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My thoughts exactly sir!
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Devon watches - Incredible innovation or flatter to deceive?
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My thoughts exactly sir!
What do you mean by 'evocative', may I ask? What exactly do they evoke in you?
The Fifth Column
Retired ex-cop
My everyday watch is a Citizen WR200 eco-drive. It keeps time automatically via radio signal and is big and chunky, I love it. I've also got a Franck Muller Havana which was handed down to me and worth a few grand I imagine, I don't ever wear it though as it isn't to my liking:
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I'd quite like to sell it as its just sitting in a drawer but it has no box or papers so I've no idea who to or where to try and sell it?? Any ideas?
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I'd quite like to sell it as its just sitting in a drawer but it has no box or papers so I've no idea who to or where to try and sell it?? Any ideas?
I've got one of these boys too, cost me £55 off a mate a few years back - it wax a present from his ex-wife and apparently held bad memories for him. Lovely watch but costs an arm and a leg getting it serviced.
Grizz
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They evoke memories of childhood, rummaging through my Grandad's garage where anything slightly useful would be kept in a separate box just in case it was needed. He constantly tinkered with old bits of machinery and those watches are the kind of thing I think he would've come up with if he had to just use bits from his garage. They're different, a new take on how a watch should look and work and even if you think they're hideous you have to admire the imagination behind them. Always nice to see something original.
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And I'll add... 6k on a watch? 6 bloody k? Piss off!
Going back to the original question a watch telling the time does not strike me as innovative. So, flatter to deceive must be the answer.
From the picture, it doesn't look flatter than a normal watch, though. Quite the opposite. So neither innovative nor flatter I'd say.
Randsta
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I've got a great casio from Argos ... and it's got a calculator!!!
withdeanwombat
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I have a Soki Gnok Gnik eBay special. The watch weighed in at £1.50, though a new strap cost £3.50. Glows in the dark, tells me time to the second, and the date. It also warns me NOT to leave the Amex before the final whistle.
I fabricated the last bit.
I fabricated the last bit.
JCL - the new kid in town
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is it really necessary for them to have hour and minute written next to the numbers? does that show the market they are aiming at?
Gordon Bennett
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As the watch looks like it would appeal to Premier League footballers I think the answer is Yes!!
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*Gullsworth*
My Hair is like his hair
Its American............Flashy and in your face!
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Nobody ever lost money by buying a genuine second hand Rolex. They maintain their value incredibly well. Reckon Devon watches could go either way, they look pretty funky but a bit too Franklin Mint for my liking.
grummitts gloves
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Bought a Tag Heur Aquaracer automatic for £800 in 2006. They cost a fair bit more now. Hoping mine will be worth something one day when I pass it onto junior GG.
Randsta
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And I bet it was £5,950 cheaper than the Devon
I can use the calculator function to work that out!
