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Old 24 February 2020, 04:12 AM   #1
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Just received this blue 8900 AT a couple days ago. I’ve got to say it’s my favorite watch in rotation already. Normally I’m already thinking about the next piece to get. But after this one I may be able to finally save money and wait a couple years before a new purchase.

It arrived just 1 week after the Grand Seiko SBGR307 pictured next to it. They are both beautiful watches and almost identical twins except for dial color. Now all I am missing is the black explorer 1 haha. The AT has been beating the GS on accuracy by about 1spd. But the GS is just their automatic 9S68. Which is a good movement but not their spring drive or hi-beat.

Now I’m already feeling guilty and compelled to sell some of my watches at sizable losses just because I will be wearing this one quite a bit I sense.
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Old 24 February 2020, 09:00 AM   #2
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Nice watch!
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Old 24 February 2020, 09:28 AM   #3
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The AT 8900 is an amazing watch. A real sleeper hit. Congrats on a wonderful purchase.
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Old 24 February 2020, 10:35 AM   #4
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Congrats on the new piece. I too got hooked on the 8900 and was forced to purchase one.

Currently gets the most wrist time out of the collection.
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Old 24 February 2020, 11:07 AM   #5
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Well done. Love blue in a watch!
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Old 24 February 2020, 11:31 AM   #6
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Very nice! Congrats and wear it in the best of health!
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Old 24 February 2020, 01:45 PM   #7
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Old 24 February 2020, 03:42 PM   #8
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Suits your wrist perfectly. Congrats on your pick


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Old 24 February 2020, 06:50 PM   #9
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What you going to sell at incredible loses? Congratulations on your purchases.

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Old 24 February 2020, 09:15 PM   #10
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Old 24 February 2020, 10:36 PM   #11
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Enjoy it! I traded an Aqua Terra about 7 years ago, missed it, bought another one recently.
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Old 25 February 2020, 02:00 AM   #12
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What you going to sell at incredible loses? Congratulations on your purchases.

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Thanks everybody! I’m excited.

When I talk about huge losses, I’m not talking huge money, but percentage wise I’d be lucky if I got 50% of what I paid for them back. Especially since a lot of em are $600-1000 dollar watches that will probably be harder to sell since I don’t know of any outlets to sell through. I’m new at this. I didn’t wear a watch at all as recently as less than a year ago. Now I’ve got 13 watches and would ideally want to get down to 5.

The below watches are, from top left to top right and then bottom left to bottom right:

-Steinhart Ocean Titanium 500 GMT (keep)
-Hamilton Jazzmaster Open Heart (sell)
-Breitling SuperOcean 44 (sell)
-Steinhart Marine-Officer Beige (sell)
-Omega AT (keep)
-Steinhart Ocean one 42 black DLC MOP (sell)
-Seiko SSC445 (keep, since it’s so cheap it wouldn’t be worth selling/ but open to selling)
-Filippo Loretti Okeanos (keep, for same reason as above plus to have some quartz for golfing)
-Tissot Tradition Quartz (sell)
-Orient Bambino (keep, too cheap/but open to sell)
-Omega Speedmaster hesalite (keep)
-Laco Venedig (keep)
-Grand Seiko SBGR307 (keep)
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