Watches N+1…

That’s a shocker even by Krypton’s standards. Full daylight, autofocus – you only have to hold the phone fairly still and the right distance away FFS.

To be fair I’m using Portait mode to get the background blur with wet hands trying not to drop my phone while moving it back and forth into the indicator goes yellow to take the pic.   Anyway you get the gist.  I can’t get the hang of taking good photos with iPhones these days, and any video I’ve watched is so horrendously complicated as to make a decent “snapshot” an impatient affair.

Liking the look of Simondbarnes Animal, good choice of strap!

Liking the look of Simondbarnes Animal, good choice of strap!

Cheers. I’m still hoping to find my other Animal, it must be in this house somewhere!

Ooh! Ooh! Just got tracking details telling me my SMP300 arrives tomorrow 🥳

Another one! Look forward to the pics…

@ctk. A pool. In Greece? Get in the sea!!!

Go on a watch forum and the wristshots will be far more… We’ve seen many beautiful watches and happy owners on this thread  and we’re lucky not to have shots of APROs draped around the neck of rare malt scotch bottles or here’s my Patek and Bentley combo.

@sss, I’m trying to think of my favourite SMP reference. I think it was 2000s and had, possibly seven, large red indices in the top sector of the dial.

Edit. Something like a 2234.50.00. Steel bezel, GMT and no…. HEV! Actually, even looking at standard SMPs of the period, the HEV seems smaller and less designed to draw attention to itself.

Goddit! Jacques Mayol APNEA edition. https://www.omegawatches.com/watch-omega-seamaster-apnea-25955000

@gaidong Yours for the princely sum of £2097 of your finest British Pounds! Its in Kobe, Japan and considerably less expensive than others

https://www.chrono24.co.uk/omega/ref-25955000.htm

I’m turning Japanese, I think I’m turning Japanese, I really think so.

Much better for snorkelling than that (defunct) Reverso 😀

I don’t have any fine British pounds 😭😭😭. Well, maybe a hundred squid in an old Halifax account. I do have ‘one-night in Bangkok’ later this year though!

its handsome but im not sure i could pay £750 for a Timex

https://timex.co.uk/products/giorgio-galli-s2-automatic-38mm-tw2w12700

Coincidence or am I being monitored by some secret watch bureau ?

Today I receive an email from beaverbrooks – titled “Ready to find your dream OMEGA watch?”

🙂

So today I are mostly putting a Watchgecko Milanese classic on my scruffy old Hamilton…..

Nice, still waiting for the SMP?

Went through an online iPhone photo / settings tutorial this morning including “the rule of 3”, suffice it to say I now have  pin sharp pics of the SMP, and a cup of coffee.  I’ll spare you as I’m sure you’ve seen enough 😝

Nice, still waiting for the SMP?

Yeah tracking details haven’t updated so it could even be tomorrow now 😏

Come on Kryton, get artistic!

I’m intrigued by the Timex’s injection moulded stainless steel case…

A little bit of Google later, it looks like a pretty cool process and suited to a low volume product of this size.

https://sinotechltd.co.uk/metal_injection_moulding.html

I tend to think you’ll get something much more interesting when somebody like Timex decides to push the boat out.  If I “needed” something like that and had that budget then it being a Timex would definitely not hold me back, if anything it would be a positive.

They make a really nice ti field watch which is also above their usual pricing and it’s one of my favourite watches – until you see the text on the display case. If it hadn’t been for that then I’d have long since snapped one up despite it “only” being a Timex.

I bought a relatively pricey Timex Expedition and its fallen apart quite considerably. Compass stopped working, crown wont stay in, strap fell apart etc

On the other hand I bought my son a £30 Timex illuminator watch and its been absolutely fantastic – great watch for the price.

Timex Indiglo is genius, I had one rebadged as Eddie Bauer in the 90s, very practical, much better than lume if you have a quartz watch,

<span style=”-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);”>an in focus(!) shot of todays option: </span>

I just can’t find the love for the 5610, but I do like this 🤷‍♂️.  A bit of cave exploring today is the reason behind the choice.

Are you Batman?

Keep your watches covered up or at home peeps, thefts on the rise! Mainly attributed to broad daylight city thefts

Watch thefts

A colleague had a lot of fancy watches and had them all insured. He was mugged for his £10k Rolex in the loo of a pub in the City of London. He simply used his police incident number and got his money back within a week – apparently it’s a very common type of theft but usually involves distraction and zero violence.  He reckons it was about £200 per watch for the policy. He’s since sold all his fancy watches as he needed to renovate his new house and he now wears a Citizen Eco-drive field watch.

Just got my Canford back from Elliot Brown after a battery change. The original mineral crystal was scratched so I got them to fit a sapphire crystal that looks really nice in the flesh. My first “serious” watch,

Yay!

Love the way the blue changes with the light

@Kryton

Most of my G-Shocks only come out for the odd occassion now and this (the complete antithesis to this thread 😉 ) adorns my wrist 95% of the time

The background is a nice army green, but the camera won’t pick it up

20230824_135723~2 by davetheblade[/url], on Flickr

@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – you do know that you now have to post photos of your G-Shock collection?

@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR – you do know that you now have to post photos of your G-Shock collection?

Bin dun 😉

@Scapegoat Excellent choice! Happy new watch day and welcome to the SMP club 🙂 Love the colour.

There’s some lycanthrope-esque wrists on this thread!

‘scuse my ignorance but what is an SMP?

I’ve just sold my Timex Marlin sub-dial auto’ on eBollocks.

The acrylic “glass” and the pointless 24 hr sub-dial were getting right on my tits.

To be replaced by this new offering from Baltany Watches:

https://baltany.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/C%E5%BA%97-%E7%B4%A0%E6%9D%90%E5%9B%BE800-2.jpg

SMP = Sea Master Professional

No Greek pools I’m afraid, so how about a Yorkshire reservoir?

@derek_starship  that Baltany looks good. Khaki Field vibe with a luvverly blue dial!

Nice one @scapegoat, looks lovely I hope you are enjoying yours!

an in focus(!) shot

🙂

That Omega is nice in blue. Might start a trend and get one black one, one white one and one with a bit of blue on etc 😉 I like the 300 more than the previous version too.

Lovely watch @Scapegoat

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Yay for you Scapey!  Good to see so many stwers with good taste!  I like the blue too,  although it’s clearly not as good as the white and black colourway.</p>
I feel we need a StwSmp meet up!

It seems rolex bought Bucherer yesterday.  Intriguing move.

 that Baltany looks good. Khaki Field vibe

I’d go a little bit further than vibe… it looks to be a direct copy.