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For an admin, you always find the negative in any post. Smile Roff, I'm a Breitling lover, just like all members on this forum, do NOT judge me. You don't know me.

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Thank you so much for your sound honest advice, I really appreciate you taking the time to post, I absolutely love the Navi 01, its a stunning watch with a timeless design. I'm worn the transocean and got along with it quite well. Its a real stunning piece too. You have most certainly given me another avenue to venture down..

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Hello Desert Hiker!!


My signature list is not entirely accurate as my collection changes on a monthly basis. I really do like to baby my watches, I don't believe I will ever use my Emergency for its true purpose, I bought it because I really like the novelty of the transmitter, and appreciate its true purpose as a personal beacon.

I do own two G-shocks and a Swatch, all of which get beaten up at the gym..

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I have done the whole understated elegance look many many times Roff, I asked you all to help me between the SA II or the Aerospace Evo, if you don't like either of those watches, then please don't post on my thread.






Here is some more of the watches I have had, just to show you all what variety I have played with, hence the choice of something larger like the SAII

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I'm gonna take a shot and say that all those watches are from the "inventory" more so than from his personal collection. I agree with Roff on this one... Perhaps a black dial would go compliment your Mike Tyson tribal nicely


I'll BUT THAT

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"A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure."

There is no need to be rude, and take personal digs at me, this forum stinks.

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Does anybody here wear a gold coloured lapel badge on a long sleeve collar?

Dino just ignore unconstructive remarks and focus on constructive ones. As much as I remain puzzled how you manage to have the money for so many pieces, your thread is asking for advice on what to buy next, so whether you are here to showcase your collection, whether they really belong to you doesn't really matter because this is not a court but a mere forum for watch enthusiasts to exchange ideas and knowledge so to me I prefer to focus on yr request. Personally I do enjoy yr photos because it allows me to see how different models look on the wrist, which serves as useful reference for me or anyone who are keen to jump on any of those in future. My focus is on yr watches and not yr belt, wallet, or anything else whether it was yr intention or not to showcase them. However it's a little hard to advise when you have not seemed to reveal exactly what you have in yr collection. Perharps it will be good if you can just post a photo of all yr watches together, if there are too many, split into 2 or 3 photos, so that's it's easier to see what you have and still lack.

I remember clearly a respectable moderator in this forum posted on a thread a few mths ago, that "Sarcasm is the lowest form of Wit". To be honest I am rather shocked and disgusted by the "cyber bully" that is happening here. To my understanding most, if not all the members here are much older than this young chap and the OP started with this young chap asking politely for advice. It was not a trigger that he criticized anyone nor did he pissed at any watch in particular that turned people off. And it just started for no reason, unfortunately by a respectable moderator and people start to join in. I personally feel that it's a pity and doesn't reflect well on this forum. It made me puzzled though because I have not encountered something like that in this forum, except against the famous, "Archie" which I fully understood why and personally joined in;p Or is there something that happened in the past that I am not aware of? I don't think Archie has a son as old as Dino either;p Even feud from another thread shouldn't be brought into a new thread because if things start getting personal then all we see is merely digging at one another from thread to thread and not constructive comments to learn from.

I'm afraid that I might be the next "target" on the line, especially for criticizing a moderator but I just don't see why members should group together and mock at a young chap for no reason. Not a positive way to "unite" IMHO.

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well, you might have a look at Buy/Sell postings that had to be removed because they were commercial listings - clearly against forum regulations - you then might understand Roff's reaction, Chronomat01LE; that member would have been banned immediately on any other forum I know.

it clearly isn't age, look at the respect and admiration we all show towards our young watchmaker; but Dino's posts just do not ring true - and forum creds are down the drain quickly if members feel they are presented with a load of ....

Not to mention a true example of cyber bullying - threatening to get 'daddy the policeman' involved when negative feedback was posted.

I'm an easy target for people to throw stones and from some quarters I expect it, I just wish that people would educate themselves before donning their superior attitude.

had not seen that feedback thread, now there's an eye opener; proves my bs sensors still work reasonably well.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=21969&start=0

waiting for the next paycheck to pay for a strap is just fine, but then go on about the dozens of RG & PP pieces you've owned......

sorry Dino if you feel this forum stinks and I will not elaborate publicly what I think about you, but I'll be happy to tell your dad, the senior police officer.

