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Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)

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    #5042
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,789 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Of course. That's a pretty decent offer in my book but as always, they need to make a profit on your watch so they try and offer you lower than you could sell it for locally and then sell it on for higher than you could buy it for locally. Very much like trading in your car...


    Beware though, WF can easily make a final offer below the bottom of their initial estimate range. What are you going to do then, demand them to send it back to you and you will be back to where you started? With a bad history with WF? It also costs €47 to send a watch to France by registered post and it will NOT be insured for that sum. Also the process could take many weeks.



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    #5043
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,458 ✭✭✭micks_address


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117805372#Comment_117805372

    Thanks - probably my best route like when changing cars would be to sell privately... maximize my return on what i have and then buy directly again.. its just a thought... probably not going to act on it any time soon



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    #5044
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,789 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Moonwatch is a popular watch, an ideal one to use in a trade with WF. You'd get relatively more for it from WF (compared with a private sale) than pretty much any other watch (Rolex sports excepted). Yours has been for sale for a while for only a few hundred over the WF offer. I would take them up on it. There is also some room for negotiation once you show your interest in buying another watch from WF


    What's the other watch you are thinking of throwing in?


    Another option is a trip to Belfast (Pride & Pinion)



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    #5045
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,458 ✭✭✭micks_address


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117805577#Comment_117805577

    i need to relist my speedmaster... its now boxed with a service and in mint condition so different animal..



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    #5046
    Fitz II
    Registered Users Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117805744#Comment_117805744

    Speedmasters aqlways sell, always good trade in pawns. Have you tried an explorer? Talk to unkle he will give you the unfiltered (read not the bark and jack) take on it. Expensive watch these days.



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    #5047
    scwazrh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117806205#Comment_117806205

    its certainly overpriced . I think the 41mm OP is better value , and a nicer watch on the wrist if in a dial colour other than black



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    #5048
    James Bond Junior
    Registered Users Posts: 5,128 ✭✭✭James Bond Junior


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117805744#Comment_117805744

    Have you a picture?



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    #5049
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,458 ✭✭✭micks_address


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117806659#Comment_117806659
    https://ibb.co/ZxKs8SV
    https://ibb.co/Qpzr7Y6

    there’s two



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    #5050
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,458 ✭✭✭micks_address


    Box

    https://ibb.co/BGJzy8j




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    #5051
    James Bond Junior
    Registered Users Posts: 5,128 ✭✭✭James Bond Junior


    Lovely watch. Wouldn't be for me but I was intrigued. I have a trade contact in Ireland who would likely buy it if you were interested.



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    #5052
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,789 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117806254#Comment_117806254

    Most of them go for far above retail! The light blue on is the nicest of them all (I have said so since the day it launched to much ridicule from the forum) and goes for above twice retail. The only other Rolex that manages that is the Daytona. Super popular these OP. Would fancy one myself too.



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    #5053
    scwazrh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117807797#Comment_117807797

    the Tiffany blue would be my favourite as well.Pride and pinion had a navy blue with stickers this week for €8600 which is not bad all considered.Dawson’s have a 2020 navy for €9500



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    #5054
    Fitz II
    Registered Users Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    Well looks like P Diddy has been reading boards and has weighed in on the Richard Mille thing. This could actually do more to damage the brand than anything else.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/CTCT-hRLC_K/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link




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    #5055
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,075 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Black man save your money and go buy a house nails it. Fair play. He's long noted how Black artists and sports stars have been overcooking it on outblinging each other on the back of record deals and the like and that it's transitory for most of them and when they come out the other side the bling doesn't taste so good. The old MTV cribs series with guys barely out of school swanning around mansions that in many cases were the record company's, or temporarily rented for the optics another example. He's also just as quick at laying some of the blame at guys like himself for that arms race of BS.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #5056
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    P who?



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    #5057
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users Posts: 1,599 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    Why is Mr. Daddy disrespecting Timex?



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    #5058
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,226 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    RM's are horrendous. Reckon the extra zero is exclusively tax, like grey goose vodka, just make it expensive because there's a market for it. Unique (manky) case design so you can spot it a mile away which is a number 1 priority.



