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| Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 01:28 pm |
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1jammot 3T WIS
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(Stands up, shy and awkward, clears throat, stares at feet) "My name is 1jammot and I'm a watch-addict..." (Sits down heavily, face bright red, while other attendees clap) I collect watches for fun. When I just bought watches as a useful clothing accessory, I could spend much too much on just one watch. I shudder at the thought of it, because I know that £4000 spent buying a Rolex actually breaks down into £1000 for buying a watch and £3000 for buying an ego trip, a stack of publicity, and a questionable amount of research and development. Now if I just keep my eyes and ears awake, instead of only getting one watch, I can up my collection by 8 good watches for the same £4000. Question of personal preference? Absolutely! And I know exactly where my preference lies. Some of the watches that really please me have cost about £250, like a Grovana Pro Diver's, or even, honestly, a Rolex-inspired "toy" that I picked up for $4.95, which has taken mighty abuse, been dropped in all manner of liquids, and still ploughs on, ticking like a time-bomb in a low-budget film, and giving me the time as accurately as I need it. And I only bought it to remind me of the hawker's spiel! I love it! I'm interested in the technical aspects, but not obsessively, and a great deal in the aesthetics. I try to get watches that illustrate an aesthetic trend but maintain a certain standard technically speaking, which means no replicas, (my $4.95 "friend" excepted on jocularity grounds), and no quartz. I reckon getting an automatic movement into the box, and powering all the functions, make life more difficult for the designers to do as they please, aesthetically speaking, than would a quartz solution. I do have quartz watches. They are all carefully put away in a drawer, in bubble-wrap and marked with the name of the kind person who gave each one to me as a present "for your collection". I am a well-organised coward, and always want to have the corresponding watch on my wrist when we visit or entertain one of the well-intentioned benefactors. I enjoy exchanging in fora, but lose interest quickly in exchanges where each sign-off line is followed by a long, irrelevant and un-verifiable list of the contributor's watches. Watches are about quiet, contented enjoyment, (not about impressing friends and acquaintances), with a hint of thought and learning running all the way through every aspect of our very peaceful, very mild, form of mania.
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| Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 01:59 pm |
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KenC Admin 
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 And welcome to 3T! Please note the absence of a list of any of the watches I own! :D
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| Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 02:07 pm |
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murphy j 3T WIS 
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KenC wrote:
What Ken said.:D Oh! Glad you found us. We can help; help make it worse that is;).
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| Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 02:40 pm |
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1jammot 3T WIS
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Hi there! Two Snoopy emoticons on my first day; thing have started well.
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| Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 06:10 pm |
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Paxman 3T WIS 
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Welcome to 3T. I like the cut of your jib. Nothing more boorish than to have to list your watches or ejaculate your entire collection upon us at once. Of course my own hubris forces me to list my watches for you now as well as a brief description of how I cam to possess them... wait ... aieee!! 
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| Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 07:04 pm |
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Skipdawg 3T WIS 
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smile8.gif Hello and welcome to 3T. ;)
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| Posted: Mon May 5th, 2008 11:28 pm |
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zippofan 3T WIS 
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Welcome to 3T, aka "Enablers Are Us" :D I don't list watches in my sig, it would be too long as I am a "hoarder", just like with my Zippo collection! Seriously though, I always felt that having a bunch to choose from makes the average day a little more interesting, I can match my watch to my shirt for the day (for which my wife thinks I am nuts :shock:, though I don't hassle her about matching shoes to her purse, LOL). Plus there are so many "sleeper" watches out there, like Debaufre/Steinhart, Orient, Zeno, various Russians that are reasonably priced and high quality that make going for the expensive brand names sort of a waste. Not that I would turn down a Rolex/Omega et. al., I just can't afford them! JMHO hand6.gif Cheers, Griff
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| Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 01:01 am |
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srh_pres 3T WIS 
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Welcome aboard 3T 1jammot... you are among fellow addicts here for sure... resistance is futile... :D
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| Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 07:55 am |
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1jammot 3T WIS
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zippofan, Skipdawg and srh_pres, Thank you all for the welcome! This feels like a far more comfortable "home" than ******* or ########! I would like to put a personal touch to the decor, which leads me to ask if there is a charitable person around who could give me fool-proof, step-by-step, instructions for up-loading photos from my ridiculously under-employed camera. Ahh, the watches I could have bought for the price of that!
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| Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 08:01 am |
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Paxman 3T WIS
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1jammot wrote: zippofan, Skipdawg and srh_pres, This should help: http://timetechtalk.com/view_topic.php?id=1825&forum_id=5
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| Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 09:48 am |
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KenC Admin
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Paxman wrote: 1jammot wrote:zippofan, Skipdawg and srh_pres, I updated this as there have been some minor changes to the Photobucket format.
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| Posted: Tue May 6th, 2008 02:36 pm |
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Topher1556 3T WIS 
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Welcome! I'm a little shocked though. Personally, I like to show the list of watches I have (as I do on one other forum...I don't think you can even technically do it on this forum ;)). I think it's a neat way to quickly see what I'm interested in. I've also met people (online) who were searching for more information about a particular model that I happened to have. It's not about boasting for me, or impressing others, or anything of the such. If I wanted to do that, then I'd be a completely different person. For me, the watches I have tell a little about what I'm like. Just my $0.02 :D Last edited on Tue May 6th, 2008 02:37 pm by Topher1556 |
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