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If I like it enough to want it and most of all can afford it.
I'm just back from an impulse purchase, I was just browsing for other gmt with that "interesting new movement from myota" when I came across Borealis and their new gmt. Not for me.
However... something popped out from their website that had it all, except the gmt.
Size, under 40,
colour, blue
dial texture, not sunburst
Case design, sort of bb58
Date, at 6
Awsome lume
Affordable price
It felt as if all my dreams came true in one and bang!
Am I too easy?
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BUBI
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Simples
If I like it enough to want it and most of all can afford it.
My own list of encouraging features, a couple of which are mutually exclusive:
36mm
No date
Blue dial, not sunburst
Steel bracelet
Handwound
Solar
Two hander
Usually boredom
1. A non-specific itch for something new (when I’m bored)
2. A fizzing sensation that refuses to leave me alone (when I find the latest watch I ‘need’)
3. Mild disappointment and ultimately regret (once it arrives)
Sadly this, although a load of Tesco Clubcard points and the news that they were reducing their redemption value helped recently!Originally Posted by wileeeeeey
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Katie Hopkins.
Never mind all the yadda-yadda: PICS man!
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I have successfully avoided impulse purchases for the last couple of years. The main curative procedure has been looking at the 20+ impulse-buys sat in watch boxes that never get worn and which will be nearly impossible to sell...
It's like being forced to live with all your crusty old w@nk rags and used johnnies...
It' funny, I lived a real seiko moment with this Borealis because all the official pics were crap and did the watch no justice, so I looked for reviews and videos but of this specific model found less than a handful...Never mind all the yadda-yadda: PICS man!
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I have successfully avoided impulse purchases for the last couple of years. The main curative procedure has been looking at the 20+ impulse-buys sat in watch boxes that never get worn and which will be nearly impossible to sell...
It's like being forced to live with all your crusty old w@nk rags and used johnnies...
More than having scratched an itch I felt as if I had found the love of my life.
I still want the smiths gmt none the less. And badly!
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BUBI
@porque.racing
Anger:-)
A nice plump pigeon.
I can certainly see why you're so taken with it - lovely design, highly functional, and a great shade of blue - very well-priced, too!
Enjoy!
I picked up a CWC Mellor 72 and then later a CWC G10 Fatboy. The trigger was this website and a certain gent who kept posting photos of CWCs. Having spare cash certainly helps!
Vintage, a bit obscure, a bit tired, but mostly not expensive. This just arrived which ticks those boxes :)
I'd rather not disclose on the public side of the forum.
“ Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.” HHGTTG
My speckled Jim! My one true love! ;)
Agreed on all points.I can certainly see why you're so taken with it - lovely design, highly functional, and a great shade of blue - very well-priced, too!
Enjoy!
Cracking look watch I think. Never looked at the brand before, but it had me perusing their website.
I was pleasantly surprised to see the size, as I just assumed it would be 42-46mm sort of range.
That is pretty much how my mind works too. Throw in a funky dial and all caution is thrown to the wind.
Lovely leopard, does it have a faceted crystal?
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Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Let's see this collection of sad, dejected and unloved timepieces and we can be the judge of their desirability (or lack of). It may even spawn a new thread. Not 'Watches I will never sell' but more like 'Watches that would never sell'
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Agreed. Funky dial seals it for me.
The Leopard has 5 faces. Nice, but simple compared to the 5216 I had on today.
Couple of other funky dials below too.
Yep. Absolutely
Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
I'll see you, and raise you this
Let's see this collection of sad, dejected and unloved timepieces and we can be the judge of their desirability (or lack of). It may even spawn a new thread. Not 'Watches I will never sell' but more like 'Watches that would never sell'
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Chortle!- might just do that; there's a couple languishing on SC already, think one's had 3 annual bumps so far...!
The most thinly veiled excuse of a reason.
Bang! And the cash is gone.
Looks nice! Just saw that Borealis is doing their 9075 GMT, but no idea when that ships. Sword hands, but it's 41.5mm. Nice enough though, and looks like the price isn't bad at all. Bigger than I'd like, however, I'm pretty focused on wearing stuff 40mm and under.It' funny, I lived a real seiko moment with this Borealis because all the official pics were crap and did the watch no justice, so I looked for reviews and videos but of this specific model found less than a handful...
More than having scratched an itch I felt as if I had found the love of my life.
I still want the smiths gmt none the less. And badly!
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BUBI
@porque.racing
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All of the above are great but this takes the prize. I was close to buying a really battered example (although I think it had a different case) just for that dial.
Work colleagues upsetting me.
Agreed. I have a soft spot for Cosmotrons and an even softer spot for the unusual, and that knocks my pair into a cocked hat.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Whisky.
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No particular preferences, but I tend to sway more to military or dive watches :
Wishing all a happy bank holiday. :)
Last edited by senraw; 30th April 2023 at 14:33.
Oops, double post. :(
I just bought this from an Indian seller from eBay.
It's probably going to be a horrible frankenwatch, but it was £25 and took my fancy.
Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
You don't keep those two in the same box do you? I made that mistake and mine bred.
- tick.
"17 jewels" - tick.
Vintage style but pristine and unfaded/untarnished - tick.
Lot of these Indian fakes out there with various brand names, but for £25 I guess you about got your money's worth.
How about a gold 7804?You don't keep those two in the same box do you? I made that mistake and mine bred.
That's what I thought.
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
The voices inside my head...
;-)
Too much red wine.
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