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1. Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 00:21:49 JST Parker Banks

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   >You must choose
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 00:21:48 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @parker For your lack of fealty, the wizard has taken the “gladiator” and refashioned it into a forehead phylactery, you must now serve out your sentence with it affixed to your forehead for a full year

     also he set it so it’s always 10 minutes slow, so people will constantly bug you about correcting it

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 00:53:03 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @parker oh hi terrorist I’m gonna have to pull you aside for questioning at this, the american border. Thank the NSA for putting the F91 on the watchlist because it’s “beloved by IED makers”

     Actually over time I’ve lost all my interest in the avg. casio, the bands just don’t last long there. The higher end stuff is much hardier, but then you look like a triathlete nerd

   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 00:53:04 JST Parker Banks

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot No matter how strong your watch wizardry, it cannot compare to the power contained within my terrorist-approved Casio F-91W, and so is null and void.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 01:04:19 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @parker I’ve posted about them on here before, had some pics of one of the movements. I’ve talked to a couple rolex guys at work who basically made the switch to the $500 replicas. One guy lost his submariner and realized it wasn’t worth a Toyota Camry to replace it.

     I got a lot of use out of my databank growing up, but learned to swap the bands to leather over re-buying the rubber. But, it’s harder to make digital stuff an heirloom. Half of what I love about watches is that they can be passed on to family, a logbook of your life and adventures that they can wear and treasure.

   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 01:04:20 JST Parker Banks

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot Watches aren't really my thing, though I am considering getting a fake Rolex or Vacheron Constantin, since the replicas are pretty good now.
   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 01:59:30 JST BroDrillard

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     >Half of what I love about watches is that they can be passed on to family, a logbook of your life and adventures that they can wear and treasure.
     
     These days you can't really wear them around because the chances of getting robbed in broad daylight went up considerably. So the cheap watch becomes the logbook while the heirloom is a safe queen.
     
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFtHjV4c4uw
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 01:59:30 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BroDrillard @parker Funny enough that’s where I heard about the good, high-end fakes from: Airline guys who didn’t want to run around with a $20,000 payday hanging off their wrist. One was an IWC guy, had a $14,000 Mark xv but still wore his $300 chink ripoff to work while the other sat in a safe.

     After dealing with omega’s CS, I don’t care about helping them protect their brand, I’m basically to the point I’d rather someone buy from the chinks than keep paying into the gay pan-euro globohomo watch corps. Then again, omega hasn’t done anything for pride month, so maybe there are better targets.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 02:04:03 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BroDrillard @parker It’s been very interesting to see the attitudes shift. The guys who absolutely hate the fake scene tend to be the shitskin status faggots who wear a rolex to be seen wearing a rolex, where the 62 yo autismo savant (who used to be caled WIS for watch idiot savant until the gay fashion blogging industry took over watch press online) doesn’t really care what others think about his choice. He just likes looking down and seeing something he likes when he checks his wrist.

     As long as you always tell people it’s a “twenty five dollar chinatown fake” it’s fine by me, particularly rolex. I hate hans wildorf

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 02:10:06 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BroDrillard @parker Yeah, just went and pulled a couple fakes from a forum wrist check. There are some really, REALLY impressive faux patina pieces out there now.

   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 02:10:07 JST BroDrillard

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     That Rolex Pan Am on the right must be a fake. Nobody has seen one IRL for a very long time, and rumor has it maybe a dozen were made for Pan Am's management way back in the day. They'd be well into six (or more) figures at auction.
   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 02:21:09 JST BroDrillard

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     The higher end fakes do look really good now. If nothing else, you can still tell the difference by turning the crown to set the time. It feels "rough", while the gen feels like butter. Also the edges of bracelets feel "sharper". The chinks pay less attention to the bracelets than the watches themselves.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 02:21:09 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BroDrillard @parker I’ve been surprised, the last one I felt was pretty excellent, but it probably had something like an ETA inside it. Once you get into a couple hundred bucks, then you’re in the territory of pretty good mass produced movements.

     Also gonna get sidetracked looking at this autism vortex:

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 02:23:37 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @parker It is a great way to pass the time. Our industry just has a LOT because there aren’t too many ways you can spend your money when you’re on the road. Add in the fact that every FBO/lounge has watch magazines and catalogues making pilots look all cool in their watch ads means anyone touching a yoke is an easy mark for the swiss

   • Parker Banks (parker@pl.psion.co)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 02:23:38 JST Parker Banks

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot The main reason for me to get one is if I started going to more meetings with the boomers at work and wanted a conversation piece/climb rank more easily, since I don't think any of them are watch experts. But I do like the look of the Vacheron Constantin ones.
   • тнгэдт[угроза] (threat@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 08:23:54 JST тнгэдт[угроза]

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @BroDrillard @parker i've been eyeballing this site. a bvlgari octo finissimo 40mm would look really nice and make the suits crawl.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 08:23:54 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @threat @BroDrillard @parker Here’s one review a guy posted of his. Looks like pretty good work:

     I didn’t know bulgari’s were so expensive, early on as a punk kid I had them confused w/ bulovas. I worked with this weird boss who saw me wearing my Omega PO and when we started talking shop he kept honing in on how much it costs and telling me that he paid double what I did. I laughed (thinking it was bulova-priced) thinking he was kidding, and he later traded up to some glitzy pimp watch not long after.

