Forget gassing to steal your Rolex, this watch is worth more & has been stolen.

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ambulancekidd

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Since 1964 Gosh that makes me feel old.
Probably the same family that keeps £3000 in the van along with the watches and all the other things they CLAIM for.
 
Stewart J said:
Worked in Azerbaijan for 3 years words cannot describe how stunningly beautiful the countryside is.
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Azerbaijan certainly looks beautiful when I watch the F1 race from Baku, they often do a feature of the surrounding countryside. ​

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So the guy has £1M watch and doesn’t have a body guard / security??

And besides - a £1m watch - sorry that is F’n stupid.

A £1M house - Yes, Boat - Yes, Car - Maybe, Watch = come on!.
 
If I’d paid that much for a piece of jewellery I’d have expected a better catch on it so no thieving pickpocket scrote could nick it!!?
 
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ambulancekidd said:
Read this today & you've gotta laugh at someone with £1m watch, but then I'm far from fashion conscious & never could see the point of such things.
I cannot see how this watch is any better than my Casio G Shock which never loses even a second a year.

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I have had a Gshock for many years. Had to replace the strap but otherwise daily use and accuracy to a second always. Solar powered and radio synch to atomic clock.

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My watch was about £120. That's the most I've ever paid for a watch. It's really nice though ??
 
I had a few bob a few years ago and thought i'd treat myself to a fully automatic watch that cost a few bob. Disapointed to find out later that the ones with batteries in them are more accurate. Automatics tend to loose a few seconds a week.
 
These days not concerned about exact microseconds per year time. These days it's "is it nearly time for breakfast, lunch, appero, dinner, bed". Nearly, almost, about and just seem fair gauges of time for us these days. We are never late these days, just "not there at the same time as others", we never leave early we've just "had enough". Haven't owned a watch for maybe 20 years, tried one , they feel strange.
 
As others have said a watch at that price isn't to tell the time its to swank off to your rich mates that you have spent a million quid.

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You pay all that money and don’t even get a leather strap?
 
Silver-Fox said:
Can I just point out to the heathens on here.

When you pay over about £500 it’s not a watch any more it’s a time piece ??

Well that’s what they tell you in Goldsmiths ?
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And not just that but the Richard Mille are an engineering masterpiece in miniature of course, not to my taste but everyone to their own and if he had looked after this it might have been worth £2m in a few years time.

Martin
 
The Wino said:
As others have said a watch at that price isn't to tell the time its to swank off to your rich mates that you have spent a million quid.
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His mates would have to be into watches though as who has even heard of Richard Mille before this thread, unless he was going to educate everyone he bumps into.

Martin
 
I've a few decent automatics and all are worth more than I paid for them. I think the difference between a functional watch (Casio, which is what I wear 90% of the time) and a decent automatic is that the latter is more oriented towards jewellery ie something you wear that gives you pleasure over and above simply telling the time.

However there's a massive difference between a few grand and a thousand grand - that's verging on obscene!
 
With a carbon fibre case every watch is unique as the pattern will never repeat, the case is made from alternating layers of unidirectional carbon fibres at 0/90 degree, when this is machined the pattern that you see is created by the individual layers of carbon as they reflect differently.

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If you look at the case above you can see that the machining of the central area has only disturbed a few layers of carbon so we can tell that the case was pressed as a blank with some curved shape but when you get down to the strap fixing which is machined at an angle relative to the face all you see is stripes, these stripes are still the individual layers of carbon but at a different angle, you only see the fibres that are parallel to the machined face the ones running 0 deg or inline with the strap are only showing the end grain of the fibre which doesn't reflect light, each fibre will be 5 microns (5/1000 mm) in diameter and each layer most likely 0.1mm which equates to a pre-preg fibre of 100g/sqm.

Sorry am I boring you :D2

Martin

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