The bright Orange rubber strap is fading and looking a bit rubbish. So my question; who makes the best bright Orange rubber strap? Any recommendations?
"best" can be quite subjective. But a good place to start might be Zuludiver (watchgecko.com and zuludiver.com) as a mid-priced option
Do you like black and red?
as thats the colour of the Seiko i am trying to get rid of lol
Hopefully this works. If not. Bah.
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Still loving my titanium Helm Vanuatu https://imgur.com/a/UQxl50r
I'm planning on slimming down the collection a bit, before I get all the photos sorted for the classifieds on here and watchuseek etc I thought I'd list the outgoing bunch on here first in case anyone fancies anything:
Elliot Brown Canford
Pantor Sealion
S&B Springfield GMT
all with various straps and cases etc.
Not worked out pricing as yet but they'll be "competitive" so if anyone's interested let me know and I'll get everything sorted!
those vanatu do look the Mutts! If I didn't have a dislike of quartz (they re quartz aren't they?) then I'd be all over one. maybe I ought to chalk it down as a 'grab and go' watch
they re quartz aren’t they?
NH35. There's a fairly long waiting list.
Oh a cheap mechanical Seiko.... Robust but inaccurate and not grab and go, now I remember why I don't want one!
Just watching the George Ezra documentary on prime and spotted he is wearing a Tudor black bay. It suits him.
Helm don't make a quartz they're all mech
Wait list can be anything - I missed one email and dropped back a good year. Probs around 4 on total. Got the emails for both the SS and ti so held off on the SS as I'm skinny writsted so the Ti seemed a better option for me. The engineer strap is stunning. But the Ti scratches very easily. I'm not arsed it's a daily wear it's gonna get banged up.
Will be parting with this shortly to part fund the new Explorer - let me know if you're interested.
Must resist… but if you want to drop me a PM Geolog with some details and price? I’ve been thinking about a North Flag for a while.
Got this last week. I'm still a miserable git. But now I know what day it is.
I like a Propilot, they are very handsome watches but the day/date one is too much of a whopper for me. 45mm isn't it? Nearly bought the PVD 41mm date only one a few years back , but bought a Tudor BB41 instead. Was thinking of getting one recently but my head has been turned by the Sinn 556i
The new Day-date is 44mm but the lug to lug is reasonable and it's pretty thin. My wrist is 7.25" and it sits comfortably. And you can definitely read the time! By day at least; the lume is pretty disappointing.
I love my ProPilot GMT
Clean, legible and GMT.
No day on it, but I have a phone for that.
The Day-Date looks equally lovely
a cheap mechanical Seiko…. Robust but inaccurate and not grab and go
?? Some have been proven 5s a month, others not. And any mechanical watch isn’t grab and go unless it’s worn or in a winder. There’s a margin of functionality between a £400 Seiko and a £4000 Tudor - for example - which IMO makes a Brand name hard to justify at times.
F’rinstance, the new Tag Solargraph. Ti yes, Tag yes, but 100m with a citizen eco drive movement. £2,550, about £1000 at least of which is about Brand (IMHO).
I love the Oris ProPilot, it's just a great pilots watch, smart, legible, solid internals, and the Oris strap/ deployant is excellent. I have the 10-day GMT version which is very good, but could definitely keep better time.
I'm hoping Oris rolls out its new 5-day movement into regular production in the ProPilot, and might replace mine then
Yes kryton, some people are lucky and get the good movements and yes it shows the cheaper, and medium cost Seiko movements are decent designs and can be accurate. However there are two issues. Firstly the designs are tricky to regulate. Not impossible, but tricky. The second issue (and this impacts the first) is Seiko quality control. It's no better on movements than it is on bezel alignment and so on, which unfortunately means that many aren't within 30s/day and extremely difficult to do anything about. That's why I made my comment. It is also partly why I prefer a ETA or sellita.
It is also partly why I prefer a ETA or sellita.
I'm with you there, but with a Seiko as a tool watch and my specific need not requiring 1-5s per day accuracy I'm happy to wear what are some good and good looking watches at certain price points.
There's other watches/movements I'd rather get at £1000, and I agree Seiko's quality has seen a blip recently unfortunately co-inciding with price rises, I guess we wait and see if they respond with a quality increase.
