Tag Carrera all day long! £1850 from most good retailers
or... treat yourself to a 2 week holiday in Thailand and buy perfect replicas, all in for under £1500
I can notice the difference with the replicas. Some of them are getting much better though.
How good are those replicas, linked to earlier on in this thread?
The ricer in me wants a Montbrillant. I'm a long way off before I can afford to drop several K on a watch though
I bought one of these around 6 months ago, love it.
Roles Submariner next
replicas have come on a long way in recent years. When i was in Chiang Mai at christmas one of the traders took me to his 'stock room' and showed me the 4 types of replica
Chinese - circa £20 cheap and you'll know its a replica
Taiwanese - circa £25 Better quality and still cheap
Japanese grade B - Circa £40-£50 Near perfect watch but the straps still let them down
Top quality Japanese grade A - £200-300 you cannot tell the differemce
I got a couple of grade b jap watches and they're awesome. I meet with all sorts of posh tarts through work and it has them all fooled.
if you got the money though, you cannot beat real Tag IMO, stylish, fashionable, beautiful and all the young trendy cool katz are wearing them
My next decent watch will be a Luminox Blackbird special edition.
Probably not what your after image wise, but its an engineering masterpiece.
At about £1200 its no flash all action. Its a full on diving watch issued to the US pilots. I had a Luminox black-ops and the thing was unbelievably strong. It finally gave up the ghost after somebody took a swing at me with a crowbar and it hit the face.
I had some dealings with an American colonel some time back and he clocked my watch. He said "gee all the heroes wear those things, and the zeros wear Breitlings"
And now I'm doing it all again!
Mortgage is looking a bit healthier now, as is bank balance, but I'm looking cheaper - like sub £1k if I can, certainly sub £2k.
Hamilton watch I really like:
http://www.hamiltonwatch.com/collect...rono/h40686335
Can anyone find it in UK for the 'muurican price? I've found it in one place over here at circa £1400 but the price in dorrah is $1300 ish on some websites so it must be able to be had for more like a grand!
Only problem with that is that it then leaves me with a problem as it's not what I'd call a 'suited and booted' watch. So I'd have to buy one of those too - and I've got this one in mind:
http://www.dreyfussandco.com/the-wat...b00071-04.aspx
It appears this could get even more costly - should have just bought the Oris originally
I didn't, no. I haven't found one that I like so much tbh
"Hamilton watch"????
Does it crash into the wearers other arm a lot?
My mate used some sites on the net - puretime.co and timeshop.net, but they kept getting taken down when the manufacturers found out...
He's got a load of the £200 fakes (Tag Monaco, Rolex GMT Master, Rolex Deep Sea Dweller, Panerei, IWC Big Pilot etc) and you are really pushed to tell the difference between them and a real one unless you know what to look for (etched crown in the glass of the Rolex is usually the giveaway, but you really have to look closely). As said, if you do a side by side the etching and 'feel' of the straps aren't as good as a real one (the markings on my Daytona clasp are much more defined, and it just feels a lot better quality), but on the wrist you can't tell..
The only other thing is that usually they aren't waterproofed - even models like the Deep Sea Dweller have zero waterproofing
*cough* *splutter*
http://www.tswatch2004.com/10839-br4...-28800bph.html
how do you tell what is grade A and what is B etc on that site?
Hmm
If they really do look like this ....
http://www.tswatch2004.com/14793-om1...-ru-a7750.html
I quite like the Mp4-12C watch myself, and another Tag.
If Nitrodave or anyone wants to lend their knowledge of how the grading system works..................