Hans wrote:(b.t.w.: I am scanning the forum right now, everybody who has ever made a negative comment about Rolex will be banned immediately from this forum)[/color][/size]

Nah, Nah di Nah!


I agree with David, mostly, You have to really search around, Past and Present for a really nice one (Rolex that is) - more in the past in my opinion.

Apart from my order for an Aviator and a LE Kingfisher , I am patiently waiting for an order for an Omega Deville, Small Seconds in rose gold with black dial. I think it will one of the first batch from Omega as I haven't seen any info or photos of this design on any forums. No AD I have spoken to has seen one either. Anyone seen one?
I had to trust my instincts to buy unseen (on the basis of others in the range). Hope I'm right - could be an expensive mistake .

PS. Hans, saw your post on TZ Omega forum - welcome back indeed! Can't keep a good man down

JimG wrote: I had to trust my instincts to buy unseen (on the basis of others in the range). Hope I'm right - could be an expensive mistake .

I kinda doubt that. Beautiful watch.

El Tiempo wrote: I kinda doubt that. Beautiful watch.

Oh WOW! I really can't wait now

Muchas Gracias, El Tiempo!

Where did you see the photo? Is that yours?

Remember, Jim, Google is your friend.

http://topperjewelers.com/b/brands/omega/index

Looking at it again, it's a great formal watch. Do post pics when you get it.

Beautiful Jim!

Hans wrote:(b.t.w.: I am scanning the forum right now, everybody who has ever made a negative comment about Rolex will be banned immediately from this forum)

In quantitative as well as in qualitative sense, I would've been the first to go.
In that case, this reply would not have existed.

Now let's see if I can still hit "submit" without my computer going up in smoke.

Edit: that worked. Now, let's see:

Rolex is overrated.

Do I still live? Gah...

Stike me down with your Rolexes, ye gods!

That should be entirely possible... they look about as attractive as a chainsaw.

I thought they were chainsaws

Seriously:

That Deville looks gorgeous. It's more than vaguely related (in terms of design) to the Russell, but these hands... ah, one can only dream.

Rick wrote:I thought they were chainsaws

I wish they were... then I'd have a use for one.

Careful Peter,
Hans is in charge you know and we may go up in a puff of smoke.

I am still alive, so I take it that Hans takes this in the lighthearted tone in which it was meant.

Truth is, if it were a chainsaw, I'd probably want it, because Rolex have a habit of making their stuff to ridiculously high quality standards. If they'd make chainsaws, I could probably use it to saw my house into 1x1"cubes, and cut down the surrounding forestry on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug... for the remainder of my life, and then have my grandson inherit it in pristine condition.

The fact that it looked like something the cat left on the mat couldn't bother me, because a chainsaw is a tool. If it needs to look horrible to work well, that's fine.
I would object to it being scattered with diamonds, but then I could always take the low-end model, without the diamond.

Problem is, even though I might want it, there is no way in hell I could afford it - even the low-end model would cost more than my house.
To someone like Paul Allen, who carries the price of a Submariner as loose change, this does not equate in the same way as to someone like John Doe, who has to work long overtime hours to be able to afford a Kingfisher LE.

I'm somewhere in between - closer to John than to Paul, but fortunate enough to keep up a small but notable collection of highly valued cameras and lenses, a couple nice watches, a bit of high-end audio gear, and still be able to maintain a wife, a couple grandchildren and drive a pretty comfy car.

But for me, to buy a Rolex would mean that I'd have to refrain from getting a backup body for my digital SLR, or to refrain from keeping an amount set aside in case Sonymex decides to release a somewhat more professional Alpha camera. Or I'd have to sell my XM Motor (that would definitely get me a Rolex).

And if I would have that sort of funds available, and I would be given the choice between a Submariner and a black Planet Ocean, the choice would be friggin' easy: the black Planet Ocean looks decidedly better, and the Planet Ocean has the advantage of more daring, and probably more durable, watch technology.
So there.

But I am not at the point where I am going to spend that much on a watch. I would rather spend that sort of money on a couple more modest, but equally interesting, watches.

peter

El Tiempo wrote:Remember, Jim, Google is your friend.

Doh!

I will post pics and keep you updated. I'm planning for it to be a kind of family heirloom. (Let the kids fight over it in due course! )

peterh wrote: but fortunate enough to keep up a small but notable collection of highly valued cameras and lenses, a couple nice watches, a bit of high-end audio gear, and still be able to maintain a wife, a couple grandchildren and drive a pretty comfy car.

Peter, sounds to me like you've hit on the recipe for a happy and contented life!

AND you live in the Netherlands! Some folks just have it made!

Hans wrote:(b.t.w.: I am scanning the forum right now, everybody who has ever made a negative comment about Rolex will be banned immediately from this forum)

Hans, I can't read the font of your text above, but just let me say that is one handome Rolex. How anyone could not appreciate Rolex after seeing a watch like that is beyond me.