Any GTG's in SoCal?

[Plastique999]

Looking for any meetings, events, even swap meets....


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[Kingair]

Originally Posted by Plastique999

Looking for any meetings, events, even swap meets....


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Get this thing started . . .

And see who joins . . .

HAGOne

[Kobayashi]

There was a GTG in Beverly Hills in January organized by mruhland31. I think he's also organized previous GTG's. Here's a trip report from that event. Several of those same members may also attend. Post a place and time frame and see where it goes from there. I may attend like the previous event if I'm in town. Cheers!

http://rolexforums.com/showthread.php?t=335576

[MKIVdan]

If I'm in town I will surely be there!

[ocabj]

The boutiques at South Coast Plaza are always throwing small events throughout the year, some invite-only and some open. e.g. Montblanc is having an open event tomorrow night from 6pm to 9pm IIRC to show off some new pieces. They have their Perpetual Calendar at the South Coast boutique right now (just happened to walk in the store and they had it). OMEGA in South Coast is going to do a small watchmaker event when they finally get their in-boutique technician certified which should be in a couple more months.

The WatchTime Inside Basel event is in LA in Sept: http://www.watchtime.com/event/ibg/

If you attend IBG once or get on the WatchTime events mailing list, their event coordinator often sends out notices if there's an event in SoCal. e.g. Last year on the day of the 2013 WatchTime IBG event, WatchTime sent me an invite to go to JLC Beverly Hills before the show and the boutique manager took us out to lunch at an Italian place the next block over. Last December, WT sent me an invite for a Westtime AP event.

Subscribe to the A Blog To Watch facebook page, twitter, and Instagram accounts, and frequent the site. Ariel Adams is here in LA and on occasion he coordinates with boutiques throwing events to get some extra invites for ABTW readers. Last year I went to Westtime for viewing and dinner presentation for GP watches.

So in terms of events, there's a lot going on considering we have so many watch boutiques in SoCal, particularly in LA and OC. You just have to do a little networking.

As far as get-togethers, I went to the aforementioned Beverly Hills meetup last Jan. It's was nice to meet a bunch of TRF folks, especially to find out a lot of us have common non-watch interests. It would be really cool if SoCal had some sort of NYC Red Bar equivalent with a meetup every month or every other month. I'd be totally down for that.

[FightOnSC!]

I would be happy to organize an Orange County GTG if there was enough interest!

[Plastique999]

Originally Posted by ocabj

The boutiques at South Coast Plaza are always throwing small events throughout the year, some invite-only and some open. e.g. Montblanc is having an open event tomorrow night from 6pm to 9pm IIRC to show off some new pieces. They have their Perpetual Calendar at the South Coast boutique right now (just happened to walk in the store and they had it). OMEGA in South Coast is going to do a small watchmaker event when they finally get their in-boutique technician certified which should be in a couple more months.

The WatchTime Inside Basel event is in LA in Sept: http://www.watchtime.com/event/ibg/

If you attend IBG once or get on the WatchTime events mailing list, their event coordinator often sends out notices if there's an event in SoCal. e.g. Last year on the day of the 2013 WatchTime IBG event, WatchTime sent me an invite to go to JLC Beverly Hills before the show and the boutique manager took us out to lunch at an Italian place the next block over. Last December, WT sent me an invite for a Westtime AP event.

Subscribe to the A Blog To Watch facebook page, twitter, and Instagram accounts, and frequent the site. Ariel Adams is here in LA and on occasion he coordinates with boutiques throwing events to get some extra invites for ABTW readers. Last year I went to Westtime for viewing and dinner presentation for GP watches.

So in terms of events, there's a lot going on considering we have so many watch boutiques in SoCal, particularly in LA and OC. You just have to do a little networking.

As far as get-togethers, I went to the aforementioned Beverly Hills meetup last Jan. It's was nice to meet a bunch of TRF folks, especially to find out a lot of us have common non-watch interests. It would be really cool if SoCal had some sort of NYC Red Bar equivalent with a meetup every month or every other month. I'd be totally down for that.

Originally Posted by FightOnSC!

I would be happy to organize an Orange County GTG if there was enough interest!

Great info above and really hope there's another GTG at Beverly Hills!
I'd definitely be in on an OC one as well. If anyone knows of any events or is organizing one let's post it.


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[ocabj]

Originally Posted by FightOnSC!

I would be happy to organize an Orange County GTG if there was enough interest!

OC would be nice. South Coast Plaza has several boutiques (including Rolex, of course), and they have some decent eateries in the mall (and a Karl Strauss brewing just a couple blocks away).

Then there's Fashion Island in Newport Beach which would be a nice meetup spot, andhas Traditional Jewelers who is a Rolex AD. But TJ is also an AD for AP, ALS, JLC, IWC, OMEGA, Panerai, Breitling, Cartier, Bell and Ross, Patek, and a few other brands I'm probably missing. They just moved to a bigger retail space a week or two ago, too. You all should check that place out if you haven't been there before.

[Vanessa CW21]

Originally Posted by ocabj

OC would be nice. South Coast Plaza has several boutiques (including Rolex, of course), and they have some decent eateries in the mall (and a Karl Strauss brewing just a couple blocks away).

Then there's Fashion Island in Newport Beach which would be a nice meetup spot, andhas Traditional Jewelers who is a Rolex AD. But TJ is also an AD for AP, ALS, JLC, IWC, OMEGA, Panerai, Breitling, Cartier, Bell and Ross, Patek, and a few other brands I'm probably missing. They just moved to a bigger retail space a week or two ago, too. You all should check that place out if you haven't been there before.