     When I finally figured it out I kinda wondered if he was super competitive, he even got a new motorcycle when I did. Weird dude. I really doubt he was smart enough to find a rep outside of alibaba….would be hilarious to think he went like, $8,000 in debt just shove my face in something I didn’t know was happening

   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 08:24:49 JST BroDrillard

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     • :magyar: 𐲥𐳉𐳙𐳦 𐲐𐳤𐳦𐳮𐳁𐳙 𐳙𐳀𐳎𐳌𐳉𐳒𐳉𐳇𐳉𐳖𐳉𐳘
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     The perfect 80s retro watches. Seiko "Ripley" and "Bishop", worn in Alien. And my favorite the "Royal Oak". All with Seiko's excellent 7a28 and 7a38 movements.
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   • Kash Kustomer (kashkustomer@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 08:24:50 JST Kash Kustomer

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     • :magyar: 𐲥𐳉𐳙𐳦 𐲐𐳤𐳦𐳮𐳁𐳙 𐳙𐳀𐳎𐳌𐳉𐳒𐳉𐳇𐳉𐳖𐳉𐳘
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     I oftentimes say I should have apprenticed as a watchmaker, my attention to detail xan be a detriment in most rough construction situations tbh.
     
     Chris Poland did this after he got tired of taking shit from Dave in Megadeth.
     
     I have a cheap pocketwatch that I love, I use winding it as a sort of meditation, that the Reaper is getting ever closer.
     
     The movement is crooked lol, but the jankiness has its charm. Fit for a hobo.
   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 08:24:50 JST BroDrillard

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     • :magyar: 𐲥𐳉𐳙𐳦 𐲐𐳤𐳦𐳮𐳁𐳙 𐳙𐳀𐳎𐳌𐳉𐳒𐳉𐳇𐳉𐳖𐳉𐳘
     If you love a mechanical watch and want to keep enjoying it you should have it serviced at least once every 7-10 years. (rebuild, and oil change) Otherwise the metal parts will wear out and it'll eventually die.
   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 08:24:51 JST BroDrillard

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     ETAs movements are not sold outside of the Swatch group any more. Microbrands switched to Selita and similar. There are chink ETA clones, but the 500+ fakes come with cloned Rolex movements. Last I checked the balance wheel adjustment mechanism was still different though. Otherwise at first glance it looked like a Rolex movement even if you took off the back.
   • Kash Kustomer (kashkustomer@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 08:24:51 JST Kash Kustomer

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     @istvan you two should be autism pals
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 08:28:32 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BroDrillard @istvan @KashKustomer @parker Those ones are too well-known, I’d be content to hunt down the lesser-known stuff like speedie ripoffs. I thought we had a thread with an old catalog but could only find this. Wondering where I saw that. Was cool to see what they sold back in the day

     https://poa.st/objects/42f7d1ef-db9c-4cff-b28a-0459ba866953

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 10:01:46 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @BroDrillard @istvan @KashKustomer @parker That’s a great one. Pretty much exactly what I love in one. Ever since I cottoned to them they’ve been pretty pricey, I’ve always held out hope I can scrounge one up from talking to people.

   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 10:01:47 JST BroDrillard

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     The average nigger robber on the street will recognize a Rahlex or a Panerai. He's unlikely to be familiar with old Seikos, even if they are collectible.
     
     I got a watch similar to the one you linked. A 7a38 with black subdials and a different bracelet. A few years ago you could still find these on eBay. But it took a long wait until one showed up in decent condition. Not exactly like this one, 7a38s also have day and date windows.
     
     I love old Seikos and the 7a series is great. The Collector's Guide article you linked describes why these movements are special.
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   • BroDrillard (brodrillard@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Sunday, 04-Jun-2023 10:10:52 JST BroDrillard

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     • :magyar: 𐲥𐳉𐳙𐳦 𐲐𐳤𐳦𐳮𐳁𐳙 𐳙𐳀𐳎𐳌𐳉𐳒𐳉𐳇𐳉𐳖𐳉𐳘
     I have two more 7a38s besides this one. But if I sold you I'd start missing it the next day 😀
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     @BroDrillard @istvan @KashKustomer @parker Nah, keep it. If you got 3 those are good heirlooms, they’re not fully yours to sell as far as I see it.

     I could snag one, I’ve just been a little hands-off in finding it, figuring it’s more fun to come across one organically. Finding an old guy’s watch he “never uses anymore” or taking a crew car into town on the road to browse the pawn shops adds to the mystique.

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     @WashedOutGundamPilot @BroDrillard @istvan @KashKustomer @parker spending 8k just to piss next to you at the gas station seems like some small-dick energy shvt.
     
     bvlgari is expensive, no doubt. the aesthetic and movements i enjoy but no way will i spend that much on anything. ill get sugar mother for this purpose :putin_laugh:
     
     as for old man watch finding. watches tell a story. if only they spoke of their travels in language we could understand.
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