New but not nooby!

[Questions]

Hi guys. What an excellent community you folks have here!

When I searched for rep forums, I thought all of them would be spam/fluff adverts designed to funnel business to www dot cheap reps dot whatever.

I am THRILLED to know there are even bigger rep geeks than me!

A little history:

I am an avid Breitling collector, and used to buy/sell gens on thebay all the time. My 401k went "buh bye" a few years ago, and now I seek the looks without the price tag to soothe my watch fix.

Gens owned:
Emergency Mission
Hercules, polished
Hercules, brushed
B2
Datejust, circa 1989
Citizen EcoZilla SS
Casio PAW5000-7(?)
Seiko Yellow Monster (redial)


Reps owned:
Datejust redial with pinstripe gen dial
Bvgari - no model (totally phony)
Invicta version 6925 (Oris copy, so I call it a rep)
Speedmaster

I hope to learn more than I already know about spotting reps, and spot-on reps! Thanks for the GROOVY community!

-Valjoe

[Jeffdodge]

Welcome aboard, Valjoe! I had the good fortune of stumbling upon this site a few years ago and have never looked back since! Not only is this a great site for knowledge, purchasing and trading, but it is a tight-knit community. People actually care about each other and will go out of their way to help one another.

Enjoy all the good reading and posts of the community - and get ready to make Charlie Sheen and Lindsey Lohan look like kiddie-time addicts after you buy your first, fourth and fifty-third watch from this board!

Cheers!

[HeavyB]

Welcome!

[Questions]

Thanks guys. Those Eddie VH pics make me (somewhat) miss my youth!

I saw 'em live in ~ '84(?) That was a loooong time ago. I believe I wore a phony President to that show, and snuck a three-pack of JD airplane bottles in via my slip-on, checkerboard Vans.

I will admit, I've already got the bug for these reps. I knew the day would come that we'd see quality like this.

I used to dig through every fake rollie in the flea market in my teens, looking for the kind of stuff we are only now beginning to see. The old, Mexican dude who sold those ticking, absurd replicas would get red in the face when I inevitably told him, "No sale today." (Though, once I did buy a nifty Seadweller from him that looked darn real from about 3 yards away...lol.)

In my personal opinion, the only thing sillier than those old, "b-grade" reps was the guy who bought the first genuine Oysterquartz. But without them, life would just be boring.


-valjoe