WHat are the benefits from joining?

my brother went to the shop recommended by sifu here in bsc price for a 114060 sub c is 21k

also the price i was quoted for the GS is in bangkok as i work here. its in emporium shopping mall in sukhumvit to be more specific. im really poisoned by the spring drive movement but ive decided i should get a rollie first for my first grail watch.so for tourists you get a final 6 percent vat refund at the airport. really tempting at this price

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Added on November 22, 2012, 12:15 am
does it mean that the non cosc sub is not as accurate as the current model?

It has arrived!!!!!
Finally!!!!

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first pic... not even date and time set yet...

what are the big 3?

Sorry of being attention whore. Anyone can try to suggest some nice watch in budget range of 8-12k?

I am mid 30, mainly to wear to work and casual dinner. Don't have many big formal event to attend to.

Currently with a Tissot sports watch, still look nice but sort of got bored liao

I'm sorry to have to say this, but if your number one priority when buying a mechanical watch is "accuracy", you're buying it for the wrong reason.

Especially when the title of "most accurate" is awarded by a voluntary entry competition that most manufactures don't even bother to enter - only 19 participants out of ALL the watchmakers in the world entered in Tissot's category - "business" - classic.

Buying the "most accurate" mechanical watch as per COSC is (to reuse your analogy) like buying the "fastest" horse drawn buggy in a 5 buggy race at your state fair. It's an exercise in pointlessness.

You buy a horse drawn buggy as opposed to a Ford Focus not because you're interested in speed as determined by fundamentally flawed competitions, but because you're interested in the view you get when you slow down, and the horse drawn buggy experience.

You buy, or at least should buy, a mechanical watch for a host of other reasons that should be at least as important as accuracy - respect for the tradition of mechanical watches, a fascination with mechanical objects that are relatively accurate despite everything you know about physics saying that they shouldn't, a respect for the watchmakers' skill, the successful marriage of art to craft when a movement is finely finished, etc.