What's your current craze or fad item
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that little piece of silk
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Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:
would new cameras consider a fad too..? kekekekkee.
Dunno about a fad, but after fifteen grand or so my wife's convinced I'm crazy.
This pretty much sums up my two other things:
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for me, it would be the SGS II..
meanwhile, the wait continues ~
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Originally posted by elindra:
I think for me right now, I'm soooo in love with Rilakkuma Bears
They are just so cute and cuddly and according to the storyline, it's living the kind of life I wish I can lead
moi?
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Dunno about a fad, but after fifteen grand or so my wife's convinced I'm crazy.
This pretty much sums up my two other things:
Same here, though not as expensive as yours. I pamper my time pieces.
Rolex 15200. (1991)..
My workhorse, Omega Seamaster Professional, Chronograph
A sloppy shot using my phone's fancy camera app. Note the date's black in real life.
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Originally posted by kenn3th:
Same here, though not as expensive as yours. I pamper my time pieces.
Rolex 15200. (1991)..
My workhorse, Omega Seamaster Professional, Chronograph
A sloppy shot using my phone's fancy camera app. Note the date's black in real life.
oh my, wat hairy hands u have..
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i oso want to say!
ji hairy!
X-men got fight! -
runs in the family
no i don't have chest hair like woverine!
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Originally posted by kenn3th:
no i don't have chest hair like woverine!
damn!
i was abt to PM u my lumber. -
Originally posted by FireIce:
damn!
i was abt to PM u my lumber.Haha, i m xdd
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u mind ajuma?
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Originally posted by kenn3th:
Same here, though not as expensive as yours. I pamper my time pieces.
Rolex 15200. (1991)..
My workhorse, Omega Seamaster Professional, Chronograph
A sloppy shot using my phone's fancy camera app. Note the date's black in real life.
Hey, nice 15200 - been thinking of getting one with a grey dial myself. The 16233's gold bits demand babying, and most of the time I've either got my Sea Dweller or Tudor 79170 on, and those can take a beating without missing a beat.
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Originally posted by FireIce:
u mind ajuma?
Do you look like susanna hoffs? :D
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Dunno about a fad, but after fifteen grand or so my wife's convinced I'm crazy.
This pretty much sums up my two other things:
Ooh, Laphroaig... beautiful stuff but it's an acquired nose.
I'm looking at getting a Lagavulin DE during my trip (featured in another thread).
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Originally posted by FireIce:
u mind ajuma?
want to date my sonny got to pay! -
Originally posted by Gedanken:
Hey, nice 15200 - been thinking of getting one with a grey dial myself. The 16233's gold bits demand babying, and most of the time I've either got my Sea Dweller or Tudor 79170 on, and those can take a beating without missing a beat.
Thanks, that baby just went for an overhual at RSC, spring finally gave in and broke. It has never been serviced since the day it was bought till dec 2010. Despite this, it still tells precise and accurate time, a testament to rolex's quality and engineering.. This is how it looked like before
It was passed down from my dad to me. one can say it's a gift of love and trust. He trusts that I will take care of his first mechanical timepiece.. bought together with his first love, my mom. Everytime i look at it, I am reminded of it's history.
This watch has been lying in a safe for quite a few years, not being run like it's supposed to. I like the conversations I had with the lady at RSC, she said that owning a watch is an easy thing, but maintaining it is the hardest part of watch ownership.
Anyway, after scrutinising it through a big digial microscope, the watch technician/ engineer came back saying that the dial has oxidised - they could either replace it or restore it. I opted for the arabic blue dual tone dial instead.It's a beauty.. In bright sunlight it looks light blueish, on other occasions it is a dark blue.
Though come to think of it, i should have kept it the way it is, without restoring or changing it - After all, this timepiece is about the same age as me and it has been through my growing years. It also has the Tritium symbols on the dial...
The omega on the other hand, is going slow.. but it's a daily beater, once dropped accidentally face down on a wooden floor and still survived without a scuff.