I went to Traditional Jewelers last Saturday. UNREAL! I could live there...

[FightOnSC!]

While I'm all for seeing shops, I think a casual get together at a bar or restaurant would be a nice, and informal way to get together and meet fellow peeps of the local WIS scene.
If this appeals to you, please PM me and we will see what will work


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[ocabj]

Originally Posted by FightOnSC!

While I'm all for seeing shops, I think a casual get together at a bar or restaurant would be a nice, and informal way to get together and meet fellow peeps of the local WIS scene.

Yes, I totally agree.

[Plastique999]

Originally Posted by FightOnSC!

I would be happy to organize an Orange County GTG if there was enough interest!

Originally Posted by ocabj

OC would be nice. South Coast Plaza has several boutiques (including Rolex, of course), and they have some decent eateries in the mall (and a Karl Strauss brewing just a couple blocks away).



Then there's Fashion Island in Newport Beach which would be a nice meetup spot, andhas Traditional Jewelers who is a Rolex AD. But TJ is also an AD for AP, ALS, JLC, IWC, OMEGA, Panerai, Breitling, Cartier, Bell and Ross, Patek, and a few other brands I'm probably missing. They just moved to a bigger retail space a week or two ago, too. You all should check that place out if you haven't been there before.

Originally Posted by FightOnSC!

While I'm all for seeing shops, I think a casual get together at a bar or restaurant would be a nice, and informal way to get together and meet fellow peeps of the local WIS scene.
If this appeals to you, please PM me and we will see what will work


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I think Fashion Island would be a great place to meet, especially if someone can setup something with Traditional Jewelers. Does anyone know a manger there that could maybe give us a brief tour?
We could then eat at Mastros or somewhere nice for dinner and talk watches....

I would lead this (I actually organize a local C&C) but don't really have any watch connections yet. I'd be happy to help in any way. Let's get this going and pick an upcoming Sat, maybe early Sept?

[FiftyTwoEighty]

Originally Posted by Plastique999

I think Fashion Island would be a great place to meet, especially if someone can setup something with Traditional Jewelers. Does anyone know a manger there that could maybe give us a brief tour?
We could then eat at Mastros or somewhere nice for dinner and talk watches....

I would lead this (I actually organize a local C&C) but don't really have any watch connections yet. I'd be happy to help in any way. Let's get this going and pick an upcoming Sat, maybe early Sept?

Good to see you over here from m5board. There are a handful of us over here on TRF.

I'd be in for an OC GTG.

Mastro's is always a safe bet. We've held m5board dinners with the OC/SD guys in the past.

Flemming's in Fashion Island is also not bad. I've hosted events there, as they have a private dining room downstairs and smaller rooms in the back of the main dining area.

[Plastique999]

Originally Posted by FiftyTwoEighty

Good to see you over here from m5board. There are a handful of us over here on TRF.

I'd be in for an OC GTG.

Mastro's is always a safe bet. We've held m5board dinners with the OC/SD guys in the past.

Flemming's in Fashion Island is also not bad. I've hosted events there, as they have a private dining room downstairs and smaller rooms in the back of the main dining area.

Hey Woody been a while. How are things?
Yea would like to get this thing gathering going to catch up.


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[FiftyTwoEighty]

Originally Posted by Plastique999

Hey Woody been a while. How are things?
Yea would like to get this thing gathering going to catch up.


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Doing well, but been traveling a bunch for work. Yaphet keep trying to get us to come up for one of your Exotics meets, but I always seem to be out of town.

I'm going to try to make it to the 9/6 GTG at Karl Strauss.

[CWIN]

I could probably make it to OC, haha. How about San Diego

[repoman]

+1 San Diego

[David Woo]

this always happens, one group wants BH, one group wants OC, one group wants SD: sounds like 3 gtgs to me, lol.

[Wesley Crusher]

I'm game for a LA gtg. OC and SD are too far for me.

[Arg1778]

I am also game for LA, but don't mind driving to the OC


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[T. Ferguson]

And I'm down for an OC GTG.

Maybe we could coax Patrick (OCROLEXGUY) or Tony (JUSTROLEXES) to swing by with some a couple of pieces.

Oh, and if Vanessa shows I'm buying her a drink!

[Vanessa CW21]

Originally Posted by T. Ferguson

And I'm down for an OC GTG.

Maybe we could coax Patrick (OCROLEXGUY) or Tony (JUSTROLEXES) to swing by with some a couple of pieces.

Oh, and if Vanessa shows I'm buying her a drink!

Oh well in that case... ;)

[Tudor66]

San Diego or the OC will work for me as well...

Al

[Plastique999]

Who can spearhead an OC meet?


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[h999r]

Let's do it Oc or la I'm coming

[teqp]

I would prefer OC as well.

[towernick]

I could swing an OC one.

[Wesley Crusher]

Originally Posted by FightOnSC!

I would be happy to organize an Orange County GTG if there was enough interest!

Originally Posted by ocabj

OC would be nice.

Originally Posted by CWIN

I could probably make it to OC, haha. How about San Diego

Originally Posted by repoman

+1 San Diego

Originally Posted by T. Ferguson

And I'm down for an OC GTG.

Originally Posted by Tudor66

San Diego or the OC will work for me as well...

Al

Originally Posted by Plastique999

Who can spearhead an OC meet?


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Originally Posted by teqp

I would prefer OC as well.

Originally Posted by towernick

I could swing an OC one.

Damn all of you.

[Covello]

LA or OC I'll come!

[bmpwatch]

LA or OC im in :)