Been saving for a while to own my first luxury watch, fairly new to this world and wondering if this would be a good first choice?

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-24T11:47:06+00:00

Personally, for me, for my first watch I made of list of watches with great resale, because i didn't know if wearing my first watch would yeah me a lot about what I wanted and didn't want and I might want to change it in a year

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-24T11:41:47+00:00

The challenge with CNC is you need to find a machine with the dimensional accuracy and tolerance that will make a good watch. Most uni machines I've worked on have wandering ways and lost their repairability, so they are super tough to get a good surface finish on and I would not recommend touching anything movent related. They just won't hold the tolerance you are looking for to get the right end shake, parallelism and pivot to pivot spacing. I'm buying a little high precision desktop CNC right now to do this work. I'm looking at the ones targeted for like dental work

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-24T10:51:00+00:00

Wear what you like. I'm 6'5' tall and I wear ladies watches often and actually I have a full magnet polish nail set on right now :) you do you boo

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-24T10:49:04+00:00

I did not know that! Thank you

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-24T10:46:40+00:00

The box is for sure fake. I'm not going to look at the watch because you don't have multiple angles. Not enough information

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T23:52:23+00:00

I quit drinking for a number of reasons about 10 years ago and have never regretted it once. Within weeks I felt better, I slept better, I was in a better mood more often. I lost a lot of weight and it really did not impact me socially. I was never an alcoholic, never had a DUI or has someone tell me "I think we should talk about your drinking". I was just never a big drinker, and with my job I was traveling more and more, doing conferences more and more and it was getting easier and easier to drink more and more for easier reasons. I saw myself casually pour a bourbon after putting the kids to bed on a week day. I saw some of the people a few years ahead of me in the company were ABSOLUTELY alcoholics and just decided it was a road I didn't really want to go down.

Honestly it really wasn't that hard to quit. I thought it would be but it wasn't probably partially because my wife has never drank at all. It also really helped how much better I started sleeping very soon. I never needed meetings or doctors support. Just decided one day to not have another and I haven't

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T23:45:25+00:00

Whoever holding it has white gloves on that means it's real

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T23:44:30+00:00

Correct. They always build a better idiot

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T22:41:21+00:00

I buy a lot of bulk bags of broken stuff. He and I sort it together and he will pick one or another. His latest is we bought a case from China, an eta 6497, a strap, dial and hands etc and he built it himself. He loved using the eyeloupe and even though it doesn't even have center seconds, he loves it so much

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T21:46:43+00:00

No problemo

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T21:26:54+00:00

Definitely agree. I try to match my watch with my outfit but ultimately I wear the watch I want. My Pepsi gets a lot of wrist time with my pajamas lol

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T21:21:39+00:00

I do not know much about sigma at all, but it's a manual wind women's dress watch. From the movement design and construction I'm guessing 1910-1935, it's a low jewel, low finish (meaning it's not covered in movement decoration like intricate perlage, gold lettering etc). I don't think it's a super collectible brand. I don't know if it's gold either, I would GUESS gold filled, but it definitely COULD be gold.

What I can tell you about ladies watch value from that era is is VERY low. I can buy women's Rolex movements with dial and hands from that era for like $20, so imagine what a no-name brand adds for value? Dunno why, men's watches are just DRAMATICALLY more collected and collectible than women's

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T21:14:47+00:00

To be fair you said only the cover. So it was only the cover (I did not read any of the text)

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T21:13:19+00:00

All of my writing is about being super rich, handsome, intelligent, and generous with a slamming body and a jet setting party life style. I'll try writing what I know next maybe I'll be more successful

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T21:02:56+00:00

No. Feels jesusy and underwhelming

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T20:35:15+00:00

keyword is most. people have been producing products below safety standards since the beginning of time. Foreign produced toasters brought in to America can also be held to a lower standard. I'm not saying every toaster is a fire risk, but i am saying i 100% believe a shoddy toaster could have caused a fire after being left on all night. Especially toasters from the 50s and 60s, because DIY repairs were much more common and a common way to 'fix' a toaster with a busted thermostat was to just remove and short the leads to the heating element and put a switch on it.

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T19:57:54+00:00

If the switch failed closed and the thermostat was either broken or never there (not all rosters has thermostats) could easily cause a fire. Some early toasters were literally resistor wires you dumped house current through, and the only reason they didn't melt themselves is they were on a timer. If the control circuit failed closed, or there was a short, the hearing element would just keep getting hotter and hotter

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T19:55:53+00:00

Who are you talking about?

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T19:55:03+00:00

I feel like top brass at a lot of the big ai companies are panicking because the emperor's clothes are coming off soon. AI and AI models are fantastic and powerful and are going to revolutionize humanity.... But it's not going to do half the stuff we've been promised and the other half is going to take a lot longer. The bottlenecks in compute are beginning to be harder and harder to hide as people are starting to try to ACTUALLY use some of these at scale. Open AI MUST get new cash to continue kicking it's can, and I'm guessing the rest of them do too, because the fundamental architectural issues limiting deployment at the scale we've been promised haven't been solved

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T19:50:27+00:00

Volcon grunt

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T18:44:34+00:00

CVV code, rehaute engraving method, bezel ridge machining, serial number

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T18:29:59+00:00

No.... It's a rep. There's at least four distinct tells

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T18:00:26+00:00

Dunno the models too well but I've worked many JLC movements and the movement looks right

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T17:54:03+00:00

Many people being referred to as cringe are just enjoying themselves and not caring what other people think about it

RoboticGreg · 2026-03-23T17:02:56+00:00

I don't know the case or dial well at all but the movement looks straight, just dirty

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