As you may know I made a conscious decision to move to a five watch collection (which hasn't worked btw, I haven't sold any of the others yet) and I've decided - of the three that don't have sentimental value - I'm only flipping those for definitive upgrades. That in itself leaves me in Oris, SINN and Longines territory next.
I find myself - 149 pages in - now knowing the size/style of watch I want & suits me which means viewing watches is entertaining but a lot can be ruled out. Your classic 40/20 or the odd 38 (Murph, I'd be looking at you if you included the bloody morse code like your big brother!) is pretty much my category, albeit quite a wide one.
I too would like a 400 caliber Propilot, but I hope they don't bring it out too soon after getting this one! I'm very happy to have the day on my wrist. I have a general preference for no-date watches or a very discreet date (like my Pelagos) but I do have trouble remembering the day as I work fairly irregular hours. Even better would be colour coding the day wheel, green, yellow and black, to reference the various bin days!
Maybe under your radar @Gaidong but especially the black one here:
@kryton57, thanks! My grandad flew Hunters IIRC (defo Meteor after the war). Next on my buy list is a chrono though; so many hours to waste looking...
Just a little update on my watch with a piece of dust under the glass, got the crystal cleaned locally for £20 and a refund from the supplier for around £80 so I'm happy.
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Hopefully a question or two that won't offend any watch aficionados.
I've always liked a good watch and whilst I have a small selection, I have found myself not really wearing one any longer - perhaps for as long as the past 6 or 7 years I don't wear a watch beyond a Garmin occasionally.
Now I'd like to start wearing one again and am attracted to new shiny. The trouble is, I have no desire to fiddle with a watch or keep correcting it and perhaps more importantly may go for days or even weeks without wearing it.
Because of this, I am drawn to quartz movements for simplistic ownership, yet most collectors and watcherists run away in disgust when hearing such things and fail to offer any opinions on 'those sort' of watches.
I get that the mechanics of many watches are a thing of beauty and some are genuine manufacturing marvels but, I just don't want the hassle of setting and winding / moving with a watch after I've left it more than 80 hours.
Because of this and with up to £900 or so to spend, I am looking at a few from Seiko, Tissot and the main one that grabs me now is a discounted Longines Conquest vhp.
Dare I ask what people think of this and if there are any other watches to look at sub £1k and quartz - of a similar design to the Longines.
I do like coloured faces and metal straps, and am not especially turned on by divers watches.
If there is such thing as a mechanical self winding watch with an accurate movement and a GPS or similar chip inside to auto set the time once rewound through wrist movement, I'd look but I'd guess they run into many zeros - if such a thig exists.
Certina have a few similar to the Conquest you've linked, their DS-8 range and DS Podium particularly. They're also part of the same Swatch group as Longines so potentially some shared specs.
@Stevet1, seems like you came to a good arrangement and the watch looks good, nice one!
@twonks, how about a Chris Ward? There are quite a few GMT's with different coloured dials in your price range. They are lovely watches, I have a C65 compressor and its quality. Make sure you spot the "show more" button at the bottom of the page.
All the talk of Day complications made me fish out my Hamilton. I've posted pics before but here's a reminder:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kryton1957/52661670905/in/dateposted-public/
I think I might wear it to the office on Thursday.
CW don't do any quartz as far as I can see?
Yeah but, read the bottom bit. He can sort his issue with a watch winder, several of the well known online shops are giving them away with watches in his price range.
If not, there's quite a few quartz watches in the Swatch group - Tissot as he mention, Hamilton Khaki quartz and so on. A quartz PRX would be on trend. I know he wasnt keen on a dive watch but a Longine Hydroconquest quartz with 10% code at the top of the page would be nice.
@twonks Seiko Kinetic? The best or worst of both the automatic and quartz worlds?
Not necessarily easy to find the nicer ones these days.
@Twonks Casio Oceanus S100.
You will thank me later.
just one more watch has a good review and the Nick Shebaz is a classic review.
The Oceanus is a great shout!
I considered one to replace my Citizen AT4008-51E after the JOMW review, but never made the move.
