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Who's got a nice watch? Traditional watches only, no smartwatches please.
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Been on a waitlist for a little over a year. Even when this watch arrived on Friday, I had to battle it out with 2 other customers. Thanks for my sales girls for sticking up for me. This is my first Rolex since selling about 10 pieces 4 years ago to branch out into other brands. I have owned numerous subs and one SD, but this is my first Deep Sea. Admittedly, it sits a little tall, but it is nonetheless comfortable on my wrist. In the end, I'm very pleased with this watch.
Been on a waitlist for a little over a year. Even when this watch arrived on Friday, I had to battle it out with 2 other customers. Thanks for my sales girls for sticking up for me. This is my first Rolex since selling about 10 pieces 4 years ago to branch out into other brands. I have owned numerous subs and one SD, but this is my first Deep Sea. Admittedly, it sits a little tall, but it is nonetheless comfortable on my wrist. In the end, I'm very pleased with this watch.
I = jealous AF
I too have been on a search for a year to owning this piece. Congrats to you!
I was just in London, harrods and they did have a Deepsea, but not the blue- so I passed. This model has the new movement, and the heavier and wider band.
How did you go about getting it if you don't mind me asking?
Got on a waitlist at a local AD that I’ve done business with in the past. Also waitlisted for a few other things, so my fingers are crossed.
I was offered a SD43 a couple months back, but I passed because I think the cyclops is sacrilege on them.
Enjoy the previous 174 pages.I don't have a nice watch (actually I don't own a watch at all) but I would love to see the pictures of yours.
Got my AP ROO diver back from service finally. Like an idiot, I dropped it and dented the crown. After what seems like a few months and some $$, I got it back like new and they threw in a “free” travel box. Was intending to sell this piece, but I’m going to enjoy it a bit more. Also added a Steel Flame molle which has some meaning to me.
Just got this one in on the 12th - it joins my Submariner "Hulk" and SubC No date that were both new last year.
I bought it from a flipper who got it new on March 2nd, after my being on "the list" at two local Rolex AD for 3 years. If you do't spend $100K a year at the AD you stay at the bottom of the list (or should I say lost).
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That's sad to hear. Before I retired from pediatrics in 2007 with a lung disease, I never refrained from wearing my old Rolex in front of my patients and peers, and no hospital that I worked at had any policy regarding fancy watches. But I actually never paid attention to whether any of my peers chose to wear fancy watches just to out-do one another.
Back then my only Rolex was my grandfather's 1970's Oyster Perpetual Date (maybe a 1501 or 1601), and I wore it often at work (it was stolen in 2011). It was rather plain looking for a vintage Rolex though.
I also tended to take it off to avoid being taken advantage of by salesmen who thought I was made of money just because of the watch I chose to wear.
I bought it from a flipper who got it new on March 2nd, after my being on "the list" at two local Rolex AD for 3 years. If you do't spend $100K a year at the AD you stay at the bottom of the list (or should I say lost).
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The administration does not really like us wearing our super fancy watches like a Rolex, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, etc. Apparently, they feel like it is showing off in a way...and not just showing off for patients, but also between MD's, PA's, NP's, and nurses. It is a weird policy that is not really enforced hard.
Now, the one that is enforced hard (and I understand why) is the cologne for men, and perfume for women. You never know what type of cologne/perfume could set off a patients allergies or if they allergic to something in it. I love wearing cologne, but I do follow the policy...most days...sometimes I put a squirt of my favorite cologne Versace Eros on my neck.
Hospitals are crazy places to work, and I am not just talking about the patients. Doctors get jealous of other doctors and what not. I have seen doctors spend tens of thousands of dollars to "out-class" another doctor. Doctors are not the only guilty ones either. Some PA's, NP's, and nurses do the same things, just less money spent.
It.Is.Crazy!
That's sad to hear. Before I retired from pediatrics in 2007 with a lung disease, I never refrained from wearing my old Rolex in front of my patients and peers, and no hospital that I worked at had any policy regarding fancy watches. But I actually never paid attention to whether any of my peers chose to wear fancy watches just to out-do one another.
Back then my only Rolex was my grandfather's 1970's Oyster Perpetual Date (maybe a 1501 or 1601), and I wore it often at work (it was stolen in 2011). It was rather plain looking for a vintage Rolex though.
I also tended to take it off to avoid being taken advantage of by salesmen who thought I was made of money just because of the watch I chose to wear.
I dumped an extensive Rolex collection about 5 or 6 years ago because I didn’t like the direction that Rolex was going. I kind of get it because they are trying to get rid of the secondary market. But, the artificial market they are creating for SS pieces is absurd. Luckily, because I’ve been a long time customer I can have access to some of the new pieces that I actually like. Still, it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. This also applies to some of the car companies that adhere to the same business model.
I went a similar route, but had a backup deal that would have netted me the cash to buy the one on DavidSW site if the 1st deal fell through. I did have to get rid of the BLNR that I bought from DavidSW in 2015 to get this one. I actually think that it's the ceramic Daytona that I've been on the AD list at Ben Bridge and Hyde Park for 3 years, and maybe only on the Pepsi GMT list for 2 years.
In the past 5 years I've also sold 4 different Explorer II (a 1991 and a 2005 white dial, a 2014 white dial, and a 2008 black dial), an 18 year old Coke Bezel GMT II, an 18 year old TT blue Sub, a 1983 Submariner 16800, and a 2009 silver dial Yachtmaster, to help pay for kid's college or to get different watches like these.
I'm left with a 2018 SubC No Date, 2018 Sub "Hulk", and this 2019 Pepsi GMT II.
