Well, Robbie, i'm honored mate! It's the nicest compliment i've read on the Geek since a long time. It means a lot from the guy with the nicest watch collection on the forum to say that our taste in watches is identical! This thread has always been my guilty pleasure or a fap folder as others may say Shame that many old pics are gone but that's the nature of long-running threads.

For some reason the mention feature didn't work on your post, therefore i didn't see it and i suspect others might have the same problem. Perhaps too many mentions in one post screwed up the function?

Regardless of that, thank you very much for taking the time to write this post. You really are the spirit of this forum and also one of very few people i actually check out posts of. Also, thank you for keeping this thread alive for years... it always brings a smile to my face to see new posts in this thread. When they're from @Horlogeman , they are a guarantee of some serious watch porn!

I'm quite sure that this thread, among other posts of yours, encouraged a lot of people to enrich their watch collections with gold or diamond watches. I mean that - for many years "bling" watches were essentially an informal taboo on replica forums, with many ill-informed, insecure and sometimes simply foolish people repeating the same false info about gold plating, replica diamonds' quality and other supposed problems with appearance of our favorite reps.
Your thread brilliantly verified the validity of their claims and boy did it do it in style! I just wish you were around when i joined the rep scene a decade ago. You would've spared me the hassle of getting through the wall of bullshlt built by people who loved to hate on bling reps just because they could never pull them off.

Meanwhile, let's get this thread running through the 2020s!