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Anyone here into watches
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 8:46 am
by bikesnbones
I love my Omega Speedmaster Professional.
I love the history behind it, and the NASA connection.
It's an old fashioned mechanical manual wind chronograph.
I decided early on that if I was going to spend serious money on a watch, I wanted cogs, springs and wheels, not a battery and circuit board.
It was an awful ot of money, but the way I see it, it's something I can treasure and hand down when I'm gone.
Anyone else.
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 10:07 am
by leasky
Are you selling the watch shown?
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 11:56 am
by Twinspark
You still wear a watch?
How quaint.
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 12:39 pm
by leasky
Twinspark wrote:You still wear a watch?
How quaint.
Is that question directed at me?
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 12:58 pm
by eyore
I love watches too, must have picked it up from my Dad who was that was inclined.
I inherited some jewelery from a granny of mine in 1990 which I sold and bought this instead. Absolutely love it.
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 1:34 pm
by Twinspark
leasky wrote:Twinspark wrote:You still wear a watch?
How quaint.
Is that question directed at me?
Not in particular. It's just that fewer and fewer people seem to be wearing watches, as we now carry a multitude of devices which tell the time.
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 1:45 pm
by bikesnbones
leasky wrote:Are you selling the watch shown?
No and my apologies.
I posted in the sales section.
Should've been geeks corner.
Sorry.
Eyore's De Ville is lovely.
I just love the fact that in this disposable digital age, such an old craft is still thriving.
I mean battery watches should have phased out mechanical one's by the end of 70's, but yet the watchmakers art beats on.
In fact, at the higher end of the market, their popularity has never been greater.
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:52 pm
by slparry
Everyday one is a Citizen Eco Drive
Diving one is an Aqualung Pro 500 meter
Reserved for "best" is a Rolex Submariner
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:03 pm
by McBoxer
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:21 pm
by Herb
ahhh would you look at him there with his hairy hands.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV_CQrHKna8
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 3:31 pm
by eyore
Hairy arms................mmmmm
Nice Rolex , hope you are not trying to palm us off with a Hong Kong special
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 4:43 pm
by slparry
It's not my arm just a pic i got off t'interweb
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:19 pm
by nab 301
I love my Timex expedition, it hasn't let me down yet..
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:36 am
by bikesnbones
eyore wrote:Hairy arms................mmmmm
Nice Rolex , hope you are not trying to palm us off with a Hong Kong special
Watches are like underpants.
Yes when you're buying them you want to see what they look like on the packaging, but not up the crack of some blokes hairy arse.
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:46 pm
by Boxermed69
eyore wrote:Hairy arms................mmmmm
Nice Rolex , hope you are not trying to palm us off with a Hong Kong special
Nah. King Kong special.
Mike
