What's your favourite watch?
22 January 2011, 04:48 PM
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must be my casio diving something or other, £30 or so from asda or lidl. I wear it everyday, so ergo, it must be my favourite, it makes me look succesful and rich when i'm down the pub.
22 January 2011, 06:03 PM
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I loved my Subaru watch I bought the first time I had my Impreza serviced. That broke so I got a Traser Code Blue. Not the most sophisticated but the glowing bits are cool. 
22 January 2011, 06:23 PM
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I've a few watches, But these two are my favourites. Both are worn on a daily basis (not at the same time) and due to my job they've seen some abuse over the years. Even though they're scratched, Dented and generally battered neither has let me down in the years i've owned them (Speedmaster 11yrs & Breitling 6yrs). Worth every penny imo.
22 January 2011, 08:00 PM
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What do you watch afficionados think about Ball watches? They seem to have a huge advertising drive at the moment and seem to be in all the broadsheets and supplements.
The ones with the glowing gas bits look quite nice, are they actually any good?
I fall in the middle ground when it comes to watches, half of me fully understands spending money on a 'desirable' item the other half thinks why spend £5k on a watch that tells the time the same way a Casio does.
I have a middle of the road Breitling btw
The ones with the glowing gas bits look quite nice, are they actually any good?
I fall in the middle ground when it comes to watches, half of me fully understands spending money on a 'desirable' item the other half thinks why spend £5k on a watch that tells the time the same way a Casio does.
I have a middle of the road Breitling btw
22 January 2011, 09:58 PM
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My favorite watch I have is my Rolex, I have a nice Gucci watch I wear few times and a few other watches but since I don't wear the other watches much when I go to wear them the battery is nearly always dead so the Rolex always gets 1st choice.
22 January 2011, 10:16 PM
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Bought the wife a Gucci and one of the Gucci logos has dropped off and been lost. Just goes to show you can pay daft money and still get pi$$ poor quality. Should have got her a Timex.
23 January 2011, 12:04 AM
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My 'favourite' watch was something rubbish I bought from Dixons about 20 years ago for about £10.Matrix or something
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23 January 2011, 04:04 PM
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My Omega Seamaster, full size with a blue face, no aditional dials etc, automatic movement. Classic watch IMO and can't see me ever changing it.
I have a Seiko automatic divers watch for work which i don't mind getting scratched etc
I have a Seiko automatic divers watch for work which i don't mind getting scratched etc
24 January 2011, 01:53 PM
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Nice watches, all of them.
This is still my favourite after a year and a half, but nearly time for a change. Its a Wenger Commando SRC.
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This is still my favourite after a year and a half, but nearly time for a change. Its a Wenger Commando SRC.
Cheers
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24 January 2011, 08:19 PM
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I like that!
Is it as illuminous as it appears to be? Or just green?
My Longines dive watch has pretty poor luminous paint and yet my Pulsar is flipping brilliant (obviously never going to be as good as those tritium light source jobs which look flipping smart)
Is it as illuminous as it appears to be? Or just green?
My Longines dive watch has pretty poor luminous paint and yet my Pulsar is flipping brilliant (obviously never going to be as good as those tritium light source jobs which look flipping smart)
24 January 2011, 08:29 PM
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24 January 2011, 10:05 PM
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The only thing that makes me smile with some of these special ops super luminous commando watches is...that's the first bloke who would get taken out!!
Anyway,still a great watch
Anyway,still a great watch
24 January 2011, 11:25 PM
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Cheers
Ian
24 January 2011, 11:38 PM
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If I must; Not a big watch fanatic, but on my shopping list would be:
Grand Seiko Spring drive: Perfect and brilliant harmony of a mechanical/automatic movement with the accuracy of a quartz...which no automatic Swiss watch can come close. As for design, proabaly a SBGA001 or SBGA 003. That would be a daily wearer
For dress use a Piaget Altiplano ultra thin. Black face, maybe a small seconds and preferably automatic. Puts many gargantuan Swiss movements to shame.
And for some reason I quite like the Rolex milgauss, black face, green glass. Don't know why, must be a phase I'm going through LOL.
Wouldn't dream of buying any of them though - they are all far far far too much money, although if a second hand one came up at the right price I could be tempted.
So instead I use a Ellesse bi-metal chronograph. Takes a hammering and still works, The Citizen (miyota) movement has suvived having the back off it on the table for eight months gathering dust. It played up due to a watch shop fitting the incorrect battery and the same incorrect battery was replaced several times - I had a fiddle, gave up and left it, then came back to it when I relised it was the wrong battery (too thin). Vacuum out the dust (yes with a Dyson), stuck in a new battery of the correct type and its been fine ever since.
Don't have much love for my Seamaster - the crownwheel falls off everytime its "serviced" and the brushed steel looks tatty - they polished it when it was last serviced so its lost its brushed/satin effect on the strap and bezel. Which my Ellesse and Sekonda have managed to retain.
Personal favourite I have is a 19th century Dennison pocket watch that belonged to my Great Uncle's father. Works perfectly (wore it with my Best Man's monkey suit).
Want pics.?..use google
Grand Seiko Spring drive: Perfect and brilliant harmony of a mechanical/automatic movement with the accuracy of a quartz...which no automatic Swiss watch can come close. As for design, proabaly a SBGA001 or SBGA 003. That would be a daily wearer
For dress use a Piaget Altiplano ultra thin. Black face, maybe a small seconds and preferably automatic. Puts many gargantuan Swiss movements to shame.
And for some reason I quite like the Rolex milgauss, black face, green glass. Don't know why, must be a phase I'm going through LOL.
Wouldn't dream of buying any of them though - they are all far far far too much money, although if a second hand one came up at the right price I could be tempted.
So instead I use a Ellesse bi-metal chronograph. Takes a hammering and still works, The Citizen (miyota) movement has suvived having the back off it on the table for eight months gathering dust. It played up due to a watch shop fitting the incorrect battery and the same incorrect battery was replaced several times - I had a fiddle, gave up and left it, then came back to it when I relised it was the wrong battery (too thin). Vacuum out the dust (yes with a Dyson), stuck in a new battery of the correct type and its been fine ever since.
Don't have much love for my Seamaster - the crownwheel falls off everytime its "serviced" and the brushed steel looks tatty - they polished it when it was last serviced so its lost its brushed/satin effect on the strap and bezel. Which my Ellesse and Sekonda have managed to retain.
Personal favourite I have is a 19th century Dennison pocket watch that belonged to my Great Uncle's father. Works perfectly (wore it with my Best Man's monkey suit).
Want pics.?..use google
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