The Magic and Charisma of Daytona

If you ask me once more, if I had money to buy just one watch for my life, no question, I would prefer Daytona... As it is durable, accurate, solid build, functional and beautiful, Massive if that is made of Gold. One drawback of Daytona is not having any Day display!

I may not like stainless steel as there are 57% of this watch in Hong Kong are fake... Gold one, if you can make fake one, I think the only choice is o for Gold plating say 20 microns.... that is a high cost for them to back off..... So 97.3% of the gold Rolex in this City is genuine! Why Not? Also I do not like Ceramic, Titanium, Alumina, and mica mixed with ceramic as the basic watch material, well, that is something cheapo abundant on earth....Only Precious metal is my favourite preference as Patinuum, Pink Gold, White Gold, yellow gold, Stainless steel.

This is a watch I just bought 2 hours ago! It is accuracte, running at +2 seconds per day on my auto winding machine... We will see how it goes on my wrist!

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Cartier Lady Watch

There is another watch from my colleagues. That is requiquired immediate restoration. She must be a lady wristler who used it for two years only, but badly worn off!
Cartier watch has its own style and fans, Especially lady's watch. This is one of my watches I like for woman,
I had a smaller one with Solid 18 KT gold....  Quartz operating.

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Gold Daytona

This is another Daytona that has been shown to me from friend of mine. has been restored in Tokyo Rolex Service centre in 2003.

Asking HKD$118,000.00

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Restored Watches

These are the two watches are proper restoration in the workshop...There is hardly noticeable that these are old watches unless you are watch expert. As they are restored by te Tudor and Cartier watchsmiths!

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Probably the most beautiful Cartier Lady Dress Watch

Well, this is a beautiful Art Deco design, elegant, slim, 18kt Pink Gold with some finely selected diamonds.....

I am sure not too many beauties can match with this kind of watch, of course, it is a limited edition. "Rare" does it mean that it is expensive? Yes... it is... very expensive!

How much? HKD$420,000.00! I am sure that I can not afford to have one... Even though I had one, donot know to whom of my SheNth should get it... She1st, She2nd, She3rd, She4th...??

Cartier has the best design from Heaven... don't care it is made with quartz movement, even though it is,  So what? Who would Care?

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Daytona TT and Solid Gold

Daytona is always one of the best sport watch, super durable, super beautiful and functionable. Attached is two of them. I had one Two Tone but I sold it to Paul in 1997. The Gold one is one of my favourite as it is massive and bling-bling! There are three favourite Sport watchs, PP Nautinus, AP Royal Oak automatic, and Daytona!

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Restoration of Watches

After using a few year to tenths of years, watch would become blurred, having scratches, slowing down as the lubricant dries and mixed with dirts. These are two watches that has been badly worn off and badly scratched...

I had take away to some of the master for restoration...and I will show you again soon after the repair.

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Seiko Ananta

This is  Seiko Show room at iSquare Right on top Tsim Sha Tsui MTR Station. I have seen more than 300 seiko Watch of different kinds. The price is ranged from a few hundred to 68,000 Hong Kong Dollar!


The above blow-up demo is the latest Ananta 5R86 calibre. Very complex AGS watch from Seiko.

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Patek Philippe Ref. 5107G.

2003 PP Ref.5109G, screw crown, Automatic, Geneve Seal Patek Philippe.

More important is that, it is built with transparent base on the White Gold case. We can always appreciate the Geneve Polishment on the parts...

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Rolex Logo Design Cuff Link

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Cartier Franciase Tank

This is a restored Cartier Tank watch, it was badly used, worn off and was chipped at the corners, the strap has a lot of scratches...


We have polished the watch, clean the mechanical calibre, and it is now perfectly restored.
This is Cartier Tank Franciase for man or woman..
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Breitling Chrono Cockpit, A watch for the Pilot

This is the watch of a UK friend Alf.... A Breitling Chrono Cockpit.

I have seen a lot of pilot wearing Breitling. Usually they are big, complicated on the dial, a lot of functions that they know me, but I do not know them..  This is a typical chrono with traditional design of placing the three indicators in the triangular shape of position.

Beautifully polished bezel and strap...good for man with a large wrist...but not for A typically stocky Chinese like me...

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Cartier Tank Santos

This is a Cartier, lady watch with a new installed Leather strap for She3rd.
This is not a pure gold version, instead this is vermeil with 925 Silver case and plated with 20 micron 18 CT Gold.
It is an elegant small watch for woman. I had another smaller one made with 18 CT Solid gold, but sold some three years ago...

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Rolex OysterQuartz

I had a Two Tone Rolex OysterQuartz some 12 years ago, It is a massive, heavy and accurate watch for your daily use.
If you do not mind the use of quartz circuit board inside the helmetically seal Oyster case to be your watch, this is your choice. It is rare as 98% of Rolex lover uses Mechanical watch movement only.
I like the case design as it is rugged and heavy duty.
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Rolex Oyster 67480

This is a 98% new Rolex 67840 I bought from friend of mine today.
Very good S/N: T83X313..
Excellent condition, slightly used only, with orginal box and Certificate. Only HKD$11,000.00

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Rolex Milgauss

A San Francisco Celebrity showed me his new bought Rolex Milgauss.
I was shocked to see that it was not a genuine Rolex...  But I had to scrutinize carefully before I told him the fact.

These are the picture I took on his watch.
The "Rolex" font is a bit not same as the original, you may compare with the Original Picture of Milgauss from Rolex Website.
The fake one does not look as shinny as the genuine one.

The above picture is the fake Rolex friend of mine bought somewhere

The Gap between Letter L and E are so close, not as the genuine one that has a bigger gap

The X of Rolex has a slimmer slash on the genuine one and the fake one has both slash of similar width

The Rolex Oyster laser making inside the bezel is not as deep and as clear as the genuine.

The hour hand and Minute hand of the fake one is too long!

The orange second number of the genuine one is locatd middle between the edge of the bezel and the Rolex Crown whereas fake one, the Numbe is loacted much closer to the Rolex Crown!

In Short good quality stuff can not be copied...

Next time when you buy Rolex, make sure you go to the authorized watch shop.

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