# Watch Crew: What to buy? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 23, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295 "2007-08-23T08:38:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![King](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/king/32/7329_2.png) [@King](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/King)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/281 "2008-09-26T12:23:28Z")
i do like this broad arrow… ![http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/6756/pict1753rednb5.jpg](http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/6756/pict1753rednb5.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![AfXtc777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@AfXtc777](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AfXtc777)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/282 "2008-09-30T07:50:38Z")
> [@ezfd](#): > > Unless it is used, there is no such thing as a “deal” on a Hublot. Jean-Claude Biver has “strongly recommended” that all Hublot authorized dealers follow the standardized pricing structure set by Hublot. It is bullshit in my opinion, but the way that Hublot sees fit for their timepieces to be sold. God, I fucking love the Big Bangs! Soon enough… It was used the owner had purchased it a few months ago, by the time I had a chance to head back down to Naples it was sold. =/ No deal for me. He was asking $6,2oo for it FYI, and none of the papers had been send in yet. ---
**Author:** ![EvoMR](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/evomr/32/7186_2.png) [@EvoMR](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvoMR)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/283 "2008-09-30T07:53:57Z")
> [@AfXtc777](#): > > It was used the owner had purchased it a few months ago, by the time I had a chance to head back down to Naples it was sold. > > =/ No deal for me. He was asking $6,2oo for it FYI, and none of the papers had been send in yet. Which AD? ---
**Author:** ![ezfd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ezfd/32/7334_2.png) [@ezfd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ezfd)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/284 "2008-09-30T21:42:30Z")
> [@AfXtc777](#): > > It was used the owner had purchased it a few months ago, by the time I had a chance to head back down to Naples it was sold. > > =/ No deal for me. He was asking $6,2oo for it FYI, and none of the papers had been send in yet. What model BB?? ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/285 "2008-10-01T01:36:50Z")
> [@AfXtc777](#): > > It was used the owner had purchased it a few months ago, by the time I had a chance to head back down to Naples it was sold. > > =/ No deal for me. He was asking $6,2oo for it FYI, and none of the papers had been send in yet. That’s an EXTREMELY good deal if you can verify authenticity ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/286 "2008-11-30T19:55:37Z")
ok… forget everything in this thread up until now: this is a quote from [ziptied.com](http://ziptied.com) > [@stealthx32](#): > > Just curious what you guys think of Kobold watches. I just met the CEO. Probably the coolest CEO I’ve met. He was an undergrad at my school in 1999, and basically took school and said fuck it, I’m gonna make something that I want to do. So when he was 19, he mailed all the major watch manufacturers he knew, asking for an unpaid internship and there was only one man who responded in Germany. He learned the craft, came back, and started talking to watch component makers who let him accumulate some debt to get started. So he sat in his college room dorm, and made watches one at a time…selling them for a 25 bucks profit each. Long story short, he can now sell $5000-15000 watches (still handmade, all mechanical), and still personally hand deliver each one if he wanted to, because he makes those types of margins (and he has flown cross country to take one of his more pissed off clients out to dinner, who now owns 10 of his watches), and they do sell. He’s now 29 and moving onto his 10th year now, and his client list is pretty impressive for a college kid who got C’s and D’s less than a decade ago. > > [http://www.koboldwatch.com/action/whowears.htm](http://www.koboldwatch.com/action/whowears.htm) check out some of the people wearing that shit… and the story is incredible: [http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/features-michael-kobold.html](http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070501/features-michael-kobold.html) I say we get a bunch of dudes, drive to PA and pick up a half dozen of these things and get this guy to take us out for dinner. Made in the US??? Yes Please ---
**Author:** ![snowracer101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@snowracer101](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowracer101)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/287 "2008-12-02T11:47:14Z")
![http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_nixon_5130_allblack.jpg.jpg](http://www.highsnobiety.com/uploads/RTEmagicC_nixon_5130_allblack.jpg.jpg) ugh, my GF was going to buy me this for Xmas… but my friend talked her out of it because HE was going to buy it. The watch is fucking fucillo (huge) ---
**Author:** ![Johnnylude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Johnnylude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Johnnylude)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/288 "2008-12-02T13:57:11Z")
Big fan of the Bell & Ross ![http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3777/dscn2160bn7.jpg](http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3777/dscn2160bn7.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Johnnylude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Johnnylude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Johnnylude)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/289 "2008-12-02T13:58:18Z")
![http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x224/hendrickchan/BR01-92-orange-rubber.jpg](http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x224/hendrickchan/BR01-92-orange-rubber.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/290 "2008-12-24T14:59:40Z")
looks like U-Boat sorta ---
**Author:** ![JoesTypeS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joestypes/32/7190_2.png) [@JoesTypeS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JoesTypeS)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/291 "2008-12-24T20:00:05Z")
bought this earlier this week: ![http://gallery.me.com/joedinardo/100113/Santos100/web.jpg](http://gallery.me.com/joedinardo/100113/Santos100/web.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/292 "2008-12-24T21:45:49Z")
im so not jealous of a cartier… you gotta be 50+ to sport that man… it’s like an old cadillac. ---
**Author:** ![Shockwave179](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shockwave179/32/7496_2.png) [@Shockwave179](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Shockwave179)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/293 "2008-12-24T21:47:27Z")
That’s fairly sporty looking as far as Cartier’s go though… ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/294 "2009-01-09T18:29:34Z")
Picked up this ORIS Williams F1 this week. When i got it the watch had a brushed stainless finish on it. The stainless band was brushed / polished link design. I had the whole watch polished to take out some scuffs… it came out wicked… and it was only $35 even though it took the chick 2 hours to do it… thanks ![http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Oris%20(4).jpg](http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Oris%20(4).jpg) ![http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Oris%20(1).jpg](http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Oris%20(1).jpg) ![http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Oris%20(3).jpg](http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Oris%20(3).jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Johnnylude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2acd7d/32.png) [@Johnnylude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Johnnylude)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/295 "2009-01-09T18:48:44Z")
> [@bing](#): > > im so not jealous of a cartier… you gotta be 50+ to sport that man… it’s like an old cadillac. Not so… the Cartier Roadster looks great. ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/296 "2009-01-15T18:09:11Z")
btw… Varun, who some of you know, just bought a Hublot Big Bang… will have it mid Feb. ---
**Author:** ![ezfd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ezfd/32/7334_2.png) [@ezfd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ezfd)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/297 "2009-01-15T19:33:36Z")
> [@bing](#): > > btw… Varun, who some of you know, just bought a Hublot Big Bang… will have it mid Feb. What model? ---
**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/298 "2009-01-15T19:44:23Z")
i dont know. he sent me pics but not actuals. he bought it in Dubai again… a friend is bringing it over Feb 14 or something. i guess i bought the same ORIS he had so he had to switch it up…lol ---
**Author:** ![ezfd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ezfd/32/7334_2.png) [@ezfd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ezfd)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/299 "2009-01-15T20:12:00Z")
^^That’s pretty exciting, I’ve been on the hunt for a Big Bang for about 2 years now, I just can’t get myself to pull the trigger on it. ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/300 "2009-01-16T06:43:59Z")
What is the definition of a “nice” watch? Diamonds and bling just don’t do it for me. Anyone can get that stuff. Make your own watch and then I’ll be impressed. I’ll keep my \<$500 watches all day long. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295.md?page=14) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295.md?page=16)