Watches N+1…

Hermes H08 gets my vote too.

I think I’d like a green dial and a green strap, but they don’t do that combo.

Poole Harbour, returning from Wareham, last week. Watch is still stopped but hey, time keeping is secondary, right?!

“Even a broken clock is right twice a day”

<p style=”text-align: left;”>That mido is rather smart looking.  Very Gerald Genta, very Aquanaut, or Piaget Polo S.  It’s a very on trend look.</p>

I just tried the new Tag Carrera Glassbox on.   Gulp, what a lovely looking thing.

Having owned one I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another, the quality is far above the cost especially vs others.  A £1000 CW will be a long stretch away from a £1000 Seiko for instance.

Meh, I’ll take a Seiko over any CW any time, if for no other reason than they have a much longer history, and have been highly respected and innovative over the years. While there are certain Seiko style features I’m not so keen on, like arrowhead hands, I can’t say there’s anything much about CW that would make me want to buy one.

I can’t say there’s anything much about CW that would make me want to buy one.

it’s often an emotional thing E.g. “you like what you like”, but most know that Seiko QC above £500 and below £2k is a bit suspect currently.  If you’re buying on a spec sheet only, it wouldn’t be Seiko that wins that argument.  Jnr tried on the Padi mechanical diver the other day on offer at H Samuel for £46o, that looked very nice on the black rubber with the blue accents on the bezel.

I put my Arnie on this morning for the first time in a while though, with a sense of an old friend coming back into the room.  That and the Samurai aren’t going anywhere, but I want to offload the orange 5 GMT albeit there’s a gazillion of second hand ones for sale so it won’t go for much.

That and difficulties with the 6Rxx movements in many of the seiko in that price range affect the views of many watch enthusiasts.  Sellita and eta tend to be much much much more consistent.

Can we talk colourful watches?  I’m bored with saving, and the more my fund grows the more uncomfortable I grow with the idea of dropping three zeros on a watch more that once in my life.  So I’ve been looking at various colours, the blue CW Atoll appeals to me but I can’t justify that much cost tbh, but I’m coming more focussed onto one of these two:

The Luminox adds tritium to my collection, the Seiko is well just another Seiko but with a little bit of a fun element.  So what are your thoughts on these, and what other fun type watches £500 or less should be on radar?

Got myself a nice little one make, sensible price collection for a smaller wrist. Last one was the mini turtle, was thinking on one of the new 38mm Citizen Promasters but decided to stick with Seiko.

@kryton57 I love that Luminox, a great funky budget alternative to the classic orange Doxa Sub, but still high quality.
You’ve inspired me to dig out my Luminox, change the battery and give it some wrist time.

Love those Ginza Alpinists.  Wouldn’t pay what they’re going for now though so will just have to continue admiring

@pisco how do you find it?   £500 for a fairly low grade Ronda movement kind puts me off, but the maybe overthinking.    It looks fun / like it’d fit in on a beach quite nicely.

@kryton – not a fan of that Seiko, which is unusual for me. I do like colourful watches as well, but haven’t got the ambition to go above blue! My daughters have nice orange Breitlings. Out of your two I prefer the Tag, but don’t know if it’s too much for me to get away with

Edit: it’s a luminox! Doh! Still my preference out of the two.

Heres a couple of my Seiko’s showing my colour preferences:-

@tthew that Speedtimer looks very good on that strap.

May have to browse eBay and see if there’s any deals to be had.

Having been following this thread for a while, I kept telling myself “I do NOT need a Dive watch”. But birthday next week, sucker for blue (although liked Kryton’s Luminux a lot!).

I have a couple of Torgeon watches including a Chrono but mostly still wear my Fenix 7 most of the time. Also have a drawful of older watches including a TAG I bought nearly 30 years ago and some Timex thing with a compass! I’ll have to get a pic of my motley collection sometime.

Anyway criteria were ‘blue’, ‘great lume’, ‘tough’, ‘light’, ‘not massive’, ‘no battery changes’, £200 budget. Ended up with:

Which I appreciate has nothing out of the ordinary going on, but it fit my criteria, I liked the look of it both sober and after a couple of beers and it just came into budget. Hopefully get more wrist time, than drawer time 😉

Sorry @Kryton57 how did I find what? I haven’t actually owned a Doxa Sub, although I have handled a friend’s one, and the build quality/bezel action were very impressive.

My Luminox is very different to that one – it’s a stealthy quartz 3950, but from a batch only given to the “Lynx” S.W.A.T. team of the Swiss police force.