WatchFred: ooookkk... No wonder...I should have guessed it because I don't normally see this happening. I thought Dino's request for advice was rather polite. Then all of a sudden people start mocking at him. Wanted to ignore but couldn't stand seeing all these "cyber bullying" a young chap for no reason. At the same time I felt a little puzzled so that was why I decided to post. Will go have a look. But erm... I feel that if Dino doesn't deserve a place in this forum then just remove him from the membership. By allowing him to stay is as good as giving him a chance. This thread is a standalone case simply just asking for advice so shouldn't we be impartial and just respond the thread like any other member, unless if he is breaking the rules in this thread? If he has some other intentions to it that is against the forum's regulation then just remove it or issue a warning instead of condemning a member in this way. He is a Breitling fan after all. Anyway thks for your clarification:)

Roff: Maybe you do not know it, but your remarks in many threads often show signs of sarcasm. Take the above for example, Watchfred's response to my post was direct and understanding that he knew that I wasn't aware of certain things and informed me of it. That's good enough and I appreciate that. But yr sentences often end with some sarcasm involved and sometimes you do "play victim" as you know that many will jump to your defence. This is ok for any member since this is a forum and we are free to post our views but this might not apply well to a moderator because you represent the entire forum and what you do affects its reputation. You cannot expect everyone to always search the entire history of threads before posting anything. Many newer members like me are ignorant about these internal issues because we just read threads that draw our interest. Not just this thread but in many other threads that I often see you posting unnecessary critical remarks, especially when people don't agree with you. Sure nobody likes being challenged but have a big heart and be more forgiving, you cannot blame people who "throw stones" at you(although I rarely see that but more often see members jumping to your defence) because your words as a moderator carry weight and people will get upset when you post any comments that are not neutral.

Despite Watchfred's clarification above, I don't really deem it appropriate for a moderator to start mocking at a member out of nowhere and expect all members reading this to know what happened, or search the history to "educate" themselves first before posting anything. If I were a newbie who just joined this forum and see this, my reaction will be, "huh? a member can get mocked for merely posting pictures and asking for advice and it's a moderator who started posting those mocking remarks?" I will think twice about staying in this forum after that. As mentioned it's normal for any member to do that since after all it's a forum but it's different for your case as the moment members see a moderator's comment they slow down and read a 2nd time. Maybe I am not used to it because I have joined other forums locally and other moderators are normally direct with their comments, like, "you have broken the rules, you are not allowed to do that", "one more time and you will be banned". They have never used indirect ways like this to condemn a member.

I am sincerely giving my feedback to you Roff and sorry if I have offended you in anyway. I have taken quite sometime to type this so it's definitely not for the sake of putting you down or trying to embarrass you in anyway. You have indeed helped me many times with your advice which I thank you for. Most of the time members avoid offending moderators and despite your occasional critical comments on other threads, most of the time it's when you are being "challenged" which I do understand, but your post in this thread stunned me and despite knowing what happened now, I feel that it's still not neutral and appropriate for you to do that. IMHO if a member doesn't follow the rules and repeatedly challenge them then it's either ban him or if you allow him to stay, gotta treat him like any other member as long as he is not breaching the rules in that particular thread. Of course, you can choose to disregard my comments or feel that I am ignorant and trying to don some superior attitude when I don't know what is going on. All I can say that I am just providing my sincere feedback to the best of my ability because it's always good to feedback when I am not in the picture sometimes because many people reading this thread(might not be members) will not know what is going on too and their impression of this forum might be affected. Just like how it prevented me from reading some Watch Snob from AskMen or some Archie Luxury.

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The thread that was attached here is from 2010. I guess Dino was 17 at the time.

I am absolutely disgraced at the fact that you have publicly announced without my permission our past and what happened when I was a mere 17 years of age. I have since matured and grown in to a person who appreciates peoples honest advice and opinions; hence the reason for me posting this thread. You are a very rude moderator, be it intentional or not, everything you say, as another member has stated above ^^^ comes across as little minded, short witted sarcasm. I hope you learn from multiple complains via this thread, not to do this to another member. I used to view this thread on a daily basis, since our original "episode" I have not bothered.

I'm a successful member on many other watch forums, and believe it or not, one of my threads has reached over 600,000 views. That's because I'm always proactive at making my new followers feel welcome to the forum, which in turn makes them come back. Judging by the lack of thread responses and views on this forum, I can only guess and assume that its down to the way this forum is lead.

I am not amused in the slightest by this "cyber bulling" that I have experienced here on Breitling Source. For that reason, I refuse to post here, and do not have one good thing to say about this forum, I have lots of clients who are forum users, I can assure you none of which will be coming here again.


I suggest you change your approach to these threads before you loose any more members.

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Do you not see that the title of the thread clearly states "[RESOLVED]"... I would seriously appreciate it if you would not mentioning my childish post again, which I wrote THREE years ago!!!

Times have changed and I have matured, accept me for the new person I am, which is the person that simply asked for advice on my next purchase.

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