Buy a set of watch straps, help save the world? #8 (A bunch o' different watch straps)

Charity auction for a lot of watch straps!

From left to right:  

1. 20mm Green Vario single pass leather Nato  

2. 20mm Brown @Jericho hand-made chicken foot leather with Omega-style deployant (sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist)  

3. 20mm Black Ops dark grey Erika's Original MN  

4. 20mm Sand Sahara Erika's Original MN  

5. 21mm Mirage Orange Erika's Original MN  

6. 21mm Jean Grey Babele leather Delugs with Omega-style deployant (sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist)  

7. 21mm Dark Grey Ostrich Delugs with Omega-style deployant (sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist)  

8. 21mm Serpentine Ostrich Delugs with Omega-style deployant (sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist)  

9. 21mm Brown @Jericho hand-made goat leather with Omega-style deployant (sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist)  

10. 22mm mesh stainless steel bracelet  

11. 22mm Black Ops Full Black Erika's Original MN  

12. 22mm Dark Grey Ostrich Delugs with Omega-style deployant (sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist)  

13. 22mm Cognac @Jericho hand-made chicken foot leather with Omega-style deployant (sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist)  

14. 22mm Cognac VNCrocshop crocodile leather with Omega-style deployant (sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist)

For those of you who responded to the poll (https://www.watchcrunch.com/HotWatchChick69/posts/any-interest-in-bidding-in-charity-auction-for-straps-13918) saying that you’d be happy to bid on the auction, including @Cdfaltz @mpower5266 @unseenhero @valleykilmers @Edge168n @MegaBob @cageyjames @ClassicDiver923 

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For those of you who responded to the poll saying that you wanted no part of my wrist-juice-soiled straps, I bid you all a hearty…

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[You know, I wasn’t gonna name you one by one, but I feel compelled to do so now, so that you see that GIF above!  I don't want you to feel left out!  @watchesandespresso @Aurelian @biglove @dustylowend @Pete_NSOW @OscarKlosoff @surferjohn @kalvin @shazerbot @Robcollects @synaptyx @Ichibunz @nathan033 @BigIona @Car2nst @mhiggi02]

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All proceeds go to GiveDirectly.  GiveDirectly DIRECTLY sends on funds to recipients in some of the poorest countries on Earth, with an incredible track record to-date.  The effort sprang out of the Effective Altruism movement.

https://www.givedirectly.org/beta/

https://www.givedirectly.org/financials/

The first 7 auctions worked out spectacularly, in which our esteemed colleagues, @Bessio @Robcollects @Ichibunz @Deeperblue @Edge168n @Jklotz @CliveC have helped to raise $11,504 for a number of Kenyan families.  These are families earning less than the global poverty line of $1.90 / day.  All of the auction proceeds went directly to them, and the funds from the 7 auctions thus far will effectively double the incomes of 32 families for a year!

Previous auction:

https://www.watchcrunch.com/HotWatchChick69/posts/buy-a-watch-help-save-the-world-7-seiko-srph78-star-bar-houjou-13251

Here's what I propose:

• Let's open up bidding on the straps at, say, $20

• Please post your bid by commenting below

• The highest bid by Wednesday, August 24, 12pm PT wins the lot of straps

• Here’s where we do some real good for charity:  If you are the winning bidder, please then Paypal or Venmo me the winning bid amount.  I will make the donation of your winning bid, plus I will match that amount, to double the donation…  But that’s not all folks!  My employer will then do a full 100% match of that combined amount!  Thus, every $1 of the winning bid will get multiplied by 4!!!  Let me say that again - every $1 of the winning bid will turn into $4 donated to GiveDirectly!!!

• I will then post the screen shot of the full donated amount!

So, in summary:

• Win 14 straps

• Have the entirety of the proceeds go towards lifting a family out of extreme poverty

• QUADRUPLE the size of your charitable contribution through my and my employer’s matching funds

Whaddya say?  

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First.