A member of said team gave it to my mum’s husband, who he dived with a lot.

FWIW I way prefer that yellow one, as I’m not a fan of lumpy bezels, but the Lynx has sentimental value.

how did I find what?

Probably a silly question but is it quality, reliable etc.  lovely back story btw, what a fantastic reason to own one.

More love for a yellow watch than I expected tbh!

Some nice Seikos.  @woodster very nice, have the same Samuarai but on an integrated Clockwork black rubber strap.

Sorry, I thought you meant a Doxa that I’ve never owned 😄

The Luminox is great. It has been on many scuba dives (max 35m) and has always kept good time.

When changing battery today, I was thinking that it seems “overbuilt” eg thick backplate. Bezel rotation and crown action (quartz, no surprise there) aren’t particularly satisfying, but do the job.

Mine is made of a carbon composite which is very lightweight and hard, almost like ceramic.

The tritium is nice to see in the middle of the night long after luminova has faded. I have another much older tritium diver where it’s pretty dim though.

I think I’m selling the bezel short in hindsight; it’s solid with virtually no return. It just doesn’t have that sharp metallic click, but then it’s not made of metal 😆

@gaidong your nautical Poole Harbour shot inspired my Renault 4 in France one

I like the yellow Luminox, have a thing for yellow watches at the moment.  Keep looking at that Tissot Sideral but it’s a lot of money for a “fun” watch

@Kryton57, that yellow Luminox is lovely 👍

Nice Seamaster Kato.

I had a 1999 Seamaster, standard colour. Lovely watch, paid £995 back in the day. Was living offshore so only paid local taxes. Great watch. Prices are still very strong.

Stupidly game mine away to my former brother in law. I do have another Omega; a planet ocean not a Seamaster.

FFS will you people at least try to take a picture in focus? I think pisco is the only person to manage it on this page, though props to gaidong for such a vivid capture of his arm hair!

Not sure why but few yellow watches appeal to me.   Breitling can do yellow OK but…hmm.

If you want some summer pop, how about an orange monster (or heimdallr)?

To be fair to gaidong, he (assuming male due to abundance of arm hair) was on a speeding boat at the time.

I had a yellow Tag F1 that was a beaut. Yellow face/strap and red bezel.

I’ve got a full lume Promaster now which kind of counts as yellow.

I like the Luminox too. I’ve been looking at them on ebay.

how about an orange monster (or heimdallr)?

I went to Rome earlier in the year with the orange 5 gmt on black rubber.  I enjoyed the look, but was adjusting the friction bezel 5 times a day – my ocd doesn’t cope.  An orange monster appeals actually, although my local jeweller has the Antarctic Monster on sale and will trade in my GMT.

Hmmm, I might get the rubber back on the GMT for a couple of days and see how it goes, although tbh the oem bracelet and spring bars on that one are a real pain in the arse to get back on.

Here we go, spot the deliberate issue…. Keep or Bin?

Edit:  Also enjoying Kato’s Seamaster / Renault combo!

Yeah that Bezel would annoy me.
My Seiko Prospex Save the Ocean (above) the bezel is misaligned by half a click, it doesn’t line up exactly with the 12 marker. Annoys the heck out of me!

Here we go, spot the deliberate issue

Is it that your photos are in shittier focus than ever?

Ooooh johnners got out of bed on the wrong side

I upload them in “small” mode.  Obvs it strips a lot of detail / res

I have a rare Waltham automatic 25 Jewel Gold plated at least time piece which I would relish finding more about from fellow forum members.

Is it possible to upload a pic direct to this thread?

Dartdude – if the photo is on your phone, simply click the image icon (square with picture of a hill/mountain). This is just above the text box where you type a reply. When you click on it then just select source and photo library.

That’s what I do with pics on my iPhone.

I think only full members can do that, not free ones.

Bummer! I even made a tinypic account though sod’s law the tinypic site says no!

Stating internal error.

I’m on android mind and relatively new to it too.

Thanks for your step guide approach Woodster

@kryton57

Can we talk colourful watches? I’m bored with saving, and the more my fund grows the more uncomfortable I grow with the idea of dropping three zeros on a watch more that once in my life. So I’ve been looking at various colours, the blue CW Atoll appeals to me but I can’t justify that much cost tbh, but I’m coming more focussed onto one of these two:

Not a fan of that seiko at all, even if everything lined up correctly. The luminox gets my vote.