The Watch Thread

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by Black Tire

This is the watch I chose to wear this winter. Great timekeeping! It currently seems to be gaining only 1-6 seconds per day.

I am currently trying to find a Seiko 5 that looks nice to me and is relatively small with the new 4R36 movement. This has a hacking feature that would make it much easier to keep the watch on the correct time.

I've got 3 watches with 4R3x variants, and really like them. Much better than my 5's 7S26.

I was looking for the same thing as you, a new 4R version of my 7S 5, when I posted the ad a couple posts up. A lot of new 4R Seiko 5's in Japan. Haven't seen a flieger yet, though.

[AznBRZer]

Originally Posted by Black Tire

This is the watch I chose to wear this winter. Great timekeeping! It currently seems to be gaining only 1-6 seconds per day.

I am currently trying to find a Seiko 5 that looks nice to me and is relatively small with the new 4R36 movement. This has a hacking feature that would make it much easier to keep the watch on the correct time.

It's a great little watch and my first mechanical. I bought a "cheap" Movado Museum like 15 years ago, but it's a bit too "dressy" for daily duties. But yeah, I was getting COSC on mine. CRAZY accurate. I tried to wear it again recently and realized how uncomfortable the strap is now that I have something a bit better. I'm debating throwing a NATO or velcro strap on it. It'll cover the display case back, but I hardly ever look at the movement to begin with. Definitely easier to stomach dinging a $50 watch compared to a $6k watch.

[BadLuckZN6]

PAM183 with ABP paris strap.

[fender9530]

Originally Posted by Power Out!

PAM183 with ABP paris strap.

Very nice. I wasn't a huge fan of these at first, but they have really grown on me over the past few months.

[mike the snake]

I have a Rolex Submariner that I wear daily. I bought a Panerai, one of the other brands I really like a lot.

I found that I worried about scratching my Panerai, and that I wore the Sub almost all the time and barely ever wore the Panerai.

If I had the means to own a bunch of different nice watches, I'd have a bunch of Panerais, they are really nice watches.

[ihaskrayon]

Looks like it's beer thirty!

[CBThib307]

My newest watch. I'm very excited that Tudor is being sold in USA again. Ill have to take a picture of this on the fabric strap. IMO it actually looks a little better that way.

Tudor Heritage Chrono

[fender9530]

Originally Posted by CBThib307

My newest watch. I'm very excited that Tudor is being sold in USA again. Ill have to take a picture of this on the fabric strap. IMO it actually looks a little better that way.

Tudor Heritage Chrono

I really want the blue one, but it'll have to wait a while. Something dressy and simple for my wedding is next.


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[Flow]

Hi, this watch in the BRZ Gymkhana video caught my eye, and I was wondering if anyone here could help me identify it? TIA

[mike the snake]

Not sure about your model Seiko, but my Orange Monster you can pull on the crown while in time-adjust and effectively hack the seconds hand. I think if you pull and twist slightly it causes the seconds hand to run backwards too.

Originally Posted by Black Tire

This is the watch I chose to wear this winter. Great timekeeping! It currently seems to be gaining only 1-6 seconds per day.

I am currently trying to find a Seiko 5 that looks nice to me and is relatively small with the new 4R36 movement. This has a hacking feature that would make it much easier to keep the watch on the correct time.

[Dimman]

Picked up my second vintage Omega. One on the left. Put it on a dark brown Hirsch Rally strap I already had. (Came with a hideous stretch bracelet.)

Dial is pristine, movement is pristine, accuracy is awesome, lume even still lights up (but the amount is tiny).

It's got a 1012 inside which is second best in the series (a 23 jewel auto, that isn't a chronometer like the series top 1011), which is one of the last pure Omega movements (non ÉTA/Swatch). Modern in the sense that it is auto, handwind-able, has stop seconds, date is quickset, and runs at 8Hz. But despite looking almost brand new, I can't say the 1012 is anything special to look at.

But the case, argh... The dark spots look like reflection but it is actually the brass showing through the gold plate. So this is going to be a restoration project eventually. Remove old plating, polish brass, re-plate in gold 20 microns thick.

[fooddude]

Originally Posted by AznBRZer

Seiko 5 Pilot that I retired for the Speedie Pro:


Kudos to the Seiko fans here!

This is the exact one I just got a few months ago (black face, military style numbers). Love it. Simple and keeps time surprisingly well. I really wanted the white-face, shiny baton, polished version (no numbers, more minimal)..but it was a gift..so no complaints at all ...teamed it with a light brown, stitched, leather nato strap

Before the Seiko, I had an old mechanical Pobeda Russian vintage watch from '56. I loved it too and it was very simple, minimal and classic.. but it's nice not needing to wind every morning anymore..and it's also nice having a FLAT scratch resistant glass face, instead of the old vintage style bubble, like on the Pobeda

[VTR]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Any Casio fans? G-Shock, Baby-G, Pro Trek, etc...

My first digital watch in ages may be a Pro Trek PAW1500T-7V.



But the specs make it sound HUGE, 56mmx50mm. How do these wear?

Aye!


Got this one back end of Aug 2013:





I never feel uncomfortable wearing it.

[Dimman]

^ I ended up going with a smaller G-Shock with tide function, tough solar and atomic radio update. For sailing.