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Join Date: Dec 2018
Real Name: Fred
Location: SE Wisconsin
Watch: DJ 126334
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Ever get a watch you didn’t bond with?
Did you ever want a watch based on seeing it in an advertisement/on-line or at the AD only to get it home and after you had it a while, it didn’t grow on you?
What did you do, wait to see if your feelings changed, lived with it or got rid of the watch? |
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: UK
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Yes. Blue SkyDweller unfortunately. Kept it 12 months and then it went back to the AD as per the prenup.
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Join Date: May 2013
Real Name: Nick
Location: Las Vegas
Watch: 1601
Posts: 10,567
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Which watch and how long have you had it?
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Join Date: May 2018
Location: Scotland
Watch: Rolex Hulk
Posts: 470
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Early last year my AD got the gmt Batman for me and it just didn’t work for me. So after much deliberating I sold it back to them at a handsome profit and got the Explorer which I bonded with immediately.
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Enjoying: Daytona, Submariner Hulk, Bluesy, Seadweller, Explorer, White Milgauss, DJ41 fluted and mint green. Oyster Perpetual 41 green dial, Oyster Perpetual 39 grape dial, Oyster Perpetual 41 Celebration dial, Tudor BB Harrods edition, Tudor BB 41 Burgundy (metas edition). |
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#5 |
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Chicago
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Of course. I feel like I’m always on the hunt for the perfect watch and haven’t found it yet. As such, I keep buying and selling to try new things.
My GO stayed for about a year, and I enjoyed it, but not enough to keep it around. 16570 stayed for about 4 months. Insanely comfortable, but wore too small. 116710 was probably my favorite, but after about a year I found myself wearing it less and less often. I think I got a bit bored with it. My current Omega I can already tell will be short lived. I wanted something with a little more color, but from a quality standpoint it feels more like my 16570 than my 116710, despite being a 2018 watch. I will keep it 3-6 months and see if that changes, but confidence is low. Next watch I will try I think will be a GO Sea Q black dial on bracelet. So yeah, plenty of watches I’ve tried with varying degrees of connection. |
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#6 |
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Join Date: Dec 2018
Real Name: Fred
Location: SE Wisconsin
Watch: DJ 126334
Posts: 408
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I’m almost afraid to put it in writing...
Last month I bought a new Z Blue Milgauss from my AD. I like it but I am not loving it, yet.. I feel bad as I really wanted it and had it on order with the AD since Jan. When I was notified that it came in, my wife who is usually cool to new watch purchases said, “hey, let’s go get it”. |
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Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: here AND there...
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Not really OP... I try and flush all that out BEFORE purchasing something.
I have sold pieces, but never made that regretful purchase. |
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Join Date: May 2013
Real Name: Nick
Location: Las Vegas
Watch: 1601
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Ever get a watch you didn’t bond with?
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Yea. The Z Blue is not an easy Rolex for an enthusiast to bond with because it is very Anti-Rolex. If you don’t love it, it’s very sensible to sell it and get something else that will work for you. It’s all about perspective and mind set. You have to ask yourself why you got the watch. For example, many people just buy what other people like and that works for them because they can wear it and it gets recognized easily and so it satisfies their criteria for owning the watch. Another example is people who buy specific professional models that correlate with their profession or passion (ie. pilot with GMT, Diver with Submariner, etc). Find your criteria and get the watch that matches it ![]() |
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#9 |
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Real Name: Al
Location: Plano, TX
Watch: Rolex & Omega
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126334-0014, kept about one year, sold it.
With me, I may enjoy the hunt more than actually owning the watch. Al |
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Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: Odorious Onion
Watch: yes, it's hipster
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Hopefully they paid you something closer to market rate?
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#11 |
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Real Name: Robert
Location: Northern NJ
Watch: 16710 BLRO
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DSSD. I always had diver's watches and for a long time I liked a lot of wrist presence. I'd been wearing Omega Seamasters for decades and finally decided to "up my game" with my first Rolex. Quite frankly I was seduced by the specs. I've always been a big fan of over-engineered things, and as a former diver (sport and commercial) the DSSD seemed like the ultimate watch for me. Mine was the all black dial model, a year before the JC version came out. I'd have gotten the all black one anyway as I've always preferred black dials.
