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 Post subject: Re: Love days like today
PostPosted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:51 pm 
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I love multi watch days - congrats sharkman.

Overloading yourself with a lot of purchases take away from the satisfaction the individual pieces give you though . Ie , if sharkman got all those watches within 1 month from each other , then the overall satisfaction would last longer .

p.s. Hope my english makes sense . :D



Yes the english makes sense and to a degree the logic, but there are exceptions. A gorgeous blonde tonight, a brunette a week from tonight, and a red head 2 weeks from tonight would be very satisfying. BUT, a gorgeous blonde, brunette, and red head all at the same time tonight - priceless..................... :wowzers

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 Post subject: Re: Love days like today
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L30N wrote:
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I love multi watch days - congrats sharkman.

Overloading yourself with a lot of purchases take away from the satisfaction the individual pieces give you though . Ie , if sharkman got all those watches within 1 month from each other , then the overall satisfaction would last longer .

p.s. Hope my english makes sense . :D



I just don't find that to be the case. The same logic suggests that you don't get the same thrill for the 5th / 10th / whatever piece as you do for the first, and I simply don't find that to be the case.

I don't go out of my way to gorge on watches in the space of a short period, but if the watches come up together then I'm not going to pass them up.
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 Post subject: Re: Love days like today
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sharkman wrote:
OK, OK – only so much time for lunch today.

First the Skyracer –

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And the LE2 on a pretty cool dark brown buffalo strap –

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No P.O. until next weekend.............

The skyracer looks great Tom. It's always been one of my favourites but I find it a little big :(

How does the Mark II look on a brown strap in the flesh so to speak? I have a brown strap that I'm going to try on the LE II at some stage but thought I'd ask. How's the contrast with the black and red?

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 Post subject: Re: Love days like today
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Tim,

I think a dark brown textured strap looks great. I did try a Breitling brown calf and didn't like the look at all. I ordered a very simple smooth black calf with red contrast stitching from vintagerstraps.com that I'm hoping will ne "just right." Should get it in a couple weeks.

Have you tried the Skyracer on? It has a fairly shallow caseback and curved lugs. Doesn't sit that large at all.

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 Post subject: Re: Love days like today
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Roffensian wrote:

The same logic suggests that you don't get the same thrill for the 5th / 10th / whatever piece as you do for the first, and I simply don't find that to be the case.


Not really suggesting that . If there are big time period between each time period , it would still be all good.Otherwise , we would not purchase anything past the first 1-3 watches.

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I don't go out of my way to gorge on watches in the space of a short period, but if the watches come up together then I'm not going to pass them up.
Definitely . I am not suggesting you to turn down an awesome offer , so just you dont make more than 1 purchase during the same time period . What I am saying is that if there was not for this hypothetical super special awesome offer , buying 1 now and the next when the thrill from the first goes down , would be the ideal case for me.
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sharkman wrote:
L30N wrote:
Roffensian wrote:
I love multi watch days - congrats sharkman.

Overloading yourself with a lot of purchases take away from the satisfaction the individual pieces give you though . Ie , if sharkman got all those watches within 1 month from each other , then the overall satisfaction would last longer .

p.s. Hope my english makes sense . :D



Yes the english makes sense and to a degree the logic, but there are exceptions. A gorgeous blonde tonight, a brunette a week from tonight, and a red head 2 weeks from tonight would be very satisfying. BUT, a gorgeous blonde, brunette, and red head all at the same time tonight - priceless..................... :wowzers

No rebuttal to this . :lol:
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