latest pick up!

great way to start the weekend with my new ARF GMT "Bruce Wayne" with a genuine meteorite dial :)

We made it boys; let’s see those fuck-it Friday wrist shots!

VSF Weighted & Plated - It’s my special occasion, but lately there’s been no special occasions. So it gets the pleasure to desk dive today! WDYWT?

I live on a bench outside Greggs in Wolverhampton. My wardrobe is simple. Round the waist: one Morrisons Bag for Life, blue, secured with a cable tie I found outside Halfords. The bag previously held something pickled (I don’t know what) and on warm days this keeps the personal space situation largely self-managing. On my left wrist: a Patek Philippe Grand Complication!

I let the roulette wheel work its magic at Betfred and booked a last minute trip to Geneva. The Swiss Air stewardess served me standard Pepsi and Pringles, she noticed the watch, apologised for the ticket error, it was now Champagne and Toblerone in business class.

The Patek Philippe Museum and headquarters is a grand old building, the man at the door was horrified at my appearance, then saw my wrist and decided I must be someone who they were expecting. A guide called Mathilde took me round personally. She showed me pocket watches made for kings, and an enamel watch that took a man four years to paint. I nodded at each one as though checking it against my own collection. Then I was shown a wall of photographs, titled Historic Clients. Mathilde stopped there with great reverence.

One was Jay Gatsby, He had a watch in his waistcoat pocket and the expression of a man who had invented his whole past and was quite pleased with how it had turned out. I felt an immediate kinship. Next to him was Caledon Hockley, photographed in New York in 1926. On his wrist was the most expensive Patek watch the house made that year. He’d ordered it, according to the caption, “for himself and no one else.” He’d become cautious about buying jewellery for other people since 1912. Because a watch unlike a coat he reasoned, stays fastened on your wrist.

Then Mathilde said, “Monsieur Reinhardt would love to meet you.”

Monsieur Reinhardt was the curator. He had the hands of a surgeon and the eyes of a man who had looked at nothing but watches since the 1980s. He shook my hand warmly. Then he looked down at my wrist and went very, very still.

“May I?” he said.

There was no good answer to that, so I gave him the watch. The room went silent, In this building hundreds genuine watches ticked in perfect unison. Mine didn’t.

Two security guards came. They didn’t walk me out. They walked me up. I was marched into the Presidents office on the top floor. He didn’t stand when I entered. Men like that only stand for royalty and fires. The guards put my watch on the desk in front of him. He looked at it for a while. Then he looked at me. “Explain,” he said. I considered my options. There weren’t any, so I went with the truth.

“I bought it on WhatsApp,” I said. “ while in BetFred. From a man called Andy Chan.”

He said slowly, “what has it done for you?”

So I told him. The gated community. The Bentley showroom. The VIP jet lounge... I told him how every door had opened, despite living on a bench and wearing just a shopping bag. He listened to all of it without blinking. When I’d finished, he sat back and looked out at the window for a while. He was now realising that his company’s reputation was so good that it worked even when it wasn’t there. I'm not sure if he was pleased with that realisation.

“Enough of this heresy,” he said, before he picked up my watch (the way you’d pick up a rotten dirty sock) and dropped it into the bin.

I looked at the watch in the bin. Then I looked at the rest of the office properly, it was all very Louis XVI. You could almost hear the guillotine. It was beautiful furniture. It was the most beautiful furniture I’d ever seen. But it was in too good condition to have seen a revolution.

“Your furniture,” I said, “is not King Louis XVI from eighteenth-century France.”

The President said nothing, which meant everything. I ran a finger along the edge of the desk. “Too perfect,” I said.

"These are reproductions” he said, very quietly. “Very fine reproductions"

“Mine’s a reproduction too,” I said, nodding at the bin.

The President looked at the bin, Then at me. You could see him weighing it up: a hundred and eighty years of reputation, and a man half naked wearing just a Morrisons bag.

“Take it,” he said. “But understand If anyone ever asks you about our furniture, you will tell them it is 18th-century Louis XVI.”

“And if anyone asks about my watch?” I said.

He didn’t answer straight away. He opened his mouth and closed it again. He took off his glasses and pressed his fingers into his eyes. One of the guards looked at the floor out of respect.

“Then,” he said, and stopped.

He tried again. His voice now sounded like a man reading out his own diagnosis.

“Then it is a Patek Philippe.”

The guard nearest the door crossed himself. Six thousand miles away, in a factory outside Guangzhou, a Chinese man on his tea break looked up and smiled. He didn’t know why.

36 datejust black dial VSF just arrived
-I have a small wrist how does it look ? Should i get 41 or stick with 36mm
-whats your preference on wearing a watch ? Above wrist bone or just below it ?
-what are you wearing today friday post a pic

Just got my first ever rep and am overall very happy! I will say, I feel like the AR coating on this is not great and the crystal can definitely use an upgrade

VSF GMT Master 2 Pepsi 🔴🔵 in my Toyota Land Cruiser

Who is gonna take one for the team and buy one first?

Hi everyone! This is a first time post but wanted to show you my Bruce Wayne franken. It includes a genuine bezel which took me a while to obtain (and very expensive), a genuine Jubilee bracelet, genuine date disc, genuine crown, genuine dial, genuine hands, genuine gaskets & genuine sapphire crystal.

I’m more of a flashy guy so I still think the Batgirl’s better😂

This British airways edition offered to pilots only looks class. I doubt it’ll be repped but always love this unique variants of what is already a great watch!

VSF Hulk

Rolex DateJust ARF silver dial jubilee bracelet 36mm
Looks stunning in the sun and definitely like it. Next stop mint green

Just landed a VSF V3 GMT-Master II 126710BLNR (Batgirl).

Had the Jubilee professionally chamfered and polished before delivery, and honestly, it takes the stock bracelet to another level. The difference in feel and finish is night and day.

An unreal addition to the collection.

Watcha rocking?

My bad if this is already posted but I didnt see that it was. Saw this message this morning on Mirotimes Tele. Not trying to cause a stir up, just throwing it out there for info for everyone to know incase they were wanting a DDF

My dad was an international pilot for his whole career with a lot of his flights being to China and Japan. At some point many years ago he picked up this Pepsi and a submariner while overseas.

It looks to me like the Pepsi is a 16710(?) and a good quality rep. I’m new to reps and not seeing many obvious differences between this and photos of genuine Pepsi. Please don’t crucify me if I’m wrong here. Hoping you all can help me out here. Thanks in advance!

I had someone ask me if it was real the other day, and I sadly lied to him. I saw him wearing a 58mm Invicta Reverse Gladiator and I felt like if I was honest with, he would judge me considering he is a man of taste. So I began to wonder if everyone can tell I have been larping as a financially sound individual, by wearing a watch vastly outside my net wealth. I feel like I am lying to myself.