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I said "Soon" Obviously not soon enough!
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Haha just playin with you :crackup:
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Well here you go, some of my watches. Nothing special here other than the Rolex of course! Lol Will post some more of them Soooonish! Like to keep you in suspense!:na:
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Is that a swatch in the lower right corner? It has a badass strap! I have never seen a swatch with that kind of strap!
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Yes that is a Swatch, with a badass strap, the type of which you have probably never seen before!
Don't you like the Rolex sitting next to it, that has a badass strap too, in fact everything about it is BADass.
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Yes that is a Swatch, with a badass strap, the type of which you have probably never seen before!
Don't you like the Rolex sitting next to it, that has a badass strap too, in fact everything about it is BADass.
Are you sure that that is a real Rolex? I don't think It's real.... Can you take a better picture?
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Kilter, see this article?
Man buys Goodwill watch for $6, sells for $35,000
Phoenix, AZ (KTVK) — A Phoenix man found quite the thrift store treasure at the Goodwill at 43rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road. He bought a watch for $5.99 then turned around and sold it for $35,000.
And now, after lying low for a few weeks, Zach Norris is talking about his find and what he’s doing with all that cash.
“I’ve found some stuff in the past that I have been really excited about and stoked, but this is one of those things you’re like, one day, one day it will happen, and it happened for me,” Norris said.
Norris collects watches but had gone into the Goodwill looking for a golf pull cart. He happened to take a look in the watch section and found a rare 1959 Jaeger-LeCoultre diving watch with a tag that read $5.99.
“I didn’t even want to give it to her to scan,” he said. “I was like, you can scan it in my hand if you want to. I just didn’t want to let it go.”
He explains how Goodwill could have missed the rare gem.
“Sometimes they just miss it, they don’t know,” Norris said. “It’s not a very fancy-looking piece. You have to know what it is.”
Norris said there were only about 900 of the diving watches ever made.
“I knew I didn’t want to keep it because it’s kind of above my means to have a piece like that,” Norris said. “I had a couple of good offers.”
After his find ended up on Hodinkee.com, a watch collectors website, a collector in San Francisco bought the watch for $35,000 and threw in a $4,000 Mega Speed Master watch to sweeten the deal.
And so what has Norris been doing with his unexpected windfall?
“We are planning a wedding,” he said. “We’ve been planning a wedding for a while, but now that we have the extra funds we’re going to go ahead and start taking care of everything. We’re excited.”
He also donated some of his profits back to the Goodwill.
Norris’ advice for anyone hoping to also hit it big trolling thrift stores?
“You can do it. Research everything. Just take your phone in there and if you see something that looks goofy, you haven’t seen it before, Google it. You never know.”
Man buys Goodwill watch for $6, sells for $35,000
Phoenix, AZ (KTVK) — A Phoenix man found quite the thrift store treasure at the Goodwill at 43rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road. He bought a watch for $5.99 then turned around and sold it for $35,000.
And now, after lying low for a few weeks, Zach Norris is talking about his find and what he’s doing with all that cash.
“I’ve found some stuff in the past that I have been really excited about and stoked, but this is one of those things you’re like, one day, one day it will happen, and it happened for me,” Norris said.
Norris collects watches but had gone into the Goodwill looking for a golf pull cart. He happened to take a look in the watch section and found a rare 1959 Jaeger-LeCoultre diving watch with a tag that read $5.99.
“I didn’t even want to give it to her to scan,” he said. “I was like, you can scan it in my hand if you want to. I just didn’t want to let it go.”
He explains how Goodwill could have missed the rare gem.
“Sometimes they just miss it, they don’t know,” Norris said. “It’s not a very fancy-looking piece. You have to know what it is.”
Norris said there were only about 900 of the diving watches ever made.
“I knew I didn’t want to keep it because it’s kind of above my means to have a piece like that,” Norris said. “I had a couple of good offers.”
After his find ended up on Hodinkee.com, a watch collectors website, a collector in San Francisco bought the watch for $35,000 and threw in a $4,000 Mega Speed Master watch to sweeten the deal.
And so what has Norris been doing with his unexpected windfall?
“We are planning a wedding,” he said. “We’ve been planning a wedding for a while, but now that we have the extra funds we’re going to go ahead and start taking care of everything. We’re excited.”
He also donated some of his profits back to the Goodwill.
Norris’ advice for anyone hoping to also hit it big trolling thrift stores?
“You can do it. Research everything. Just take your phone in there and if you see something that looks goofy, you haven’t seen it before, Google it. You never know.”
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Yes Kilter of course it is a Real Rolex. Just like in the above story my friend was shopping in a store in Hong Kong and obviously they did not know what a Rolex was so he got it for under 10 bucks! That was about 5 years ago so I know that every year these old watches increase in value so this one whilst not yet worth $35,000 could be worth quite a few!
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Kilters curiosity is obvious. Fake Rolex watches are a popular thing around the world probably the most popular watch to duplicate.
Can't you tell by the second hand? I believe Rolex's second hand sweep and fake ones "tick".
And if Kilter celebrates like this on 520 posts wish I could have saw his 420 celebration
Can't you tell by the second hand? I believe Rolex's second hand sweep and fake ones "tick".
And if Kilter celebrates like this on 520 posts wish I could have saw his 420 celebration
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Yes Kilter of course it is a Real Rolex. Just like in the above story my friend was shopping in a store in Hong Kong and obviously they did not know what a Rolex was so he got it for under 10 bucks! That was about 5 years ago so I know that every year these old watches increase in value so this one whilst not yet worth $35,000 could be worth quite a few!
Are you REALLY sure? because that looks way too shiny for a rolex and the sub-dial chronograph dials look like day indicators. Does the second hand tick or sweep? Is it mechanical or automatic? or Quartz?
Also, hong kong is the NUMBER ONE manufacturer for fake rolex's
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Agreed!
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I would like a better picture of this Rolex also. I also want to know what "you" paid for it, did your friend make any profit?
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Also curious about the Rolex, but I'm also curious about the one on the upper right... the dual face watch. What is that?
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It might be a Casio, but I'm not sure. Come on op!
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to hold us over until someone post something nice I have a picture of my brothers (he is a huge Packers fan) Brett Farve watch he got years ago. Oh yeah super cool....not
