# 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:** 63
**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:** [October 18, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1241 "2012-10-18T18:56:38Z")
I’m down to check some watches out. I’m probably done buying for a while 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:** [October 19, 2012, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1242 "2012-10-19T06:36:54Z")
boooo… ---
**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:** [October 19, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1243 "2012-10-19T06:52:55Z")
> [@bing](#): > > boooo… Time to reign in the spending… ---
**Author:** ![Beck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/beck/32/28683_2.png) [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1244 "2012-10-19T07:19:32Z")
Ugh, I shouldn’t. I mean, I will. But I really shouldn’t. After about two months of not looking at anything, I’m back and in a big way. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1245 "2012-10-19T08:05:01Z")
> [@Beck](#): > > Ugh, I shouldn’t. I mean, I will. But I really shouldn’t. After about two months of not looking at anything, I’m back and in a big way. What have you picked up lately? ---
**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:** [October 19, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1246 "2012-10-19T14:19:19Z")
last time i was in there he had a nice Omega Co-Axial Seamaster on steel that would fit my extra Omega straps perfectly, if he still has I COP DAT! ---
**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:** [October 24, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1247 "2012-10-24T16:58:59Z")
so i went today with a buddy of mine… this place is so friggin awesome. the guy has upgraded from tupperware to actual watch carriers. now, i have to apologize, i picked up a new Bold 9900 and for some reason the camera will not focus so all of my pictures are shit… i would love if someone could help me figure that out. so this was one of 3 cases he had full of watches… it is the least of the cases… but i didnt want to take that many pics… ![http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Grimsby-20121024-00011.jpg](http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Grimsby-20121024-00011.jpg) for reference, the bentley flying B’s in the top left are $4,800 each, new with papers. the navitimer is $7,500, the big pilot, bottom left, is $10k and the 18k ferrari pan top right is $16k, msrp $30k. all with papers, some new, some not. i had to try on the pan ![http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Grimsby-20121024-00013.jpg](http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Grimsby-20121024-00013.jpg) the other cases has some Audemars and Pateks… ho hum ![http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Grimsby-20121024-00012.jpg](http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Grimsby-20121024-00012.jpg) and i did get a new watch… we had a few made for the partners in our company… again terribly sorry for the shit pic… i don’t have mine yet, it’s on the way, i’ll have better pics when i get mine in. PVD Sub, black diamond encrusted… definitely not something i would have conceived of on my own but it will grow on me and be a great bling bling watch on occasion. need to find a genuine rubber strap / deployant for it… anyone have any leads on where to get that kind of thing? all of my internet research is based on omega stuff. ![http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Hamilton%202-20121024-00005.jpg](http://www.bings.ca/images/misc/Other/Watches/Hamilton%202-20121024-00005.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![1QIKZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/1qikz/32/6112_2.png) [@1QIKZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/1QIKZ)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1248 "2012-10-24T17:15:14Z")
You should change your sig from “build a drift car” to “buy a watch”! ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1249 "2012-10-26T06:08:50Z")
bing, that’s some baller shit. The diamonds are a bit gaudy, but i love the pvd Since I can’t leave well enough alone like a little kid, I dug out a REALLY old fake Rolex Explorer II that my dad used to wear (before he got the real deal). This thing is probably like 10 years old and it still runs. Not bad for a Chinese POS. This was the result: ![http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll126/boardjnky4/IMG_20121025_194955.jpg](http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll126/boardjnky4/IMG_20121025_194955.jpg) I wan’t de-rolex it (already scraped some paint off the face where the rolex logo was) and do some kind of fun mod(s) and put it back together. No real goal here other than to simply experiment with ripping apart a watch, personilzing and putting it back together. Actually, I’m not even sure if I know how to put it back together, but if some 12 year old chinese kid can figure out how to assemble it, then I damn well ought to be able to figure it out. If I do end up figuring it out, and it turns out decent, then maybe I’ll move on to upgrading the movement to a something Swiss. ---
