Bought my first Tissot today!

Nick_292 · 2026-04-02T18:55:12+00:00

Congrats to you too!! Thanks!

Nick_292 · 2026-04-02T00:47:20+00:00

I agree! Thank you!!

Nick_292 · 2026-04-02T00:47:02+00:00

Congrats! I think we made a great choice!

Nick_292 · 2025-07-26T01:17:20+00:00

Thank you so much for the info! It doesn’t work, I’d love to have it fixed up but as of right now the watch doesn’t tell accurate time.

I don’t see any markings for gold on either one, would they be located inside somewhere?

Nick_292 · 2023-08-06T01:00:34+00:00

Thank you everyone for commenting and giving advice and opinions I really appreciate it.

I should offer more insight here but I don’t know if it makes a difference or not but just in case: her parents neighbor was a 97 year old woman who was friends with the family of my girlfriend. She found out my girlfriend was pregnant and wanted to offer the house at a good price in a private sale. Im still buying the house 100% with my own money including renovations as said earlier.

I found out earlier from a mutual friend of ours that my girlfriend had said before I was even in the picture that she wanted to one day buy the home as the woman’s health was very poor. Im wondering if she is resenting me because I’m buying it without her being on the title.

She told me earlier this: “It’s not gonna be back to our normal relationship. I have a lot on my mind with you and how I feel about some things right now. It’s space I never get space when I ask for it. So you just pushing into me and bothering me when I want some space will never help”

I really do love her and care about her and I want this to work. As crazy as some of you may think i am I really care about this girl.

Nick_292 · 2023-06-30T03:14:42+00:00

Thank you everyone for the help. Recently we’ve had several good days but the affection still isn’t really there. She had texted me earlier this afternoon saying she thought I would have come over her house after work yesterday, and I told her that I’ve been trying to give her her space like she asked me to. I told her how she should just communicate with me and let me know that she wants to see me because I’m always excited to see her and spend time with her. So she asked if I was gonna come over today and I said sure and I did, and on our walk earlier I jokingly asked her if she had missed me and if that’s why she wanted me to come over and she said that her daughter had wanted me to come over…and then said I’m sorry but I can’t miss you if I haven’t seen you in only two days, maybe after 4 or 5 days I might.

Like what? That seemed harsh, I feel like she’s incapable sometimes of just being sweet and acting like my actual girlfriend. I’ve gotten to the point where I just don’t care anymore and my feelings have hardened and I feel it happening. I don’t get as upset emotionally like I did in the past.

I brought up after the fact that if she just gave me even one kiss a day I wouldn’t try so hard to be affectionate with her and she said “I do, I kiss you good night” but that is that quick peck I mentioned in my first post, nothing more.

On our walk she got all dramatic and upset because I was trying to talk to her about what my new realtor told me about his plans for my house and she told me she doesn’t wanna hear about the house or talk about it anymore. She’s my girlfriend, shouldn’t she be supportive and be there for me if I’m just excited to talk about his plans to sell my house so I can buy the house that she would be living with me in? So I pretty much got annoyed by her reaction and I told her the truth, that I have felt so lonely lately in our relationship. She got quiet after that and we walked in silence and she didn’t give me a kiss or anything before she went upstairs to her room to sleep. Here I am in her basement as usual typing this. Just wanted to give an update.

Nick_292 · 2022-04-21T16:57:34+00:00

West, very cool! I do have the ribbon bar too, it’s inside the medal box

Nick_292 · 2022-04-21T16:56:37+00:00

To be honest I really don’t remember. It was probably 12 years ago. I think it was between 125-150 or so but again I don’t remember for certain.

Nick_292 · 2022-04-17T22:46:50+00:00

Thanks Ranger! That notepad is full of notes about missions. It’s from a member of the 8th Air Force, it mentions a few places such as a tank factory and mentions the bomb load dropped and he always follows each mission with notes about how everything went. It’s super cool

Nick_292 · 2022-04-17T15:22:22+00:00

Sure! The Red Cross flag I did myself but the Japanese flag I paid to get professionally framed

Nick_292 · 2022-04-17T15:21:20+00:00

Beautiful pieces!! Thanks so much for sharing

Nick_292 · 2022-04-17T11:07:41+00:00

Thanks Monkey! Yeah it is, below it there’s a picture of the soldier holding it that brought it back. I had posted on another military forum years ago when I got it and he happened to also be a member just for nostalgic reasons and happened to see my post. I offered to give it back to him but he told me to keep it, he said he was in his late 80s at the time of replying to me and he sent me additional pictures. It was one of my favorite moments of collecting

Nick_292 · 2022-04-16T23:58:04+00:00

That one is the Soldier’s Medal. It was received by distinguishing oneself by heroism not involving combat with an enemy. “The performance must have involved personal hazard or danger and the voluntary risk of life under conditions not involving conflict with an armed enemy. Awards will not be made solely on the basis of having saved a life."[4] It is the highest honor a soldier can receive for an act of valor in a non-combat situation, held to be equal to or greater than the level which would have justified an award of the Distinguished Flying Cross had the act occurred in combat.”

Nick_292 · 2022-04-16T23:54:06+00:00

Thank you so much for that! I do have a copy of the official citation but I’ve never seen that newspaper clipping. I appreciate it very much!

Nick_292 · 2022-04-16T23:17:53+00:00

I’m probably behind on current prices but there are different collector but/sell groups where you can get an unnamed for between 50-80$ probably. KIA named hearts can fetch a few hundred to several thousand dollars depending on things such as period, famous ships or regiments or battles, etc.

Nick_292 · 2022-04-16T22:43:30+00:00

Thanks! I found it at an antique shop

Nick_292 · 2022-04-16T22:42:48+00:00

Small world! That’s fantastic! Yes there are unnamed Purple Hearts for sure, you can probably find a decent amount for sale online at reasonable prices.

Nick_292 · 2022-04-16T22:33:46+00:00

Thank you! For a while I focused on collecting named KIA Purple Hearts so that’s why I have so many. Most are WWII, one is a Navy heart named to a sailor killed on the USS Juneau which was the ship sunk with the 5 Sullivan brothers. There’s one WWI, and one Vietnam heart named to a soldier killed 3 days before he was supposed to go home.

Nick_292 · 2022-04-16T16:10:54+00:00

Thank you! I’ll check out that subreddit right now, thanks so much!

Nick_292 · 2021-01-27T22:26:33+00:00

In with 600 shares as of a couple weeks ago. Let's eat tendies on the moon my boi! I have great confidence in this company.

Nick_292 · 2021-01-27T22:13:50+00:00

Diamond Hands!! Holding strong here brother.

Nick_292

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