[Closed] Nice watch haters..

I have a few Breitlings. My favourite is my B1 on a metal strap. However, nobody comments on them, but.......my Suunto Core Black on a Zulu strap gets loads of compliments!

So, save yourselves a few grand and buy a Suunto.

I also agree with all the comments about keeping the original paperwork and boxes. If you intend to keep the watch or pass it on as a heirloom you should keep all the original stuff, they are worth far more with all of them.

Non metal straps are cheap.

A lovely watch OP. I love posh watches and if my lotto numbers came up (if I played) then i'd definitely be building up a nice collection. Unfortunately only got one, a Breitling my wife bought me when we got engaged, only the entry level model at the time - around £1k. Wasn't quite as much as her engagement ring, but that wasn't the point. The thing is with these things they appreciate in value. I had mine valued recently and it has appreciated between £500 and £700 over the 12 years I've had it (probably more than her ring), so if I sold it now, taking off the few hundred quid a service cost me then i'm at least a couple of hundred quid up, and it's a daily wear - so these things might be expensive to purchase initially, but in the long run they are effectively free. You can't say that about anything else these days, not even cars. I'll never sell it though. Can't beat a nice watch. They are a pricy extravagance, and not sure i'll ever get another one, but the quality of a nice watch definitely shows.

only the entry level model at the time - around £1k.

A Top Time? I think that may be what Sidney Fiddler was wearing...

Oh, bl88dy 'ell,that was a mistake, I've just shown this thread to t'other half - and he says he'd like a Seamaster!
*goes off to work out how much of inheritance is left*

Oh, bl88dy 'ell,that was a mistake, I've just shown this thread to t'other half - and he says he'd like a Seamaster!
*goes off to work out how much of inheritance is left*

Is he "mid life"?

@lady gresley
Go in store to Ernest Jones. They can "adjust price" through manager's discretion if you pay cash. Vulgar to mention it, I know, but I got a substantial "adjustment" last month.

Is he "mid life"?

Haha, no, well past that!

Edric64, I drive a 2k car. I don't display my wealth through a 20k VW Golf TDI.

So why not spend money on something that is appreciatable and appreciates?

I bet he's gagging to get hold of a sweaty g shok is 40 years.

Not sure what that sentence means ... but I did get one of these for Christmas

Edit : oh, link not working .

Edit: DW-5600, if you know your G-Shock product codes.

Lovely watch OP - I keep hanging my nose over a Planet Ocean Seamaster and I am sure I will have one one day soon. These borelords who keep wittering on about casio's (which are nice watches, for cheap) just don't get it - they are probably just filling in time between this and bemoaning christmas on the other thread - tight f*****s.

I bet he's gagging to get hold of a sweaty g shok is 40 years.

Not sure what that sentence means ... but I did get one of these for Christmas

It related to handing down a watch as an heirloom.
I also have a 5600, it's a classic watch which I love. Awesome watches don't have to be expensive.

i think a nice watch is a great item to own. Personally I am a Bremont fan. Just picke up myself another Martin Baker111 on a stainless bracelet as my everyday watch.

I love the fact Bremont are English made and a reason I buy the brand.

DW-5600/5610 is a great watch for knocking about in.
I wear one for work and don't have to worry about it.

Depends what you do for work. Something like that would be very out of place in the environment that I work.

Not knocking Casio but everyone has a different requirement of a watch. In my eyes a good watch is to a man what jewellery is to a woman.

My daily watch:

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The 'box' is a massive rubber disk that's utterly ugly and impractical. Surprisingly the instructions fit on one single piece of A4 card.

(Although, to be fair, it doesn't touch on how to work a slide-rule properly)

I had a quick look at the Omega website and saw a nice lady's watch - £16,010!!!! I'll just keep wearing my mum's gold watch then.

True

My new watch as of yesterday thanks to Mrs RNP

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Just over 100 years old.

My grandads old watch. Turns telling the time into an event!
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Still keeps perfect time.

This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War. It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches. It was bought by private Doughboy Ernie Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. It was your great-grandfather’s war watch and he wore it every day he was in that war. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed until your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. This time they called it World War II. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. Unfortunately, Dane’s luck wasn’t as good as his old man’s. Dane was a Marine and he was killed, along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leaving that island alive. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he’d never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. Three days later, your granddad was dead. But Winocki kept his word. After the war was over, he paid a visit to your grandmother, delivering to your infant father, his dad’s gold watch.
This watch. This watch was on your daddy’s wrist when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured, put in a Vietnamese prison camp. He knew if the gooks ever saw the watch it’d be confiscated, taken away. The way your dad looked at it, that watch was your birthright. He’d be damned if any slopes were gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy’s birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something. His ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you. 😀

^^ does it have a methane release valve?

