Wouldn't buy a cheap casio from eBay.. I bought a F-91W from there, turned out to be a fake with disco lights style led instead of the regular light and wouldn't keep time. Never occurred to me that they would bother making fakes of such a cheap item.
Yeah, wouldn't buy from anyone other than a reputable shop. That was just a link.
...and now I want a Casio Royale too.
So chaps, in order to save my garmin Fenix from much more wear, I’m after a beater watch, not too expensive.
My go to always was a g shock, but I fancy something different, what do the collective recommend / use ?
I know that this is another G Shock, but it has become my default "messing about" watch.
Casio G-Shock G-Rescue Moon Tide G-7900A-4C G7900A-4C Men's Watch (creationwatches.com)
Ridiculously chunky with a tide indicator that my kids took the piss out of me massively for... until we went on holiday then I was pestered with "Dad, when will the tide be in so we can go jumping off the pier?".
Would be wearing it today, but some vicious bug got under the strap last night and bit me a three times.
@Walowiz - Pick a Glycine, add duty and fees and voila 4 days later via UPS….?
https://www.ashford.com/brand/glycine.html?gender=MEN&prod_cate=Watches
New strap for the North Flag. From Two Stitch Straps. Having only had it on the bracelet before, this has really freshened it up.
@harry_the_spider I do like that red g shock, rather predictably
@kryton57 that’s good value, but over twice what I want to spend, also never been a huge Tissot fan.
@walowiz, the link didn’t work - use the filters Watches / Glycine. They are flogging off a load of discounted glycine’s around $180.
Really like the North Flag. Also a fan of the Ranger.
While my Smiths was being resized I had a look at the Ranger…..I think Panerai is the next watch before looking at Tudor again.
And talking about the Smiths, I’ve put it on a cheap leather strap. I really don’t like metal braclets. But don’t like it on this either….
Have a look at the Zuludiver Octopod deployants.
Nice straps in either stretchy or non-stretchy (I prefer stretchy - very comfortable).
https://www.watchgecko.com/collections/zuludiver-octopod
Here’s one of mine. (The red stripe does align with the red 12 o’clock arrow when it’s on my wrist)
I have twice had casio royale’s as my short term watch. They are a good size and very comfortable to wear but I cannot love the silver plastic body. It also marks very easily. I much prefer to spend the money on a metal 70’s or 80’s digital watch.
I know this is going to sound like I'm being a twit but...
I'm after a '23 Daytona and will not pay the 'I'm really impatient' uplift so AD presumably? I last bought something like this ~30 years ago when you walked into a shop and said 'I'd like the Sub in the window please' or some such.
Any advice or recent experiences of how to get one of these at RRP please?
I know this is going to sound like I’m being a twit but…
I’m after a ’23 Daytona and will not pay the ‘I’m really impatient’ uplift so AD presumably? I last bought something like this ~30 years ago when you walked into a shop and said ‘I’d like the Sub in the window please’ or some such.
Any advice or recent experiences of how to get one of these at RRP please?
Not sure you can these days other than somehow get on a waiting list. If you work out how let me know as I’d get a 40mm explorer, happy (ish) to pay list but not getting involved with the scalpers. I’d rather not have one if that’s the game.
Daytona? No. Buy grey, go to the ad and buy a LOT of jewellery and hope, or just no. Not possible.
I know there's a lot of Christopher Ward fans on here. Loving the look of the Trident 300 in 42mm with a white face. Anyone got a Trident and want to share views on build quality, feel etc please?
https://www.christopherward.com/watches/c60-trident-pro-300/C60-38ADA31S0KW0-B0.html
I can vouch for how well made they are as I've had Trident pro bronze. I don't think you would be disappointed, however they do lose a lot of value and can be found on ebay easily enough so I'd consider used.
The watch I’ve had for the longest (bought for myself for my 30th birthday) and Omega Railmaster with a strap that I got off a watch I bought of Instagram.
and the watch I’ve bought most recently, a Ming Monopusher. First watch I’ve bought with a complication and I really love it. I know the designer Ming Thein a little from his days working as a photographer and I own a couple of his watches.
Oh those are nice! More info and pictures of both please. The rail master is cracking, I'm an omega fan. I've heard of ming but I don't know about them and would love to learn more.
Zenith eta 17th-24th. I'm guessing (hoping) that it'll be dispatched in a few hours when Japan starts work for the day, and the courier, tracking and eta will get updated.
The Smith’s bracelet is the reason why I don’t like metal bracelet watches….jingly jangly. I had a cheaper model Tag back in the 90’s and the jangly bracelet really put me off metal straps.
I know exactly what you mean! When I bought my TAG Series 1000 ‘NightDiver’ in the 80’s, I put up with the black steel bracelet for quite some time, up until I bought my first mountain bike in ‘88. The incessant rattling, along with the mucky black sweat mark round my wrist got pretty old pretty quickly, so I put an MBUK Velcro strap on, followed by a series of Animal ones.
I took the steel bracelet off my SPORK because it was far too long, and it was heavy, but I’ve had a couple more links taken out, (three in total - I’ve got wrists like sparrows legs), and I’m really enjoying it now, it looks ‘complete’, somehow, probably because it’s a fairly chunky watch, and having a bracelet that tapers away from the outside of the lugs looks sleeker. It is bloody heavy, though!
Just remembered this article I read the other day, which might interest those on here with some spare cash they’re struggling to know what to do with…
https://www.gq.com/story/roger-smith-interview-pocket-watch-auction-one-million
That Railmaster is lovely.
@bullet what @neilveil said. I have a compressor and it’s a lovely thing, quality above most if not all others at the price range and it shows. They just don’t have the cache to hold thier price, it doesn’t bother me becuase mine was a 50th gift and I won’t be selling.
