watches?

[superx]

Hey Hawk from what I recall you had to take the link out, and there was a hallmark in there somewhere.
I got a first hand demo from lunns jewelers in Belfast.

I'm just browsing the submariner, some serious prices on them, a man could buy a small country for those asking prices..

With them been hand made and not enginered, I wonder do the Chinese get robots to build them..

The G-shock looks good, almost like the bmx of watches..

 

[HarvestMoon303]

I have loved watches since I was about 4 years old and knew when it was almost time to get up!!

I’m currently wearing a Sinn U2 watch, which is one of my absolute favorites.

 

[Ca++]

I do like a good watch, but to me, that means quartz. A slim piece, not a hunk of mechanical mastery. That's just lots of trouble for less accuracy. Technically decades out of date, yet the highest price. You have to invest a bit of your soul into such a thing. No, for me I will take the battery. A nice Seiko movement perhaps. With a face I can read across a room. Bold hands and markers. However, the moment they design such a good looking thing, they stick in the less reliable wind up guts, and charge thousands for what should of been a £200 item, at most. It's really jewellery that people buy, under the banner of time pieces. One might say for the iphone owner, not android.

 

[shithawk420]

A what? guess i gotta look it up.wtf is a Sinn?

 

[shithawk420]

I do like a good watch, but to me, that means quartz. A slim piece, not a hunk of mechanical mastery. That's just lots of trouble for less accuracy. Technically decades out of date, yet the highest price. You have to invest a bit of your soul into such a thing. No, for me I will take the battery. A nice Seiko movement perhaps. With a face I can read across a room. Bold hands and markers. However, the moment they design such a good looking thing, they stick in the less reliable wind up guts, and charge thousands for what should of been a £200 item, at most. It's really jewellery that people buy, under the banner of time pieces. One might say for the iphone owner, not android.

nah man.your wrong. you ever see a Rolex factory? its like a Hospital its so clean an precise. You get what you pay for with Rolex and you know its an investment. you literally cant go wrong with Rolex.and im tired of replacing the batteries and charging my watches. good automatic watches for the win.

 

[Ca++]

nah man.your wrong. you ever see a Rolex factory? its like a Hospital its so clean an precise. You get what you pay for with Rolex and you know its an investment. you literally cant go wrong with Rolex.and im tired of replacing the batteries and charging my watches. good automatic watches for the win.

I do appreciate them, but a forecourt quartz is more accurate. I had a skeleton watch for a while, which you can at least appreciate. Something inaccurate, with high service costs, that looses thousands in devaluation, does seem like something going wrong, in my world.

It's form before function. Art. Jewellery.
I just don't have a soul that needs that sort of thing. I prefer the practicality of a G-shock, though won't wear plastic watches either. It's hard to loose 100 on a G-shock though. Unless you actually loose it.

 

[shithawk420]

You know what fucking time it is.a quartz watch well.nobody wants a quartz watch and it's not worth anything.do some research on horology and you will understand.im not fucking with a cheap ass piece of shit quartz watch

 

[Countryboy]

Ya'll might want to check out A Lange, Glashutte, and Vacheron. Damn nice watches.

 

[shithawk420]

Ya'll might want to check out A Lange, Glashutte, and Vacheron. Damn nice watches.

they are ok. but now your talking tens of thousands of dollars. you that rich?

 

[Countryboy]

Thousands...I thought ya'll were talking about fine, mechanical watches, in part. There are lots of others fine brands...I usually use my phone.

 

[shithawk420]

theres a reason you wear an AP or a PF. those are for millionaires.thoseare status symbols. its crazy that a PF is over a million dollars

 

[Countryboy]

theres a reason you wear an AP or a PF. those are for millionaires.thoseare status symbols. its crazy that a PF is over a million dollars

Those are for collectors and connoisseurs, like fine art. Who wouldn't like some Dutch/Flemish pieces on the wall(I like the still life's)? But yeah, I like the thought of all those movements in such a small package.
'we' are just poor.

