Video for Patek Philippe with Vintage Speedster

Sacto Mitch posted:

Stan Galat, '05 IM, 2276, Nowhere, USA posted:

 

...Where are you finding $300 Tag Heuers?

In my memory, I guess.

Just checked, and they haven't made this in years, although it was a standard item in their catalog for a long time. I wore it a few times, 30 years ago, and decided it was too nice to eff up. And so, the Timex and Casio collections started growing.

Now, I see the used prices on eBay are twice what it was new, and anything made as well today is triple what this cost. I've finally managed to keep something long enough that it has increased in value.

Funny this should come up here. Does anyone see any parallels with the cars we drive? We're afraid to ding up the old, valuable original, so we find something that gets the job done just as well and looks close enough that we don't really care. Then we use the hell out of it and don't look back.

The only people who get bent out of shape if we're not sporting the original pretty much aren't worth bothering with anyway.

 

Yup - These vintage watches are very popular right now.

Gordon, not only are  German ostriches rare, good luck trying to find a blue one. 

Stan Galat, '05 IM, 2276, Nowhere, USA posted:

Troy Sloan posted:

I have a collection of at least 20 replica watches, including Patek Philippe, several Rolexs, Breitlings, Panerais and several more.  They all look like and tell time just like the real ones and none of them cost me more than a couple of hundred dollars.  I also had a real Rolex Submariner for several years and finally decided to sell it for several thousand dollars.  I'm also planning to sell all my replicas since I never wear any of them any longer.  Just like Bob, I rely on my cell phone for the time.

If you've got a Navitimer replica, we should talk.

I've got a couple of them.

Here's one of some of the others.

Opp's, sorry, wrong site. I was looking for the Porsche Speedster Owners site

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Well, here's my favourite watch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WOTuiBG9zg

Paul K, we go off track sometimes.  Keeps things lively.  

But this time Theron started it. 

Hair past a freckle, Lads ;-)

I saw the video, what were you guys "watching"?

Say, does anybody know what time it is??

El Frazoo posted:

Say, does anybody know what time it is??

Chicago, April 1969

Yeah'  " but does anybody really care "

Marty: right on.  Not on this Forum.  Pretty much always the '60s, if ya know what I mean.

Those are some great stories. When I see a watch laid out on a velvet pad it makes me think of John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles sliding his Casio watch over his wrist to display it for the desk clerk to trade it for a room. What a great movie!

I don't believe it.  I sent my last post before I looked at the video Bob posted and it's the Candy scene.

Here's the one I bought;

I made sure to position my fake Rolex in front of my fake Porsche.

Robert, that's a nice looking Bolex.