I wore it exactly twice, for maybe two hours total wrist time. I found it too top heavy and the geometry was all wrong for my taste. So I put it back in it's box and left it in my closet for several years. Ended up trading it straight up for a clean 16710 BLRO, my grail watch.
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: USA
Watch: Daytona
Posts: 319
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Yes. BLNR. Sold it to a friend.
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#13 |
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Join Date: Mar 2019
Location: UK
Watch: Deepsea
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![]() Always wanted the yachet master, when I eventually bought it couldn’t get into it !!! Shame luved the red hand thou Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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#14 |
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Location: Detroit
Watch: 16233
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Some of the stories here suggest that if folks had simply tried on the watch before they purchased it, they would have saved themselves a lot of money, time, and grief.
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Join Date: Dec 2018
Real Name: Fred
Location: SE Wisconsin
Watch: DJ 126334
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This was not the case with my DJ. Wanted it, loved it from afar and after buying it, thought this was the best watch in the world. Still love it almost two years into it. Can’t envision ever getting rid of it. Same as a 20 + year old Seamaster I bought new. Still love it. But the Milgauss hasn’t had that same emotional ride as these other two have had. |
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#16 |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Bay Area
Watch: Rolex, PP, Lange
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yes too many to count, 116710BLNR, Explorer 1, and most IWC/Omega models i’ve owned.
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Real Name: Brian (TBone)
Location: canada
Watch: es make me smile
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I’m pretty thoughtful about my purchases now, but I bought two watches that didn’t stick.
I owned both for about the same amount of time, a year or year and half. The BLNR didn’t float my boat. I LOVED this watch in pictures (still actually do ![]() The Dblue has the most wrist presence of any watch I’ve owned and I LOVE the dial, absolutely the best dial I’ve owned (except maybe my 690), the domed crystal, of course the bracelet. At times the height of the case didn’t bother me one bit, and other times it’s all I could see ![]() Ultimately I let it go for the SD43 as I just couldn’t justify both. I admit to be very tempted to add the Dblue back again ... ![]() |
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: USA
Watch: Good ones
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Wimbledon two tone. Traded it for a fluted DJ2 in blue
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#20 |
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Yes,
SS white Sky-Dweller, couldn't vibe with the watch. Colour didn't grow on me and never felt happy with it. Traded it in for a Sky-Dweller with a blue dial and that hit home from the moment I had it |
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#21 |
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Real Name: David
Location: Gardnerville, NV
Watch: 16710
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14060.
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Current: 16710 Previous: 16760 Fat Lady, 16613 Bluesy, 16800, 14060, 16710 Pepsi, 216570 Polar, 116710LN, 16610, 216570 Polar (again), 16713, 216570 Polar (yet again), 16710 Black w/ Pepsi Insert Hope is not a strategy. |
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Real Name: Wade
Location: TN
Watch: 116619
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#23 |
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Brisbane
Watch: DSSD
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It's happened a few times way back in the past.
Aquisitions are much more thoughtfully sought these days as I am much older and wiser. |
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#24 |
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Join Date: Oct 2019
Real Name: Neal
Location: Point Loma
Watch: ing the river flow
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Yes. I just couldn't bond with a DD 36. (Luckily the wife did).
It just seemed oddly small compared to my sub and my DD41.
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. Sub No Date (14060); Tudor Ranger; Explorer (124270); Day Date (18238) stolen by wife; CasiOak. |
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#25 |
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Location: USA
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A long time ago, i had a Baume & Mercier. It was very photogenic, but the valjoux 7750 had a very present wobble, and the case stood tall.
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#26 |
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No, never.
Tend to plan my purchases quite carefully.
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116610LN - 216570 Polar - 114300 Red Grape - 326934 White - 116660 Black - 126300 Blue - 116713LN - 116503 Black - 116900 - 126600 - 116618LB - 116689 - 79220R ETA |
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16570 white dial comes to mind.... I liked the story and image of the watch more than wearing it. I tried for over a year to “love” it, but ended up flipping it for a 116610LV and haven’t looked back once.
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#28 |
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Real Name: Ron
Location: Arizona, USA
Watch: 116233
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Was absolutely convinced I wanted a TT DJ36 with black dial......and then, I wasn't. Had it a few months and flipped it towards a DJ41.
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so many Rolexes.....so little time |
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#29 |
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Real Name: Flavio
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Multiple times.
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