I also have a citizen promaster land radio wave that is limited to JJY Fukushima signal reception only. But the JJY emulator android app works well with headphones and ear speakers wrapped around watch to sync every 6 months.
Junghans MEGA for euro style radio controlled goodness.
I think twonks should take browse through assume micro brand websites. Scurfa, maybe. Or get over the 'new' need.... Personally a quartz SMP is just the best, the very very best.
Thanks for some great ideas.
Wally got it perfect. Love the Casio. Just the right thing. Looks great, super functionality and just the right name to annoy a few who don’t know any better 😎
Purchased on eBay for £340. Not the cheapest and expecting charges etc.
Thanks again.
Glad to help, will wear mine today, welcome to the club. Resale will not be an issue. Lastly read the manual, there are some very clever things you can do to reset all hands to absolutely hit the markers and you can micro move the date number up and down window to your liking. Mine never ever misses markers or syncing each night.
Cheers. Already seen the video on how to adjust pretty much everything.
Will read up again when it comes and post a pic of my unflattering collection. Will have 3 Casios at that point.
I put the AT on today which is flat as a pancake. People seem to like them but I can't decide whether its too busy, odd looking, and needlessly complicated to operate, possibly all three...
I've listed the Springfield GMT on the classifieds so if anyone's interested give me a shout, the Pantor has gone and I've just spent £300 on straps for the Canford...
Type A Stowa flieger incoming from a late night eBay cruise. Hope it doesn't disappoint as I've fancied one of these for years
Looking for some strap recommendations. Had a big birthday yesterday and my wife got me a gold Seiko Alpinist which I'm very happy about. For my 40th I got a Seamaster and this compliments it rather nicely. Anyway, the supplied strap is fine, my ideal size does seem to sit between two holes and the balance of how it wears is a bit off. To that end I'm looking at changing it or at least trying something different. I've saw a golf jubilee fitted on the Strapcode pages and think it suits the watch. Unfortunately Strapcode is out of stock and US based. Are there any UK suppliers of decent jubilees and something that will work with the Alpinist?
Put the Zenith on a Geckota bracelet for a different look.
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Try forstner, they are good bracelets.
Looking forward to seeing the stowa 👍
I'm pleased you're pleased, black dial with flat monochrome printing does nothing for me. I get they're meant to be entirely functional for their purpose, but I like a little design interest.
It's a good job we all see these things differently though, otherwise Casio would never have sold any of them tactical G-Shocks from the other thread! (not that I like them either).
Yeah I understand that. Think it’s more that I was interested in the history behind them and the functionality of the design. It’s definitely the most sterile of all my watches but that itself has a certain charm to me
I like that Kato, personally I think the type a is the best!
The Casio has landed.
Strap adjusted and fits nicely. Light and very much not in the way at all.
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Nice Oceanus, JDM watches often seem a lot better
That Stowa is a beauty. Nice choice.
What's the going rate for a spork these days? Anybody know?
Don't see the fuss...
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Rolex design hq...
"Another bullshit line of text on the dial?”
"There's physically no more room"
"Two more lines of text it is."
I was thinking the same thing - so much text the Rolex logo had to be used as the “12”.
Rolex quite well often use their logo as the 12 marker, in fact other than dials with an indicator at 12 (like on a gmt) I think using the logo is the norm.
Five lines of text isn’t that unusual either, my datejust had the same they’re just more spread out,
Having said that, I don’t particularly like that Rolex, gold is a bit meh!
I didn't ask for that one in particular but, on a whim, just asked for the big D (O:) on the off chance to try the pusher action. I didn't like that either! A Tutima chrono felt nice (was in Germany) but was rather 'special' in the looks department...
"Five lines of text isn’t that unusual either"
It should be.
As Daytona go, that one is not my favourite! It's the gold I think. I like the panda version with the black ceramic bezel but haven't really thought about it as... Well.... It's not a watch I'm ever going to get so choosing a colourway is a bit pointless!
Haha, hark at him! 'my FIRST Rolex' there is the voice of a man happy to be allowed in the club 🤣😉😉
Will be curious to see if it’s worth the money. Which I doubt
What will your criteria be for deciding that?
