The Great Big Introductions Thread

Muttley · Mar 4, 2012

Hi, Shayne here. No Omegas yet, but hope to pick up a birth year constellation or similar some day. Only active on one other forum, and things have slowed down a lot on the watch collecting side since the quakes here in Christchurch. Kind of have other things to worry about right now with the recovery (and I am one of the lucky ones with less damage than so many, and no family casualties).
Sorry, not trying to bring things down here - I still love watches, and enjoy checking out all your great collections 😀.
Cheers.

Trev · Mar 4, 2012

Muttley
Hi, Shayne here. No Omegas yet, but hope to pick up a birth year constellation or similar some day. Only active on one other forum, and things have slowed down a lot on the watch collecting side since the quakes here in Christchurch. Kind of have other things to worry about right now with the recovery (and I am one of the lucky ones with less damage than so many, and no family casualties).
Sorry, not trying to bring things down here - I still love watches, and enjoy checking out all your great collections 😀.
Cheers.

Welcome to ΩF. Sorry to hear you were dragged through all that stuff in Christchurch.

Are you guys planning to stay there, or is moving elsewhere a consideration?

Steve · Mar 4, 2012

Yours and your families safety is paramount, you can buy a watch any time. Hope this forum will bring you some light relief from the worries you, your family and friends must be going through. Welcome.

Muttley · Mar 4, 2012

Thanks guys 👍.
Trev - with two kids in school (eldest just started High School this year) stability is important. I went through 4 High Schools in 5 years and it was pretty disruptive...
All my family, and my wife's parents live here as well so we have a duty of care to stay as well.
We'll pull through, there's so many worse off than us (just hearing about the ton of tornadoes in the States this week - not good).

Matty01 · Mar 6, 2012

Hi, im Matt, been into watches for 8 months and have a few bits am pieces including an Omega Chronostop, speedy 125 and a Speedy Mark v. I buy an sell wines ... so any Aussie members ... I can look after you very nicely

Matt

Trev · Mar 6, 2012

Hey Matt,

Welcome to ΩF. I'm from the Gold Coast, and a designer/admin for the forums here. Our sysadmin (dsio) is in Brisbane... though our servers are in Texas. Plenty of other Aussies here too. Can't hurt to have a wine dealer around. 👍

Cheers

Matty01 · Mar 6, 2012

Trev
Hey Matt,

Welcome to ΩF. I'm from the Gold Coast, and a designer/admin for the forums here. Our sysadmin (dsio) is in Brisbane... though our servers are in Texas. Plenty of other Aussies here too. Can't hurt to have a wine dealer around. 👍

Cheers

Thamks for the welcome Trev. Website is winedirect.com.au amd happy to do discount on anything on the site for members... will vary, but min would be 10%, more on some items. Always happy to swap wine for watches too...

Cheers,

Matt

Trev · Mar 6, 2012

Rum is definitely my go-to drink (but don't worry, not Bundaberg), and Ales, but I certainly enjoy a nice Shiraz. I'm originally from Canada and can confidently say that Australia has fantastic wines. The quality to price ratio here is really something.

Matty01 · Mar 6, 2012

Mmm, Bundy, is it rum? Dunno, I Dont drink a lot of rum, but i do like the bacardi anejo 8, Havana rum and Appleton. Ill stop 'selling my business' at this point, but def happy to look after members ( just flick me a message)

dsio · Mar 6, 2012

Matty01
Mmm, Bundy, is it rum? Dunno, I Dont drink a lot of rum, but i do like the bacardi anejo 8, Havana rum and Appleton. Ill stop 'selling my business' at this point, but def happy to look after members ( just flick me a message)

You sell rum for a living, or drink in general? And yea Bundy is Australian rum.

EDIT: NVM, I'm a bit slow and didn't read the above posts lol.

ulackfocus · Mar 6, 2012

Now if we could recruit a butcher as a member we'd be set! 👍

dsio · Mar 6, 2012

U ulackfocus
Now if we could recruit a butcher as a member we'd be set! 👍

I'm a vegetarian so bleh 😜

Trev · Mar 6, 2012

dsio
I'm a vegetarian so bleh 😜

Yeah, well... PETA might take issue with your gravy consumption. That stuff tastes good for a reason 😀

ulackfocus · Mar 6, 2012

dsio
I'm a vegetarian so bleh 😜

Good. More filets for me.

Trev
Yeah, well... PETA might take issue with your gravy consumption. That stuff tastes good for a reason 😀

People Eating Tasty Animals.

Matty01 · Mar 6, 2012

I love meat in an almost unnatural way but when vego food is good I reckon its better than meat (assumes foetal position)

Steve · Mar 6, 2012

Salad is what food eats !. 😝

ulackfocus · Mar 6, 2012

Steve
Salad is what food eats !. 😝

👍

I say something similar when we go to a seafood place. I want to eat the prize - not the bait used to catch it.

Steve · Mar 6, 2012

U ulackfocus
👍

I say something similar when we go to a seafood place. I want to eat the prize - not the bait used to catch it.

A man after my own heart. 😉

astrosfan · Mar 10, 2012

Hi, I'm Trey & I've been collecting & enjoying watches for a few years. I only have one vintage Omega so far, but there will surely be others to come. Thank you Dennis for turning me onto this forum!
My '62 Seamaster:

A shot of its 550 automatic movement:

ulackfocus · Mar 10, 2012

Hi Trey. That was fast. What does Laura think about you having another forum to post on now? 😗