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PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:39 am 
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Ewen,
I found my strategy for purchasing my TO to be a Win/Win strategy:

Tell everyone that my wife got me the TO for Christmas (and birthday for the next 4 years or so)! My wife gets the kudos from everyone, I get the watch! Who actually ends up paying for the watch is inconcequential for this strategy, it's all about the peace of mind!

love it when a plan comes through!

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:11 am 
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I like the way your mind works Brez. Reverse psychology has indeed a major role in watch collecting.

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Here in Vancouver the taxes are so high that I essentially pay double, i.e. every time I buy something new I need to pay the wife tax and get something of similar value for my wife.

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...but the TO is gorgeous and I look forward to similar clean, simple looking models in the future, hopefully a few mm's bigger.

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I got divorced first, then bought my first watch. No fuss, no muss.

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Again it's all about "Battle field preparation"!

Before I got my Airwolf, I commented to my wife that I was amazed that she never requested to wear one of my Aerospace? She told me that she never thought that I would let her! Of course she can have one, is what I told her! Now she wears one of my Aerospace (which looks awesome on her) and I have an Airwolf!

It's all about "Battle field preparation"!

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:33 am 
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Yippee ! Picked it up this afternoon....great fun...friendly people, great service, great coffee, couple of bars of Breitling chocolate and a cap. Still married too...bonus !
Pics will be in the gallery shortly. Just got to put Scheherazade on the turntable, crack open the Drambuie, kick back and undress it slowly.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:32 am 
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Ooooh, lucky you Ewen :D
Enjoy and wear in good health - pics soon PLEASE :D .
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ewen wrote:
:) Maybe I should have ended my recent post by stating 'a dramatisation based on real events'. We are fine now, making up was fun last night. I've signed a four year deal with her involving various attractive areas of Europe...all is calm. On a (slightly) serious note, it came to light last night that it was not in fact the imminent purchase that set her off, but the model ship I'm building from scratch in the living room. Obvious really...shouting at me about buying yet another watch really meant that I should clean up the model ship yard before all our Christmas guests arrive. I never have, and never will understand women but rest assured that when it comes to watches I'll continue to do the crime, well prepared to do the time.



:lol: Womens minds really do work in interesting ways sometimes. :)

Enjoy the watch, it looks like it'll be a beauty. :lingsrock:


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