I also have several Omega Seamaster and Speedmaster watches, of which I'd like to keep most of them, although I've sold a couple of redundant Planet Ocean and a Seamaster Pro, a Tudor Black Bay Red, and a spare Grey Side of the Moon to fund these other watches in the past year. I also love my DOXA Poseidon LE Diver and a Grand Seiko Diver, and even some less expensive Luminox and Victorinox watches (plus a bunch of Seiko and Citizen).
Next on my list is to save up and score a white dial ceramic Daytona, but not sure I can do it and keep the SubC ND which is my "under the radar" Rolex that I'd like to keep. But this Pepsi and my Hulk, plus a Ceramic Daytona could be the three Rolex I'm left with for the next couple of decades into my retirement, if I play my cards right.
I feel bad keeping these Rolexes locked up in the safe unworn, while I wear the heck out of my Titanium Planet Ocean 9300 chronograph day in and day out. I used to wear my Rolexes all the time, when they were older models and not so hard to come by.
[doublepost=1556264744][/doublepost]My collection has changed a little since these pics 3 years ago - all of these 6 Rolex and Tudor are now gone, replaced with the Pepsi, Hulk and Sub No Date that I mentioned.
Of these Omegas, I've only sold the orange bezel Planet Ocean and the Snoopy Speedmaster, but I added an Omega Speedy Tuesday, a 2013 Speedmaster 3570.50 and a 2005 3572.50 which I modded with a white panda dial (I had two Grey Side of the Moon, planning to give one to my son for graduation but sold).
Of these watches, I've only sold the Seamaster Pro ceramic, and the white dial Astron, but added a Seiko PADI turtle and a PADI solar, and Blue Lagoon LE turtle, Plus a DOXA Poseidon LE.
My 1960's Seamasters from my birth year, and 1976's Speedmaster 861.
My current modern Speedmaster Moonwatches.
A few of my Luminox and Victorinox Swiss watches that I still have. I have two more Luminox (a carbon cased diver and a blue dial chronograph) not pictured.
This was the shot of the whole collection at the time, which has changed and grown. Notice two Bulova Apollo 15 Moonwatches, on strap and bracelet.
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Two that I sold to help pay for the Rolex Hulk
The Yachmaster I sold to help pay for the Pepsi
My other Luminox Swiss watches (my son helping to model them)
The Seiko PADI turtle
The Seiko Blue Lagoon LE
Seiko PADI Solar (got 4/12/19)
The Yachmaster I sold to help pay for the Pepsi
My other Luminox Swiss watches (my son helping to model them)
The Seiko PADI turtle
The Seiko Blue Lagoon LE
Seiko PADI Solar (got 4/12/19)
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Thanks for the detailed post. I really enjoy the collection you have and hope to grow something similar. I definitely want to add a Omega Speedmaster to my collection along with the Hulk Submariner and the Pepsi GMT / BLNR. Currently have a Breitling Navitimer from Hyde Park and have been on the list for a BLNR for 4 years with no luck. I should check out Ben Bridge, but am not sure if that will do me any good.
Side Note: Your hulk is gorgeous. I really never love green, but this might be the first Rolex piece I will pickup before I invest so much cash into the GMT.
Thanks, I could have sold you my BLNR 2 weeks ago, but alas it went to someone else for $1,500 below retail value because I was getting the Pepsi from him. I was on the Ben Bridge list, but after returning my first Hulk to them for a BLNR they never found me one, so I bought mine from DavidSW in Sept 2015 after waiting 3 months.
The Pepsi GMT and Hulk will stay with me forever. The SubC No Date may also stay with me forever, unless I really need a white dial ceramic Daytona and need to part with it to fund the purchase.
I've been on the Ben Bridge "list" for a Pepsi and ceramic Daytona since they were announced 2 and 3 years ago, but Antonio told me that I don't buy enough watches to move up on the list. I went on the Hyde Park list as well, a couple of months later, but John says I don't buy enough watches to move up the list.
Not a fan of much of the modern style, but I do like that blue-faced Rolex Oyster Perpetual Submariner that wrote that you have sold; an elegant, classy, understated watch.
Agree its one of the nicest Subs around. I have one myself but am not a watch collector just have about three nice watches.
Neither am I (a watch collector), but I do like a nice watch.
That is an absolutely gorgeous watch, classy and stylish, modern yet a little austere, timeless, and one that you would derive considerable pleasure from wearing.
I hope that you wear it (rather than admire it).
My own watch is an Omega Deville, ten years old this year, which looks much as those elegant classics from the 50s and 60s looked; I have loved it since I bought it, and had looked, longingly, at it, for around three years before I finally purchased it.
Interesting story. Subs can be very difficult to get sometimes. I had my name on a couple of wait list and one day a year or so ago i was walking past Mappin and Webb on Fenchurch street and went in and asked if they had any stock. The sales guy said today is your lucky day one came in this morning and you can have it if you buy it now. Needless to say i walked out with it.
The TT blue sub was a little too small on my wrist vs the new models, and a little blingy. I took the $7K from a dealer and bought a pair of Trek eBikes for my wife and I to get more fit, and be able to make the 800 foot climb up the hill to home, or the climb to the zoo from our home.
I have to go with the more modern style Rolex to have one that doesn't look out of place on my wrist, and I've owned a lot of 1991-2008 Rolex but couldn't be happy with any of them. The 2015 GMT BLNR with the new maxi case fit my larger wrist better, and I might have liked to keep that one, as well as my 2014 Explorer II with 42mm case.
But yeah, I do sometimes miss the blue Submariner two tone - the iPhone lens makes it look bigger than it really was. Overall I prefer the Hulk Sub to the old Blue TT Sub.
I also forgot to include this Tag Formula 1 red Bull Racing - I picked it up summer 2017 on a 25th Wedding Anniversary Norwegian Cruise to Alaska, at a better price than I found on land anywhere.
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