In a previous life

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Barking mad

·Mar 13, 2023·Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder

I have just managed to retrieve an old Photobucket account that I used to use over ten years ago containing a bunch of my watch pics.
I was going to title the thread in happier days but that is not true😉.
Anyway here are some pre divorce pics from around 2007-8😀

 

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Larry S

·Mar 13, 2023·Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.

Where all these lovelies now?

 

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Walrus

·Mar 13, 2023

Wow
(Post farming)

 

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Barking mad

·Mar 13, 2023·Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder

Larry S

Where all these lovelies now?

Scattered all over the world. Unfortunately none with me.

 

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Duracuir1

·Mar 13, 2023·Never Used A Kodak

Was the one that got you started in watch collecting among this group?

 

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Barking mad

·Mar 13, 2023·Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder

Duracuir1

Was the one that got you started in watch collecting among this group?

Funnily enough, no. I guess you could say it was the Chopard Mille Miglia (which I still have) that I got in 2000 in this pic.

 

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pdxleaf

·Mar 13, 2023·"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"

Lot of red font in those pictures. 😲

 

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omegawatchlover

·Mar 13, 2023

Like an actual divorce? Sheesh. That’s hard.

 

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watch3s

·Mar 18, 2023

tell us you got to keep at least one

 

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Jones in LA

·Mar 18, 2023·Not in LA anymore.

Oh, to have bought a bunch of Apple stock (below) and a pile of Rolexes in 2005 😡

 

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The Father

·Mar 18, 2023

Jones in LA

Oh, to have bought a bunch of Apple stock (below) and a pile of Rolexes in 2005 😡

doesn’t matter the B still gets half

 

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Watch my Whisky

·Mar 18, 2023

At least you don’t have the wife either.

 

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watchyouwant

·Mar 18, 2023

Divorce ? I had a court ordered divorce settlement to buy my ex wife her own House. If you go to Bonham's auction catalog last auction in 2015, there is a section of rare Mil and other watches .... I had to auction some very rare ones for that settlement . And, as to be expected, coming to the Market all at once, they fetched only a fraction of the values. But the Court ordered Timeline was very short and that was that....A few even rarer ones went to known dealers, like the Blancpain Air Command, where less than 50 examples were manufactured. And, of course in today's values, for a fraction of the Potential as well. But that's part of life as well....

 

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watchyouwant

·Mar 18, 2023

watchyouwant

Divorce ? I had a court ordered divorce settlement to buy my ex wife her own House. If you go to Bonham's auction catalog last auction in 2015, there is a section of rare Mil and other watches .... I had to auction some very rare ones for that settlement . And, as to be expected, coming to the Market all at once, they fetched only a fraction of the values. But the Court ordered Timeline was very short and that was that....A few even rarer ones went to known dealers, like the Blancpain Air Command, where less than 50 examples were manufactured. And, of course in today's values, for a fraction of the Potential as well. But that's part of life as well....

Lot 32 to 68.

Edited: Mar 19, 2023

 

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Barking mad

·Mar 19, 2023·Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder

watch3s

tell us you got to keep at least one

Yep, got to keep the Chopard. It was my 40th birthday present.

I would like to get all philosophical but I can't, I think she had gone too far before she realised she had made a mistake and that there was no going back so might as well finish the job properly.

However I do believe in Karma and I believe that is potentially coming to fruition and we all know the meaning of Karma:
"haha F@#K you"

 

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Pastorbottle

·Mar 19, 2023

I met this bloke who told me he’d been married 5 times……. I said: “So you’re a slow learner then!”
Oddly enough he didn’t choose to continue the conversation

 

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STANDY

·Mar 19, 2023

But it switched you from Rolex and Panerai to Speedmasters 👍

 

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Spacefruit

·Mar 19, 2023·Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder

Just remember, and from experience,

divorce is very expensive.


Because it’s worth it

 

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Omegafanman

·Mar 19, 2023

Pastorbottle

I met this bloke who told me he’d been married 5 times……. I said: “So you’re a slow learner then!”
Oddly enough he didn’t choose to continue the conversation

A friend of mine had a sticky divorce and is now in a relationship but marriage is off the cards. He says if he thinks about marriage again, he will just find someone he does not like and buy them a house instead …. Which will turn out cheaper.
When I got married an official at the venue whispered to me - marriage is grand sir, but never forget divorce is many grand.

 

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watchyouwant

·Mar 19, 2023

Many PM's about the auction link..... too lazy for Google ? Ok, for the lazy ones:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...oQFnoECA0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0KRtFT02EGcde0xR2sY1rG