Nerd
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- Joined: 15 Jun 2014, 12:44
- Location: The Royal County of Berkshire, UK. Where the Queen of England Lives :)
Hi Everyone.
Ok, where to start. Well, It was the late 70's and I was about 10 years old and a big fan of the Bionic man. Well, they only went and released a Bionic man watch, it was LED and I was bought it by my grandmother. I loved it, it was so cool, and utter rubbish as it never kept time. A friend in School had a Casio LCD and each day we'd compare the time and laugh at how horribly inaccurate my watch was. [note to self] hey, perhaps my watch was correct and his was wrong!! [/]
So, fast forward a couple of years and I decided to take it apart to check out the space age internals and the result of that wasn't good for the watch. It died.
Moving forward, a few months ago and I just happened to search for Bionic man watch on Ebay and apart from seeing the crazy prices broken ones were selling for ($200+), I chanced upon the Pulsar P2, two in fact. an early P2 and a Date II P2. It was Love at first sight . Both were immaculate and complete and very expensive!!. Anyway, I ended up buying both and then proceeded to buy two more P2's (inc a cheaper one for wearing every day) , along with a P3, a big time P4 and now a P4 classic currently being shipped from the US.
And I love them all.
It's not all good news however, I found my initial expensive P2 was gaining a minute a day so i sent it to the USA for repair plus I purchased a new 'modern' module to go with it from the same repairer, I paid up front too. Sadly, I've not even had a 'Your watch has arrived safely' email (which it has, weeks ago) and he hasn't replied to my emails or message sent via Ebay so as you can imagine, I feel like an idiot who's been conned, or at least I did until I found out that 'Bruce' Weggman frequents this forum and knows his stuff. Can I have an update then Bruce?
and to everyone else, Hello
I'll post a family shot of my Pulsars soon and when I get my P2 back from Bruce, I'll send some pictures of that one too.
Neil
Ok, where to start. Well, It was the late 70's and I was about 10 years old and a big fan of the Bionic man. Well, they only went and released a Bionic man watch, it was LED and I was bought it by my grandmother. I loved it, it was so cool, and utter rubbish as it never kept time. A friend in School had a Casio LCD and each day we'd compare the time and laugh at how horribly inaccurate my watch was. [note to self] hey, perhaps my watch was correct and his was wrong!! [/]
So, fast forward a couple of years and I decided to take it apart to check out the space age internals and the result of that wasn't good for the watch. It died.
Moving forward, a few months ago and I just happened to search for Bionic man watch on Ebay and apart from seeing the crazy prices broken ones were selling for ($200+), I chanced upon the Pulsar P2, two in fact. an early P2 and a Date II P2. It was Love at first sight . Both were immaculate and complete and very expensive!!. Anyway, I ended up buying both and then proceeded to buy two more P2's (inc a cheaper one for wearing every day) , along with a P3, a big time P4 and now a P4 classic currently being shipped from the US.
And I love them all.
It's not all good news however, I found my initial expensive P2 was gaining a minute a day so i sent it to the USA for repair plus I purchased a new 'modern' module to go with it from the same repairer, I paid up front too. Sadly, I've not even had a 'Your watch has arrived safely' email (which it has, weeks ago) and he hasn't replied to my emails or message sent via Ebay so as you can imagine, I feel like an idiot who's been conned, or at least I did until I found out that 'Bruce' Weggman frequents this forum and knows his stuff. Can I have an update then Bruce?
and to everyone else, Hello
I'll post a family shot of my Pulsars soon and when I get my P2 back from Bruce, I'll send some pictures of that one too.
Neil
Last edited by Retroriley on 15 Oct 2014, 12:52, edited 3 times in total.