The Tonight Show with...

I'm watching The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, that we have recorded on Astro IPTV and after a couple of good laughs, decided to go back to basics for the night.

The kids were fast asleep (they were bushed from a well-planned day involving morning playground fun, Sunday school, afternoon pool soak, a nap, a rainy night out soaking in the Deepavali festive concert at Brickfields, before stopping by Moonlight Cake House for the delicious durian cakes), wife was catching up with her lady friends; so I took out my Cape Cod polishing cloth and decided to devote some attention to my babies in the winder.

Can you spot the Tunas?

Over the weekend, the watch that had accompanied me was...

Red Tuna @ Saturday.

Red Tuna @ Sunday.

Yup, the Red Tuna was my pick for the weekend. It is a very handsome and macho watch, and the orange Iso really made it all the more attractive, IMHO.

In a perfect world, the Omega Speedy Panda in the winder would be the 35th Anniversary Panda as per the following, but it's not and it's all right. Am still searching for a beautiful piece of hand-winding Speedy Professional to complement my collection though.

And the watch that had generated a fair bit of e-mails and PMs of late was the very toolish Tudor Pelagos.

When I travel, I like to have the Pelagos on its titanium bracelet.

Sometimes, I have my Pelagos matched to the Tudor-issued rubber strap.

Ever since I placed the advert intending its sale as I was expecting the arrival of the Ocean Gold Tuna and Seiko 50th Anniversary Tuna twins, there had been lots of offers. Most of the offers were circa RM10k (someone offered to match my asking price of RM10.5k tonight), the lowest were 2 new forum members whom offered RM5k and RM7.5k respectively (although I guessed that they were just trying their luck), and there were 2 trade offers for the following watches :

A reader, AW offered his Seiko Tuna piece.

Another reader, Iman offered his Tudor Heritage piece.

Since the Ocean Gold Tuna was no longer available from the seller, I was somewhat reluctant to let go off the Tudor Pelagos as I knew that I would not be able to replace it given the higher price that it was going for these days. Another forummer told me that it was retailing at circa RM18k new these days, no thanks to the GST and low RM value from the downward-spiralling Forex. I guess the Pelagos remained the best-demanded Tudor given its modern classic looks and versatile strap changes.

Earlier, the night, there was another offer from a forummer whom had initially wanted to get my Tudor Pelagos, and have thereafter offered a trade with his Tudor Heritage Chrono Blue. Between the Chrono Black and Chrono Blue, I would say that I have always had a liking towards the blue piece (as evidenced from quite a few write-ups over the years) so that had me swaying about. Let's see how this goes then. Keep your eyes peeled on this blog space.