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"TRF" Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Real Name: Jason
Location: USA
Watch: Rolex/Tudor Divers
Posts: 7,973
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!!!!GRAIL Has Arrived!!!!
Please bear with me as I tell a little backstory.
If you would have told me that I would own this watch at this time 2 years ago, I would have laughed at you. I didn't think that I would ever been in a financial position to buy one. Funny enough, I lost my job a week before Christmas in 2016. I am a CRNA and I had owned my own business providing 24/7 anesthesia coverage for a small hospital and employed 2 CRNAs. I had done such at the same facility FOR 16 YEARS!!! The hospital got a new administrator, and he felt that he needed a bigger anesthesia group with more resources, so he put the contract up for bid. I lost the bid. I was DEVASTATED. Without getting into the details, there was some history with the new group coming in, and none of the 3 of us were interested in working for the incoming group. This was partly due to the fact that they were offering all of us a 20% pay cut. After being in the same job at the same facility for 16 years, I honestly wasn't sure what I was going to do. I felt that my life was over. I didn't even really know how or where to look for a job. Well, a long story short.......One of the guys that worked for me was friends with an Anesthesiologist that owns a rather large anesthesia group that runs around 50 contracts at different facilities. One day, the owner of this group called me and offered me a job with his company without even seeing my CV. We had a mutual friend with integrity and that goes a long way with some people. I went to work for this new group and was offered a promotion within 3 months. 2017 was a very good year for me, and I made around double what I had made even in my best year of being self-employed. Now, I worked very hard, but that was part of the reason I rewarded myself with this grail. Sorry to be long winded, but I just wanted to give you a bit of a backstory as to how much of a sacrifice I have made in the last 18 months. I worked between 60-70 hours per week all of last year with the exception of 1 week off to establish my value to this new company and the administration. It has paid off for me. My wife gladly consented to my reward. DavidSW is the best ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() THE Watch ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Real Name: Phil
Location: CA
Posts: 5,374
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BLING...and huge congrats!
the platona with diamond is the ultimate..enjoy
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Real Name: Neil
Location: UK
Watch: ing ships roll in
Posts: 59,304
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Wowza! You've had a good year, funny how TRF somehow makes people get luckier or richer!
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Real Name: Andrew
Location: NYC
Posts: 1,227
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Grail worthy indeed, congrats!!
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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Canada
Posts: 602
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omg!!!! amazing story!! love it!! huge congrats!! now take those stickers off and go drive by the old job site where the group that offered you a 20% paycut is having lunch and stick out that middle finger to them..... i am sure you can guess which arm i advise you to use when sticking up that middle finger!!!
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Real Name: MJC
Location: PHL USA
Watch: IWC, Rolex, AP
Posts: 29,232
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Sounds like you’re crushing it! Everything happens for a reason, right? Well done!
Oh, the Daytona is gorgeous too! Big congrats! All the best ![]()
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Miami, FL
Watch: Tudor & Cartier
Posts: 2,499
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Congrats on your hard work and achievements! Also, that watch is exquisite!
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Europe
Posts: 320
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WOOOWWWWWW!!!!
That is the ULTIMATE grail! Thank you for your background story. Sometimes those devastating changes are the best, well in your case it did. Enjoy it in good health sir! |
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: USA
Watch: GMT Master 16750
Posts: 793
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Now that is a great reward! Congrats!
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Real Name: OT
Location: Bay Area, CA
Watch: Daytona 116500LN
Posts: 489
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Congratulations on the hard work and the incoming! Wow to both things!!
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: _
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Oooooooh.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Real Name: Yannis
Location: Europe
Watch: maniac
Posts: 9,070
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Big big congrats man!!!
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Real Name: Galen
Location: SG / HK
Watch: Lange / Rolex
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Well done! Huge congrats!
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Real Name: Rob
Location: Parrish fl.
Watch: Tt datejust 16233
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Beautiful! Congrats Jason!!
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Georgia
Posts: 6,192
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Congrats!!!
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Real Name: Alex
Location: California
Watch: Changes daily
Posts: 410
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Hard work pays off! A great story and a great watch! Wear it in good health!
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: YVR
Watch: Time Only
Posts: 2,332
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Huge congrats! Well deserved!
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Miami
Posts: 1,667
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OMG I was totally wrong. What a freakin way to ring in the Summer!
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Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Los Angeles
Watch: Netflix
Posts: 3,977
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I remember when I used to drive down the 605 and 710 freeway I would see the Platona on Bhindi billboards.
What a beautiful watch, but how could I ever afford one? Funny how time and good karma can change things :) Congratulations on a well deserved trophy! |
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Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Mobile, AL
Watch: BLNR
Posts: 746
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Great story and great watch! Huge congrats!!!
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Chicago
Watch: Daytona
Posts: 5,416
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That's a great story and an equally great watch!
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Texas
Posts: 41
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That is a BEAUTIFUL watch! I am so in love with that ice blue dial on the platinum pieces. It sounds like you have worked incredibly hard and have earned such a grail. Congrats my friend!
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Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: USA
Watch: PP, AP, Rolex
Posts: 352
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HUGE congrats!!! you earned it. It's indeed a grail! the king of all daytona
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Earth
Posts: 264
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Huge congrats,
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Real Name: Sam
Location: UK
Watch: AP ☠️
Posts: 6,151
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You put the work in you get the reward!
Well done and much deserved, enjoy it ![]() |
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Join Date: May 2017
Location: Atlanta
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Awesome story! Congrats!
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Real Name: dmitrii
Location: NYC
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Big big congrats! Platona woww
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Join Date: May 2007
Real Name: Rob
Location: USA
Watch: Seiko SUN065P1
Posts: 359
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That's a inspirational story thanks for sharing. You can't really do any better than a platinum Daytona. Wow! Congratulations and continued success.
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Real Name: Steve.
Location: UK
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Fantastic!
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Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: USA
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The ultimate example of a hard-work-pays-off story. Immense congrats on this one. Very well-deserved!
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