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Post pics of your watches ***Please NO QUOTING PHOTOS***

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    #8432
    redlead
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭redlead


    Unkel you really need to calm down and stop buying watches haha is that the third one this week?

    I love the Milgauss. Probably the least Rolexy Rolex apart from the Cellini. Well wear


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    #8433
    hitemfrank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭hitemfrank


    redlead wrote: »
    Unkel you really need to calm down and stop buying watches haha is that the third one this week?

    I love the Milgauss. Probably the least Rolexy Rolex apart from the Cellini. Well wear

    It's the only Rolex I really like but would be too big on me.

    I'll need to start packing on the pounds to pull one off but I'm not sure that's the best idea for my long term health.

    Still want to try one on though


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    #8434
    893bet
    Registered Users Posts: 8,745 ✭✭✭893bet


    Very nice. I like the Milgauss. Not so sure it will work long term as a “1 good watch” in a collection. Def needs a few more to keep it company.


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    #8435
    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,676 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    unkel wrote: »
    I've admired this watch for a long time. It was the only one that I really liked in that shop full of pretty much all the Rolex watches in Manhattan a couple of years ago. I have tried it on twice in the last while and when fitzgeme posted his SOTC last night, its beauty just stood out and it started singing to me and I just had to have it. Deal quickly done, trading in my Explorer 1, 214270 in a deal mutually satisfactory for both buyer and seller. The Explorer turned out to be just a bit too understated for my liking and the Milgauss is just perfect. A bit bolder, the colours, the green and the orange lightning bolt. And to my surprise, I really like the bit of bling that the polished centre links give the watch. I am totally delighted with it :)

    It’s lovely but I give it a month

    Tops :D


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    #8436
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,795 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Cyrus wrote: »
    It’s lovely but I give it a month

    Tops :D


    You're wrong. Unless maybe a YM40 in blue comes along at very keen money or someone wants to do a straight swap for a Blue Z. Nah, no chance of that. You're wrong :pac:

    Out of interest, why didn't you buy it?


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    #8437
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,538 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Fun fact, the Milgauss does not have a crown laser engraved into the glass at the 6 oclock like all the other modern Rolex.

    I often wonder what happened to the guy who claimed to have a barn find Milgauss from the 1960's and was taking it to da local jewler for a spiff up.


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    #8438
    hitemfrank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭hitemfrank


    Sold it at auction I thought. Something like 20k if memory serves me right. It probably doesn't though.


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    #8439
    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,676 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    unkel wrote: »
    You're wrong. Unless maybe a YM40 in blue comes along at very keen money or someone wants to do a straight swap for a Blue Z. Nah, no chance of that. You're wrong :pac:

    Out of interest, why didn't you buy it?

    I’ve had 2 Milgauss’s and didn’t keep them buying another would result in the same I need to keep reminding myself of this when I look at watches I’ve already owned !


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    #8440
    hitemfrank
    Registered Users Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭hitemfrank


    IMG-20200611-100621.jpg

    I'm having the hardest time getting good pictures of the straps I got last week. One for this and one with white thread for another watch.


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    #8441
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,795 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Cyrus wrote: »
    I’ve had 2 Milgauss’s and didn’t keep them buying another would result in the same I need to keep reminding myself of this when I look at watches I’ve already owned !

    Yet you were making an offer on the one I bought? Would have been your #3 then? :p

    Not that I'm any different, I've had 3 Seiko PADI blue Turtles. Sold them all and I won't promise I will never own one again :o:D


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    #8442
    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,676 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    unkel wrote: »
    Yet you were making an offer on the one I bought? Would have been your #3 then? :p

    Not that I'm any different, I've had 3 Seiko PADI blue Turtles. Sold them all and I won't promise I will never own one again :o:D

    To ask about a Daytona ;)


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    #8443
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,795 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Ah! I didn't realise you hadn't dealt with that seller before on adverts or didn't have his number. In that case the only way to contact them is by making an offer on a thread that might be totally unrelated. It's a flaw in the adverts setup imho.


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    #8444
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,538 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Got this excellent 40x loupe from Amazon today, has its own little light, nothing else exciting really

    20200611-173924.jpg


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    #8445
    david
    Registered Users Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    Is the Coor's light genuine? :pac:


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    #8446
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,481 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Coors light!
    FFS...
    Probably drinks it with a glass of ice too ;)


    On a slightly FG and loupe related note...
    That one I ordered on your recommendation came yesterday, the mounted light and actually comfortable glasses.
    Thanks for that :)


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    #8447
    893bet
    Registered Users Posts: 8,745 ✭✭✭893bet


    I can’t deal with how fast you are moving Fitz!!!


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    #8448
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,461 ✭✭✭micks_address


    Link to the loup?


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    #8449
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,538 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    david wrote: »
    Is the Coor's light genuine? :pac:

    I drinks what Mrs. Fitzgeme get me, but it is horrid piss water.

    Link to Loupe its actually 30x and 60x

    20200611-180729.jpg



    But seriously its here.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B076VLQ4H3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


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    #8450
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,795 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    You bastard. I'm going green with envy. I'm going to burst out of my clothes soon

    Well wear! :D


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    #8451
    Cyrus
    Registered Users Posts: 19,676 ✭✭✭✭Cyrus


    Now that’s a sub ;)


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    #8452
    david
    Registered Users Posts: 3,684 ✭✭✭david


    Handy having a product photographer in the house :P

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    #8453
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    Took delivery of a Flieger today, my first Stowa..

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    The picture quality doesn't to it justice, gorgeous to look at. Manual wind.

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    #8454
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,481 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Well wear Forrest, that is stunning!


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    #8455
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    thanks banie01, it only took me about 6 months to make my mind up, I won't list all the watches I had in mind also :o


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    #8456
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,461 ✭✭✭micks_address


    run_Forrest_run wrote: »
    thanks banie01, it only took me about 6 months to make my mind up, I won't list all the watches I had in mind also :o

    Beautiful watch. So close to buying that over the last year.


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    #8457
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,481 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    run_Forrest_run wrote: »
    thanks banie01, it only took me about 6 months to make my mind up, I won't list all the watches I had in mind also :o

    tenor.gif


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    #8458
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    Quite the fan of pilot watches..

    IMG-20200607-164715911.jpg


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    #8459
    scudzilla
    Registered Users Posts: 11,911 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    run_Forrest_run wrote: »
    Quite the fan of pilot watches..

    SNIP

    Nice, how does the mph work, surely it's not got a speedo in it :pac:

    And what strap is that, just the type i'm looking for


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    #8460
    893bet
    Registered Users Posts: 8,745 ✭✭✭893bet


    Julian Nice Tattoo wrote: »
    I drinks what Mrs. Fitzgeme get me, but it is horrid piss water.

    Link to Loupe its actually 30x and 60x

    FwCzW0611-180729.jpg



    But seriously its here.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B076VLQ4H3/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    That’s a real heavy hitter. Congrats!


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    #8461
    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,393 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Nice, how does the mph work, surely it's not got a speedo in it :pac:

    And what strap is that, just the type i'm looking for

    oh you get a booklet on how to operate the slide rule for all sorts of calculations, I gave up after the first page :D

    The strap was a purchase from Amazon, nothing special but thought it matched perfectly. However the fitting of the strap was anything but perfect. With a lug width of 19mm I think and not much of a gap between the springbars and the case made it a very fiddly task. Needless to say I won't be changing out the strap any time soon.


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