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Dressy or sporty?
I’m going to be less than helpful in this answer.
“Smart diver” style, every day watch.
This sort of thing, this sort of price range for the boys. They’re 10 & 15 so they won’t wear it everyday, but I’m not buying them a Rolex each (even if someone would sell me one).
https://spinnaker-watches.co.uk/collections/fleuss/products/fleuss-lumber-black-sp-5055-01
Or
https://spinnaker-watches.co.uk/collections/croft/products/croft-mid-size-nomad-sp-5100-02
I quite like the idea of a Seiko movement as it should be an inexpensive repair / replacement for a long time to come.
Maybe something from here
https://www.seiyajapan.com/collections/seiko
I’ve used them and they are reliable and good to deal with
Seiko , or Orient , Citizen etc.
Likely Seiko would be the best bet as their range is enormous.
Seiko 5 would be my thought, probably an SNK 807/809/805/803.
Different colours, pretty bomb proof and you can mix the straps to make them dressy or more casual.
If they'd prefer a bigger face, Seiko SNZG
There’s somit about Seiko 5 that I just don’t like.
I’d never consider one over a Seiko
If I wore a steel GMT or sub the extra weight would do my head in
'Do my wrist in...' Shirley 🙂 I wouldn't wear a heavy watch clattering down a descent on an MTB to avoid the potential wrist/soft tissue injury. Some of the case corners can be a bit jaggy...
Sub isn’t that heavy really.
What it is though is the exact watch to stand up to abuse like crashing mountain bikes.
My Sub is slightly heavier than my GMT and I have 16cm wrists, but I never notice the weight once the watch is on.
Subs may not be that heavy but the knurled crown is capable of scraping away enough skin to draw blood on a big day's riding.
It's just that it waggles and wobbles and is quite pointy in parts. Plastic Forerunners and the like are much more suitable for sporty sports.
Eh ?
Never had any experience like that.
Fat wrists ?
They are called sports watches for a reason.
Fat wrists ?
Not in my case, no padding whatsoever and quite a protruding wrist bone.
Fat wrists ?
Not in my case either. 'Sports' as in diving, absolutely. 'Sports' as in jiggly/wiggly, not for me. Even my fat Polar altimeter watch is a bit much sometimes and it doesn't even have pointy bits.
Eaxlch to his own tho eh?
Do any of you worry about having several thousand pounds strapped to your wrist?
I still remember back in 1996 watching my dad ride into a gravel trap on Mammoth Mountain and go slow motion over the bars into the deep gravel. He came out unscathed but with a heavily scratched (couldn’t see through it)glass on his Speedmaster moon watch. He wasn’t bothered and it cleaned up fine with a bit of a polish. Still has it now and wouldn’t know.
I have a Panerai and a Rolex with fairly large sticky out bits. When riding they do irritate, the Rolex is especially uncomfortable. I now have a permanent small indent on my hand where it’s rubbed.
'I now have a permanent small indent on my hand where it’s rubbed.'
I have my watch on my right hand for that very reason! Normally wear a mid size Seamaster so isnt so much of a problem.
She be here! First impressions. Small, but I'll get used to it. The watch is in mint condition, and the box and papers immaculate. It's running about 40s/day fast so I may give a burst of demag but beat error is tight and.... it's a two-hander. Sat by the fire feeling very nervous.... 😀
I have my watch on my right hand
Yeah, I'm not American or one armed so, no thanks 🙂
@Harris, thanks! I've successfully posted a letter without breaking it 😀
Try this:
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Blimey thats some expensive looking bling.
Tried one of those on
They look even more stunning in the flesh, and reassuringly expensive lol
Do any of you worry about having several thousand pounds strapped to your wrist? I don’t think I would be able to relax on a night out, constantly worried someone was going to mug me?
Never really bothered me, but none of my watches were terribly expensive. That’s changed a bit over the last few years, with my Yema Rallygraf. My first ‘bought by me’ watch, and in 1970 it cost £50, quite a lot of money considering I earned a bit less than £10 a week! Birthday money helped, and I wore it continually until the mid-80’s when I bought a TAG Heuer Series 1000 ‘night diver’. Cost £250, and because it was a bit tougher than the Yema chrono, that got worn to death, on the bikes, at work, everywhere. It’s got a black PVD coating which is worn and chipped, as is the bracelet, I eventually swapped that for Animal Velcro straps, because the bracelet rattled a lot when riding, and used to leave black sweaty marks on my wrist. The Yema developed a bit of an issue but I wasn’t wearing it much anyway, and I’d bought several other watches, like a Yokobies mod Series 5, and a couple of cheap Casios.