 

[shithawk420]

yeah.i just like the style. im poor and could never buy a Patek Phillipe let alone a Rolex.maybe one day. id like a pepsi rolex

 

[Ca++]

You know what fucking time it is.a quartz watch well.nobody wants a quartz watch and it's not worth anything.do some research on horology and you will understand.im not fucking with a cheap ass piece of shit quartz watch

Nobody, except for most people. Even if you move smart watches into the luxury category, it's still the minority. It's niche, to buy art you can't see.

You seem to like Rolex

That's from the time that the Swiss lost dominance to Seiko. Both were racing to be the first to drop the spring and move to electronic, and the Swiss lost to the Japanese. So much so, they gave up within a few years. This was a very decisive time in the history of watches. It was the Swiss who made them first, but the Japanese who made them for everybody. The Swiss basically withdrew, and now it's a heritage product they sell. Hand made if you do pay astronomical prices, but there is a lot of smoke and mirrors.

This is the last 50-60years of watches. Older adults today, have a tangible connection to the days of Cuckoo clocks in the mountains, where Heidi with the tight blonde pigtails, had a round spectacled grandfather making watches at his bench. I'm not sure how things will look to the generation who didn't watch those movies. Who were not alive to see the pocket watch as something to aspire to. The smart watch doesn't interest me, but I'm not blind to what people are actually buying, or the benefits of a watch that could keep you alive longer. A device that only tells the time is already falling from use. Swiss exports have increased the last few years, but are still down a third on 10 years ago.

There is a future market in dress watches that can monitor heart rate and blood pressure, but not display them. Just relay that info to your phone. They won't be mechanical, but could still have a nice analogue face, to hide the fact it's doctors orders.

 

[shithawk420]

thats a lot to unpack here.for starters i own a few smart watches and i have blood pressure issues. but for some reason the god damn FDA wont approve the blood pressure app on samsung watches. i could really use it because i could have a heart attack any minute.but the FDA dont allow it. any way i like craftsmanship yes. Seiko will never be better than Rolex although i would love to get my hands on a Grand Seiko. those are really nice watches. better than Rolex? well,i guess its in the eye of the beholder at that price point

 

[Ca++]

Approvals would be nice, so the package could send mail to appropriate people, if you got in trouble.

I'm in the UK, where our national health service gains nothing from treating people. We might adopt these first. So we can call people that might be in trouble, and get to them before the progression of symptoms, becomes a huge bill for the tax payer.

Perhaps there is a private option, or phone a friend app feature?


I think I stopped looking for my watch, about 20 years after I took it off. I still have it though.

Stop laughing. I like it It's small, reliable, cheap and easy to read. And yes.. that is one watch. I bought a dark blue one, but in the light of day, it was lighter blue. Then one cold day, I was like.. what the fucking fuck, my watch has turned green. I sort confirmation, but nobody cared enough about my watch to know if it was once blue. Then an hour later... it's fucking blue again. WTF! at which point people were suddenly interested lol
It's been through a few straps, and is out as I'm thinking I might buy it another. Somehow it just isn't want it used to be though.

 

[Green Squall]

I'm not a collector, but did purchase a Longines Spirit 37mm over the summer and have been wearing it pretty much every day since. As my first automatic, it checked all the boxes I was looking for in a watch.

 

[shiva82]

i like retro and antique watches. this needs a service and clean , but is my favourite. not worn a watch in a few years .

 

[Ca++]

Nice clear faces. The longines is very hard to argue with. Though I do find metal straps strip my arm hair, it doesn't look like it is. I like them both, and neither mean you have to take up extreme diving

 

[Green Squall]

Nice clear faces. The longines is very hard to argue with. Though I do find metal straps strip my arm hair, it doesn't look like it is. I like them both, and neither mean you have to take up extreme diving

I've been wearing Nato straps for probably the last 15 years and a metal bracelet is a welcome change! Luckily I haven't noticed it snagging my arm hair.

My one critique on the 37mm Spirit is it lacks a screw down crown. I would have liked to have one, but it wasn't a deal breaker.