Who Watches the Watchmen (Our Chit Chat Thread)

Where were you for 4 years of Brexit news :)

No need, I will give you the official info from the revenue website 😂

"Importing a vehicle from Northern Ireland

Under the VAT rules currently in force in the UK, vehicles first registered in Great Britain and imported into Northern Ireland after 31 December 2020 are liable to:

• customs duty, if applicable
• Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT)
• VAT at import if they are subsequently imported into the State. 

"

Plenty of people got stung by this, trusting the shady NI resellers claiming the cars were registered over there before brexit. So beware. You will want proof that a car was indeed registered in NI by the end of 2020 otherwise pay 23% VAT

hi folks,

Curious what others would do.

Cheers,

Mick

The only thing one watchmaker said to me before is the lubricants dry out in the watch so can cause issues over time...

On my doorstep, could I get payment in kind, how many weeks for an ultra chron. What would a retail salesperson make in a job like that I wonder. I suppose commission would make or break the job.

Just wondering what a job as a sales person in hour passion pays. As employers would they consider an older person, an engineer with sales skills for the job.

My sister in law worked in Coach in Kildare village, she did well on commission, but she has Chinese as a second language.

Don't give up the day job is what I'm hearing😀 I still think I could shift watches, EVs, Diving gear and steel tubed bicycles.

Try it at amateur level first. Start buying those watches, EVs, diving gear and steel tubed bicycles and sell them on adverts. If that starts making significant profits, you must be good at it and you could turn it into your main job.

The cancer has become more than just a trivial annoyance.

The histology has confirmed that the sentinel node is cancerous. We are still trying to get out heads around what it means.

The goalposts haven't shifted but maybe the pitch has gotten a bit bigger is all and we have a little bit further to dribble before we bury a peach of a ball into the net.

She is booked in for CT and Bone scans to be followed up further surgery to at a minimum clear out the remaining armpit lymph nodes but, potentially deal with any other tumour pending scan results.

That will be followed by rounds of radiotherapy and chemotherapy. What was hoped to be a sprint has developed into a marathon.

We will get thru it. She'll be ok. Its hard not to take it personally even though it's herself that's sick and not me, i can only imagine at this point tho, that karma is real and I was Cromwell or Hitler in a past life 😉😂

Wow, he sure has confidence in the market for luxury watches going forward!

My thinking too. Too many if anything.

It won't/be Tag I think as they are an LVMH brand.

If it's an all Richemont set up? Looking at what their other brands are? Piaget, Montblanc, Roger Dubuis, baume et Mercier and a few others couldn't draw a shopper in the same way as Vacheron or Lange.

I think it's a risky move to open a high-end boutique, but? Dublin is a huge catchment area and there must be a multiple of millions within 2hrs, be it on the island or easily accessible from UK and EU. A lot of bankers are moving to Dublin and when the KIID passports for CoL based funds expire? I'd guess even more will be joining the exodus of bankers to IFSC and Ireland in general.

Bollocks 😕

As in we don't need a Tag boutique, we need the proper high end 😉

This was mentioned a few times when I was buying in there earlier in the year but was always said as a Tudor boutique which isn’t mentioned now . They don’t currently sell Panerai so strange that they’ve got that ADship with weirs right around the corner .

They can’t get stock in quick enough for the current shop so how they are going to fill 6 shops is anyones guess .Hope they can have some of the more desirable watches and not just a load of tag and Breitling

edit - just re read the article and it says Breitling, JLC , Panerai & IWC will be exclusive to them which means that Weirs are losing those brands ? That’s very surprising.

The difference between weirs and Sheerans is also night and day . Every time I’ve shopped in weirs I’ve felt like they couldn’t be arsed dealing with me , compared to sheerans where everyone gets treated as their favourite customer as soon as you walk through the door .

Not at all, I just somehow managed to blank it as an option once I saw that the other brands were all Richemont.

Blinded myself to the bleeding ovvious

I know that the topic of Sony's Wena and its aim of adding smartwatch functionality to any watch has been discussed here a few times. Some of us (Me 😕 it was me) have even hackneyed together franken-straps with a combo of a watch and a smart tracker like mi-band, but this new attempt at adding a lot of functionality whilst keeping the watch as the star?

Well it has some potential IMO, if it delivers on what it's claiming? A handy replacement that would save our clasps from desk dive dings and keep our other wrist free🤔

Looks slick but I can't see a single piece of company info on the page, no physical address or details, not even a home country.

All that aside I like the concept and it would be interetsing to see a real live unit if it ever becomes a reality. It would suit me as while I wear a smart watch I'm not using it that smartly so HR and steps with whatsapp messages. The nice thing about my dumb smartwatch is I can read a whatsapp but not reply and it doesn't show as read on the phone!! Nice feature for when people are annoying me.

Huawei GT2, got it on a prime deal for 120 I think about two years back. Great battery (7-10 days), good fitness tracking stuff, handy to take a call on when hands are filthy. Message notification and I can read them but seems only one way from phone to watch which I guess is why the mesages don't show as read.

I had fitbit before and this is step up but no apple or samsung job. One thing it has made me realise is that I'm not really a smart watch fan beyond the simple things I use on it. Probably the thing I like most is the vibrating alarm for the morning. Mrs Traco never knows its gone off so I get up and head to gym or work without bothering anyone.

Strap irritates my wrist a bit so ordered a metal one on saturday for it. It gets abuse and it would be either this or a casio digital for daily work hacking.

That’s a bit of an eyesore stuck to the underside of your wrist.Also the clasp for me is integral part of the watch when wearing , a crap clasp usually makes for an uncomfortable watch .Why not just wear a small fitbit on your right wrist ?

Has anyone purchased a new Breitling recently? Wondering if there are discounts to be had from an AD.

Thinking of a blue dial aerospace, I've always liked them.

yep have used Chrono a few times with no issues. Just don't authorize payout until you are happy with watch when it arrives

Any submariner is an excellent watch, and honestly probably the only watch anyone ever needs. Prices are down on the grey market for sure. Maybe 2k gone off the price of a sub in the last months or two. 11-13k will get you a nice unworn watch.....but dont be put off trying to get an unworn one. These are not cars. Any unworn watch has likely been on 20 wrists in an AD anyway. But good condition from a truster seller. I have to say Ichrono is excellent and Chris that owns that place is a sound man. Wont be the cheapest but sells only solid watches and is a watchmaker so can fix any issues.

Good luck with the hunt.