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Old 3 October 2009, 09:37 PM   #31
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I also work at a hospital, but in surgery. It is a small, rural hospital, and I have only seen one other Rolex there besides mine. It was a vintage, beat-up DJ that is the daily watch of the head Pathologist. I have worked there for 8 years, and there are no other Rolexes at this facility besides my collection and the Pathologist's watch.

I guess that one of the OBGYN's had a Folex for a while. It was brought to him by one of the other doctors from a trip to the Philippines. It lasted for less than 6 months.
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Old 3 October 2009, 09:52 PM   #32
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I guess that one of the OBGYN's had a Folex for a while. It was brought to him by one of the other doctors from a trip to the Philippines. It lasted for less than 6 months.
...as long as he didn't lose it on the job...
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Old 3 October 2009, 09:57 PM   #33
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...as long as he didn't lose it on the job...
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Old 4 October 2009, 01:29 AM   #34
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Work in midtown NYC. Around 70+ employees at my location. I would say at least 40 have some sort of Rolex. Mostly Subs and datejusts but Noticed a president or 2. There are 3 brietlings that I know of and 6 Panerais or so. In the crowd - there is only 1 other with a Daytona...
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Old 4 October 2009, 09:35 AM   #35
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No thanks I'm good. Do you guys do many femoral closures? Angioseal? Starclose?
yes? I do all three, Angioseal, Starclose, and Perclose. I deploy Angioseal mostly, but I like Perclose due to primary healing.
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Old 4 October 2009, 10:12 AM   #36
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I work at a local Mercedes-Benz,Volvo dealership with 20 personnel and I have my TT DJ and another salesman has a TT GMT II.

You would "think" there would be more huh.....

Now my clients on the other hand.....I see many daily.
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Old 4 October 2009, 10:37 AM   #37
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I work with a bunch of boot licking toadys / sub atomic automatons.

The one cool guy has an Omega Planet Ocean - and our SVP a Tag.

Zero Rolexes. My Sub Date makes only one.
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Old 4 October 2009, 10:48 AM   #38
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Old 4 October 2009, 10:59 AM   #39
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I have a SS Datejust and an SS Sub, my boss has a gold DJ, a Patek and a Vacheron.
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Old 4 October 2009, 11:09 AM   #40
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Another classic & entertaining thread on the TRF

Work in a 2 Person Office where the constantly revolving door has presently deposited about 6.5 Rolex Watches on a semi-permanent basis (constantly revolving remember) while the most represented Marque is Seiko. Of all the visitors here I could say Rolex would be maybe the most commonly carried brand... if not the most then that's what most wish they had.


Wow - guess you want the bosses job!!

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Old 4 October 2009, 11:26 AM   #41
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Also work in NYC in a large corp office (not finance) - 8,000 employees or so.
I've seen 4 rolexes in my building. The CIO has a President (WG I think), there's a few consultants wearing subs, and I have my watches which I rotate.

Most of the watches are Tags, Omega, Hamilton, and I saw B&R. One of the head sales people had a Mont Blanc. But mostly some variant of a Tag or Omega.

A lot of the young kids (interns and recent college grads) are wearing Casio's. I see a few g-shocks, and the girls wear baby-g's.

All the older women however have standardized on some variant of a Cartier Tank, or I'm starting to see more Chanel Ceramic watches (black).

Anyway... :-)
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Old 4 October 2009, 11:34 AM   #42
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Our President / CEO has a YG Presidents DJ, 2 TT DJ (jubilee and Oyster)

and I'm next with a SS Daytona and Expy 2!

I like the sports watches.
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Old 4 October 2009, 09:49 PM   #43
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i have seen only a couple in hospital here...;/
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Old 4 October 2009, 10:20 PM   #44
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I work in a Cardiac Cath Lab and was just thinking of the number of Rolex's at work.
Here is a list:

Dr Q precision name in dial, name?
Dr. N ss DJ
Dr. M Exp II
Dr. Q ss DJ
Dr. L ss Daytona (zenith movement)
Dr. R ss DJ
Dr. A yg DJ with mod dial diamond's
Dr. S ss Sub, Mil LV
Dr. F yg Pres (day/date)
Rep AL ss Sub
Rep. H DJ
Rep DJ ss Sub
Rep C platy
Rep M ss GMT, platy
Rep D tt DJ
Rn A GMT II-c
Rn M tt DJ
Rn TP DJ
Rt j tt Sub
MD Relations KH tt DJ
and myself GMT II-c

23

not to mention the Ball, Breitling, Cartier, IWC, and Panerai. One MD has a folex (fake Rolex). He has had for 9 yrs. It still keep great time.

The most popular brand at work Seiko!


