What Puts You Off A Watch.

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Re: What Puts You Off A Watch.

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Generally gold watches or mixture of gold and SS on bracelets and cases. I'm looking at you Rolex and some Breitling. All white gold or platinum is fine however. Arbitrarily putting diamonds on a dial or around the bezel hoping to make an OK watch appeal to women and definitely a no no to put diamonds on a men's watch. Taking a mainstream watch and arbitrarily changing the colour of some writing, such as writing Automatic on the face in red, blue etc and calling it a LE to create an artificial market to boost sales of a standard model. Get your designers to come up with a new model. Over large hands that includes the snowflake but somehow the broad arrows are acceptable. All perfectly square watches, rectangular ones are ok.
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reggie747 wrote:Not a lot really except if it has any of the following letters in the name...R T O B M N E...
:lol: :lol: Its never stopped Nick :D
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tempusmaximus wrote:
:lol: :lol: Its never stopped Nick :D
One day perhaps..... :lol:
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Over lapping sub dials that partialy cover hour numbers markers etc.
Full stealth watch's where you can't see the hands without concentrating.
Dive watch's that arnt waterproof.
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reggie747 wrote:Not a lot really except if it has any of the following letters in the name...R T O B M N E...
Well, Avia made some nice watches. I'm struggling to think of any other makes you would like.

GAD SIK, perhaps?
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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote:
reggie747 wrote:Not a lot really except if it has any of the following letters in the name...R T O B M N E...
Well, Avia made some nice watches. I'm struggling to think of any other makes you would like.

GAD SIK, perhaps?
You'll have to explain that one Steve. Amateur Anagrammaticals was never my strong point... :problem:
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Well, Greg, you can't have a Rolex because it has an R and an E in it. Omega has an O and an M and an E.

Most brands contain one or more of your forbidden letters. Avia doesn't.

Grand Seiko would have to become GAD SIK.
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Amor Vincit Omnia wrote:Well, Greg, you can't have a Rolex because it has an R and an E in it. Omega has an O and an M and an E.

Most brands contain one or more of your forbidden letters. Avia doesn't.

Grand Seiko would have to become GAD SIK.
And there's me thinking you had appreciated my anagram ! :lol:
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tempusmaximus wrote:
reggie747 wrote:Not a lot really except if it has any of the following letters in the name...R T O B M N E...
:lol: :lol: Its never stopped Nick :D
reggie747 wrote:
tempusmaximus wrote:
:lol: :lol: Its never stopped Nick :D
One day perhaps..... :lol:
Resistance is futile.

We shall get him in the end. :)

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smegwina wrote: Resistance is futile.

We shall get him in the end. :)
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reggie747 wrote:
smegwina wrote: Resistance is futile.

We shall get him in the end. :)
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^^^^ :lol: :lol: :lol:
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"I swear on Monsiuer Bremonts freshly ploughed soft landing Francais field we were just naive when we said our movement was in-house, honestly......You gotta believe me........would I lie to you" ??

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reggie747 wrote:"I swear on Monsiuer Bremonts freshly ploughed soft landing Francais field we were just naive when we said our movement was in-house, honestly......You gotta believe me........would I lie to you" ??

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Re: What Puts You Off A Watch.

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Watches over 42 mm
Precious stones on a man's watch
Fakes, "homages" and watches pretending to be something they're not
Folded steel bracelets
Fixed bars
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