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Excessive - take your SA and change the dial to a diamond-covered one, and replace the bezel with more diamonds...

Offensive - take your SA and put a rubber strap on it...

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aleister wrote:
Excessive - take your SA and change the dial to a diamond-covered one, and replace the bezel with more diamonds...

Offensive - take your SA and put a rubber strap on it...



I disagree with excessive, I have a diamond bezel SA and when I purchased it i saw the same bezel like mine, but it also had side bezel diamonds, and I thought it looked tacky as hell. So I opted for the top diamond bezel only.
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Yes, but then you don't have the diamond-covered dial too... You just said yourself that too many diamonds would be excessive.

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What would you rather have?

A. SA with diamond covered dial and bezel (excessive)
B. SA with rubber strap (offensive)

Personally I would opt for the rubber strap
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Im sorry but a man wearing an SA covered with diamonds is trying too hard, I would rather have a Chronomatic on orange rubber (shudder)

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Grey wrote:
What would you rather have?

A. SA with diamond covered dial and bezel (excessive)
B. SA with rubber strap (offensive)

Personally I would opt for the rubber strap


Answer, NEITHER !

Just get the damned Super Avenger on a steel bracelet and leave it alone. If you have to customize it at all the only acceptable modification is a diamond bezel as long as it has only 1 row of diamonds. Personally if I was going to do that I would get it custom made and get it lined with a single row of blue Sapphires instead of diamonds, but I'd rather just get an all gold Bentley and leave my SA a casual watch. You don't need to do anything to an SA, it's excessive and offensive enough as it is. And Rubber straps are not offensive they are just plain DEGRADED !

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The SA Diamond bezels from Breiltling only come in the two-row configuration, don't they?

I've been thinking about getting some diamonds on the SA but I think that its a casual sport watch not need diamonds, and i like them on the Evo. I keep forgetting to take pics of my Motors on a Rubber strap!!!

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Grey - my answer to that excellent question (poll, maybe?) is neither. I like my SA "as is", I don't need to be neither excessive nor offensive...

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acceldebt wrote:
Grey wrote:
What would you rather have?

A. SA with diamond covered dial and bezel (excessive)
B. SA with rubber strap (offensive)

Personally I would opt for the rubber strap


Answer, NEITHER !

Just get the damned Super Avenger on a steel bracelet and leave it alone. If you have to customize it at all the only acceptable modification is a diamond bezel as long as it has only 1 row of diamonds. Personally if I was going to do that I would get it custom made and get it lined with a single row of blue Sapphires instead of diamonds, but I'd rather just get an all gold Bentley and leave my SA a casual watch. You don't need to do anything to an SA, it's excessive and offensive enough as it is. And Rubber straps are not offensive they are just plain DEGRADED !


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Admin wrote,

"I keep forgetting to take pics of my Motors on a Rubber strap!!!"

This would be grounds for a REVOLT !

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acceldebt wrote:
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"I keep forgetting to take pics of my Motors on a Rubber strap!!!"

This would be grounds for a REVOLT !


I want to post an article about degrading your lings with Rubber straps and how it looks :)

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While at the Breitling event on sat. another customer walked in with a white SA just like mine only he had it on a croc strap w/deployment. I had seen someone post that here before and I really did not like it in the photos, however in person it looked great! I would never say that without actually seeing it but it does look good. Kinda takes the SA from sport to dress...if you can do that with a watch this big.
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Admin,

As long as it's done for the purpose of demonstrating what a DEGRADATION it is then it's fine. You don't want to be misguiding some of the younger Ling enthusiasts with such a display of Ling carnage !

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Ok Im gonna say it. I love straps! That said, I LOVE bracelets even more! Although I don't think the SA is the best candidate for a strap it looked very good. I personally feel they are on an even plane. I look at both and see that they completely change the look and feel of any model. Why would you deny the ability to completely change the appearance of such a valuable and costly investment? I will either get a model on a strap next or buy a strap to change in and out as the mood strikes. Sorry Ling Man....I love em' both!!! :twisted:
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chance97,

When you get one of these below I will go along with the strap.

http://www.rogerdubuis.com/index.php?op ... art_pk=125

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