I’m tempted by the black dial GMT tbh but would need to consolidate my collection a bit to do so.
So just for a laugh I spoke to my local Rolex AD this morning. They get 2x Daytonas a year and have a waiting list of 400. So if everyone buys when it's their turn, that's 200 years of forward orders. Riiiiiight.
You will need to get your spend up too in the interim 😆 System seems designed to facilitate the flippers/ grey market
So my man maths is probably wrong but Rolex make one watch per 7500 people in the world per year. Most of those people are either too poor for a Rolex or couldn't give a monkeys about arm jewellery and they are 200 times oversubscribed. Crazy
I have tracking info for the zenith. Exciting.
So just for a laugh I spoke to my local Rolex AD this morning. They get 2x Daytonas a year and have a waiting list of 400. So if everyone buys when it’s their turn, that’s 200 years of forward orders. Riiiiiight.
So glad I don’t really like Rolex aesthetically
Rolex, AP, PP it's a game
Some Rolex are easy enough to buy. Mate bought a Sky Dweller, registered his interest with an AD and was given a phone call a couple of days later saying another but had cancelled so it’s his if he wants it. Had to go there the same day and buy it. This was very recently, in a city centre dealers. He paid standard RRP.
My Explorer II, I just walked into the dealer and they had one in stock, I tried it on and bought it there and then. This was over a decade ago though.
Aye. I bought my Sub in my lunchtime sometime in 1992. Walked out with it on my wrist and paid £1700 IIRC. I'd pay £12.7k (gulp) for a Daytona but £20k - £30k? Not a chance.
Get a zenith, it's a better chrono and better looking anyway.
I have tracking info for the zenith. Exciting.
Ha Ha. I watched my (hitherto unmentionable) Vostok and more recently the bought in the US Glycine track across states, through the air and to my door. It’s a ridiculous thing to do but quite the anticipatory fun.
The Vostock has been mothballed for over a year of course, what’s the view on wearing them now?
I'm waiting for an Air King, which seem to have become more popular recently. However, I was massively underwhelmed by the OP39 I bought recently and sold it on within a couple of weeks. Kind of making me think I don't actually want the Air King anymore, and there's more interesting options
The Vostock has been mothballed for over a year of course, what’s the view on wearing them now?
Mine are still in their boxes tucked away. I've thought about breaking one out for a couple of days wear, but just can't bring myself to do it.
In the end though, 99.9% of people would have no clue what it was and the Russian connection. Saw a young lad wearing a battered Komanderski at a music festival the other month, I'm sure none of the other thousands of attendees noticed. I reckon you can choose yourself, especially if it's not one of the overtly military themed ones.
I’m waiting for an Air King, which seem to have become more popular recently. However, I was massively underwhelmed by the OP39 I bought recently and sold it on within a couple of weeks.
The OP and the Air King do look like the sort of Rolex’s where a Grand Seiko would be a good (and cheaper) alternative, they both look a little bland, imho
but just can’t bring myself to do it
im on the same wavelength, I don’t expect anyone around me would know, but morally I can’t do it. It’s a shame because I really enjoy(ed) wearing it. (Scuba Dude small seconds complication Batman)
Thanks, the railmaster is just a really nice classic watch, I bought it at Heathrow about 15 years ago. I was by myself, it was my birthday, I’d just come out of an 8 year relationship, I got drunk at one of those posh fish bars and my flight got delayed. Bit of an accidental purchase but lasts longer than C&H?
I also have a thing for cheap, vaguely pointless, fun watches. There’s so much sincerity that sometimes you need to admit that it’s all a bit of peacocking:
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Get a zenith, it’s a better chrono and better looking anyway
I can't get away from the crap cameras association - sadly. Ironically (?), I know some of the Rolex movements are Zenith derived (specifically the Daytona's)...
^ I love that dragon one 🙂
While I'm here, I'd be grateful for some advice. My Seiko Diver has started to gain time, it's a 7S26 movement. I'm quite comfortable taking the back off and tweaking the regulator as I have the tools and did the same on another Seiko 5 I have. Thing is, I'm more concerned about the waterproofing. I'm never actually going to dive with it, at most it'll get a swim in the sea, so am I okay to just take the back off, sort the timing, and stick the back back on?
I was close to buying the C60 elite 1000 titanium watch last spring. it was perfect at the time but a year later it looks to me like its due an update.
I like the white dial too. My only concern is how well it will age and as someone else has replied they loose value so second hand its the way forward sadly. I bought an Oris Aquis GMT in the end.
If you want a sports dive my preference would be..
Used Oris diver 65 or aquis (not the small face) - sub 1k before haggling
used Tag aquaracer caliber 5 (be aware of fakes)
Doxa sub 200 (£990 + a discount code) or 600 if you can find one at a good price, Doxa is an independent swiss company thats been around before most other brands. they sell in Watches of Switzerland who usually give you 10% if you ask nicely.
I didn’t even associate Zenith watches with cameras. Were they one and the same? I thought they were Eastern European/Russian? (It was Zenit wasn’t it?)
Personally I love the watches, looking forward to seeing pictures when it arrives.
The Vostock has been mothballed for over a year of course, what’s the view on wearing them now?
I still wear my Raketa. Has no military theme to it though. Not sure that mothballing it would serve any more purpose than not wearing a Smiths during the UK's illegal Iraq invasion :/
Idly browsing watches and saw this;
https://magrette.com/shop/moana-pacific-waterman-gmt-limited-pre-order?in=37004026
Forum thoughts?
I have a couple of Magrettes, good watches and good people to deal with, but probably won’t buy one, I think I have to try a quartz GS next.
