Wrist watch and timepiece discussion thread

[d8mok]

Thanks for having a go at explaining it to me Dom.. i'm not really down with the ostentatious car vibe either, i drive an old 240 wagon i agree there are some enviable skills in making swanky watches, but it's the skills i admire rather than folks ability to splurge £££'s,
anywho...my contribution, i haven't taken this off since 1996, it's never lost time but hey.. i don't need to be anywhere.. at least not to the nearest second.

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The crazy thing is that most people would recognise your Tag as being a posh watch. Show them a Patek, AP or a Richard Mille and they probably would think a Tag is more expensive.

Watch nerds don’t tend to be the sort to approach people and point out their watch so you’d probably never even know if it’s noticed as general public don’t care and watch people are shy usually. I’ve had one person notice a watch I was wearing in 5 years of owning it.

If you like engineering and craftsman ship watch a few videos of high end watches being built, serviced or repaired. It’s really mind blowing stuff but certainly not worth the prices they charge for the actual watches.

 

[Betsy]

If the money spent gave me joy, i could understand it, for instance, I get a lot more joy from riding bikes than owning bikes whereas i don't get joy from knowing what time it is.

 

[d8mok]

If the money spent gave me joy, i could understand it, for instance, I get a lot more joy from riding bikes than owning bikes whereas i don't get joy from knowing what time it is.

Riding time that’s what time it is …..

 

[Once A Hero]

No watch enthusiast here, but I'd like to be as they take up less room than bikes!
My daily watch for the last 15years or so has been a Rolex Non-Date Submariner which I bought 2nd hand for less than a 3rd of what a new one costs today.
It bugs me every time I wear it that it doesn't have the date on it!

Recently bought an Apple Watch SE, and I just don't get the point of it - but it does have the date on, and doubles as a bedside clock at night.

My '90s Timex Ironman needs a new battery.
My Animal W001 needs a strap.

I have a 'super fake' Chopard Mille Miglia which I bought a long time ago for about £90 just to see how good/bad it was, and was pleasantly surprised how good it looks at a glance. It has fooled several of my watch aficionado friends, but what they don't know is that the date goes all the way up to 39...

Always wanted an Omega Speedmaster (which again doesn't have the date on...) and recently got interested in the new Swatch + Omega Moonswatch collection which seem like nice things to have for £200, but as they are available in store only at the moment I won't be making trips to London to get one.

 

[GSB]

Thanks for having a go at explaining it to me Dom.. i'm not really down with the ostentatious car vibe either, i drive an old 240 wagon i agree there are some enviable skills in making swanky watches, but it's the skills i admire rather than folks ability to splurge £££'s,
anywho...my contribution, i haven't taken this off since 1996, it's never lost time but hey.. i don't need to be anywhere.. at least not to the nearest second.

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Snap…
Had this since 1996 its in reasonable condition considering I wore it every single day for 25 years. Mind you, it’s the chronological equivalent of Triggers broom, the amount I’ve spent having it serviced and repaired over the years would comfortably have seen me wearing a nice Monaco.

its since been retired for occasional wear by a couple of Seiko’s, and a couple of weeks I managed to finally get my hands on a ’Batman’.

My father bought himself his first ‘nice’ watch in the ‘70’s when I was born and wore it every day. But about 20 years ago it was damaged in an accident and relegated to the back of a drawer, thought to be irreparably goosed. I dug it out last year and had it restored… the watchmaker managed to locate the parts to fix the mechanical alarm complication, and I even found a NOS Seiko bracelet for it, which I never thought possible due to the odd caselug design.

Gave it back to my dad for Father’s Day last year, and he hasn’t taken it off since.

 

[Once A Hero]

Snap…

Gave it back to my dad for Father’s Day last year, and he hasn’t taken it off since.
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Jeez - would you look at the size of some of those components!
And I can't even reassemble an STI unit correctly
Batman is nice - I wish I'd gotten a GMT instead of the Sub.

 

[tintin40]

Never heard of Rockwatchs. How about Rock*hox!

1990's Tissot. Also made wood and pearl. Tissot doesn't offer support for them. The 2CV of their past?

 

[d8mok]

No watch enthusiast here, but I'd like to be as they take up less room than bikes!
My daily watch for the last 15years or so has been a Rolex Non-Date Submariner which I bought 2nd hand for less than a 3rd of what a new one costs today.
It bugs me every time I wear it that it doesn't have the date on it!

Recently bought an Apple Watch SE, and I just don't get the point of it - but it does have the date on, and doubles as a bedside clock at night.

My '90s Timex Ironman needs a new battery.
My Animal W001 needs a strap.

I have a 'super fake' Chopard Mille Miglia which I bought a long time ago for about £90 just to see how good/bad it was, and was pleasantly surprised how good it looks at a glance. It has fooled several of my watch aficionado friends, but what they don't know is that the date goes all the way up to 39...

Always wanted an Omega Speedmaster (which again doesn't have the date on...) and recently got interested in the new Swatch + Omega Moonswatch collection which seem like nice things to have for £200, but as they are available in store only at the moment I won't be making trips to London to get one.

I’m a big fan of non date watches. I like the symmetry they have compared to the date versions. My 2 non date watches here below.

I’ll definitely have a moonswatch once the hype has died down a bit. They look great but apparently feel cheap (which they are). I’ve almost bought a moonwatch or FOIS Ona few occasions but neve gone through with it. They just seem to depreciate so fast it may even be better to find a used one at some point.

I actually had a super fake Hulk a few years ago to see if I could live with the green before buying one. Thought it was a good way to try without spending loads not to like the green. Once I’d decided they had gone crazy so no Hope now.

 

[GSB]

Jeez - would you look at the size of some of those components!
And I can't even reassemble an STI unit correctly
Batman is nice - I wish I'd gotten a GMT instead of the Sub.

You could always swap? Rolex supply / demand issues mean your Submariner if in decent condition is still worth comfortably more than you paid for it, and indeed more than a brand new one costs from Rolex, assuming you can convince a dealer to sell you one. You may be able to sell it and buy a used GMT with no additional outlay.

 

[Once A Hero]

You could always swap? Rolex supply / demand issues mean your Submariner if in decent condition is still worth comfortably more than you paid for it, and indeed more than a brand new one costs from Rolex, assuming you can convince a dealer to sell you one. You may be able to sell it and buy a used GMT with no additional outlay.

Yes good point.
Mine is well overdue a service and clean-up - and that's something I've been meaning to do for a long time, as the likely bill has always put me off, but the longer I leave it the more it will cost. I'll look in to it.