Don’t forget: it can also be used for other timing needs
The most I've used the bezel on my Citizen diver was to time colleagues presentations to keep them on track at our 2 day conference.
This could be an interesting diversion - what do you use your dive watch countdown bezel for... I've used it for cooking (natch), car parks, interval training and timing stuff like how long it takes to walk somewhere so I know what time to set off next time.
what do you use your dive watch countdown bezel
Making satisfying high quality clicky noises
Cooking and carparks, check. When the wash or dryer or dishwasher went on.... Twiddling when bored... I don't use mine that much.
what do you use your dive watch countdown bezel for
As an expensive, clicky, fidget spinner.
I dont use mine. Anything other than pointer at 12 triggers my OCD.....
OCD - o’clock demarcation
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@kryton57 I came back this morning in the vain hope you’d ordered – something. Anything 😊
You’ve been around here long enough to know better….
Is anyone tempted by the 10th anniversary Scurfa watches released tomorrow night?
I quite like the look of the green Diver One. Though lume on the bezel?
I have some good watches, nothing too expensive-ish, one watch from WWII, one from my first ever proper wage, few very nice dive watches, but I now have a hankering for one from the year I was born, somewhere in the 60’s.
Apart from a fleabay saved search, which is proving bloody useless, any pointers from the watch experts here on where else I should be looking / asking ?
No budget in mind, no style apart from maybe a diver, maybe a dress watch, automatic is a given, don’t give a hoot about what strap.
Finally, a week after the 48hr delivery was placed RM turned up with the Sailcloth strap, I get my 100% waterproof Tudor/FF lovechild of a Gecko back:
I love this look, and it completes the watch for me, to the point I'm doubting I need a Brietling 😀
...but I've noticed a theme!
any pointers from the watch experts here on where else I should be looking / asking ?
I'm by no means and expert but this is the kind of googling & research I like to do!
I now have a hankering for one from the year I was born, somewhere in the 60’s.
Apart from a fleabay saved search, which is proving bloody useless, any pointers from the watch experts here on where else I should be looking / asking ?
It'll be on your birth certificate mate.
😂
I'd try and narrow down the type of watch a bit, then search for xx watch 196x. Vintage searching is a different game. If you don't decide what watch you want it's very hard to research what a good example is. Without knowing that you risk buying a lemon.
Kryton that white faced thing looks like it has no hands! It's not very legible is it.
Kryton that white faced thing looks like it has no hands! It’s not very legible is it.
That'll be my Hamilton, of which my iPhone has issues due to its lack of AR. How's this:
Better but no, I couldn't be doing with that.
Better but no, I couldn’t be doing with that.
Its on the Sell list. I have a love / hate thing with it. I think it looks good sitting there like that, but I put it on and feel very flat about it, to the point it gets removed an hour later.
To save me trawling back, can you tell us where the sailcloth strap is from please. I think that would suit my last purchase nicely.
Geckota direct: https://www.geckota.com/products/phalanx-padded-sailcloth-qr-water-resistant-watch-strap?variant=43314575343850
Cheers Kryton. 👍
If you’re into Bond, the classic Connery years of the sixties had some great watches, a vintage Rolex from then would be super spendy but the dress watches much cheaper. Here’s a breakdown.
https://manofmany.com/fashion/watches/a-complete-list-of-all-the-james-bond-watches
A left field option would be to avoid Japan and Switzerland and try something very sixties and German, a Junghans Max Bill or one of their others.
Hello all. I'm still here but am resisting watches purchases at present. Partly contentment with what I have, partly lack of dosh (mainly lack of dosh). That said, I still enjoy a good perv and I'm heading to Paris today on other business. I'll drop by to see the first TAG Heuer I've ever been interested in. I might pop by JLC too, to pleasure myself (yes, that) at the boutique window. Maybe VC also, if I need a coffee and biscuit!
Enjoy yourself in Paris! Have a riot.....
Likewise! Genuine Q: are watches cheaper in Paris e.g. no UK taxes?
I like those Carrerra's. When I was out an about on Monday I looked at the three hander, they look very shiny & expensive in the flesh.
Ha, I sold my Carrera just last week. It was a GMT, nice enough and my first dabble into proper watches. Just nit quite to my taste any longer.
Thanks SSS. I live 30 km SW, in the relative peace and quiet of the Versailles forests. My wife has an interview for a promotion, so I offered to accompany her, thus gaining husband points, which I will then splurge against the JLC boutique window! I don't dress like your average French rioter, simultaneously more scruffy and conservative, but I won't be surprised to see some of my colleagues in the scrum!
Here is my Carrera
Purchased in the sale for £2,600 from the Tag shop at Cheshire Oaks. Currently thinking of chopping it in for a Speedmaster.
I can highly recommend a Speedy
There is a new watch shop in Cheshire Oaks, Hour Passion, which I belive is part of the swatch group (they have Longines, Certina, Rado, Tissot, Hamilton etc). Was looking at a Longines Heritage Skin Diver the other week and then today I see that Goldsmiths have a half price offer on them, very tempting at that price, although its on the leather rather than the rubber strap.
@dark-side You need a bigger wrist. As an amateur Dr, I prescribe more wa**king. That should sort it 🙃
As it appears to be Chronograph day, this is my latest purchase. Something about the Seitona appealed more that the Timex Q Chrono I posted a few months back, so that got flipped in its favour. Love it, the only thing I'm not massively keen on is the handset. Doesn't look like there are any options for Quartz movements on the modders websites. Anyone ever enquired with Seiko about official mods?
What don't you like about the handset? I think pencil hands are quite handsome
Just a preference thing. Dauphine type hands are my favourites although I'm not sure they'd suit this too well. The new larger version of this has a broader handset that I like.
New repro bezel arrived, pretty tidy tbf
I like that Seiko very nice
I had a thought of these today. for no other reason than its a cheap solar recycled Timex:
I have a 20% discount making it £88 and I have a £300 cycle insurance refund burning whole in my pocket 😀
But its a 46.
Tthew, that seiko is rather smart.
I'll not comment on the careers beyond its not to my taste!
I'm back from Paris. Not rioted to death or nuffink! I also didn't go to a single watch shop - even when my wife offered :O. I stayed with her, doing quickfire questions, right up to her interview. That, gentlemen, is playing the long game!
That, gentlemen, is playing the long game!
Ha Ha Ha, excellent.
Looks like CW are jumping on the prx bandwagon, looks slim though tbf...
[url] https://imgur.com/a/o3Dy4od [/url]
Crooked edge on the bevelling in the promo shot. Nice...
Aren't most watches are clones/homage to earlier designs anyway? Very few are ground breaking or new. I'm sure the PRX itself is an homage to a 60s design classic
A PRX style watch with CW quality can only be a good thing and provide more choice to people with deeper pockets.
The prx is a watch that follows thy design cues of many Gerald Genta watches. They tend to be the expensive stuff, the pp nautilus, the ap roo the vc whatsadoodle. There are others that have the integrated bracelet look, iwc ingeneur, some omega constellations, etc, and lots with the octagonal bezelly look too, piaget polo, bvgari octisimo, and and and and.
