triumph and breitling
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Re: triumph and breitling
A 'luxury' watch has to be the biggest waste of money going...your mobile phone keeps better time.
I once got a 'posh' watch as a gift. It stopped working after a couple of years. Apparently, I should have had it 'serviced' every year...for £80! It wasn't even a clockwork one.
It's sitting in a drawer now...unused.
I once got a 'posh' watch as a gift. It stopped working after a couple of years. Apparently, I should have had it 'serviced' every year...for £80! It wasn't even a clockwork one.
It's sitting in a drawer now...unused.
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Sore point in our house. When I was touring Europe by bike with a mate in about 2002, we went through Andorra on our way back to France from the Catalunyan MotoGP. Tracie had said that if we happened to go to Andorra that she would like to treat herself to a Rolex and maybe I could get one tax free in Andorra. It had just rained when John and I arrived at the ultra-posh bond street-style jewelers Bulgari in Andorra de la Vella. So we shuffled up to the door in black waterproofs on top of leathers, helmets gloves etc dripping wet - looking a lot like we were about to mount a heist. The security guard was great and we were let in, leaving a trail of water on the pristine marble floor. The charming sales assistant pulled out a huge drawer with maybe 100k's worth of watches in it so I could identify the 'Lady's Champagne Oyster Perpetual Bollocks' or whatever it was called. Saved 600 Euros over list for buying in Andorra, which was nice but it was pretty painful to shell out 3 grand for a watch. I smuggled it out through the customs shed in its little pouch down my kecks. Anyway, sorry, cut long story short...Richard Simpson Mark II wrote: ↑Sun Aug 15, 2021 11:06 am A 'luxury' watch has to be the biggest waste of money going...your mobile phone keeps better time.
I once got a 'posh' watch as a gift. It stopped working after a couple of years. Apparently, I should have had it 'serviced' every year...for £80! It wasn't even a clockwork one.
It's sitting in a drawer now...unused.
That watch has needed three expensive Rolex services, probably loses an hour a month, always seems to have something wrong with it and Tracie daren't wear the thing in a city. It's ridiculous. The only saving grace was she had it valued last time it was serviced and it's now worth 4500 Euros... It's a crazy old world.
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Re: triumph and breitling
Emperor's new clothes.
And, as you say, asking for trouble to wear it 'out' anyway.
A mate of a mate was out jogging in Milton Keynes and was stopped in an underpass by a group of yoofs.
"Gi us your stuff!"
"Well, what would you like? My old adidas running shoes, or my old aldi shorts and vest? Why don't you just piss off home before I thump you?"
and, grumbling, they did.
I'm unlikely to get mugged, and I don't think anyone would want my Microsoft phone anyway.
And, as you say, asking for trouble to wear it 'out' anyway.
A mate of a mate was out jogging in Milton Keynes and was stopped in an underpass by a group of yoofs.
"Gi us your stuff!"
"Well, what would you like? My old adidas running shoes, or my old aldi shorts and vest? Why don't you just piss off home before I thump you?"
and, grumbling, they did.
I'm unlikely to get mugged, and I don't think anyone would want my Microsoft phone anyway.
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"Rattling the stick in the swill-bucket" as George Orwell said (he kept pigs).
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I bought a Rolex about 9 years ago. Best watch I have ever had.
Wear it everyday, even when going to work offshore. Never had a problem with it and it is now worth
about 2.5 times what I paid for it.
Yes, expensive to buy, but nothing I have ever bought (including financial saving plans ) Have given
such a potential return on the first investment sum.
Wear it everyday, even when going to work offshore. Never had a problem with it and it is now worth
about 2.5 times what I paid for it.
Yes, expensive to buy, but nothing I have ever bought (including financial saving plans ) Have given
such a potential return on the first investment sum.
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Define expensive?
I had a Breitling that I won at a shooting competition, it sat in its box for a few years then I sold it, as I wasn't going to wear it.
In the end, even if going somewhere posh it just felt like I would be showing off.
I wear a Seiko Kinetic, plain white dial, never needs winding, keeps perfect time and has never let me down. Looks good in the pub or a posh restaurant.
I'm not against expensive watches, we all have vices, this just isn't one of mine.
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20210817_022105 (2) by gary boy, on Flickr
this is my most expensive watch.
.. its a nuclear fusion powered, hydrogen regenerative, with plank constant timing, modulated by emotional quantum solace engineering.
It is attached to my Emtb via neuron-free carbon testicles, and is empathic in a caring way, increasing the readouts of speed (transmuted telepathically to the Halford's magneto-sphere bio-screen) to suit my frame of mind at the time of leg pulling the zero gravity pedals ..
It is disguised as a cheap £1.99 watch, as it has no defense against theft ... such is its empathic power, which cannot be over-ridden.
As I ride the highways and byways, most of my time is taken by pondering the ethical and practical use of such an empathic time piece. This means i get there a hell of a lot quicker ... so the vastly expensive gadget does really help me go faster.
Time really does fly .. even more so at sea level.
this is my most expensive watch.
.. its a nuclear fusion powered, hydrogen regenerative, with plank constant timing, modulated by emotional quantum solace engineering.
It is attached to my Emtb via neuron-free carbon testicles, and is empathic in a caring way, increasing the readouts of speed (transmuted telepathically to the Halford's magneto-sphere bio-screen) to suit my frame of mind at the time of leg pulling the zero gravity pedals ..
It is disguised as a cheap £1.99 watch, as it has no defense against theft ... such is its empathic power, which cannot be over-ridden.
As I ride the highways and byways, most of my time is taken by pondering the ethical and practical use of such an empathic time piece. This means i get there a hell of a lot quicker ... so the vastly expensive gadget does really help me go faster.
Time really does fly .. even more so at sea level.