Where is that thread about watches?

[Robert]

Harry,
I love you but won't part with this baby. My wife wants it....have a look
www.sannoh.or.jp/omega/stdfull01.html

on the other hand
www.lesmala.net/jean-michel/navitimer

good luck...

[uffeviking]

Hi Uffe, yeah, something like that, thanks. My strap just broke actually so I've got to go & get another of the damn things. Nice plastic strap but designed to wear out.

That's the only disadvantage: can hardly find any plastic straps, have to go for leather and they cost as much as the watch!

But maybe you can a friend on GMG who will send you a diamond encrusted platinum band! 

[Que]

That's the only disadvantage: can hardly find any plastic straps, have to go for leather and they cost as much as the watch!

Solution to that problem: buy a watch that costs more than just a leather strap...

Q

[uffeviking]

AHA! Great suggestion and nice solution, but I am stingy, rather spend my money on ten opera DVDs - preferably Wagner! - than strap an expensive time piece around my wrist! 

[Michel]

I am about to get hold of this lovely, hardy, not in any way pretencious mechnical watch. They're selling like hot cakes and I really like them; and I support all small businesses:



Comes in some different colours too:



Including one with a very unusual mother of pearl:

[12tone.]

Here's a watch I just got!! 

[Harry]

Here's a watch I just got!! 

That really looks nice and smooth....

[12tone.]

That really looks nice and smooth....

Just kidding though.  Thought the CPO thing....ah nevermind 

[Dr. Dread]

i LOVE this geek watch!

Yep. That's my watch. Atomic time!! 

[Harry]

Yep. That's my watch. Atomic time!! 

Nah, a disgrace to taste.....

[Fëanor]

Sorry I deleted the post unwillingly.

But yes I am absolutely nuts about mechanical watches, not as much as my cd's, but still!

I have the version in 18 carat gold.

I just discoverd this thread!

Gorgeous, Harry, and imagine: in gold.    Exsquisite mechanical watches are the self-indulgence of rich people which I unfortunately am not. 

But I just had a Seiko mechnical cleaned that I gave my mother 40 years ago.  She has used, not daily, but on a regular basis all these years.  The watchmaker named the movement, (I don't remember the designation), and said he sees them fairly often.  I have a couple of Seiko quartz that are 20 years old.

My late father-in-law was a watchmaker for a good many years before becoming a protestant minister -- his eyes were giving out. 

Anyway, my current eveyday watch is this Casio 'Waveceptor', that is, a so-called "Atomic".  Well worth the US$20 I paid. 

[Dr. Dread]

Nah, a disgrace to taste.....

How rude! 

[Herman]

I like mechanical watches, too. I think I have something like seven watches, all solo tempo without too many complications, most of 'em from fifties era, some red gold, some yellow gold. I get a kick wearing a pretty watch that's been ticking longer than me. IMO a watch is about the only piece of jewelry a man can wear, and I like it discreet and stylish. I deplore the current fad for watches as big as wagon wheels with three inner dials, and a quartz digital piece is abhorrent to me, but, hey, whatever floats thy boat.

[springrite]

I don't have a watch, period. I use my cellphone as time keeper.

I really should get myself a decent watch. Maybe when I am in Holland later this year (if the trip materialises).

[Lethevich]

I don't have a watch, period. I use my cellphone as time keeper.

Ditto - they became almost obscelete as timekeeping devices for the majority of people who now carry around phones and mp3 players. I am kind of glad, it was tiresome having a sweaty wrist band during summer, and risking damaging it in all manner of situations when forgetting it was on. Liberation! 0:)