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Sinn or IWC are both simple design and great movements inside.

$950. Mint condition. Box/papers incl. (How's that for depreciation?)

TAG Heuer : Carrera : WV211B.BA0787 : TAG778 : Bernard Watch Co.

You have a cell phone don't you? What do you need a $2000 dollar watch for?

what do you need a Porsche for?

No-one needs a $2k watch, but none of us need a 30yr. old, oil-cooled, perpetual money-pit to get to/from the liquor store, either.

A Hyundai would do just fine, no?

http://www.autolook.ru/tehno/hyundai...i_lantra_1.jpg

Agree completely- to me, there is a world of difference between being a Porsche caretaker (and the expenses that entails) and dropping $2K on a watch that works no better than a $100 (or less) watch. I guess my tastes are not that refined; to each his own, I suppose.

Yeah,

The differerence is one guy is a car enthusiast and the other is a watch enthusiast. Neither of them makes sense to a person that cares little about either cars or watches.

Nothing new here...

JR

Rick that Sinn is absolutely beautiful... I will be a watch whore like you guys when I get out of school.... But for now its just me and my Invicta...

My "daily" for 20 years+ has been a plain old Rolex Date-Just stainless/14k that I won in a sales contest. Many, many watches have come and gone, but the ol' Ro is like an old friend. Not flashy or exotic. Not interested in pretension or conspicuity...just a solid, reliable, stoic piece of swiss engineering that wears like an old pair of slippers.

Seems like you may be looking for something similar in terms of engineering, quality and understated, unflashy reliability and comfort. If so, it will take time for any watch to grow on you and feel like a natural extension of who you are. Pick what you enjoy looking at and respect from a quality perspective, just be sure it's a watch that is able fit your lifestyle...7 days a week. Put it on and wear it with confidence, whether you're swimming in the lake, taking your wife out for a special dinner or on the job interview of your life.

Don't let the price tag steer you over your own gut. In time, the few hundred either way won't matter. What will matter is having a relationship that endures.

Happy Birthday!

I bought a used Tag to replace one I lost. I think it's timezone.com maybe. I am very hard on my watches, my Tag looks like new (if I clean it) even though it is several years old.

Timezone.com has a for sale section (just like Pelican) called the "Sales Corner", but you have to move fast. The good deals go quickly.

Look around for one of these, they might be worth something in the future.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1262366404.jpg

Quite possibly...assuming you can get Tiger to autograph the box/papers...

In case the battery in my cell phone dies. I can use the clock on the dashboard. :D

Oil cooled? ;)

Hell no a Hyundai wouldn't be just fine, i want to actually make it to the liquor store! :D

Well that one looks like it's worth all of about $25.00

Let me guess...i'm way off, right? The knife looks nice though.

See, how i think the car comparison falls flat is that a Porsche is very fast and handles great. A watch just tells time. A cheap one or a good one...they do the same thing exactly the same equally as well. (unless youre a scuba diver, than i can see paying up to 500 to get a watertight watch).

I really just don't like wearing a watch, esp. one with a metal band(they pinch my arm hairs constantly). They're too big and heavy, gotta take it off ever ytime i go under a hood, etc, etc. I suspect that watches will be a thing of the past within the next 20-25 years.

Thanks. I paid ~$500 for the watch maybe 5 years ago. I'm not sure what they go for these days, but probably not a lot more than that. I don't have the one in the pic any more, but it's a watch I would buy again. I really like the simple uncluttered matte dial with the arabic numerals. It's so easy to read in any light.

I don't know much about watches...sorry. It does look like a nice easy to read dial and clutter free design. Lot of coin though.

LOL....poor tiger. :D

+1

I am not a watch guy but I would wear that one. Sinn 656. They seem to retail new just north of $1000.

Ian

Sinn has raised their prices recently and the weak dollar ain't helping. Sinn only has one distributor in the US, called Watchbuys.com. My U2 is going for around $2700 new now. I think I have $1800 into mine and I got it less than a year old with plenty of warranty left on it. These aren't for non-watch-enthusiasts. Sinn hardly advertises at all. They rely on their fans and Internet forums. But you'll never read a bad thing about them on Timezone. They are super quality watches and cost far less than the big name brands that have billboards along the highways here.