How much would you/have you paid for a watch?

As the Lunar Module was used in a fairly novel manner during the mission:

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Towing fees
Grumman Aerospace Corporation, the builder of the LM, issued an invoice for $312,421.24 to North American Rockwell,[15] the builder of the CM module, for "towing" the crippled ship most of the way to the Moon and back. The invoice was drawn up as a gag following Apollo 13's successful splashdown by one of the pilots for Grumman, Sam Greenberg. He had earlier helped with the strategy for rerouting power from the LM to the crippled CM. The invoice included a 20% commercial discount, as well as a further 2% discount if North American were to pay in cash. North American politely declined payment, noting that they had ferried Grumman LMs to the Moon on three previous occasions with no such reciprocal charges.

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No closer to a timepiece.

And its getting out of control. I am now obsessively checking out the watches of everyone I met. Scary. They probably think I'm planning to mug them, based on the net worth of their wristwatch - I am going to go to Hell because of this....

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@Mr Stillwater,

I thought you might like to know, Mr Stillwater, that I own no less than 18 watches. (Really.) I don't quite know how this state of affairs came about ... I just kept seeing watches I liked & bought them! Actually, I decided quite a while ago that, given that I worked in messy jobs (with paint & clay & inks, splashing water around, etc) that an expensive watch was most likely not going to last too long. So I bought a variety of cheapies instead. They seem to happily survive no matter what sort of tough treatment they receive & I don't have to worry too much about any damage that might occur. Only setback: Daylight saving change-over time, then changing back to "normal" time again, later on. It's a helluva job!

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@Mr Stillwater,

I have three watches. One doesn't really count. It is an old fashioned watch that I inherited from my mother with a couple of small diamonds on it, and a rope band. I am not sure that it even works.

For the last 25+ years, I have been buying Seikos. Basically, I buy the same watch, the only difference being a slight change in the band, as new models come out.

I wait until there is a good sale (If it is 50% off, I jump). Right now I have two of practically the same watch. One is all gold color, while the other is of a gold/ silver mixture.

http://www.princetonwatches.com/shop/SWZ058.asp

I like to pay no more than $150- for a watch, and wear it until it dies.

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@Phoenix32890,

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For the last 25+ years, I have been buying Seikos.

I am glad to hear it. If you confessed to shop-lifting Seikos for 25 years I would have to report this activity. You would have ended up doing time! Ba-boom!

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@Mr Stillwater,

Stilly..

my watch died earlier this year. Because I needed a watch at the time, I splashed out on a $40 man's watch (I need the large face because I'm as blind as a bat!) - which goes, and tells the time.

For my birthday a cuppla weeks later, someone gave me an extremely elegant watch (bit out of place on me, let me tell ya!)

You're welcome to my other one! Because I'm a caring, sharing person it's yours, free of charge!

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@margo,

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You're welcome to my other one! Because I'm a caring, sharing person it's yours, free of charge!

Well, I am touched! That is because I use very cheap internet cafes.

I tell you what.. gather up a largish collection of watches. Don't be afraid to remove them off the wrists of their 'owners' or liberate them from shopfronts. Send them to "Stillwater's House of Pre-loved Timepieces and Erotic Cake Emporium*" and I'll pocket the proceeds..... did I say that? I meant, make a choice of them and send the rest back to... yeah..

*

http://www.laughinghens.com/media/Image/Cakes/Breasts.jpg

NB Jacquie came round and modelled for the cake. When she was getting dressed she asked how much it was to do a job like mine. I told her, "$3.95 an hour". She said, "That's not much". I said, "It's all I can afford".

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@margo,

I have been known to buy the mens' watch instead of the womens' for the same reason, margo... also, sometimes I like the look of them better too.

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@Mr Stillwater,

The watch I'm offering you is totally devoid of style and/or panache...............

And I have a whole lot of others that don't/won't/can't go - you're welcome to them, as well!

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@margo,

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The watch I'm offering you ..

K or L cup? Me and P-dog have a bet going....

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@Mr Stillwater,

in your cups, you mean!

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@margo,

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in your cups

Moi! Would a man of impeachable integrity go out and get drunk, look at ladies with (ahem) large racks and in an alcoholic haze manage to propose to all the single women on A2K? Moi?

Please check the threads Margo, I think I just exactly did that... the wabbit is going to kill me...

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@Mr Stillwater,

Hmmmm

You said we were all too old or too wabbity! Except Lil K - or was it Bethie?

Yeah- there's a chance the wabbit will get you.

I'm heading to Addy-laid in a cuppla weeks. Might be able to do something for you...or not!

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@Mr Stillwater,

You didn't mean it about the tamarind and passion in Vegas?

<runs away sobbing>

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@ehBeth,

I thought it was a bit unclear about whom he was speaking.

It could be you - or you could be so lucky - and it's K!

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http://images.cafepress.com/product/50448056v3_350x350_Front.jpg

I am so dead....

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In a bizarre twist of fate, my own mother has asked me to buy my father a watch for Xmas! We aren't looking in the $4000+ bracket. At least I know where to go now.....

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Yesterday I bought this for my shawty as part of her Christmas present. Some time ago she mused that she might like a "watch that looks like a man's watch." The challenge was, to make the "women's men's watch" look unmistakably feminine, manufacturers like to add tons of crystals to the dial. My sweetheart, modest girl she is, probably wouldn't wear anything remotely glittery.

I think this will do. It's practical. It's a Fossil.

http://s7ondemand7.scene7.com/is/image/FossilPartners/ES1793_main?$fossil_pdpdetail$

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@Gargamel,

I was routing around for a different thread, but found this one.

Anyway. Now I have questions.

Eoe, did you ever have occasion to wear your mama’s rhinestone watch?

Gargamel, did your shawty love her present? I'd wear that in a minute.

Stilly, are you still around? What did you get for your dad?

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