New watch :)

[IronWing]

I tend to keep my watches around $500 or less since I need to replace them each year. My Seiko was not even a year old yet.

You know, this earns a cookie. Congratulations.

 

[preslove]

I tend to keep my watches around $500 or less since I need to replace them each year. My Seiko was not even a year old yet.

oops, spoke too soon, lol.

 

[alkemyst]

I thought the op was a 'baller' with expensive watches? :Confused:

I buy expensive watches for my wife. She's not as rough on her stuff as me.

I just buy a watch and it's pretty much my everyday/occassion watch.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I tend to keep my watches around $500 or less since I need to replace them each year. My Seiko was not even a year old yet.

Why do you need to replace them each year? One of my favorite watches is a Tudor that's more than 50 years old:

If I need something beefy I strap on one of my divers or a surprisingly nice Chinese titanium Panerai knockoff I bought on Timezone for $90 brand new. I don't believe any realistic real-world use would destroy a quality diver's watch, unless it was run over by a car, hit with a hammer, etc. Any number of ~$150 automatic Seikos would hold up much better to abuse than that Citizen.

 

[Newbian]

Last troll thread get locked?

 

[alkemyst]

why not take the $500 and apply it to your mortgage? oh wait, you're already in foreclosure right?


god you're pathetic.

lol, yeah you are mad. I had made enough payments on that mortgage as you realize. I think you were one of the one's that said I should have stopped paying much sooner than waiting 4+ years.

 

[alkemyst]

Why do you need to replace them each year? One of my favorite watches is a Tudor that's more than 50 years old:

because I work in equipment racks a lot and they tend to get scratched up badly.

 

[slightlyhuman]

Why do you need to replace them each year? One of my favorite watches is a Tudor that's more than 50 years old:

just think about it don... just for a minute.

 

[preslove]

Can anyone explain/link to all the foreclosure references? Is Alky really in foreclosure? I thought he was just underwater on a home that he bought at the stupidest point possible.

 

[vshah]

I have known a number of military pilots who wore Citizen Skyhawks, but personally I like mechanical watches and would have no use for a slide-rule bezel or any of the other features on that watch. To each his own - enjoy!

I myself am wearing one of these:

now THAT is sexy!

also way out of my budget

 

[slightlyhuman]

lol, yeah you are mad. I had made enough payments on that mortgage as you realize. I think you were one of the one's that said I should have stopped paying much sooner than waiting 4+ years.

go find where i offered you any advice in that thread.

 

[alkemyst]

So fashion statement, like I said

no a business statement, you are thinking like a teenager...I thought you were older than that.

 

[AMDZen]

I just got me one of these guys. What do you think?

http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Wat...&adtype=pla&kw

 

[Andrew111]

It's okay alkemyst, guess you can't afford to sport the watch I wear: http://www.amazon.com/Zenith-Tourbil...1200681&sr=1-1

 

[alkemyst]

Can anyone explain/link to all the foreclosure references? Is Alky really in foreclosure? I thought he was just underwater on a home that he bought at the stupidest point possible.

Actually I bought after the boom. It was the time people were buying again and values had fallen...almost 2008.

I was paying as I was supposed to and somewhere around my 6th month all my payments were no longer being applied to the balance. I kept getting promises they'd fix it and then I got notification from my creditors that they were raising my rates due to severe delinquency being reported (my interest payments went from $200 to over $1700 in a month).

Then my loan was sold and the new company assured me they'd work it all out. That was 4+ years ago. I stopped paying in January as I wasn't getting anywhere with sending them my payments. On a $265k loan they were reporting I owed almost $400k.

 

[AMDZen]

It's okay alkemyst, guess you can't afford to sport the watch I wear: http://www.amazon.com/Zenith-Tourbil...1200681&sr=1-1

I like mine better, mine is carbon fiber

 

[alkemyst]

I just got me one of these guys. What do you think?

http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Wat...&adtype=pla&kw

It's unfortunate, but we all know you will never be able to even afford a watch even 1/10th that.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

It's okay alkemyst, guess you can't afford to sport the watch I wear: http://www.amazon.com/Zenith-Tourbil...1200681&sr=1-1

Amateur.

 

[yllus]

I just got me one of these guys. What do you think?

http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Wat...&adtype=pla&kw

I can't decide if that's hideously ugly or incredibly beautiful. Maybe both.

 

[AMDZen]

It's unfortunate, but we all know you will never be able to even afford a watch even 1/10th that.

You know nothing. However I know that I would never spend any amount of money on an old fashioned time keeping device that does stuff like "tell time in 32 countries"

If only I had another device on me at all times that told me the time and such stuffs.

Watches are like fax machines for assholes

 

[preslove]

Actually I bought after the boom. It was the time people were buying again and values had fallen...almost 2008.

I was paying as I was supposed to and somewhere around my 6th month all my payments were no longer being applied to the balance. I kept getting promises they'd fix it and then I got notification from my creditors that they were raising my rates due to severe delinquency being reported (my interest payments went from $200 to over $1700 in a month).

Then my loan was sold and the new company assured me they'd work it all out. That was 4+ years ago. I stopped paying in January as I wasn't getting anywhere with sending them my payments. On a $265k loan they were reporting I owed almost $400k.

You didn't think to hire a lawyer?

 

[sixone]

Watch looks much better in person than online. The other watch I was looking at looks better in the magazine than online or in the store: http://www.amazon.com/Seiko-Solar-Al...ar+chronograph

I'm not sure whether I have ADD, but looking at that watch makes me feel like I do.

Nothing wrong with it, just personal preference. Ignore the Debbie Downers - including me.

 

[AMDZen]

I mean. Look at all the cool stuffs this watch does guys. /1970's

- Atomic timekeeping with radio-controlled accuracy
- World time in 43 cities
- 2 alarms
- 1/100 second chronograph that measures up to 24 hours
- 99 minute countdown timer
- Digital display light
- Greenwich Mean Time display

 

[Andrew111]

Amateur.

Mine has more reviews...I mean just read this glowing review:

"After just 3 days with this watch strange things start to happen, looks like all my friends and family want to take it from me....
But this is My Precious, today I left my house, my wife and my kids....I am gonna live in an island, alone with my Precious and nobody will touch him but me....."

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

because I work in equipment racks a lot and they tend to get scratched up badly.

But if that's the case, buying a $500 replacement every year makes no sense whatsoever. You could buy a quality diver from Omega or Rolex that would stand up to that abuse and hold its value, or you could (as most people would) either buy a G-Shock or an inexpensive (~$150) but attractive diver from Seiko or Invicta, with the intent of replacing it as often as you broke one (which you would be hard pressed to do). The Skyhawk doesn't even have a sapphire crystal - that mineral glass is very easy to scratch and can't be buffed out.

I really don't understand this.