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I'm collecting the wrong watches........................

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Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 12:25 pm

Tony Duronio
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$600 for a G-shock

http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?t=126389

Hey, no disrespect, there must be a market, but i dont get it:D

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 12:31 pm

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And it sold pretty quickly, too!! Not my cup of tea, but the G-Shocks do have rabid following.

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 12:34 pm

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Paxman wrote: And it sold pretty quickly, too!! Not my cup of tea, but the G-Shocks do have rabid following.

I guess:shock:

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 12:46 pm

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Tony Duronio wrote: $600 for a G-shock

http://forums.watchuseek.com/showthread.php?t=126389

Hey, no disrespect, there must be a market, but i dont get it:D

face4.gifI Dont get it either....It's Digital......face4.gif

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 01:00 pm

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Wow $600 could buy something really nice imo, at least much nicer than that.

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 01:14 pm

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Yea they do seem to have quite the following. My limit on one would peak at about $150 and that is if it was real nice and that was a sale price. :D

The one I have I bought on sale for about $90 and was regular at about $125. :)

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 03:15 pm

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My taste for digitals went out in the mid-nineties when I became aware that there

were diver watches out there. I stumbled across the first, and it's history from there.

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 03:45 pm

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Hi. My name's Steve and I like G-Shocks.

Diver/Auto's are my preference and I would never pay that kind of money for a G but I like em and think they get a bad rap. Let's look at the stats!

* Light weight but still tougher than anything out there. Water resistant to 200m. Multiple functions like stopwatches and world-time zones and etc. Great backlight. Much more accurate than a mechanical. And at fraction of the cost of a low-mid range auto.

But then again... it is quartz and thus .... has no soul. Maybe that's the reason many folks don't like them.

OK.... Flame on!

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 03:57 pm

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I think I have been telling you guy's about the collectibilty of G-Shocks and it just so happens I have one of the Brazilian Frogmen as pictured along with a half dozen other LE G's yahoo.gif

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 04:02 pm

Tony Duronio
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steve6387 wrote: Hi. My name's Steve and I like G-Shocks.

Diver/Auto's are my preference and I would never pay that kind of money for a G but I like em and think they get a bad rap. Let's look at the stats!

* Light weight but still tougher than anything out there. Water resistant to 200m. Multiple functions like stopwatches and world-time zones and etc. Great backlight. Much more accurate than a mechanical. And at fraction of the cost of a low-mid range auto.

But then again... it is quartz and thus .... has no soul. Maybe that's the reason many folks don't like them.

OK.... Flame on!

Hey Steve,

No flame from me, just making an observation. I agree at $150 or less, you cant find a better all around watch to wear.

:)

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 04:30 pm

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No flames here either brother... just my personal preference. To each his own... well for the most part!

Posted: Thu Feb 21st, 2008 04:34 pm

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I know and thanks guys. I'm just messing around and being a PITA. Sort of poking a finger in the eye of mechanical snobbery. Not indicting anyone in particular. I think the G's get marginalized by some purists.

Someone has to stick up for em. Might as well be me! Yo Oscar! You got my back?!

--steve

Last edited on Thu Feb 21st, 2008 04:37 pm by steve6387

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