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That's incredible considering some of these watches can land on your doorstep for less than £40 including delivery and vat! Guess Chinese labour rates help with that though.

Total crapshoot with Seiko's P. My Alpinist is about 5 seconds a day slow but that's a higher grade movement than a nh35 and a £2700 (rrp) watch. I've had Steeldive (£60-70), Pagani (£40-60), and...

I haven't owned a San Martin but have owned several nh35 powered Chinese watches (from companies half or even a third of the price of San Martin) and the timekeeping on all of them has been within a...

Backless driving gloves? ;)

You are mischievous P.

A bit like houses I suppose Dave, rises and falls but overall upwards.
The service required on the Rolex if you want to get your money back will be a number of times the cost of the San Martin but I...

No, I know you're not Dave, and I'm not suggesting you are. Low cost yes (at least in the rarefied world of TZ), almost free certainly not unless they continue to rise.

Good bit of man maths there Dave, but my ISA 'currently' pays 4.8% (of course, like the Rolex that can go down as well as up, and more likely than the Rolex probably will go down). So thats £480 the...

And that's not including servicing costs.

True, and if it were rolex would be broke.

And I agree with that Dave. I'll go further and say that San Martin probably employs more people per watch than Rolex on the production lines.

True Dave, but only a small contributing factor. It doesn't make £9900 difference on a mass produced watch.

And that's what matters, nice to feel comfortable with what you have.

Yes very much so.

Thank you, although I have now put the alpinist on leather its still easy to change with drilled lugs. Think it will have to go back on a nato for the summer though.

It's all relative. I'm firmly in the low hundreds range now (except for the Alpinist which was still three figures). I could afford higher but I find the cost or higher value of the watch doesn't add...

Good luck indeed Rob!
Nice trio by the way, a few rungs up the ladder from mine to say the least.

Wishing you all the best Mike, sounds like you are spinning quite a number of plates at the moment.
Given the assumption that the support of family and friends is very important to you at the...

Indeed, that's basically what I meant.

Cool trio. I personally wouldn't want or need two virtually the same. But if like you I had an older one with a personal or sentimental history attached to it, a newer version is definitely a good...

Remembered this old Di Modell I had in the strap box so decided to follow your advice. Very comfortable on, like the look, but I think more of a honey brown would suit...

Spot on!

It's been lovely just across the channel from you aswell, starting to get a bit blustery now though.

That's lovely, been eyeing these lately myself.