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Old 10 September 2005, 05:11 AM   #31
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But it takes a real watch making genius to make this:


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Hey Ed,

Tonight's Lotto Powerball has escalated to a whopping 14.5 million dollars. If I win, you get the Patek....it's as simple as that!! Seriously and in all honesty, my good friend!!

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Old 10 September 2005, 05:29 AM   #32
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Hey Ed,

Tonight's Lotto Powerball has escalated to a whopping 14.5 million dollars. If I win, you get the Patek....it's as simple as that!! Seriously and in all honesty, my good friend!!

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I think it's in the 1 million region. But how about this one, the Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ill? Have complications, will travel (1 million EURO!!!). Only 7 will be made.

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Old 10 September 2005, 05:54 AM   #33
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I think it's in the 1 million region. But how about this one, the Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ill? Have complications, will travel (1 million EURO!!!). Only 7 will be made.

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Now you're really talking my kind of watch, Frans. JJ, when you win the lottery, I think I'll take this one over the PP. Oh, yeah.
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Old 10 September 2005, 05:58 AM   #34
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Now you're really talking my kind of watch, Frans. JJ, when you win the lottery, I think I'll take this one over the PP. Oh, yeah.
I bet the manual is as thick as a New York phone directory But, will it take a shower? Can you picture this? A 1,5 million dollar watch ruined by the fool who took it under the shower

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Old 10 September 2005, 06:01 AM   #35
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I bet the manual is as thick as a New York phone directory But, will it take a shower? Can you picture this? A 1,5 million dollar watch ruined by the fool who took it under the shower

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You mean it's not depth rated to 3000 m!! Fugedaboudit, then.
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Old 10 September 2005, 06:08 AM   #36
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You mean it's not depth rated to 3000 m!! Fugedaboudit, then.
I was put off by the tourbillon and canceled my order!

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Old 10 September 2005, 06:09 AM   #37
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I was put off by the tourbillon and canceled my order!

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Cancelled your order for the orange PO, I bet!!!
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Old 10 September 2005, 06:23 AM   #38
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Cancelled your order for the orange PO, I bet!!!
Yes, how did you guess? Watches like these are pure watch porn (no JJ, not the PO) and also demonstrate what the large manufactures can accomplish. And, it also looks like a contest: who can cram the most dials, hands and functions in a wrist watch?

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"Watch porn"??? LOL, that's a new one on me!!

But I do beg to differ and disagree to a certain extent. Such high-tech, complicated watches consume several thousand man hours of very intiricate and pain-staking work. Each watch is pure genius, a mechanical marvel, too complex and complicated for all but a select few to even begin to comprehend.

Therefore, I would have nothing but pure unadulterated admiration for such a watchmaker....his patience, his brilliance, his craft and the computer which he has for a brain!!

Yes, these watches are obscenely expensive.....way out for most of us, anyway...but when you think of the effort that has gone into producing such a mechanical masterpiece, I think the prices more than justify the superb quality of the end product.

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Old 10 September 2005, 06:40 AM   #40
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"Watch porn"??? LOL, that's a new one on me!!


Yes, these watches are obscenely expensive.....way out for most of us, anyway...but when you think of the effort that has gone into producing such a mechanical masterpiece, I think the prices more than justify the superb quality of the end product.

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That's what I wrote but it took me only one sentence JJ, I see those watches as a 'tour de force'. They show what can be accomplished when money and time are no object. Actually, those movements are designed on the computer!

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Old 10 September 2005, 01:49 PM   #41
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Congratulations, Daren! That is one pretty watch! Tim
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