I have quite a big wrist, so the 15200 feels alittle small (34mm), compared to the bond (41mm) that i was used to wearing..
It's an expensive addiction.. watches. Not many people understand it...
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
Ooh, Laphroaig... beautiful stuff but it's an acquired nose.
I'm looking at getting a Lagavulin DE during my trip (featured in another thread).
Ah, you're a man of taste, KB - you can never go wrong with an Islay single malt. At the moment I've got Laphroaig, Lagavulin and Ardbeg in my cabinet. Apart from the Islays I've also got a Talisker and a couple of these:
Straight from the cask and not available through retailers.
Yup, I'm a drunkard, and a damned good one at that.
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Ah, you're a man of taste, KB - you can never go wrong with an Islay single malt. At the moment I've got Laphroaig, Lagavulin and Ardbeg in my cabinet. Apart from the Islays I've also got a Talisker and a couple of these:
Straight from the cask and not available through retailers.
Yup, I'm a drunkard, and a damned good one at that.
Holy crap! BTW the Laphroaig's a 10-year-old OB, right? I like the quarter-cask bottling. And I adore Talisker as well, it's something I recommend to people who don't like their peat as much.
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Originally posted by kenn3th:
Thanks, that baby just went for an overhual at RSC, spring finally gave in and broke. It has never been serviced since the day it was bought till dec 2010. Despite this, it still tells precise and accurate time, a testament to rolex's quality and engineering.. This is how it looked like before
It was passed down from my dad to me. one can say it's a gift of love and trust. He trusts that I will take care of his first mechanical timepiece.. bought together with his first love, my mom. Everytime i look at it, I am reminded of it's history.
I suppose watch collection is an addiction, our whole family are watch addicts. This watch has been lying in a safe for quite a few years, not being run like it's supposed to.
The watch technician/ engineer came back saying that the dial has oxidised - they could either replace it or restore it. I opted for the arabic blue dual tone dial instead.It's a beauty.. In bright sunlight it looks light blueish, on other occasions it is a dark blue.
Though come to think of it, i should have kept it the way it is, without restoring or changing it - After all, this timepiece is about the same age as me and it has been through my growing years. It also has the Tritium symbols on the dial...
The omega on the other hand, is going slow.. but it's a daily beater, once dropped accidentally face down on a wooden floor and still survived without a scuff.
I have quite a big wrist, so the 15200 feels alittle small (34mm), compared to the bond (41mm) that i was used to wearing..
Yeah, even at 36mm, my Datejust feels a bit small sometimes. I might see how well a 116200 fits.
Tritium is nice and all, but after it's passed its half-life it's not much good - my Datejust is tritium as well and it's got no glow at all. Luminova works much better.
Anyway, good to see another Rolex fan here. You might be interested in checking out these pieces from one of my fellow collectors:
That last shot's of somewhere between $120-150 grand worth of watches. By the way, that two-tone watch isn't an Oysterquartz - it's a 1530 with an automatic movement.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
Holy crap! BTW the Laphroaig's a 10-year-old OB, right? I like the quarter-cask bottling. And I adore Talisker as well, it's something I recommend to people who don't like their peat as much.
Yup, it's a 10-year-old Laphroaig, and it's my favourite for an everyday sort of drink. I've tried a Laphroaig 18 and the peat's weaker, although a fellow Laphroaig nut has told me that the peat flavour is stronger in the 30-year-old. Go figure.
Talisker's a nice little dram - I've actually had two shots over the course of the evening. One real dark horse isn't even Scotch - have you tried Yamazaki?
Anyway, if you're ever headed to my neck of the woods, let me know. I'll bring you in as a guest at one of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society's quarterly tastings - they serve up six damned good scotches at each gathering.
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Yeah, even at 36mm, my Datejust feels a bit small sometimes. I might see how well a 116200 fits.
Tritium is nice and all, but after it's passed its half-life it's not much good - my Datejust is tritium as well and it's got no glow at all. Luminova works much better.
