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Virmonk
·Greetings all,
Since I just joined the forum I wanted to make a introduction for my first post before putting anything else up although I tend to read a lot more than I post. I've actually been reading over here for a while and you guys have a great site. I've learned a lot for sure.
Bit about myself, I'm getting older but have always loved watches. From my first quartz in the 80s it been a part of me. I loved that casio but was always amazed by my mechanical watches like my dads seiko and grandpas rolex. So intricate, so nice....and so expensive lol. Fast forward to my teens and I was given an old elgin my grandfather had. I love that watch but it needed work and was put away. Eventually in high-school I ended up in Washington DC on a school trip and ended up with a fake watch sold on a corner. It was the first automatic I could afford and I could care less about the brand but the fact it was a fake always bugged me. It felt disingenuous.
So in my early 20s I decided to buy a good everyday ware automatic and ended up with a invicta pro diver. I know those watches get a lot of hate but that watch was special to me. It was a stainless auto diver that reminded me of a sub but wasn't. Definitely a homoge but not a folex. It proudly said invicta and I dug that. 15 years of beating the crap out of that watch from landscaping to diving 100 ft below the oceans surface...it never died. It did start looking pretty rough though lol. I finally decided to work towards what I've really lusted over and seemed impossible...an omega.
There's always been something special about omegas to me. Lots of peoples grail is a rolex but mine has always been an omega diver. That is until I got older and the speedmaster started fighting for that title lol. Oh my lord how I want a speedy. But good news is at almost 40 I do have my first omega. An old f300 skin diver which to me is so friggin cool. Its currently being service and I can't wait till it gets back home. I've never made a lot of money so this is really big to me.
Anyways sorry for the wall of text and the tldr version is old dude is finally getting his omega!
Since I just joined the forum I wanted to make a introduction for my first post before putting anything else up although I tend to read a lot more than I post. I've actually been reading over here for a while and you guys have a great site. I've learned a lot for sure.
Bit about myself, I'm getting older but have always loved watches. From my first quartz in the 80s it been a part of me. I loved that casio but was always amazed by my mechanical watches like my dads seiko and grandpas rolex. So intricate, so nice....and so expensive lol. Fast forward to my teens and I was given an old elgin my grandfather had. I love that watch but it needed work and was put away. Eventually in high-school I ended up in Washington DC on a school trip and ended up with a fake watch sold on a corner. It was the first automatic I could afford and I could care less about the brand but the fact it was a fake always bugged me. It felt disingenuous.
So in my early 20s I decided to buy a good everyday ware automatic and ended up with a invicta pro diver. I know those watches get a lot of hate but that watch was special to me. It was a stainless auto diver that reminded me of a sub but wasn't. Definitely a homoge but not a folex. It proudly said invicta and I dug that. 15 years of beating the crap out of that watch from landscaping to diving 100 ft below the oceans surface...it never died. It did start looking pretty rough though lol. I finally decided to work towards what I've really lusted over and seemed impossible...an omega.
There's always been something special about omegas to me. Lots of peoples grail is a rolex but mine has always been an omega diver. That is until I got older and the speedmaster started fighting for that title lol. Oh my lord how I want a speedy. But good news is at almost 40 I do have my first omega. An old f300 skin diver which to me is so friggin cool. Its currently being service and I can't wait till it gets back home. I've never made a lot of money so this is really big to me.
Anyways sorry for the wall of text and the tldr version is old dude is finally getting his omega!