$20.69

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Ok I love me wrist-juiced-soiled by a @HotWatchChick69 

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$30

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I may bid just to ask you to throw them away.  

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That’s fine @HotWatchChick69 I do give to other causes and don’t get soiled personal items in return. 😝👌

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I'm in for $40! Great value here to be honest. Heard great things about Delugs and have my own MN strap.

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OK @HotWatchChick69 flipping me off got me (along with the detail you shared of who it's helping and how you are maximizing it - you're a good dude, er, chick).

$75

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BigIona

I may bid just to ask you to throw them away.  

Exactly 

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Ichibunz

Ok I love me wrist-juiced-soiled by a @HotWatchChick69 

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$30

When I first saw this actress in "Superbad," I was absolutely floored!  But...  even then my Spidey-sense was tingling.  It's like this gal I would hang out with in NYC.  The single most comely woman I've ever seen.  But, 5 minutes into hanging out with her, I'd want to shoot myself!  Every couple of weeks, I'd be like, "I wonder what Nykki is doing."  I'd call her, we'd meet up, and then 5 minutes in, I'm imagining 101 ways to off myself to end the torture of being in her company.

Obviously, my Spidey-sense is superior to Johnny Depp's and Amber Heard's.  They should have avoided each other like the plague, the way I ended up avoiding Nykki!

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BigIona

I may bid just to ask you to throw them away.  

This one, specifically targeted at you!

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synaptyx

That’s fine @HotWatchChick69 I do give to other causes and don’t get soiled personal items in return. 😝👌

Oh, man!  Then you're doing it wrong!

I mean, people pay good money for soiled personal items on the Internet...  or so I'm told!

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unseenhero

I'm in for $40! Great value here to be honest. Heard great things about Delugs and have my own MN strap.

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mhiggi02

OK @HotWatchChick69 flipping me off got me (along with the detail you shared of who it's helping and how you are maximizing it - you're a good dude, er, chick).

$75

OMG!  I gotta flip people off more often!  Here's more for you!

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Mr.Dee.Bater

Oh, man!  Then you're doing it wrong!

I mean, people pay good money for soiled personal items on the Internet...  or so I'm told!

Oh no. That just won’t do, I have a compromised immune system. 😬🔨

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Mr.Dee.Bater

OMG!  I gotta flip people off more often!  Here's more for you!

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LOL!

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Mr.Dee.Bater

This one, specifically targeted at you!

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unseenhero

Was going to follow up with this at lunch, but while I'm here I'll make it $110! 

You may be unseen, but...

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Mr.Dee.Bater

I had an unexpected watch service come up... I am out on this one. 

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southernwatch

I had an unexpected watch service come up... I am out on this one. 

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$115

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@Proctor1911, noticed that you just voted in that poll about being interested in bidding on straps...  Well, this is the thread to do the bidding!

Also, including 1 more strap.  Sort of a...  not sure what color this is.

21/18mm olive green goat skin leather on Omega-style deployant sized for 6.6'' to 7.1'' or 166mm to 180mm wrist...

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Mr.Dee.Bater
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Just because one has the tools, does not make them a watch maker...... I yeeted a balance spring trying to regulate a watch.  Haha

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I am happy to let others take the lead on bidding for those sweet sweet wrist juices.

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I'll go in for $120!

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I don’t know where I’m going to use those 21’s but let’s do $125. 

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Two horse race between @unseenhero and @laurik!

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laurik
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We have a winrar!

Will PM you to lock down details!

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laurik
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Congratulations! Definitely a fine lot of straps coming your way!

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unseenhero

Congratulations! Definitely a fine lot of straps coming your way!

Those straps will become very expensive if I need to buy a GS for those 21’s. 

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Okay!  

  • @laurik wins with $125 bid, plus he generously added another $20 for shipping for a total of $145
  • @CliveC added another $20 to avoid my precious bodily fluids, for a total of $165
  • Match brings that to $330
  • Employer match brings that to $660
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