cd_god
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Post by cd_god on Nov 9, 2014 19:50:54 GMT -8
Someone talk me out of buying this one. I have wanted once since the day they came out and I saw it on Seiya's site. The next gen looks close to the original and sells for maybe 30% more but you get a brand new watch with a warranty. However I don't like the current gen crown guard and minute track. To add insult to injury tax season is coming up and works sucks but Paypal has 12 months free financing. I try to maintain the "If you can't pay cash for it you don't need it" and I could pay cash but if I can float it for 12 months that is almost like paying cash right. I still have a watch sitting at the shop ready to be picked up (remember when I said don't send your watches off to get fixed because you will find something else in the meantime). While I enjoy rotating my watches daily wearing the World Traveler for the last week straight I might be ready for the next wear it everyday for 6 months watch. If I buy it I guess I will look good while freezing to death with no heat in my truck   |
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Post by vinylgreek on Nov 9, 2014 20:03:06 GMT -8
Heated trucks are for sissies - get the watch. You can always wear an extra pair of long johns.
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Post by trandy on Nov 9, 2014 20:22:21 GMT -8
That's a great looking GS Josh.
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Post by cd_god on Nov 9, 2014 20:46:23 GMT -8
That's a great looking GS Josh. There was a more beat one I almost jumped on a few weeks ago. I though about it under the same conditions I mentioned and my local watchmaster pointed out the tail of minute hand had scraped the hour hand. I was ready to give up like I know I should but then this one came up for sale for $400 less with box and papers. At least this one has a few scratches so I might still actually wear it  I always wanted a Semaster GMT. I think I spent 75% as much as one costs on my first 6117 GMT Seamaster MOD. I sold it when I got my 6309 GMT Seamaster MOD and when all was said and done I was in it again for 75% of an original Omega (after prices of the original had gone up) I had even bought the poor mans Seiko 5 Grand Seiko (and there are a lot of them) but this one had the fake it till you make look I wanted. It didn't do it for me  I guess the only thing that will ever end the quest would be obtaining the original Omega or Seiko.   |
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Post by seikoholic on Nov 9, 2014 21:02:02 GMT -8
The price tag would bother the hell out of you, and you'd end up wearing it about three times before you sold it for a loss.
Your move.
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Post by cd_god on Nov 9, 2014 21:08:29 GMT -8
The price tag would bother the hell out of you, and you'd end up wearing it about three times before you sold it for a loss. Your move. That's what happened with my 5513 Sub many years ago. I told myself if I paid that much for a watch I would wear the crap out of it and wore it 3 times. Luckily I was able to sell it for a few hundred more than I paid for it. 7 years later now I could swell it for $1500 more than I paid for it And Omega Seamaster GMT's are up $1000 more than I could have had one for back in the day Maybe I need to go Swiss. |
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Post by seikoholic on Nov 9, 2014 22:22:24 GMT -8
The price tag would bother the hell out of you, and you'd end up wearing it about three times before you sold it for a loss. Your move. That's what happened with my 5513 Sub many years ago. I told myself if I paid that much for a watch I would wear the crap out of it and wore it 3 times. Luckily I was able to sell it for a few hundred more than I paid for it. 7 years later now I could swell it for $1500 more than I paid for it And Omega Seamaster GMT's are up $1000 more than I could have had one for back in the day Maybe I need to go Swiss. Vintage Seiko for the appreciation win, if we're talking Seiko. Now, if you'd bought a Marinemaster brand-new back in the mid-oughts, at the top of their price range, you'd be crying a bit now. But who knows, I'm sure they'll start to creep up in value at some point here. But if I could go back in time to eBay circa late 90s early 00's I'd buy every 6309, 6105, and 6159 I could find. And vintage LCDs. I'd also clear out parts houses of all the stuff they had then but don't now that I dearly wish I had. I'd also hit every gun shop in the state and buy every unmolested WW2 firearm I could find. |
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Post by cobrajet25 on Nov 10, 2014 0:06:49 GMT -8
That's what happened with my 5513 Sub many years ago. I told myself if I paid that much for a watch I would wear the crap out of it and wore it 3 times. Luckily I was able to sell it for a few hundred more than I paid for it. 7 years later now I could swell it for $1500 more than I paid for it And Omega Seamaster GMT's are up $1000 more than I could have had one for back in the day Maybe I need to go Swiss. Vintage Seiko for the appreciation win, if we're talking Seiko. Now, if you'd bought a Marinemaster brand-new back in the mid-oughts, at the top of their price range, you'd be crying a bit now. But who knows, I'm sure they'll start to creep up in value at some point here. But if I could go back in time to eBay circa late 90s early 00's I'd buy every 6309, 6105, and 6159 I could find. And vintage LCDs. I'd also clear out parts houses of all the stuff they had then but don't now that I dearly wish I had. I'd also hit every gun shop in the state and buy every unmolested WW2 firearm I could find. A brand new MM back around 2005 could be had for around $1300. Japan was coming out of the Asian Financial Crisis, and prices were good. The dollar was also stronger against the yen before the government started inflating all of our purchasing power away. Seemed like a lot back then, so I didn't buy one. I waited for them to get cheaper on the used market. I WISH I had bought what is now a $2200 watch for $1300 back then! Tricky to even get into a nice used one for $1300 nowadays.  |
