I would fly to any within 5 hours flight if necessary to personal pick up a purchase if anything over $2k....no way in hell i would give someone cash over the internet unless is a legit business

 

Good, more watches for us.

 

Ya lol...but I am not spending anything over $2k anyway...most is around $1k

 

Took the opportunity of a flight from Paris, France to Launceston, Tasmania, to stop at Melbourne for a visit to Watchco with the clear intention to buy one of their reassembled sm300, but they didn't have any when I visited them. So I didn't buy anything.

 

5,676 milles.

 

400 miles/640 km for a Patek Philippe that must have had a case swap. The reference the seller gave me was for a different watch!

It would have been my first purchase for a watch that cost $3k (late '80's). I was nervous, and kinda glad it didn't happen...

 

Dish. You can't drop a number like that and not tell the story.

Still doesn't beat Lou, but might be second place.

 

As a military watch collector, one of the most sought after watches is the Eterna matic Kontiki issued to the Israeli Naval Commando unit S-13. These are hard to come by. Not many survived the harsh use and many civilian examples had markings added to them to increase value. So finding a legit example in good shape is not an easy task. I got an e-mail from a fellow collector that a couple of examples are up for sale in Israel. JFK-TLV = 5,676 (should have probably calculated 11,352 for the round trip). Airfare was cheaper than the watches, assuming you can't use frequent flyer miles to buy watches

 

Won't beat Lou (US to Oz??), but I did fly from Winnipeg to Denver to pick up a couple of nice pieces, and then back through Saskatoon (another business event), then back to Winnipeg via Calgary (yeah, wacky connections...gotta be a Great White North thing...). So a total of 2718 miles (4374 km) to pick up 3 vintage pieces. All in North America!

 

Makes my trips to the front door feel so much more mundane.. oh wait I had to drive to the post office once

 

You're lucky he didn't have to kill you after relating that story.

 

I only got away b/c I promised I would buy any future examples he had for sale

 

Duh! Because you're a watch nut.

 

Drove from Dallas TX to Baton Rouge LA to get a Rolex DD. 900 miles round trip.

 

10,240 miles. Hobart, Tasmania to Berlin. 1972.
But it shouldn't really count as I picked up the watch when on holiday - didn't make the trip for the watch. A Ruhla diver. East German pin-lever UMF movement. Still looks great and works fine.

 

Gee, this topic seems to have died. Was it something I said?