Several years ago I found someone who could fix the Yema and service it, after the mainspring broke, which cost £460, which I considered worth it for its sentimental value, so I started wearing it again. Then I came across one online that had been auctioned in London, so I contacted them to find out what it had sold for - £3800! It’s no longer an everyday watch, but I do still wear it, I made a leather strap with the buckle from an older, worn-out strap, and I treasure that one. The TAG is now increasing in value, since it was discovered that it’s a ‘James Bond’ watch - Tim Dalton wore one in ‘The Living Daylights’, so it’s becoming a collectible now.
My daily beater is a Heimdallr ’Steel Tuna’ homage, which has in turn been modded, with new face and hands, and a fully lumed bezel insert, and a replacement movement, work carried out by one of this thread’s regulars; I’m reluctant to name him, I don’t want to be responsible for him getting a flood of requests for repairs and mods, so I’m keeping quiet, but it has a Seiko auto movement, it looks great, it’s very tough and I absolutely love how it looks; I do have another Heimdallr SKX007 mod homage, which hasn’t got much of a look-in lately, I just never take the Tuna off. Neither cost more than about £130-ish, I can’t justify paying more.
I really should start wearing the TAG a bit more, though, but it’s a bit small compared to the Heimdallr watches, and I’m more comfortable with the bigger case, even on my skinny wrists!
Oh, I meant to add, I was reading a Wired article earlier about Bremont watches, and their new building, very much worth a read…
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bremont-british-watches
If I could actually afford a really good, expensive watch, other than a Tudor Pelageos, it would be a Bremont.
@brads, earlier this year I tried on the full rose gold Overseas perpetual calendar. (like below but with blue dial.
Not my cup of tea, which is lucky as I couldn't afford it without selling the house (and the manager was just humouring me :D).
The only VCs I really like at the moment are in the Historiques collection - again, all out of league but I have caressed them nevertheless 😀
Both lovely but the first would be too busy for me.
I need a plain , high contrast face or I can’t see the thing to tell the time lol
That Historiques is beautiful.
The manager (with whom I flirt relentlessly and pointlessly) told me a great story about one of her clients. Came in saying his watch wasn't working. Done anything to damage it Sir? Well, yes, I went jetskiing and didn't screw down the crowns on the full gold Overseas tourbillon... Apparently he took the write off quite well. There's a lot of seriously rich folks out there, beyond the comprehension of most of us.
PP 5146r. Doesnt come out to play often tho. If i can get the image to load....
Wowwweeeee
That strap looks too tight. Guess you want to know it's definitely on though
Thanks guys, she is a beaute. As i said I dont wear her often. I love the PP annual calendars, but the VC perpetual calendars are much nicer than PP. Hope to get one one day.
The beater watch, always on. Seamaster 300 (quartz - which they dont make any more) - and yes @boblo, 'wrong wrist' 😀
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Better than my previous attempt
Wow. The last few pages really have gone up several notches!
Wow. The last few pages really have gone up several notches!
Indeed, its kinda shelved my "should I buy this Sale Antartica Monster" idea - feels like pissing into the wind in comparison 😀
I know the collection is never 'done' but I'm pretty happy with it at the moment. I have a couple on sale on C24 (Sinn UX and Tudor BB ETA 'red smiley') but very little on the watch list, only this Patek pocket watch, which I don't need at all but can admire from afar. I have a couple of movements inbound, an ETA 6498-1 élaboré to complete a silver dial/heat-blued hands deck watch, and a decorated and skeletonised Seagull ST3620 to make a Panerai Radiomir type jobby, possibly with a California dial.
If I wanted a nice looking watch for not much, just for the occasional time when I go out and my old plastic Casio isn't appropriate, what should I look for? Wouldn't mind something second hand. Just looked up those Heimdallr watches on eBay and there's quite a lot from AliExpress etc, are they knock offs?
Heimdallr are just a fairly cheap brand that tend to copy other manufacturers designs, nothing wrong with them.
If by going out you mean a bit dressy, then the Orient Bambino range are well thought of at a lower price point. There is a huge variety of Seiko 5's too which are good value for money and a bit more sporty in style.
It all depends on how much you want to spend. And not a lot to some is a lot to others.
That Heimdallr Submariner with the ETA movement looks good and, well, with an ETA movement. Get the Subby look from afar with a half decent recognised movement ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_SA) also give you a discussion point with the watch.
I remember reading once before about the gradients of fakes (replica watches), from rubbish materials to top notch quality materials ( http://express-press-release.net/37/Grades%20of%20Replica%20Swiss%20Watches.php) but why would you spend hundreds, nay thousands, on a fake?
Recommend look for secondhand/used piece which perhaps didnt get the 'love' on release, or something interesting but affordable. Tag, Longines, Tissot, Hamilton, Maurice Lacroix, Omega, .....