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21 January 2016, 10:51 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Real Name: Robin
Location: West Wales
Watch: ing the grass grow
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Finally have a reason to register
Hi, my name is Robin and I'm a watch addict.
Isn't that the sort of thing you're supposed to start with  Seriously, I've had a thing for watches since before my teens, but never bought myself a Rolex till very recently. I've had a Tudor Monarch II and a Princedate, and my wife has a 6517 and a Princess Date, but I've always hesitated at the idea of spending the cost of a decent holiday on a watch for myself. Strange as I don't mind paying high prices for ones for her indoors (both the 6517 and the Princess were presents from me, plus a brand new Rado a couple of Christmases back). I guess the trigger was taking my wife into a watch shop in Lisbon at Christmas and offering to buy her a very nice 18ct Datejust with a burl dial for her birthday and having her say she'd rather have the pashmina she'd seen down the road for €5! Maybe I'm spending too much on her and not enough on myself I thought! My own watches-wise I've just taken delivery of a birth year 1603, to add to my Omega De Ville and various other cheaper watches. My day-to-day choice is either custom Vostok Amphibia or an Apeks 1000m Pro dive watch. Add a few other bits and pieces that I buy and sell depending on my mood at the time, plus a Bucherer chronometer I'm in the process of rebuilding as I can find the parts, that's it for now. My past watches have included the 2 Tudors mentioned above, a Pre-Bond Seamaster that I sold because the bracelet was too tight and new links cost a fortune (then saw a non-working one I could have salvaged links from going cheap on ebay a few days later  ), a nice Tissot that looked great but just didn't sit right on my wrist, another De Ville which being gold plated was too blingy for my taste once I'd bought it, a number of Seikos and Breitlings (all older quartz models and mostly military ones) and the one I really wish I knew what I'd done with, a Swatch GB101 bought when they first started importing Swatch into the UK.Anyway, that's me and I'm looking forward to my time here. Robin |
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22 January 2016, 05:43 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2015
Real Name: Trace
Location: Vegas/Bay Area
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22 January 2016, 05:49 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Real Name: Brian (TBone)
Location: canada
Watch: es make me smile
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Welcome aboard Robin
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22 January 2016, 06:06 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Texas
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22 January 2016, 06:10 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2013
Real Name: Anthony
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Watch: Dblue
Posts: 6,723
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22 January 2016, 06:53 AM
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Earth
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22 January 2016, 07:08 AM
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Join Date: May 2014
Real Name: John
Location: La Jolla, CA
Watch: Platona
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Welcome.
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22 January 2016, 08:57 AM
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Real Name: Ed
Location: SoCal
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22 January 2016, 10:32 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Real Name: Clive
Location: Exoplanet
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Welcome Robin
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22 January 2016, 02:34 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Real Name: Dennis
Location: Bay Area - 925
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22 January 2016, 02:37 PM
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Welcome to TRF!
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22 January 2016, 02:38 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Real Name: Larry
Location: San Diego, CA
Watch: ROLEX
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Welcome to TRF!
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23 January 2016, 10:11 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Real Name: Ken
Location: SW Florida
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Welcome to TRF!
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25 January 2016, 11:45 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Real Name: Alex
Location: Chicago
Watch: AP,PP, Rolex
Posts: 37,156
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Welcome
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26 January 2016, 12:58 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Real Name: Peter
Location: Llanfairpwllgwyng
Watch: ing you.
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Welcome to TRF.
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 ICom Pro3 All posts are my own opinion and my opinion only. "The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop. Now is the only time you actually own the time, Place no faith in time, for the clock may soon be still for ever." Good Judgement comes from experience,experience comes from Bad Judgement,.Buy quality, cry once; buy cheap, cry again and again. www.mc0yad.club Second in command CEO and left handed watch winder 
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