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Post by Groundhog66 on Nov 10, 2014 10:02:55 GMT -8
Vintage Seiko for the appreciation win, if we're talking Seiko. Now, if you'd bought a Marinemaster brand-new back in the mid-oughts, at the top of their price range, you'd be crying a bit now. But who knows, I'm sure they'll start to creep up in value at some point here. But if I could go back in time to eBay circa late 90s early 00's I'd buy every 6309, 6105, and 6159 I could find. And vintage LCDs. I'd also clear out parts houses of all the stuff they had then but don't now that I dearly wish I had. I'd also hit every gun shop in the state and buy every unmolested WW2 firearm I could find. A brand new MM back around 2005 could be had for around $1300. Japan was coming out of the Asian Financial Crisis, and prices were good. The dollar was also stronger against the yen before the government started inflating all of our purchasing power away. Seemed like a lot back then, so I didn't buy one. I waited for them to get cheaper on the used market. I WISH I had bought what is now a $2200 watch for $1300 back then! Tricky to even get into a nice used one for $1300 nowadays. Prices on nice used ones, are down +/- $300 compared to a couple years ago, from what I can tell. |
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Post by SteveX on Nov 10, 2014 12:16:15 GMT -8
Someone talk me out of buying this one. Talk you out of it? Remember, you are speaking to a room full of enablers. That is a beautiful watch. Think of what the price will be on it 5 or 10 years down the road, and if you would be kicking yourself then for not picking it up now. Given the choice of heat in my truck, or that watch, I'd take the watch. (of course, I live in Texas so that may not be fair. Besides, my heat hardly works anyway.) |
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Post by seikoholic on Nov 10, 2014 12:31:15 GMT -8
Vintage Seiko for the appreciation win, if we're talking Seiko. Now, if you'd bought a Marinemaster brand-new back in the mid-oughts, at the top of their price range, you'd be crying a bit now. But who knows, I'm sure they'll start to creep up in value at some point here. But if I could go back in time to eBay circa late 90s early 00's I'd buy every 6309, 6105, and 6159 I could find. And vintage LCDs. I'd also clear out parts houses of all the stuff they had then but don't now that I dearly wish I had. I'd also hit every gun shop in the state and buy every unmolested WW2 firearm I could find. A brand new MM back around 2005 could be had for around $1300. Japan was coming out of the Asian Financial Crisis, and prices were good. The dollar was also stronger against the yen before the government started inflating all of our purchasing power away. Seemed like a lot back then, so I didn't buy one. I waited for them to get cheaper on the used market. I WISH I had bought what is now a $2200 watch for $1300 back then! Tricky to even get into a nice used one for $1300 nowadays. They were $1300 back then?? That's a good solid reasonable price for them. I never understood their high-point price, over $2500, or their "good used" price, $1800 or so (right?). $1300 is a high but not horrible price, IMO. If they were that now, I'd save my pennies and buy one. |
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Post by cd_god on Nov 10, 2014 12:46:22 GMT -8
A brand new MM back around 2005 could be had for around $1300. Japan was coming out of the Asian Financial Crisis, and prices were good. The dollar was also stronger against the yen before the government started inflating all of our purchasing power away. Seemed like a lot back then, so I didn't buy one. I waited for them to get cheaper on the used market. I WISH I had bought what is now a $2200 watch for $1300 back then! Tricky to even get into a nice used one for $1300 nowadays. They were $1300 back then?? That's a good solid reasonable price for them. I never understood their high-point price, over $2500, or their "good used" price, $1800 or so (right?). $1300 is a high but not horrible price, IMO. If they were that now, I'd save my pennies and buy one.
Kucimo on TOF used to sell them new for $1300. I don't know where he was buying them from but I am sure he was making a few bucks each so if you had connections you could buy one from the source for under $1300.
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Post by HiBeat on Nov 10, 2014 17:50:45 GMT -8
I think the solution is simple and so easy to see you look right past it:
Buy BOTH the GS GMT and an electric truck heater - the classic solution to the factory system not working - and put them BOTH on PayPal 12 months.
Done !
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Post by carlows on Nov 10, 2014 19:14:03 GMT -8
Don't buy on credit. Only if you have the cash in hand.
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