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 Posted: Tue Dec 1st, 2009 11:14 pm
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Paxman



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 I'm in a similar boat working in a hospital with plenty of docs with disposable cash. I'm always amazed to find WIS are still few and far between but there are two guys who really bring it.

On the average though I see a number of Rolex offerings. Usually Subs, Yachtmasters and Daytonas. A couple of Tags pop up here there. An occasional Breitiling or Omega.

The guys that bring it are scary. My buddy has a killer collection with  a Spring Drive, Pam 98, Sub, GO, Ploprof, Ball, JLC Reverso 8 day and others. Its nice to live vicariously though him though I haven't yet had him let me puppy dog any of his collection.

By far the hardest charger is a GI doc who handed me his IWC Grande Complication in gold a few years back. all he got back was an Orient Orange Beast!face4.gif I had no idea but the list on the watch was something like 200K. He was most gracious and genuinely interested in the Orient too. Since then he's brought in any number of gold complicated UNs and is currently favoring one of the Romain Jerome Titanic DNA watches. All in all our tastes, and purchasing power, are quite different. He likes big complicated gold watches which cost mucho dinero and I am but a simple working man...;)

We also get our fair share of sales reps who favor the Rolex, Omega and Breitling offerings.