My Bell-(& Ross)-issimo Find !

**veloce_man** · 10-02-2007, 04:51 PM

My first thoughts after finding this site were not to join the community and introduce myself, but to entertain my own gluttony and desire, and locate my own personal B & R Grail.

I've owned a number of (rubbish) reps, and on a trip to Thailand 3 years ago found a Big Crown Automatic Oris. A watch that normally retails for Â£500 but I got for 10% of that...and I was very happy...and then the bug bit and I accumulated a few other Reps. But the one watch I really wanted I found the day I found this site on the 25th Spetember through the dealer pages on Joshua's Perfect Clones...A BR 03-92. I ordered the 42mm Black PVD with white markers on rubber. It took me hours and hours of looking at the blue and orange and white before deciding...much to the amusement of my better half who preferred the Steel not PVD case anyway!

I got the 42mm because people took the p*ss out of the 42mm Panarai I had and another 4mm was too much. I say had because the Panerai bust 3 months ago...just after I'd spent Â£25 on a new Pam rubber deployment which doesn't fit anything else I have...YET !

So now I'm playing the waiting game for my B & R

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I'm not good at the waiting game!

Anyway...this probably isn't the appropriate place to ask these questions, but...if you please Gentlemen:

Q1. What do you think of the real Tourbillon movements...are they worth it at around $1000? Are they robust enough?

Q2. Do you ONLY discuss REP's. This may be a stupid question and I only ask becuase of the Seiko SK007. When looking for this watch I noted there were heaps of REP's for about Â£50. I also found however that although RRP was Â£200 you could get a brand new original for Â£100. This meant I could get a design classic (I've fitted a bond Rhino for added appeal) with a quality movement and a watch that would genuinely go down to 200M IF I made some fairly substancial changes to my bathtub (ITS ABOUT KNOWING IT CAN OK!) My point is that it is a classic and the original was only Â£50 more than the REP.

Well thats enough for now, back to the waiting game

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I'm not good at the waiting game

Great to be here...should have some jolly nice pictures to share with you soon.

Best regards from accross the pond

**Guest1** · 10-03-2007, 04:54 AM

Welcome veloce and glad to have you here. I belive you can find the Asians tourbillinos for less than 1000. If I am correct from Ebay and they are pretty good. We also discuss gens watches as well and most times purchasing the reps leads us to getting the gen of the brand we like the most. Feel free to post any quesitons you ahve and to show us pics of your gens and your BR rep when it arrives.

Cheers.

**J-C** · 10-03-2007, 05:07 AM

Hello Veloce!

Welcome to RepGeek - make yourself at home and enjoy the site.

You will make many new friends here.

Cheers mate!

JCM

**dtan888** · 10-03-2007, 06:27 AM

Welcome Veloce... Glad to see you here.. Waiting game is sucks.. big time.. but again.. small sacrifice when it finaly arrive..

Toubillon chinese has different gen and models.. I bought mine about a week ago.. after much discussion with friends who knows this stuff.. so far.... i am pretty happy with it.. its time at +10sec after a week.. a week..

just too bad.. they dont make it bigger..

THis is mine. stock pictures from bay (mr Patel)

Welcome and glad to see you here.
Dan

**seraphe** · 10-03-2007, 06:32 AM

Welcome welcome welcome

Hope you'd find the path to your dream tourbillon and many watches to come. We do not specify just rep watches. We love even the gens.

Cheers, mate

**veloce_man** · 10-03-2007, 04:42 PM

Many thanks to Sylar, JCM and Seraph for the welcome,

And Dan...thanks for the shots of your tourbillon...I need to learn more about these as clearly from the comments I've seen I'm not even half as clued up as I thought.