**Author:** ![XwalkerX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/xwalkerx/32/7598_2.png) [@XwalkerX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/XwalkerX)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1250 "2012-10-26T06:49:37Z")
just picked this up…sure to make all you watch people cringe ![http://distilleryimage4.s3.amazonaws.com/7a533dbc1dff11e28c8422000a1f931c_7.jpg](http://distilleryimage4.s3.amazonaws.com/7a533dbc1dff11e28c8422000a1f931c_7.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1251 "2012-10-26T06:52:35Z")
is that a wu-tang g shock? lol i like it g shocks are solid, they have quite the following. i doubt you’ll find many luxo auto guys drooling over them, but to each their own. ---
**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:** [October 26, 2012, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1252 "2012-10-26T11:33:29Z")
> [@XwalkerX](#): > > just picked this up…sure to make all you watch people cringe > > [IMG][http://distilleryimage4.s3.amazonaws.com/7a533dbc1dff11e28c8422000a1f931c\_7.jpg[IMG]](http://distilleryimage4.s3.amazonaws.com/7a533dbc1dff11e28c8422000a1f931c_7.jpg%5BIMG%5D) You need to diversify your bonds. ---
**Author:** ![XwalkerX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/xwalkerx/32/7598_2.png) [@XwalkerX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/XwalkerX)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1253 "2012-10-26T11:58:19Z")
id rather proteckt ma neck ---
**Author:** ![Beck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/beck/32/28683_2.png) [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1254 "2012-10-26T12:40:01Z")
> [@bing](#): > > PVD Sub, black diamond encrusted… definitely not something i would have conceived of on my own but it will grow on me and be a great bling bling watch on occasion. need to find a genuine rubber strap / deployant for it… anyone have any leads on where to get that kind of thing? all of my internet research is based on omega stuff. Is there anyway you can trade it in for face value and get the cash instead? I’m not a fan of anything other than standard or two tone Subs. Anything else whether it’s PVD or “one off” is meh. I wouldn’t put a rubber strap/nato on it. If it’s diamond encrusted, you’re going to want to keep the stainless band on it. A diamond encrusted watch with a nato/rubber bad looks horrible. ---------- Post added at 03:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:36 PM ---------- Rolex doesn’t make a “genuine” rubber strap. It’s either, oyster, jubilee or presidential bands. I’m sure someone makes a leather/rubber deployant. Check out [everestbands.com](http://everestbands.com) ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1255 "2012-10-26T12:56:22Z")
The nice part about submariners are that the bezels are REALLY easy to swap out. You can actually swap that out with a swiss army/butter knife If you’re too scared, take it to a watch maker/repair guy. He’ll probably swap it for cheap/free if you’ve bought there before. Can’t be too hard to source a more plain PVD bezel. That’s the nice part about the popularity of the submariner. Set aside the bling and keep it fresh. ---
**Author:** ![Beck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/beck/32/28683_2.png) [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1256 "2012-10-26T13:05:10Z")
Swapping it with a standard stainless black sub bezel would probably look TITS. ---
**Author:** ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1257 "2012-10-26T13:09:21Z")
> [@bing](#): > > So i emailed the owner of [**Harmony House**](http://www.harmonyjewellers.ca/watches/cid/38/1/plist%7C1%7Cshortby%7Caz%7Cpage%7C1) in Grimsby about an IWC i’m looking for and if his web inventory is up to date. He responds: > > Sam, Beck, anyone else cool and into watches… wanna roll in there next wednesday? i have a few buddies that will want to go too. Dam you I clicked the link and now I want a Chopard - Mille Miglia again ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1258 "2012-10-26T13:09:59Z")
Do it Bing. Small bend is easily fixable [http://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Rolex-Submariner-GMT-ceramic-bezel-original-/261118162616?pt=LH\_DefaultDomain\_0&hash=item3ccbdaf6b8](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Rolex-Submariner-GMT-ceramic-bezel-original-/261118162616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccbdaf6b8) edit: just noticed that one is from a GMT II. might be the same, who knows I’m not an expert. ---
**Author:** ![Beck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/beck/32/28683_2.png) [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1259 "2012-10-26T13:17:45Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > Do it Bing. > > Small bend is easily fixable [http://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Rolex-Submariner-GMT-ceramic-bezel-original-/261118162616?pt=LH\_DefaultDomain\_0&hash=item3ccbdaf6b8](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Black-Rolex-Submariner-GMT-ceramic-bezel-original-/261118162616?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccbdaf6b8) > > edit: just noticed that one is from a GMT II. might be the same, who knows I’m not an expert. Not the same bezel (markings wise). ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/1260 "2012-10-26T13:20:34Z")
yeah i figured that was the difference. Case is the same I’m sure. At least for that price you get the actual stainless bezel. Bezel inserts seem really easy to source. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295.md?page=62) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295.md?page=64)