I’m not sure. I need to feel it in my hand. Does that make any sense?
Yep, sure does.
I tried on a £1900 watch a couple of weeks ago with the intention of blowing a work bonus on it. If it had felt right I would probably have gone for it but in the hand it was cheap and nasty. Apparently it's one of the best sub £2k divers on the market and if you didn't know better you'd think it was a cheap fake of one of my £200 Orients.
I couldn't necessarily tell you what I expected it to feel like but I can definitely describe what it did feel like - lightly compressed tin-foil would pretty much sum it up!
Which has definitely made me doubt watch reviews and media etc even more because they all love the damn thing so I trust their reviews even less now than I did previously.
It's even more annoying because it's not a brand I'd considered previously and it was definitely more bling than I'd ever usually wear so I was quite looking forward to it!
Interesting, do tell us what that was.
I've only handled a couple of rolex. A maxi case sub and a GMTc. Both felt very well made. Solid, smooth, not over bling or overly substantial but most definitely solid. I suspect you'll think the same of the op, and if the size feels right you'll like it.
You’ll be pleased to know it’s another boring symmetrical dial too! A 114300 Oyster Perpetual 39mm
Definitely one of the nicer looking Rolex imo.
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Rolex design hq…
"Have you seen how much writing Casio have crammed onto the face of their new G-Shock?"
"Hold my beer"
Interesting, do tell us what that was.
Also intrigued, but given the range of watches we seen on this thread, maybe it's best he doesn't for fear of upsetting someone!
I also like the sports Rolex. I love the look of the colourful dial ones from the last year or so, but that's a fashion choice and liable to change, so black is probably a safe bet.
The first place I look to is the clasp when judging a watch. I’ve had expensive watches with awful clasps. My Seamaster is on a rubber strap because the clasp inexplicably has a raised lump inside in for the divers extension which makes no sense. Also have a Tudor GMT that’s has the ceramic bearings in the clasp. That’s nice so wondering how good a Rolex clasp is.
Tudor will be leaving if I keep the OP though. Need to balance the books hahaha
Unexpected development - the mrs treated me to a Certina DS Action Ti for Valentines Day - it was one of two watches I'd asked her opinion about a few weeks ago when I started looking at that and the disappointing one above. Thankfully she bought this instead of the other option because I'd be gutted and needless to say I'm very pleased with it!
I'd rather not name and shame the other watch because I think at least one person on here has one and I don't want to annoy anyone.
So given I've now been gifted a nice diver I can't really see when I'd wear my other auto Orient divers so I'm going to sell them. Which then means I'd only have 2 Orients left so I'm going to sell them as well and really trim down the collection.
So, the following Orients will be up for grabs at some point soon.
Bambino Mk1 - black and silver
Ray Mk1 - blue dial, blue bezel
Kanno - red bezel, black dial
M-Force diver - black
Flight - black case, dark grey textured dial
I'll stick prices and photos up on the classifieds tomorrow but if anyone is interested let me know.
Ohhhh you... You ... Diplomat! Can't we have different views on watches and still be friends? Unless it's one of mine.....hmmm...Ti feels light. . You are WRONG about the pelagos! 🤣. No .. Not that.... It's not actually that light....hmmm... What was the clue? ' apparently one of the best sub 2k divers on the market'. Right that's a decent clue.... Seiko maybe..or. .hmm I'm off to YouTube to get ideas 😂
Congrats on the certina! I got a cup cake.
I'm a bugger for a big un.
Couldn't resist the Timex Command Encounter. Got 20% off so £108...
I’m a bugger for a big un.
Couldn’t resist the Timex Command Encounter
As chunky watches in a similar style to a 'G' go, that looks ok. Not a fan of the 'SHOCK' at the bottom of the bezel though, looks like it's trying to be a copy
Timex Command Encounter
Can't help feeling Timex should be above such a blatant rip-off of G-Shock, at same time, it is kind of cool, but seems a bit pricey for what it is
N=N
Out was the Christopher ward C60 pro bronze
In.... A Rado captain Cook bronze. Very pleased with it.
N-3!
Out has gone the G Steel, the Tissot Supersport and the Alpha Paul Newman Daytona. Nothing incoming.