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    Same watch, 2 colours?

    Ok so I have this (which I love and has become almost the default weekend watch)...

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    And after trying on the gold one, I just feel like I want it too!

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    I saw it at the airport on my last trip and at the duty free pricing its actually cheaper than what I picked up the steel one for 2 years ago. I think its a bit crazy to get it but I still want it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by KingK View Post
    Ok so I have this (which I love and has become almost the default weekend watch)...

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    And after trying on the gold one, I just feel like I want it too!

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    (Again not my pic, source here)

    I saw it at the airport on my last trip and at the duty free pricing its actually cheaper than what I picked up the steel one for 2 years ago. I think its a bit crazy to get it but I still want it!
    It’s good to have some variety in life! Off the top of my head I think I have a couple of watches with different dial colours but none with different case materials of the same model. Although I know a few people who have several square G’s and rotate them all, it’s a tempting option.


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    I've done it before. Nothing crazy about that.

    Different colour = different watch. That's a pretty much accepted axiom.
    Last edited by CFR; Jan 17, 2020 at 10:21 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KingK View Post
    I saw it at the airport on my last trip and at the duty free pricing its actually cheaper than what I picked up the steel one for 2 years ago. I think its a bit crazy to get it but I still want it!
    Gold is not for me... ... But, you're not me... So, if you like it and the duty free pricing swings it: I say go for it.
    Some people have opinions - The rest of us have taste.

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    I have black dial and white dial vintage Ses Wolfs and they are two totally different watches. If you love it in this color and you love it in that​ color, why not have both?
    Once in awhile you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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    well why not I did something similar I love a gwm 5610 I bought one cheap bout £30 ish and modded it with a lightning blue kit and then I got a gwm 5600 and did a brass mod bezel only and also a full brass mod on a dw5600 which all have the same kinda look .. I picked up another brass kit so if I find another well priced gwm 5610 will pick it up ..

    then just keep the two 5610 probably ... one brass one blue

    also done it with a ga-100 got a red camo and a arctic camo one ...

    to me in away if you found something comfortable and is use its still nice to have a change so having two different colour options gives you that choice
    “Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.”

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    I know it's basically a different watch and maybe I just wanted some people to enable me mentally!

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    It is a bit crazy....but so is this hobby. I’m considering it myself for a different watch. Go for it.
    Read my latest IWL blog entry! An Ode To Rule Breaking

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    The gold metal gshock with negative display is spectacular. That and the gold Seiko turtle (on jubilee) are pretty much peak 70s porn star. A gold Rolex or anything else is too mainstream. I think I would go the turtle but it's a close run thing. Apparently the gold finish holds up well on the gshock.
    Last edited by yokied; Jan 17, 2020 at 12:36 PM.

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    I agree, the same watch in a different color isn’t the same watch at all.


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