I started this thread becuse of the MD stealing the watch from a patient. In a code situation, it is pure adreneline. You respond first and remember later, you try to stay as calm as you can. You do what you have to with what you have to save a life. It's called the heat of the battle. I know, I've been there many times! It's what I do for a living. I do it cause I'm a adreneline junkie!
Say this doc (stated by another member) went start an Arterial line in his radial to draw a blood gas, or an ordinary IV in his wrist, took the watch off and stuck it in his pocket in stead of dropping it on the floor(like everything else on a code). Let's say after you did all that you know to do and the patient still passes on. You lost the battle. You chart, dictate your report, drink some water, prepair yourself to speak to the family, get up out of your chair, put your hand in your pocket, you feel a watch, the officer on duty, comes to you and asks to search you. Remember these guy's and gals don't work a nice little 8 hr day like most! The go from the time they get there till the time they leave! 12 hrs at a time, sometimes more. You refuse to be searched cause you know you have a nice watch in your pocket, you don't want your reputation spotted, so you walk out and throw the watch out cause you know it's nice looking. In a code you don't have time to look at a watch and say, oh what a nice yellow gold Rolex day/date with diamonds you have there! We should give this MD the benefit of wrongful reacting to search, killing a patient to steal his watch? This is a hard pill for me to swallow.

I guess in the medical world, Rolex is common.
Totally agree Rob. I can't comprehend why a highly paid professional - unless they have a psychiatric condition - would risk their career & personal reputation by taking a patient's valuable with theft intent & thinking they can get away with it. As you say it doesn't make sense. So I am also inclined to think it was a horrible misunderstanding. It's like, how many millionaires feel the need to go rob a bank?

Anyway on the topic I do notice a good number of colleagues that wear Rolex or other fine manufactures. Although one senior colleague at a previous hospital wore a cheap plastic digital because he prefers looking at a digital seconds count when taking pulse rates Mind you he also drove a beat up old car to work!
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Old 4 October 2009, 10:24 PM   #45
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...as long as he didn't lose it on the job...


No, it was a real piece of crap, and it quit working.
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Old 5 October 2009, 12:42 AM   #46
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In my work place..?..Humm let me think for a second

1. Two tone quartz .................................By an Israeli
2, SS Daytona 116520..............................By a Russian
3. 18238 DD diamond bezel & Dial.............By an Argentinian
4. Sea-Dweller 16600...............................By a Uruguanio
5. Two Tone Daytona dia.dial....................By an American
6. Two Tone Sub......................................By a Persian
7. SS Turn-O-Graph..................................By an American
8. Platinum Day-Date...............................By a Greek...(me)
and one lady
9. Ladies President Dia/bez/dial.................By a Russian


Where do I work..???
Seems like the UN but ...it "ain't"....
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Old 5 October 2009, 01:09 PM   #47
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In my work place..?..Humm let me think for a second

1. Two tone quartz .................................By an Israeli
2, SS Daytona 116520..............................By a Russian
3. 18238 DD diamond bezel & Dial.............By an Argentinian
4. Sea-Dweller 16600...............................By a Uruguanio
5. Two Tone Daytona dia.dial....................By an American
6. Two Tone Sub......................................By a Persian
7. SS Turn-O-Graph..................................By an American
8. Platinum Day-Date...............................By a Greek...(me)
and one lady
9. Ladies President Dia/bez/dial.................By a Russian


Where do I work..???
Seems like the UN but ...it "ain't"....
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where do you work?
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Old 5 October 2009, 02:02 PM   #48
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There are 11 people in my dept at work, 7 wear Rolexes. Whats that? 64%?
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Old 5 October 2009, 02:04 PM   #49
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Old 5 October 2009, 02:11 PM   #50
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Old 5 October 2009, 03:24 PM   #51
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None that I've seen, but I work on a machine shop floor. I don't wear mine either, although I have worn my Tudor a few times, my daily wear is a Tag Formula 1. Not many watches at all, as there are clocks everywhere and the environment is dirty. The watch comes off when I need to do certain jobs if it's real dirty and for safety, so I don't get caught.
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Old 5 October 2009, 08:02 PM   #53
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I ve seen 1 SS Daytona, 2 DJ's, 2 Subs, my YM and around 5 Omegas and 1 Breitling(mine as well) out of 70 employees
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Old 5 October 2009, 10:34 PM   #54
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have never seen a rolex. couple tags, hamilton, movado. but that is about all i have noticed.
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yes? I do all three, Angioseal, Starclose, and Perclose. I deploy Angioseal mostly, but I like Perclose due to primary healing.
Angioseal is the quickest to deploy but I don't like the foot in the vessel.
I invented the Starclose, took it to first in man, then sold it to Abbott and they took it in another direction.
Perclose should be good for large closures especially if the percutaneous valve market takes off in 2011 or so. If TCT is any indication percutaneous valves are going to be big.
Cordis should be releasing a new closure device soon that will blow the others away.
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