Anyway, good to see another Rolex fan here. You might be interested in checking out these pieces from one of my fellow collectors:
That last shot's of somewhere between $120-150 grand worth of watches. By the way, that two-tone watch isn't an Oysterquartz - it's a 1530 with an automatic movement.
I'm not really a rolex fan. Haha, I like to stay neutral and appreciate the beauty in a non biased way
. The pictures simply breath taking.. can't put a word to describe it.
*Cough* Its that a 1019
Rare. Back to earth... of all the fantastic and exquisite timepieces there, I like the Milgauss the most -esp the one with the green sapphire crystal 116400GV - Just nice since after graduation and uni, I would most probably be working at Singapore Power.
Also one of the more *cough* affordable *cough* of the lot.
Here's a good link from me: - gave the wrong link.. it must be in the other laptop then hmm-
It's the personal blog of a rolex certificed watch technician.. in his older posts he has some views of watches, like how tag heuers are overly priced for the parts they use to make it. (Low quality movements).
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Yup, that's a 1019, but the amazing part of the story is that the guy bought it at $4500 at a time when the going price was between 27 and 30 grand. The previous owner's father had bought two 1019s brand new, and the guy was selling one and keeping the other.
The Paul Newman Daytona and the Comex Sub are owned by another friend of mine. The Comex sub was originally issued to a Comex diver, who sold it to a Comex engineer, who took it from Paris to Melbourne so that it could be certified as a genuine Comex Sub. The RSC technicians just about wet themselves because it was the first one they'd ever seen.
Yeah, I wouldn't be caught dead wearing a TAG, or (apart from the Chrono Avenger M1) a Brietling for that matter. They just scream "I don't know what I'm doing".
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Yup, it's a 10-year-old Laphroaig, and it's my favourite for an everyday sort of drink. I've tried a Laphroaig 18 and the peat's weaker, although a fellow Laphroaig nut has told me that the peat flavour is stronger in the 30-year-old. Go figure.
Talisker's a nice little dram - I've actually had two shots over the course of the evening. One real dark horse isn't even Scotch - have you tried Yamazaki?
Anyway, if you're ever headed to my neck of the woods, let me know. I'll bring you in as a guest at one of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society's quarterly tastings - they serve up six damned good scotches at each gathering.
I had a 12YO Yamazaki years ago, before whisky started making an impression on me. If you've been following some of the convo's we've been having the 18YO's hard to find.
I'm told that batches may vary but I haven't tried enough to know.
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Originally posted by Kuali Baba:
I had a 12YO Yamazaki years ago, before whisky started making an impression on me. If you've been following some of the convo's we've been having the 18YO's hard to find.
I'm told that batches may vary but I haven't tried enough to knI w.
The funny thing is that I've yet to try a commercially-available Yamazaki. If memory serves me correctly, I was served a 24-year-old Yamazaki straight from the cask at my first society meeting. It knocked my socks off, but at $800+ a bottle it was a bit rich for my blood.
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
Yup, that's a 1019, but the amazing part of the story is that the guy bought it at $4500 at a time when the going price was between 27 and 30 grand. The previous owner's father had bought two 1019s brand new, and the guy was selling one and keeping the other.
The Paul Newman Daytona and the Comex Sub are owned by another friend of mine. The Comex sub was originally issued to a Comex diver, who sold it to a Comex engineer, who took it from Paris to Melbourne so that it could be certified as a genuine Comex Sub. The RSC technicians just about wet themselves because it was the first one they'd ever seen.
Yeah, I wouldn't be caught dead wearing a TAG, or (apart from the Chrono Avenger M1) a Brietling for that matter. They just scream "I don't know what I'm doing".
Interesting.. been reading up on the comex, at one point, seems like Comex divers paid 175 pounds for a rolex .. an interesting figure..
The rollie just changed it's date with a nice click, @ 11:59:xx there's nothing to be alarmed right?