Alright, here you go. I sorta stopped replying in the thread because the numbers talk has nothing to do with my interests. I stumbled across this topic after I joined the community and thought I would share a little. Honestly, with the word PORN in the title, I assumed you started it!!And that's just getting started! This particular Parmigiani is about $26k.
You should see his UN Freak. @RoM357 shows us the Freak! Let's go freaking-A!
Haha! Nope, someone beat me to it.Alright, here you go. I sorta stopped replying in the thread because the numbers talk has nothing to do with my interests. I stumbled across this topic after I joined the community and thought I would share a little. Honestly, with the word PORN in the title, I assumed you started it!!
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I agree! My goal is to own one of these some day. The design work is unlike any other.
I was 20 years old in 2000, my friends dad collected, repaired and sold Rolex watches out of his house. He had a ton of them. I remember seeing a 5 gallon bucket full of Rolex’s. He would buy them at auctions, in bulk, etc. he would fix them up and sell them and made decent money at it for a side job. Everyone in his family wore some kind of Rolex, his son, my friend had an old plain military Rolex he even wore. So one day he told me that I needed to get a Rolex, he sold me a gmt master, I made monthly payments to him, he wrote them on a piece of paper and when the whopping some of $3500 was paid in full he gave it to me. He told me not to sell it even if I’m broke. I wore it a couple times, it’s been in my gun safe in the box it came in for years. Last year I had it appraised, I was offered $14,500. Not for sale, but I would say that was a good investment.I can’t recall ever taking all the watches out for a picture before. Seeing them in aggregate makes me feel sorta stupid. Lots of evidence of impulse-purchasing. I’m attached to a few of them, which is kinda stupid in itself. That money could have been better spent. All but three of these watches were less than $800, and most were less than $350. Still, if my wife saw this I’d never be able to tease her about shoes again.
Edit: Yesterday I called the local Rolex dealer to see what it would cost to get my Submariner serviced. The “annual” service is now $800.That’s ridiculous, of course, but it’s the inevitable result of having a useful piece of equipment turn into a popular yuppie status symbol. In the 70s I saw this watch on divers and the occasional sailor/sportsman, and nobody else. Today, everybody and their dog is wearing them, whether they can swim or not. It’s like all the people driving jeeps that have literally never been put in four-wheel-drive. The world sure has changed a lot. I don’t get it.
Very cool story. That would probably be harder to pull off today. Rolex is much more strict and controlling about many aspects of their business model. For example, in the 70s, 80s, and 90s you used to be able to buy extra watch faces, so you could mix and match. We did that with my wife’s Datejust. Now Rolex has firm control of the parts and strict rules about who can buy what and why. Also, the counterfeit market has gotten extremely sophisticated. Fakes used to be easy to spot. Not so anymore. Some counterfeiters have learned to match the weight, feel, and oyster sweep, so even Rolex-certified repair personnel can be fooled until they have the back off the watch and can see the innards.
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The Glashutte Original PanoInverse
.Awesome! I am a big Glashutte Original fan. I owned the 25 piece edition of the WG Senator Chronometer. I sold it to a friend when I bought the Parmigiani, and I still see it on a regular basis. Another brand overlooked by most!
Lol, that was my birthday
It was split from another thread and originally titled 'Watch Porn' but some members got confused so 'Wrist' was added shortly after.
Yep, you are correct!
It was split from another thread and originally titled 'Watch Porn' but some members got confused so 'Wrist' was added shortly after.
I see what you did there in the second pic!
That day date slaps!
Yeah it was a nice one. Ended up selling it and buying a GT350 instead, its a bit more fun than a watch that ended up sitting mostly (work from home).
