Really expensive watches you can buy
Really expensive watches you can buy
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Sporky

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8,793 posts

81 months

Saturday 13th May 2023
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Just idle musing; what are the most expensive watches you can buy new, from an authorised retailer, without having spaffed millions with them previously?

Doofus

31,392 posts

190 months

Saturday 13th May 2023
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Richard Mille?

richthebike

1,749 posts

154 months

Saturday 13th May 2023
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Jacob & Co.?

Doofus

31,392 posts

190 months

Saturday 13th May 2023
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H Moser?

Regbuser

5,779 posts

52 months

Sporky

Original Poster:

8,793 posts

81 months

Saturday 13th May 2023
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I found a moderately pricey Breguet with "add to basket" instead of "enquire".

https://www.berrysjewellers.co.uk/watches-c10/breg...

SteveStrange

5,920 posts

230 months

Saturday 13th May 2023
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Regbuser said:
Blimey. I would imagine even a billionaire would think twice before pulling the trigger on that.

Er, I mean, that would take both my June AND July bonuses.

Monkeylegend

27,827 posts

248 months

Saturday 13th May 2023
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SteveStrange said:
Regbuser said:
Blimey. I would imagine even a billionaire would think twice before pulling the trigger on that.

Er, I mean, that would take both my June AND July bonuses.
And you would have to take it off every time you had a bath.

Sporky

Original Poster:

8,793 posts

81 months

Saturday 13th May 2023
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Those are often dryer months to be fair.

Is that definitely an AD?

Salted_Peanut

1,749 posts

71 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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You can usually find Chopard from authorised dealers, such as: https://www.goldsmiths.co.uk/Chopard-Alpine-Eagle-...

z4RRSchris

12,029 posts

196 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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Doofus said:
Richard Mille?
ZERO chance of this.

Doofus

31,392 posts

190 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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z4RRSchris said:
Doofus said:
Richard Mille?
ZERO chance of this.
Really? Because they're all injection-moulded plastic, I assumed they'd have piles of them.

wink

z4RRSchris

12,029 posts

196 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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dont worry, you can buy pre owned from the AD.

Doofus

31,392 posts

190 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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z4RRSchris said:
dont worry, you can buy pre owned from the AD.
So do you have to do the dance of buying several before they'll let you have a new one?

z4RRSchris

12,029 posts

196 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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Doofus said:
z4RRSchris said:
dont worry, you can buy pre owned from the AD.
So do you have to do the dance of buying several before they'll let you have a new one?
nah, youll never get a new one.

Doofus

31,392 posts

190 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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Thanks for your verbose replies.

z4RRSchris

12,029 posts

196 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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np

Yex GTR

4,608 posts

237 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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Regbuser said:
As soon as I read "chiming movement" a picture of Jacob Rees-Mogg sprang to mind. Right up his Victorian street is a watch that chimes on the wrist.

Funk

26,917 posts

226 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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Yex GTR said:
As soon as I read "chiming movement" a picture of Jacob Rees-Mogg sprang to mind. Right up his Victorian street is a watch that chimes on the wrist.
I'll never forget someone describing him as a 'haunted pencil'.

He's such a , faux-posh and stuck in the 1950s when the rest of the world's evolved.

Edited by Funk on Monday 15th May 19:25

Doofus

31,392 posts

190 months

Monday 15th May 2023
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He's fifty-three, and that's not what this thread is about.