I often judge the caliber of a new pub I go into by checking the quality of the watches on display... Good quality watches and you're in a good place, scratched on with a compass and mispelt and you know it's time to leave!
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Who's got the bestest watch?
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Got a divers wtach but don't dive?
Got chronograph but never used it for timing anything useful?
Got watch that gives you world time but only go on two holidays a year and none of them to captial cities?
Got a watch that has an altimeter, barometer, count down timer, none which you will or have ever used?
Got a watch with that gives you the temperature, used it have ya, or did it just give you the temperature of your wrist?
Got watch that calculates bullet ballistics and your not a sniper?
Got a watch with tritium on the face but your not in the SAS?
If you can answer yes to any of the above then your a knob, and your watch is crap.
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Got a chip on your shoulder a mile wide?
Got an empty bank account?Posted 1 year ago # -
"I often judge the caliber of a new pub I go into by checking the quality of the watches on display..Good quality watches and you're in a place full of tedious image obsessed middle managers, desparately trying to flaunt their middle middle class credential asshats who will bore you senseless about their watch/car/bike/microwave the best route to Reading etc".
I choose my pubs by the quality of the beer and the service frankly.
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Will someone put the troll back under the bridge please?
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In answer to dirtynap, my Yema, when I bought it I used to to regularly go to the races at Castle Combe Circuit, so the stopwatch got used to time laps. My TAG I bought 'cos I wanted a tough waterproof watch for when I was biking. It's survived being bashed against treetrunks, machinery and God-knows what else. No, I don't dive, I can't swim, but the bezel has been used for timing stuff and it's a tough waterproof watch. What the hell else d'you want from a watch. Now put yer jealousy back in yer trousers, you're embarrassing yourself.
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Omega Seamaster chrono diver in titanium
IWC super ocean 2000
IWC GST deep one
Breitling b01
Suunto core
and the one I wear mostly Casio G shock dw6700 ,bought around 15 years ago approx for £100 from H Samuels and has had only 2 batteries and been from Everest to Kilimanjaro but never been on Ben Nevis yet.Posted 1 year ago # -
Watches are great.
If I was minted then I would collect them.
The only jewellery a man should wear IMO.
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I've got an Omega Seamaster,and I can honestly say that it is the worst watch I have ever bought. It just doesn't keep the right time, it's always either too fast or too slow. I like the look of it and since it cost so much money I feel I should keep using it but my old G-Shock was a much better watch. Plus you have to get this one serviced every 3-5 years for the princely some off £300 or so!!
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Servicing costs for quality watches are, indeed, a bitch.
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Seiko automatic for me.
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Dirtynap.. some folk above have a few of those functions in their watches.aviemorons breitling has a few.
The thing is, he didnt buy the watch.. he was awarded it.Doing something that you or your parents might have benefited from a long time ago.
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Not sure what any ones point is. All I am saying is why do people own watches with lots of silly pointless functions on them that they don't use and assume they must be the best.
I was given a Patek-Philippe with an annual calender. Its not the best simply becuase it only looks good if you dressed up, but does everything a watch should do. Its the only watch I have becuase my phone does everything I need.
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The nice thing about watches is that that nobody really notices as a general rule. It's not about willy waving, it's about owning something that makes you happy (not entirely unlike expensive bikes or at least road bikes)
I don't really care if anyone thinks I'm a knob for having more thamn one watch or a watch that does more than telling the time. That is like saying that anyone with a car that will do more than 70mph has wasted their money or whatever odd definition of pointlessness you wish to roll out this time
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I was given a Patek-Philippe with an annual calendar.
Really? That's a VERY generous gift. It seems odd to bestow it upon someone who doesn’t appear to 'get' the watch thing...
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Lol @ iDave
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I just got a cheap tatoo of a watch on my wrist. Reminds me of a time in my life
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I wear a G-Shock for most days, Swatch Irony for with a suit, and if I need an alarm I can hook my 1812 English pocket watch up to this:
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Rusty Shackleford - Member
I was given a Patek-Philippe with an annual calendar.
Really? That's a VERY generous gift. It seems odd to bestow it upon someone who doesn’t appear to 'get' the watch thing...The Patek 5146P is one of my favourite watches... an absolutely gorgeous piece... Some pictures would be nice.
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I was given a Patek-Philippe with an annual calendar.
I suspect this is a wind up...
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boom boom geddit Posted 1 year ago # -
very nice fivelittlefish
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I've got a moderately nice watch (Casio Edifice Gold label) and i bastard well chipped the face last week when i accidentally belted it on a rock. Gah. This is why i should stick to £10 digital ones.
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fivelittlefish
I do like that Heuer and the styling is way superior to the rather (over)stylised Tag successors, although I do like the Monaco . I had a Carrera same as below which I stupidly let go on Ebay years ago for <£150 to an Austrian.
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Stainless Steel Rolex Daytona here, just like this just with a black face........
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This hilarious thread has piqued my interest in getting a nice watch again.
Are there any reccomendations for a good new/vintage/pre-owned website that isn't too mental on the prices. I might just get that Monaco chronograph yet....Posted 1 year ago # -
I was in a huge electronics shop in Japan, full of very fancy and expensive watches. I walked round looking at them all until I found one that I liked, and which was the most legible. Turned out to be this one - and I'm super happy with it (apart from going through a strap every eight months)
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Missus bought this for me as an engagement present
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What's this one? I like...
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Don Smith + Woody = NICE
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+1 chipps. They do go through straps amazingly quickly though.
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Destroyed my Seiko Kinetic but I will never spend loads ever again as I destroy watches easily and just killed my Titanium Kinetic! £1500 gone down the drain. Gun metal grey too. And it had good reserve as other Kinetics have stopped on me from lack of movement etc
Maybe £150 and change yearly? and fashions change too.
Using the mobile alot too and leaving watch at home!
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Seiko Kinetic divers watch, worn for the last 19 years, still on the original strap, never serviced & keeps great time.
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@don simon
Heuer Autavia 11630MH from the 70's..
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