And because of your girlfriend, Vincent Vega died

Or, y'know, just post the video 😀

fergal - Member
It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. Up till then people just carried pocket watches.

Given that Elizabeth 1st wore a wrist watch made by Robert Dudley in 1571, and various wris****ches were made from that time, I'm not sure your statement is entirely true!

Given that Elizabeth 1st wore a wrist watch made by Robert Dudley in 1571, and various wris****ches were made from that time, I'm not sure your statement is entirely true!

Delighted I'm still able to wear this on a daily basis, the first watch I bought with my own money, back when I wasn't earning much more than maybe £10-12 per week. That would be around 1972-ish.
Last one I saw for sale was listed around €8-900
Hmmm, now around €1150...
http://www.passionchrono.com/en/yema-vintage/5434-yema-rallygraf-super.html#idTab1
No, €2490! http://chronocentric.com/forums/chronotrader/index.cgi?md=read;id=58983; 😯
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My occasionally worn classic.

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Appx 1936, we believe. Worn by a French resistance hero in my wife's family. Means a lot to me that I'm lucky enough to wear it. I often wonder what the history of the scratches is, was it just an accident, or during some clandestine event. History.

Seems that Yema Rallygraf watches are not immune to iffy ones coming onto the market, just had a look at this one:
http://chronocentric.com/forums/chronotrader/index.cgi?md=read;id=60449;
and there are a few things wrong with it: the winder is wrong, the case back is wrong, and the tachymetre bezel is wrong.
The winder has a flat top, the case back has the words '100% WATERPROOF' in an arc around the top, 'ALL STEEL' around the bottom, and '10 ATMOSPHERES' across the centre, with the serial number underneath, mine being 133754.
Zooming in on the bezel shows it's been printed, there are radial rings, and incomplete black around the figures, an original is anodised.
I wouldn't be touching that one, that's for sure

Can you report it with your concerns?

My occasionally worn classic.

That is stunning.

I have an 80s Seiko.

Can I join in?

cynic-al - Member
I have an 80s Seiko.

Can I join in?

Yeh go on fill your boots!

just bought... 🙂 to replace my 7 year old orange monster 🙂

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Oof!

Thanks, wrecker.

It's understated, and fairly small, so no one notices. I like that. It's manual, and has a tick that sounds alive rather than just mechanical. Add the history of the original owner and it is something very special. Don't think it's especially valuable in mere monetary terms, but it's priceless in terms of importance, both to my wife and I.

Interesting to read comments; each to their own I guess, and really just a case of the emperors new clothes for those buying these watches ... it's niche, and by comments on here, they seem to be loved or loathed in equal measures.

IMO they are a great way of fleecing people with too much money

Good deal on a nice Seiko Panda chrono here;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seiko-SKS485P1/dp/B014ITEUGI/ref=sr_1_10?s=watch&ie=UTF8&qid=1482827688&sr=1-10

Quartz, but nowt wrong with quartz.

In fact there are plenty of nice Seiko on sale
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_in_-2_p_89_39?fst=as%3Aoff&rh=n%3A667357031%2Cp_89%3ASeiko&bbn=667357031&ie=UTF8&qid=1482827676&rnid=1632651031

i have been wanting to buy a new watch for some time now (my old watch is a timex atlantis 100 from about the late 90's i think) this one anyhoo [img] [/img]

well reading this amongst other watch threads on here got me looking at any deals on atm.

well i saw a nice deal at argos for one of these [img] http://argos.scene7.com/is/image/Argos/5326679_R_Z001A?fmt=pjpg&wid=1240&hei=1116 [/img] reduced from £150 to £80.

so am now the proud owner of one.

well chuffed 😀

I tried on a few Bell & Ross' the other day. Expensive for what you get, and their history isn't as interesting as many other brands, but they sure did feel quality and felt fantastic on the wrist.

Was hard not to buy on the spot.

Anything less than this . . . you might as well go home!

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i would, but it would only obscure the large necklace of my own face:

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G-Shock are better (Magneto Dog says so!)

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