Owen’s missed the start, so:

My wonderful spouse is giving me a watch for my birthday. Of course she’s letting me pick it out. I’m not sure what her budget it but I’m guessing we’ll be looking in the $1,500 to $2,500 range.

I’ve alreday done some shopping, we live in a rural area, but I did go into the “big city” last month and tried on watches in that price range, and even higher.

My only points of reference for new, medium quality watches are my Seiko GMT and my Bulova Hack. Neither of these watches are in that…

Teach me about Fit and Finish

A recent thread got me to thinking about how my fellow WUS members feel about trusting new members when it comes to buying/selling watches here. I don’t buy or sell much here, maybe half a dozen times or so in ten years, so I’m interested in hearing if the members that do frequent the for sale sections would trust a brand new member who has little or no post history and no transaction history as far as a buyer/seller. Comments that support your choice are welcome!

Rationale is that the import duties and taxes would almost pay for the cost of the trip. So greatly subsidized, the trip is really worth it!

(Of course, maybe technically some countries require you to declare the watch on the way home, but what’s to prevent someone from wearing a Casio on the way out, and the luxury timepiece on the way back 😏)

For the US or Canada, I would put that X value around $5-6k. Obviously X depends on a number of factors:

• Country importing…

Revelation: If importing a watch worth over $X, then may as well take a trip to the seller’s country