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I am really close to purchasing the SS GMT-IIc. I am just a bit nervous about laying down that type of cash. The most I have have every spent on a watch before this was $600 on a Gucci (don't laugh - I didn't know any better back then) and that was 10 yrs ago when I was 26. Please tell me about your holy cow what have I just done stories. Thanks!
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Real Name: Bubba
Location: Bitsyville!
Watch: Blue YM today!
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If it's in your budget.
If you are paying cash. If you don't need the money anytime soon. If you really like it. Go for it. |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Earth
Watch: 116710LN
Posts: 448
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No regrets here. I waited over a year to get my GMTIIc, and it is the best money ever spent on a watch. Buyers remorse only occurs when you buy something stupid like a wedding ring!
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: PA
Posts: 3,478
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Read the Redneck.
Can you afford it? |
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Real Name: Patrick
Location: Texas
Watch: what I'm wearing
Posts: 5,943
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Well, just got my first and I can tell you that every time I look at my wrist I regret not having done it sooner. All those years wasted with crummy watches!!
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Maryland
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Define afford. Is my house paid off......no! Can I retire now....no! But do I have "extra cash" in the bank that I am not going to use anytime soon.....yes!
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Real Name: Bruno
Location: Boston/Cape Cod
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Real Name: steven
Location: tampa bay
Watch: 1680 18k sub
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I say go for it!
also save yourself a ton of money and buy from a seller here on the forum,we have our very own for sale section.. |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Real Name: Robert
Location: Angelus Oaks, CA
Watch: 116713
Posts: 6,828
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It's a watch, not a wife!
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: australia
Watch: sub date
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what the hell if you need cash down the track mate sell a kidney, or even better get your missus to flog one of hers!!
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Bay Area Ca
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My Holy shit was working for a big name company that wasn't paying me shit then leaving and starting a new career in 2003 which paid me much more $. Then getting a letter in the mail for a class action lawsuit filed by a former manager of said company and signing on that dotted line to gladly opt in. Here's the holy shit, 4 months later I got a check in mail to go buy my SS Gmt IIc with cash and plenty left in my pocket. Best payback I and a few thousand others got from that crap-ass company, all be it 4 and a half years after I left.
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If you can afford it, go for it.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Mississippi
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Buy it and get some scratches on it. Rinse. Repeat.
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And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. --Carl Spackler in Caddyshack |
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Land of the Lost
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I bought a 1K Movado back in college. I didn't know watches well and thought that watch looked cool. It still sits in my safe doing nothing for me.
But you can't go wrong with a SS GMT Rolex. At 36yo, you've waited too long already! I'm 34yo, and I just got my first Rolex, and wish I had bought one 10 or 15 years ago. Prices have really gone up over the years. The GMT is an everyday, every occasion watch. You definately will get plenty of enjoyment for what you pay for it. |
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Real Name: Steve
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The only time I've had serious doubts about my watch purchase is when I've bought brands other than Rolex.
Get the GMT, you will not regret it ![]()
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Consider it as a transfer of funds. In this current climate if you can buy a SS GMT IIc for RRP or less then go for it. IMO prices from Rolex are not about to go down.
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Las Vegas, NV
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Absolutely no regrets. If you are getting a good price (i.e. shopping from some of the great TRF members in here), you can't go wrong. If you hate the watch (which you won't --- you'll love it), you can always turn back around and sell it. Try doing that with a Gucci. That's the beauty behind the Rolex brand --- awesome watch and if you don't like it, sell it ... like cash in the bank (making interest).
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dro57 - well i do have debt - house - but that is it - so that doesn't count :)
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If that mortgage isn't killing you, you sound like me. That's the only debt I carry. I own my cars, fattened up my pension plan & 457 and disposible income with kid grown up moved out....life is good and three years from retirement. Ah yes...I see my DD yellow on the horizon ![]() |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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If you can pay cash do it
I look back on the watches I bought on the way to owning a Rolex and think that if I had just dropped the cash then on what I really wanted I would have been ahead! Do it and enjoy!
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Real Name: David
Location: SW Fla
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Location: Maryland
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I am doing the right things - maxing out my 401k, saving a bit, paying down extra on my mortgage - I did not mention a $250 monthly car payment but it is minimal
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It sounds like you are doing the right things, GO FOR IT !
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Location: miami
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Go for it. I look at it this way. Having a Rolex on my wrist is like having money in the bank. You can always sell it and sometimes make money with a Rolex. I dont know a whole lot of other watches that you can do that with.
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I had never spent more than $220 for a watch.
For decades, I thought accuracy was king. I still do, but there are other factors to consider. I thought anyone who spent thousands on a watch was deluded. As I began to accumulate watches and to study watches and to look at watches and to talk to people about watches, I began to want at least one "prestige" watch. I settled on a Rolex Explorer and dropped about $5200 on one about a month ago. I have not had one seconds worth of regret. If love watches and you buy a watch you want and if you have the means to pay for it, what's to regret?
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Real Name: Stan
Location: Brunswick, Ohio
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Holy Sh*t for me was, after spending a week deciding, jumping and leaving the company I worked at for 30 years. I left for a fine gig and paid in taxes almost what I grossed working for my former establishment. Then my $360 Seiko Kinetic (now that was a Holy Sh*t expense for a mere wrist watch on my old salary) quit and I was shown the error of my ways by my little brother, who suggested I look at a Rolex. 6 Rolexes in 6 months paid for in cash- is now my Holy Sh*t!!
Don't over extend yourself. Pay cash for it and you'll be ok. This is a really crappy time to run up a big credit card balance at 24% APR. |
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Real Name: j
Location: LA
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you're never regret it, I purchased my first brand-new Rolex ( submariner) when the price was $3899
five years down the road I can't even keep up with what it's worth I just recently received the back from the Rolex service center looks brand-new. that watch will never be flip it will be passed on to my son.
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"TRF" Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Real Name: Anthony
Location: NYC
Watch: GMT Master II C
Posts: 37
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i bought the same watch a few weeks ago...and i love it, follow your heart.
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