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    #5059
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,458 ✭✭✭micks_address


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117808094#Comment_117808094

    Ok so emailed pride and pinnion and they came back saying they’d be interested in a trade. I’m not sure now what to go for in a rolex. I don’t want a sub. I had been thinking explorer but the 41mm size would probably sit better on my wrist. Any advice on dials, colours, bracelets etc?



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    #5060
    scwazrh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117816718#Comment_117816718

    I think you should at least try on the 41mm OP.I had the 39 and the 41 is so much better.It fits perfect feels silky like all Rolex and grabs your eye like a Rolex should .The 39mm explorer is meh to me .Dial colour I reckon the navy is the real world option as the rest are just mad money.

    stick your head into Dawson’s and try a few watches on. they had subs , sea dwellers , Milgaus and Daytona’s when I was there last week.They would take your speed master as well but like to lowball on price



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    #5061
    scwazrh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    Actually Mick , scrap what I just said you should buy a Panerai instead .



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    #5062
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,789 ✭✭✭✭unkel


    Be prepared if you want to do a trade with them. Their asking prices are well above typical. You think you might be getting a good deal based on a generous offer for your watch but if you look into it a bit more, it might not be such a great deal after all! There's the ease of the trade-in deal but there's also the loss if you pay too much to trade up.


    As for Rolex, you're in for a ride at the next level, enjoy 🙂 Most Rolex sport have the oyster bracelet (with an easylink adjustment). It is excellent, leading in its class. You will have to try on the different models to see what you like. Don't get too hung up on size. A 39mm Explorer wears bigger than a 40mm submariner / daytona / GMT-master II. If you like a classy, yet sporty watch, don't rule out the Milgauss. Still very underrated and undervalued imho



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    #5063
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,458 ✭✭✭micks_address


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117816896#Comment_117816896

    😂 not for me



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    #5064
    Lorddrakul
    Registered Users Posts: 1,700 ✭✭✭Lorddrakul


    Ordered a generic watch bracelet from AliExpress on the 13/08.

    Arrived in Ireland on the 19/08, according to tracking.

    Cleared customs on 23/08, says the tracking. Still have not had hide nor hair of it.

    WTF?



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    #5065
    micks_address
    Registered Users Posts: 8,458 ✭✭✭micks_address


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117822056#Comment_117822056

    i would suggest getting onto the an post website and try their online chat. I had one package that was stuck in sorting for a week. Another that got sent back to sender due to 'insufficient' customs clearance details. They can usually give you a bit more info on the chat. Don't bother phoning. The chat can take ages to get going but i just left it open while working



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    #5066
    Pablo_Flox
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Pablo_Flox


    https://fb.watch/7Ir0feCRsX/


    Roy Kean talking about buying his first Rolex.


    (not sure hot to imbed a video)



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    #5067
    banie01
    Registered Users Posts: 16,480 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    The link is dead Pablo, but if it's anything like his rant to Gary Neville about Instagram and what it's for?

    It'd be well worth a look I'd say. I'm still mad at Roy over 2002. I can totally appreciate his principles but we had a chance to go further than 1990 imo.

    That said, now that Roy's age is catching up with his inherent grumpiness? He is becoming very entertaining.



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    #5068
    Cassius99
    Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭Cassius99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117822056#Comment_117822056

    I wouldn't be overly concerned. Everything seems to b shipped through the Netherlands these days. I dont hold much faith in the "arrived in your country email". You should have it within 2 weeks of that email, after that I'd be asking questions.


    EDIT: as you can see from this there's no way in hell it was in China on 1st August, Ireland on the 2nd and then took another 22 days to deliver.

    Screenshot_20210830-125559_Chrome.jpg




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    #5069
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 32,993 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117822541#Comment_117822541

    After doing a search, is it the time he bought an 11k Rolex which he thought was 1.1k?



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    #5070
    Pablo_Flox
    Registered Users Posts: 585 ✭✭✭Pablo_Flox


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117823181#Comment_117823181

    That is the one.



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    #5071
    893bet
    Registered Users Posts: 8,742 ✭✭✭893bet


    Will dress watches ever become proper popular again? On par with the current sports steel craze?


    If rolex gave their Cellini line a turn over it could begin a trend again. Not sure they would want that though as it would be along way from their current dominant designs.



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