day to day watch......... which is mad because the watch my wife bought me as an engagement pressie was approx 1/2 the price and a rotary limited edition.

I believe they are called skeleton's as completely see through , all the movements etc etc, and can see my arm through it when I wear it for special occasions.

It;s all down to personal taste and personal budgets. For example there is a gorgeous Rolex on sale in Windsor Bishop in Norwich for £20,750....... been there a while for some reason...:lol::cuckoo:

I am guessing you could pay a lot more.........
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In the £500-£1500 bracket Tag Heuer are virtually untouchable IMO, they pretty much have that segment sown up
 
j3w3ll3r said:
In the £500-£1500 bracket Tag Heuer are virtually untouchable IMO, they pretty much have that segment sown up
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Well that was my market point......... :lol: cheapskate!

Just a mad day... i feel like blowing some cash......... on our way up to a holiday.... and to be fair to the watch, it hasn't let me down in the slightest......

ask me the model or anything though and I don't have a clue.........

I'll take a piccy of it tomorrow and maybe you can enlighten me (i need to do it anyway for purposes of insurance!)
 
Flash In The Pan said:
If you've got £3300 and it has to be from EJ buy an Omega, spending that sort of money on a Tag is madness.
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Not sure about that - quite fancy the Monaco. Though i'd prefer a vintage Heuer over a modern Tag personally.

At that budget and that retailer (unless they stock IWC), I would go with an Omega though the ones I like don't come with display casebacks (so you can't see the movement working away).
 
j3w3ll3r said:
No discount on Panari and im in the trade, also there would be no discount with an insurance voucher as any discount goes to the insurance Company

But that is a seriously nice watch, without looking it up i recon its a 44 or 46mm case so size may be an issue.

When i replace my watch Panari would be top of my list
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That is a thing of beauty!! I've whiled away many an hour on the Panerai website, only need to be able to afford one but the PAM00177 is always on my imaginary xmas list!!
 
Very nice Kman
 
We mainly do Secondhand watches,

Probably 25 Various Rolex and a dozen others of various brands

from memory

2 x deepsea
exp 2
Sub
Dozen assorted Datejust
18ct DayDate
18ct Lds DJ
New style Midi SS
Really Really nice GMT with Jubilee brace..totally mint
and more everyday'

Corum Admirals cup 29mm
lds Cartier TF
Lds Cartier SS Panthere
Lds Cartier 21

Really nice 18ct YG Piaget on strap mechanical wind
Really nice Longines 9ct on strap

and more, can get any watch u like though

Are u a regular at TZ?
 
Sold a few Hublot and AP recently, also a new GMT 2
 
So are u a collector Graham? u have good knowledge it seems
 
Over the years we have been agents for

Cartier, Corum, Rado, Omega, Longines, Raymond Weil, Maurice La Croix, Porsche, Technomarine, Phillip Stein (google them very interesting technology), Tissot, Armani, Michael Kors, TW Steel and loads of others
 
j3w3ll3r said:
We mainly do Secondhand watches,

Probably 25 Various Rolex and a dozen others of various brands

from memory

2 x deepsea
exp 2
Sub
Dozen assorted Datejust
18ct DayDate
18ct Lds DJ
New style Midi SS
Really Really nice GMT with Jubilee brace..totally mint
and more everyday'

Corum Admirals cup 29mm
lds Cartier TF
Lds Cartier SS Panthere
Lds Cartier 21

Really nice 18ct YG Piaget on strap mechanical wind
Really nice Longines 9ct on strap

and more, can get any watch u like though

Are u a regular at TZ?
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Yeah I suppose I'm a regular visitor but not a prolific poster on tz. I also have a JLC Master Compressor Diving Chrono but haven't been wearing it since the Deepsea arrived. So I'm thinking about moving it on for something a bit different - something more dressy rather than a divers watch. Like I said a Heuer Monaco or a good condition vintage Autavia would be of interest. Did once consider an AP Royal Oak but the servicing cost put me right off!

Also quite like the Nomos range but they're a little too dressy for me. I'm in Hamburg right now and surrounded by some nice watch shops I cant stop myself from staring through the shop windows at the moment!
 
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i do like a nice panerai or omega... but i think i'll stick with my usual supplier for now :D

actually, Stephen i have a Maurice le croix i want to off load. i'll get a pic tomorrow and see if you're interested.
 
Watch? What the f@@k for? Got the time on my mobile phone.
Save your money and buy a nice lens or something. ;)

(From someone who suffers with contact-dermertitus :'( )
 
My 'ling...

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now got a new issue! ill have to order what i want online as there shop in belfast doesn't stock any of the premium watches!!!! ill have to look in other jewellers and then order online which isn't really what i wanted to do but aw well :(
 
Yeah, I just looked its a pretty poor poor show from EJ

Try and get the vouchers exchanged for LMG ones, then you can spend them in independent jewellers (including me :), although I only have secondhand ones)
 
This is my "poshest" watch, an Oris TT1



Oris Face by TCR4x4, on Flickr


I also have a watch box full of about 12 other various, mainly Seiko divers an Accurist and a few weird Russian jobbies.

Ancient iPhone photo


My new box filled up! by TCR4x4, on Flickr
 
Oh dear - Another thread I should stay out of.

My money goes on cars, watches and now camera equipment.

The saddest thing is that I have a drawer full of watches and most days do not wear one - I have some issues! :) Added to that the fact that my cameras do the same these days.
 
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