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ds968
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#101

07-15-2014, 05:05 PM
Check this out :



http://www.cnbc.com/id/101837464?__sourc...ar=xfinity



Ok, let me see.. hmm, do I buy a Veyron, or even a very nice house in an upscale area , or a watch ? Oh crap, I guess the entire production is already sold out. Darn, I have no choice now but to spend that disposable cash on the Bugatti or a house..
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#102

07-15-2014, 05:42 PM
Wow, that's enough to get those who view income equality as the ultimate evil to reach for their torches and pitch forks. Holy moly, that's crazy money for a watch. Or even a house.
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#103

07-16-2014, 06:54 PM
A watch at that price is just plain stupid. Interesting... but still stupid!
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#104

07-17-2014, 09:28 AM
Group buy?



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#105

05-25-2015, 08:40 PM
It seems tennis ( if you're pretty good at it, LOL ) pays off ; Rafael Nadal is wearing this $ 800,000 Richard Mille watch , one of many other ridiculously expensive timepieces in his collection , at this year's French open. But what a bargain, when compared to the $ 2 mil Richard Mille watch noted in my earlier post.

Gotta find out who this Richard Mille dude is ; maybe the Bernie Madoff of watches, fooling idiots into spending that kind of money on a single timepiece.


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#106

05-25-2015, 08:52 PM
The cache is the price not the timepiece.
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10-05-2016, 09:10 PM
Today I dusted off the Longines which has been sitting in a case for at least ten years, and wore it.   This watch was made in the mid-50s so it's about 60 years old, it has never been cleaned or lubed ( aka serviced ) , it has not been wound during that same ten + years , and thus was not running for over a decade, and yet after winding it in the morning it has run flawlessly, keeping time with essentially quartz accuracy.  

 

So one question : why the hell can't a Porsche ( more specifically our 968s ) also function like this ?!   :glare:  :whine:  

 

and here's a photo of it placed on my desk, right next to my favorite paperweight ..

 

 

   

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#108

10-05-2016, 09:59 PM
Smart and simple.
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#109

10-06-2016, 12:47 AM
Be careful, as old as it is it probably needs a new timing belt.
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10-06-2016, 10:14 AM
You're lucky, I pulled my Corum USB watch out to wear to a wedding, it had been about 1.5 years since I wore it. The good news is that the battery was still good, the bad news is that the stem pulled completely out when I tried to reset the time...that's gonna hurt!

 

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#111

10-06-2016, 11:23 AM
That also happened to one of my watches and I thought it was going to be a complicated and costly repair but it turned out to be an extremely simple fix and I wasn't even charged for it - it took the shop all of five minutes " lock " it back into place . The watchmaker said sometime they just slip out of place and it's not necessarily indicative of some worn component like gears or seals , or anything being loose in there . Although that made absolutely no sense to me, it seems he was right because I've used that watch and reset it many times since without any further incident . Hopefully the same is the case with yours ..
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10-06-2016, 05:54 PM
Thanks Dan...I'll keep my fingers crossed. Maybe I can put a downpayment on a Patek Philippe instead of paying for this repair Wink

 

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#113

10-22-2016, 02:52 PM
MB & F has always been an esoteric brand known for very " different " watches that are meant to be more attention-getters than anything else , but THIS has to be the most bizarre and F-UGLIEST ( IMHO ) watch I have ever seen to date .. and if that wasn't enough, the price is $ 230,000 + tax , lol.

   

   
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#114

10-23-2016, 12:00 AM
How heavy? Huge.
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#115

10-23-2016, 01:32 AM
Looks like a drone which could fly you around . That might justify the price if you can use it for your air-commute to work and avoid rush hour street surface traffic.
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#116

10-23-2016, 01:51 AM
Iron man wears one of those, I believe. And he's way cool.
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#117

10-23-2016, 05:14 AM
It would be nice if you could actually read the time on it.
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#118

10-23-2016, 07:35 AM
Not all watches are meant to actually see the time on them!
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#119

10-23-2016, 10:38 AM
Weird. It's like buying a tv without a screen. I can understand it's like a piece of jewelry, but spending that kind of money and having to take out the manual and a magnifying glass to see what time it is is beyond me.


Maybe I'm too practical when it comes to watches :-)
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#120

10-23-2016, 11:03 AM
Maybe it's similar to mobile phones : supposedly no more than 30 % of people use them too make any calls ..
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