With six adults, KettleJnr2 and a large and not particularly happy chocolate lab, yep.
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Looks like you had a good seat!
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Yes front row middle circle, I would deffo go again but something darker next time , I found my self just drifting into the voices all without microphones, the sound was just awesome at times
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Spent most of the day in town.
First this
What a body of work! 10/10 would recommend.
Then Bucherer watch tyre-kicking. Cartier Santos Dumont in “honey” gold manual wind. Not pictured.
Lunch at Mowgli
Very good. That will be another handy one to have in my back pocket for visiting friends.
Time + Tide for more tyre kicking.
Nivada Grenchen was cheaper and much nicer in the hand that I expected.
38mm Depthmaster for madam
and Chronoking manual for Sir
The Studio Underd0g wasn’t as nice as I’d thought, and was more expensive than I thought so I’ll be swerving the single button chrono even though it’s a single button chrono.
Finally Selfridges where as I walked I thought the scrum was around the Bucherer certified pre-owned but of course it was actually Rolex 
Still sniffing around a Blancpain (other than the Swatch)
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The wifely advice was that the Cartier, Nivada Grenchen and Blancpain put together would still cost less than the Patek I was looking at a few days ago 
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Yes, but Patek.
Exactly. Buy once. Buy right.
Thing is, I’ve yet to find a Patek I love enough to drop serious money on. Or a Vacheron or AP, tbh. They all frankly either rather dull, or way, way, way out of my price range.
The holy trinity are very conservative and I think there are more interesting options. For me watch purchase should be about the heart not the head.
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That chronoking is excellent….
Reminds me of Ollech & Wjas Selectron ….
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The Universal Genieve “Nina Rindt” chrono is the coolest …named after Jocken’s missus ….she was hot …. Now stupid money of course.
I love it when the room warms up; the audience and orchestra are concentrating on their work, and there’s still that live frisson that it could all go wrong, there are no retakes.
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You are right. Or at least I agree, if that’s a better way to put it.
Buy once and buy right means (for example) don’t get a Tudor when you really want a Rolex.
You will end up losing money on the first watch and still getting the second. Because it’s what you want.
Yes,you can get three others for the price, but that’s three things that aren’t quite what you really wanted.
My comment was more to Guy, not to compromise.
I did rather like the 1960s moon phase Patek that got auctioned off from David Lynch’s estate but that went for $80k
Prices went nuts for his stuff in that auction. Someone paid 45k for a 3k La Marzocco espresso machine, and James Hoffman paid nearly 2k for a properly shitty electric mokka pot thing..
27% fees on everything too 
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I can see the appeal to some mindsets, but sometimes the journey is more important than the destination. I really enjoyed my feeding frenzy of midfield and downright plebeian watches, I’ve ended up with a bunch of stuff I never imagined even existed when I started 6 years ago, and I have completely ditched the idiotic notion of a ‘grail’ - stuff & nonsense! Each to their own of course, but for me, acting as my own accountant about every purchase would have fun-vampired every drop of joy out of the process.
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Same with any hobby / obsession, imo.
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That just suggests you never had a “want” to rule them all.
I have a more fixated view of things where I will spend ages beating around the bush, but will almost always end up back at the big one.
Yep, I don’t see the fascination or even enjoyment, in that, at all. Enjoying what you buy is where it’s at.
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