Who Doesn't Like a Nice Family Photo!?

[toto]

That’s what i call a collection! Very Nice!
And great shots

[AML]

Originally Posted by Chadridv

It was one of the watches shown in the photos. The clue is in the images, more specifically the lume photos.

Pepsi!

[donut]

Great collection & great photos. It’s good to meet them from time to time :D

[emersm]

Well done, thanks for sharing!

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by DocHorton

Pepsi...it's the only one that's ticking....lume streak!

Ding ding ding! Yes, you can see the length of the exposure in the second hand lume trail on the 16710. Almost all the other watches weren’t running.

Originally Posted by AML

Pepsi!

You got it!

Originally Posted by cdbeaver66

Great collection. It looks like you were wearing the Pepsi 🏻*♂️

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That’s it detective!

[EmilA]

Great collection with some variance. Some hard work gone into that, credit to you

[16610v]

Very very nice and great collection!

The plastic box is the best rolex watch box by the way:

My rolex watches collection by T C, 於 Flickr

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by superstarmar

In fact I don’t see your
Daytona on OF in any of the pics ...

Originally Posted by SC11

Great collection and know you recently changed the black to white SS Daytona but where’s the WG Daytona?! Love that one...

Thank you both! Unfortunately I traded the 116519 for the AP 15707CE. It was the toughest and easiest trade to make. First time I ever traded a watch with absolutely nothing really negative to say about it. What it came down to was the opportunity to pick up a discontinued watch that is simply not that easy to find. I figured if I didn’t take much to the diver I could always sell it and go back to the daytona, but unfortunately I couldn’t afford to own both!

I am absolutely loving the diver btw. Just incredible!

Originally Posted by PLNYC

Very nice! Don’t you have a 15400?! I could’ve sworn you did!

Thank you! I actually sold the 15400 a couple months back. Again another watch that I absolutely loved, but I was heading into my slow season. Had a couple things pop up that I could use the money for at the time, and frankly it just wasn’t getting wrist time. First sign that it’s time to go.

[rmlovett1]

Beautiful collection! Love it!

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by mrporter

Wow nice photos! Did you used extra lights? That bank sure have a nice daylight lightings :)


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I had a 3300k LED light bulb dialed down to about 1 percent for the ambient light in the lume shots, combined with an on camera flash aimed at my 8 o’clock for some softer indirect light.

For the shots without the lume, the LED bulb became insignificant and the on camera flash was still banking off the wall behind me but with the power turned up much higher.

I actually don’t normall use a tripod, but I wanted to shoot these images at a really high (small) F-stop, which meant the shutter hard to be open for a while. Non lume shots were about 6/10ths of a second, the lume shot was about a 20 second exposure.

[1William]

Great collection. You check a lot of boxes with your selections. Enjoy.

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by CPRWATCH

Great collection , which one would be the last go if you ever needed to just keep one watch, If they were mine it would be a very hard choice indeed .

Eggghhhh the question I don’t want to answer

It’s have to be the 116610LV. It’s more of a daily wearer for me than any other watch in the group. It’s been with me through a lot. It was the first Rolex I ever bought myself. It’s a submariner! It can do it all.

2 watch combo would probably be the 116610LV and 116500.

3 watch combo would be the 116610LV, 116500 and 15707CE AP Diver.

[1st amg]

Wow Chad, thanks for the gorgeous pics and update to your collection, I remember when you bought the AP a few weeks back I asked you because it seemed you acquired and disposed some....that is quite the collection, wear in good health!! Have you thought of installing a high grade safe in your home??

[Chadridv]

Originally Posted by 1st amg

Wow Chad, thanks for the gorgeous pics and update to your collection, I remember when you bought the AP a few weeks back I asked you because it seemed you acquired and disposed some....that is quite the collection, wear in good health!! Have you thought of installing a high grade safe in your home??

Thanks so much Nicholas!

Apologies if I didn't get back to you. I tend to put my efforts into shooting, I try to get reply to everyones comments, but sometimes they just get away from me.

So yeah, I have a safe in the house. I keep a smaller group (2-3) there during that rotation. Then I swap out one here and there at the bank.

I also share some watches with my dad, and he's a hardcore collector. So there are a few in the group that are literally never worn. Those obviously do not need to leave the bank. I know, i know! It's taboo around here. Not wear a Rolex!?

That's how he rolls though. He certainly has some hard use wearers, but for the most part he enjoys keeping them mint.

[AK797]

Tremendous pics Chadri as ever, and soon gotta be time for PP and Lange.

[Onequik135i]

Now that’s a hell of a nice collection, job well done.

[DoctorA]

Wow!! What an impressive collection! Congratulations!!............ but wait! Why back to the bank? Why not enjoy them??

[Etschell]

very nice.

[Speedbird-1]

Wonderful collection Chadri, very nicely photographed too.
(I'm even warming to the AP designs!)

Envy is a most unattractive trait, don't you think?
"Guilty as charged", "take him down, bailiff"

[SC11]

Originally Posted by Chadridv

Thank you both! Unfortunately I traded the 116519 for the AP 15707CE. It was the toughest and easiest trade to make. First time I ever traded a watch with absolutely nothing really negative to say about it. What it came down to was the opportunity to pick up a discontinued watch that is simply not that easy to find. I figured if I didn’t take much to the diver I could always sell it and go back to the daytona, but unfortunately I couldn’t afford to own both!

I am absolutely loving the diver btw. Just incredible!





Thank you! I actually sold the 15400 a couple months back. Again another watch that I absolutely loved, but I was heading into my slow season. Had a couple things pop up that I could use the money for at the time, and frankly it just wasn’t getting wrist time. First sign that it’s time to go.

I was worried that had been moved on and was going to moan as think it’s one of the best Daytona’s but that’s made way for one of my favourite AP Ce pieces do you are forgiven haha

[Rogdogg]

That's a great collection. Thanks for sharing with us.

[GarageBMW]

superb collection and great shot.

[Danny83]

Very nice

[fishingbear]

Great photographs of a fantastic collection!

[Amex4711]

Amazing collection, Chadri

[datejustrms]

What a great collection!

[RollieRoll]

Excellent selection! Great taste

[liuk3]

Very nice collection! Thanks for sharing.

[watchwatcher]

Nice!

[Hoboken30]

What does the bank charge you for a box?