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16 November 2011, 02:30 PM
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Back from Beijing: Great Place and Great Watch Experience!!!
Finally I am back from my trip to China. What a wonderful place!
 Here are some pictures of my trip. First, let's start with my AP ROO keeping our flight time. Wish I had more than 12 hours on that chrono as the total flight time from Chicago to Beijing was 13 hours and 11 minutes.Beijing is a wonderful city with tons of history but also with a very modern side and great architecture. Here's the Tiananmen Gate at the Forbidden City. The modern and upscale shopping area on Wangfujing Street. The best Peking Duck in all Beijing. DaDong at Jinmao Place. One of the best restaurants in Beijing. 'Huang Ting' at The Peninsula. The Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. Amazing place!!! The Olympic Park with the amazing 'Bird's Nest' stadium. The picturesque 'Summer Palace'. Sun Tung Lok, one of the few restaurants in China with three Michelin stars. Some delicacies ready to be fried and others already fried at the Wangfujing Street Food Market. These included: snake meat, seahorses, starfish, scorpions (two kinds), centipedes, tarantulas, etc. Now let's go to the topic that everyone is really interested in.  The watch market is amazing! Almost every single luxury watch brand has a beautiful boutique in the Wangfujing street area or very close to it. The exclusive boutiques that I visited included: The Rolex Experience, Rolex Boutique, Tudor Boutique, Jaeger LeCoultre, Hublot, Audemars Piguet, Tag Heuer, Rado, Vacheron Constantin, Glashüte, Carl Bucherer, Piaget, Richard Mille, Breguet, Ulysse Nardin, Omega and independent ADs that carry multiple brands. The prices in general were very high compared to the U.S. At least a 25-30% markup over U.S. Retail Prices so now I know why Chinese consumers prefer to buy their watches here in the U.S. Also tried on the new Explorer II in both black and white dials and unfortunately didn't like them at all.  Here are some pictures:
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16 November 2011, 02:35 PM
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Great Pics! Thanks for sharing. Did leave with a new watch?
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16 November 2011, 02:35 PM
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Great pics, thanks for sharing!!
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16 November 2011, 02:37 PM
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Thanks for sharing!
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16 November 2011, 02:41 PM
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Nice pictures, I hope you could enjoy this wonderful city with all his colours.
I like the city as well. Regards, Alexander |
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16 November 2011, 03:01 PM
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Awesome pics, thanks
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16 November 2011, 03:30 PM
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Great photos.
And did you try a scorpion-on-a-stick? Good eatin' for sure. |
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16 November 2011, 03:33 PM
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Wonderful pics. Thanks.
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16 November 2011, 03:43 PM
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Happy to hear u had a great time, and didn't let some of the lesser educated forum members discourage u from wearing your watch in CHina. China is really wonderful
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16 November 2011, 03:50 PM
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Great time thanks for sharing, I was there, Nan Jing and Fu Zhou last year.
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16 November 2011, 04:25 PM
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do people speak English? Are street signs in English so a tourist would be able to get around on his or her own?
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16 November 2011, 05:39 PM
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Wow awesome.
First time I have seen a Tudor Boutique, and that next door and styled like Rolex. How very cool. Many thanks for the pictures. |
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16 November 2011, 05:49 PM
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Thanks for the great pics.
Looks like capitalisim has definitely arrived in China. |
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16 November 2011, 05:50 PM
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Yeah I was there 2 years ago, and the peking duck was to die for. The watches was alright too
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16 November 2011, 06:05 PM
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Sounds like you had a great time, did you manage to find your way to Sunlitun? Nice place to eat/drink and watch the world go by, also a few new high end watch boutiques...
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16 November 2011, 08:18 PM
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Great pics!
And you already know I love that classic blue Offshore!
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16 November 2011, 08:23 PM
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Thanks for sharing a great trip and great pics!
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16 November 2011, 08:28 PM
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Fantastic pics of an incredible place to visit
Thanks for sharing
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16 November 2011, 08:30 PM
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Sweet pics. Thanks for sharing.
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16 November 2011, 08:35 PM
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Great pics, looks like an amazing place to go if your lotto numbers come up!
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16 November 2011, 08:48 PM
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I like the picture with the 24hr Mc Donalds next to a line up of Swiss watch retailers.
American fast food and Swiss precision all coming together in China. I wonder what what tricky Dick would think? |
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16 November 2011, 10:36 PM
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Wonderful pic..glad u enjoy the place and food...is that sweet and sour pork i see in one of the photo...I craving for it
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16 November 2011, 11:16 PM
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next time im in beijing, i should go to wangfujing and check out the place. shouldve booked my ticket together with my sg trip since i only had to top up $300
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17 November 2011, 12:39 AM
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Looks like a super trip
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17 November 2011, 01:36 AM
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Fantastic pictures H
Especially this one   I'm sure the trip to Beijing was fantastic and thank you for taking us along
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17 November 2011, 01:40 AM
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Fantastic pics & amazing watch.
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17 November 2011, 03:27 AM
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Thanks for sharing.
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17 November 2011, 03:49 AM
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Fantastic photos!
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17 November 2011, 04:11 AM
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Wow great post!
Looks like a fantastic place, thanks for posting.
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17 November 2011, 04:19 AM
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Nice pics.
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